Juliana Adelman
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The science of the calorie
- Science
- January 14, 2021, 06:00
It’s January and I suspect most of you have spent some time thinking about a c word. No, I don’t mean Covid. I mean “calorie”. Despite the efforts of (...)

Ireland’s first dog show: A £5,000 dog and a ‘perpetual growl’
- Life & Style
- November 28, 2020, 06:00
In the spring of 1864, Dubliners gathered at a new entertainment. They paid one shilling to enter an inauspicious wooden building behind the Rotunda H(...)

Lessons of history: What diet says about who we are
- Science
- November 12, 2020, 01:00
‘Are not all manly appeals lost upon on a scoundrel who lives with his pig, like his pig; and every but the way he should live – ON his pig.” So wrot(...)

Facial expressions and what they really mean
- Science
- October 8, 2020, 01:00
If you had even dipped a toe into certain circles of Twitter last week you couldn’t have missed the outrage frothing around a recent paper in Nature b(...)

What do our yellow Covid-19 signs say about us?
- Science
- September 10, 2020, 05:00
The colour yellow will never feel the same. No longer just the colour of jaunty raincoats and the giant Ikea sign, yellow is now the reminder that we (...)

Look to lichens for dating with a difference
- Science
- August 13, 2020, 01:00
At a distance Charles Fort in Kinsale looms up from the landscape in shades of grey stone but once you get closer you can see that its surface is actu(...)

Practices of livestock farming are a global health issue
- Science
- July 9, 2020, 01:00
There has been an understandable rush to see the coronavirus pandemic as a reason to rethink aspects of modern life. Working from home has been touted(...)

Four traits you need to ride out the pandemic, Shackleton style
- Environment
- June 11, 2020, 01:00
As the pandemic drags on, a lot of people have been looking to history for insights. Much focus has been on the parallels between coronavirus and past(...)

Coronavirus: The misguided search for ‘patient zero’
- Science
- May 12, 2020, 09:27
If you have been following the search for the origin of the pandemic coronavirus strain in the news you will know the various theories. Pangolins, bat(...)

Germs, germs everywhere
- Science
- April 9, 2020, 06:00
The blue bottle of Milton is back for the first time since my kids were out of nappies and my hands are raw with washing. I’m not going crazy with the(...)