Ada Lovelace day this month (March 24th), celebrates women in technology, and remembers the ‘enchantress of numbers’ who wrote the software for Charles Babbage’s Victorian computer, and is regarded as the world’s first programmer. Among the women featured in Lab Coats and Lace, the new book which I edited for WITS, are three with a [...]
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Celebrating women in technology
Posted in Women and science, tagged women science on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Earth hour 2009, the LHC and greening your electricity
Posted in Carbon, Sustainable living, electricity on March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We can’t all install a wind turbine at the bottom of the garden, yet simply changing when we use electricity can make our power consumption greener. Some years ago, making a science programme for RTE radio, I was let into the inner sanctum where skilled engineers control the Ireland’s electrcity supply to meet the constant [...]
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