Guest post: A hive of weather data: exploring the International Bee Research Association’s collection
December 6, 2016
Guest post by Siobhan Maderson. Modern life appears to be dominated by time. Our phones beep incessant reminders, urging us on to our next appointment. But we are fundamentally biological organisms, ruled by elemental systems. The ancient Greeks recognised the difference between these two distinct patterns. Chronos describes the time of the clock, while Kairos …
Waltzing on Water
November 24, 2015
Guest post by Catherine Duigan and Sarah Davies (Aberystwyth University). During extreme weather, a frozen lake can be a scientific, social and cultural event. In temperate regions, like Wales in winter, frozen lakes are mainly seen in inaccessible relatively high altitude mountainous areas. Even here people pause to consider them; photograph them; paint them. They …
Guest post: Bog Bursts at Cappanihane, Ireland, 1697 and 1727
September 16, 2015
by Dr Angela Byrne, University of Greenwich The first published account of the phenomenon known as the ‘moving bog’ – the bogslide or bog burst[1] – was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1697. It occurred in Cappanihane, a townland in Co. Limerick in the west of Ireland, just over 30km …
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