Sylvia Thompson
Contributor at Irish Times
Writer on health, environment and science for The Irish Times; author of books on craft & health. Medical Journalist of the Year 2005. TCD psychology graduate.
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15 hours ago |
irishtimes.com | Sylvia Thompson
Planting trees and putting beehives on the roofs of commercial building are significant gestures to improving biodiversity but bigger efforts to change business models, supply chains and operational behaviour will be needed to halt the loss of biodiversity across the globe.
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15 hours ago |
irishtimes.com | Sylvia Thompson
“We lived off the land for centuries and then we lived off oil for a few decades which was an aberration in our history. Now, living off the land will be the new normal again,” says Dr Wouter van Winden, chief fermentation scientist at the multinational firm DSM-Firmenich. He was speaking at the Finding Common Ground festival at the RDS in Dublin recently. At the event, policymakers, academics, farmers and landowners spoke about finding new opportunities for, and more value from, Irish land.
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2 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Sylvia Thompson
Sleep is as important for survival as food and water, says Dr Maria Pertl, chartered health psychologist and certified lifestyle medicine practitioner. “If we haven’t had a good night’s sleep, we can’t pay attention to things properly and we have trouble focusing. We tend to be more irritable as our mood fluctuates,” she explains.
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5 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Sylvia Thompson
The current National Gallery exhibition will undoubtedly bring more attention to works by two 20th-century trailblazers in Irish art. Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone – The Art of Friendship, is the spring/summer exhibition at the National Gallery, comprising of 90 works of paintings, stained glass and drawings by these pioneering modernists. The exhibition explores the “early convergences and later divergencies in their styles”, and their shared experiences of studying in Paris during the 1920s.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Sylvia Thompson
There is a palpable sense of purpose and job satisfaction among the young adults with Down syndrome who work in the Happy Out cafe in Dún Laoghaire. We are chatting on the outdoor terrace of the cafe in the refurbished Dún Laoghaire Baths building overlooking the harbour. It’s a stunning setting for any cafe, but this one has extra-special credentials because it may be the first commercial cafe in Ireland to employ adults with Down syndrome in partnership with a social enterprise.
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