Seemingly according to a study (From Stumbling and Mumbling)
Good-looking people do better in exams than ugly ones. That’s the message of this paper (pdf):
We examine the effects of students’ physical appearance upon examination results. We fund evidence that beauty has a significant impact on academic performance, a result which is consistent with and comparable to […]
It looks like there could be another civil war in the world. This time in East Timor. From the New Zealand Herald
East Timor’s Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta said the situation in the capital Dili today was one of uneasy calm.
The army and disgruntled ex-soldiers exchanged fire in gun battles yesterday for a second […]
A very moving post by Suzy on her blog. Worth a read.
Check out this from Dec’s Rambling’s absolutely hilarious
His speech is going to start soon. Click here to watch.
Edit: It is now over when the script goes up on the net I will link to it.
Update: Speech is here.
Isn’t great that a party in this country wants to jeopardise the future financial security of the Irish people so that they can open up their own little ideological Disneyland. And no I am not on about Sinn Fein’s tax policies I am talking about Labour and Aer Lingus.
The National Pensions Reserve fund in […]
One of the Funniest Stories I have come across in recent times. From the Sunday Tribune. (Free Subs Required)
PERFORMANCE fees due to an American soul singer who played a gig at Cuba nightclub in Galway city last month were blocked by a bank in the United States because of that country’s trade embargo with the […]
The Australian PM is in Ireland. Many of the Anti-War people are saying he is “not welcome in Ireland”. To these people I would like to say stop speaking for me. You are not going to welcome him. But you are not Ireland. You have not been elected to speak for me or for Ireland. […]
On his Blog today Richard Waghorne talked about Lyric FM and said
Lyric, as you might have noticed, have developed a grating habit in recent weeks of slipping a little Irish peasant music in between their arias and divertimenti.
Now I think Auds summed it all up when she said
Calling it as such just makes Richard look […]