Mary Mulvihill

News just in . . . A Dutch design team has been picking holes in the fonts that people use, and come up with a ‘wholly new’ font. The many small holes mean that you use less ink when you print in this font. The design is also sans-serif — it lacks the small tails [...]

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If you’ve ever wondered what a 2,000 year old computer looks like, then just click on this video, to see a working model of the fascinating Antikythera mechanism. This amazing device contains some three-dozen intricate gear wheels, with drive wheels, and differential and epi-cyclic gearing — yet it was made in the first century BC [...]

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As a nation, we Irish seem to be wedded to our cars. No, this golfer isn’t lost in the rough — just commuting naturally between his home in Salthill and the local golf course. A lovely image by Galway-based photographer John Smyth that kind of says it all really. Yes, we are a very driven [...]

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A clear and simple diagram can be very effective at conveying technical concepts, and especially the complex processes you find in science.

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