The Hope & Courage Collective produced a useful guide with examples on how to converse with someone that holds far-right views, with the hope of bringing them towards a compassionate world-view.
A SmartLab project in Limerick that installed air sensors in 70 buildings found that humidity readings were 60% over the threshold more than half the time. This RTÉ article includes recommendations on how to reduce indoor dampness.
The EPA published a fascinating review of climate attitudes conducted by researchers at DCU. The work reviewed 4610 studies on climate attitudes, which were then filtered down to 66 studies that were analysed using the Bronfenbrenner person-centred bioecological systems model. The results show that trust in institutions and the beliefs of one's social circle influence one's attitudes to climate change.
John Gibbons wrote an excellent but sobering piece in The Journal about the floods in Valencia, and how political will is what is needed for us to limit the coming damage.
"The system that is churning out more and more flying, more SUVs, more throwaway consumerism and ever more meat-rich diets is the very system that is accelerating humanity and much of the natural world towards the climate abyss."
The Horror Podcast has a collection of old radio horror plays from the 40s onwards, with such spooky titles as "The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot" and "Where The Dead Sleep By The Creaking Door"!
Physicist Melvin Vopson has proposed that we may be living in a simulation due to his theory of Information Entropy being observed in Covid mutations, which he proposes do not develop randomly and according to the theory of evolution, but mutate according to his information Entropy theory which states that information entropy always remains the same or lower.