Tag Archives: history

The Conversation: After being abandoned by his mother and rejected by the rest of his troop, his zookeepers at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan provided Punch with an orangutan plushie as a stand-in mother. Videos of the monkey clinging to the toy have gone viral worldwide

Posted on February 25, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Academic rigour, journalistic flair Arts + CultureBusiness + EconomyEducationEnvironmentHealthPolitics + SocietyScience + TechWorldPodcastsInsights Author Mark NielsenAssociate Professor, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland Disclosure statement Mark Nielsen receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Partners University of Queensland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The … Continue reading →

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Subjugated as Ireland was for nearly 700 years by the British … Buchanan has written a most interesting piece worth reading

Posted on February 23, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

@RobLooseCannon Poaching in Ireland during the British occupation wasnt just about illegal hunting or fishing. It was about using hunger as a tool of colonial power. Now long before the Great Famine, the Irish countryside was already a contested landscape. … Continue reading →

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Courage.Media: Britain Has Been Colonised by Immigrants

Posted on February 21, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Britain Has Been Colonised by Immigrants Scale without skill, growth without gain 17 Feb 2026 John Mac Ghlionn View articles Sir Jim Ratcliffe has committed the modern British sin of saying out loud what many notice but few will admit. … Continue reading →

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AI time for people to engage even augment. RTÉ Investigates: The Psychiatric Care ScandalThe RTÉ Prime Time episodes you referenced aired as a two-part investigative documentary series titled RTÉ Investigates: The Psychiatric Care Scandal on Monday, February 9, 2026, and Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at 9:35 PM on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.

Posted on February 16, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

See new posts Prime Time RTE programme Monday and Tuesday last week Mental Health Prisons and community services Thought for 48s RTÉ Investigates: The Psychiatric Care Scandal. The RTÉ Prime Time episodes you referenced aired as a two-part investigative documentary … Continue reading →

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Benjamin Franklin: children whose path in life is so diverse, and we ask why but we know is there are no answers even yet.

Posted on February 16, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

@archeohistories Boston, 1712. The midwife hands a baby girl to her mother. Fifteenth child in the Franklin household. They name her Jane… Seven years later, another baby arrives. A boy. Benjamin. Number seventeen. Same parents. Same cramped house. Same poverty. … Continue reading →

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Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t just a painter, he was a walking encyclopedia of genius, born in 1452 as an illegitimate child with little formal education.

Posted on February 16, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

@PhilosophyOfPhy Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t just a painter, he was a walking encyclopedia of genius, born in 1452 as an illegitimate child with little formal education. Yet, this self-taught visionary became the ultimate Renaissance man: artist, inventor, scientist, engineer, and … Continue reading →

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Extra.ie. To those who have the courage to watch the second part of the Prime Time Programme on RTE 1 tonight at 9.30 pm. Mentally ill people were promised when the Institutions which at one time had 20,000 residents, care in the community. Community based on last night’s programme is more about care or non provision of care in prisons. Too many suicides never spoken about. Shame on us to have allowed such a deterioration in the provision for people with mental illness, left to predators and abusers but then this too is the untold story.

Posted on February 10, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

The number of acutely mentally ill and actively psychotic people in prison now far exceeds the number of available medical cells in these facilities, figures released to RTÉ revealed. In the last quarter of 2025, the number of people in prison waiting … Continue reading →

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Courage.Media – The Future Surveillance Dystopia

Posted on February 7, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Commentary The Future Surveillance Dystopia “The eyes of the state can be on you at all times” 4 Feb 2026 Josh Ferme View articles The United Kingdom is currently overseeing the testing and gradual deployment of a suite of technologies … Continue reading →

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Leitrim Live: New documentary from RTÉ Investigates reveals the psychiatric care scandal in Ireland

Posted on February 7, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

ADVERTISEMENT Advertise with Leitrim Live New documentary from RTÉ Investigates reveals the psychiatric care scandal in Ireland Families from all over Ireland tell their heartbreaking stories Lili Lonergan 05 Feb 2026 8:07 AM     In a special two-part TV series, RTÉ … Continue reading →

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Quote: “Because of this failure of leadership, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board today sets the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to catastrophe.” Comment: Be Aware how dangerously close we are to midnight

Posted on January 29, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

It is now 85 seconds to midnight 2026 Doomsday Clock Statement Science and Security BoardBulletin of the Atomic Scientists Editor, John MecklinJanuary 27, 2026 Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the … Continue reading →

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