Thinking Big

17/10/2017

Don't forget, Positive Equity and UCD Economics Society are running a trading event this afternoon at 3pm in the Fitzgerald Chamber. Do not miss out on this valuable oppurtunity. Link to the event is: Trading Event with Positive Equity. Click going to launch your career as a trader! Here is a fantastic video put together by Positive Equity as a taster...

04/10/2017

https://www.facebook.com/EYCareersIreland/videos/1530962090281007/

23/08/2015

http://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2015-08-14/the-2015-friendliest-and-unfriendliest-cities-in-the-world/1

"Like nowhere else in Europe," this world's most northerly capital city is "an eye-opening experience as to the Icelanders' ability to make the most of an inhospitable climate" with their "deep sense of culture, intellect, sophistication, and friendliness." &quo…

04/08/2015

"As a society we have, over the past 40 years or so, made it easier and cheaper to be less healthy."

An interesting piece by Jeanne Teshler on how a healthy lifestyle can be encouraged through incentives and marketing strategies.

Illustration by Yuri Teshler with image © iStock.com/angelhell While I will be writing on Forbes mostly about the technology and the Human Internet of Things (HIoT) in health and wellness, I thought it was really important to get at the fundamental reasons we are so fat. Earlier, I wrote an article…

13/07/2015

http://thesavvybackpacker.com/how-traveling-abroad-will-ruin-your-life/

09/07/2015

http://www.boredpanda.com/bicycle-escalator-cyclocable-trondheim-norway/

Bicycling is a cheap and healthy way to get around, but a steep hill can become a casual cyclist's Achilles' heel. Luckily, the Norwegian city of Trondheim has a solution to this problem – a bike escalator.

05/06/2015

Renouned behavoural economist speaking at the Dalkey book Festival next week. Thanks to Fergal McGovern for pointing out!

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05/06/2015

They're Rethinking Equality in a New Age of Inequality at the RIA next Wednesday. Well worth going to:

Professor Pierre Rosanvallon, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Politics, Collège de France will be here on Wednesday 10th of June at 6pm to discuss "Rethinking equality in a new age of inequality".

He will be talking about the crisis in the very notion of as a key factor of the present incapacity to seriously challenge inequalities. And propose a new direction for understanding equality issues.

Booking is essential for this event. Order your ticket here: http://ria.ie/events/events-listing/academy-discourse-(3)

The Royal Irish Academy, the academy for the sciences and humanities for the whole of Ireland will vigorously promote excellence in scholarship, recognise achievements in learning, direct research programmes and undertake its own research projects, particularly in areas relating to Ireland and its h…

18/05/2015

Climate Change ... on Mars.
The latest public lecure by the UCD Earth Institute taking place in the RIA.
http://www.ucd.ie/earth/newsevents/events/titlestory,236611,en.html

08/04/2015

With climate change being one of the dominant issues facing our planet right now, Professor Jennifer McElwain is working with the UCD Earth Institute by looking to the past to talk about our climate future.

03/04/2015

How the company town offers an alternative model of urban development.