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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
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They say open heart surgery flies by.
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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That's forever by the way. And then you die. The beautiful game.
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I have scarring on my heart from that game. But the good news is we have to win the next one to get to the playoffs because when watching international football, the reward for doing your homework is another round of even more stressful homework.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I have scarring on my heart from that game. But the good news is we have to win the next one to get to the playoffs because when watching international football, the reward for doing your homework is another round of even more stressful homework.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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This is science.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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You can also buy my books from a local indie comic shop and if you are in a mostly English-speaking country I can give you links to stores that will mail to you!
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Thankfully, a break comes in the form of a magnificently specific little exhibit we happen upon deeper inside the grounds. Named, excellently, Foodscape: World of Soil, it’s a series of geodesic huts kitted out with interactive exhibits relating to, well, soil. There are soil facts, soil puzzles, soil diagrams and soil touchscreens. There’s even soil in the walls and soil in the ceilings, since the entire complex is laid out as if it’s underground, with miner’s lights jutting out from trench-style wooden beams. Here and there, a stuffed fox pokes out above us, as if having burrowed down to us from the surface. It is, in a word, marvellous. And we learn more about soil than we ever thought there was to learn about soil. Did you know that sand is a soil? I didn’t, mainly because I’ve always thought that sand is sand. But it turns out it’s a soil as well. I learn that every type of soil – not just sand – appears to be formed of four letters, like Silt and Peat and Dirt, each of which you can imagine being a conspicuously haute cuisine restaurant in a regional English town. You know the kind of thing: “Fishmonger Paul Torrance started CLAY after earning raves at SILT, bringing with him Jacques Tourrault, the wildman sommelier of Hampshire mainstay LOAM.” My kids adore the cutesy animations featuring an anthropomorphic worm named Doug, who wears hi-vis and a hard hat, and explains the drainage properties of different types of dirt. There’s a game that allows you to match the carbon footprint to the food, and a quiz that tests you on what colour of soil has the most nutrients (the darker the better, apparently). Doug, an anthropomorphic cartoon worm wearing hi-viz and a safety helmet marked DOUG, offers a scintillating fact: Peatlands are the superheroes of soil carbon storage. They cover just 21% of Ireland, but store 64% of our soil carbon!" The miraculous World Of Soil, a geodesic structure with mock-earth in its roof, and a variety of different attractions and interactive exhibits for one to learn of. The structure is formed of wooden beams, loosely approximating an underground mine.
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM