This article appeared in MIT’s “The Tech” newspaper on Tuesday 19th October 2010 and is available at the following link: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N46/mcgovern.html What were they, those three fundamental human requirements, now superseded… Read More »Opinion: Taste requires quality; nutrition is more about quantity

This article appeared in MIT’s “The Tech” newspaper on Tuesday 12th October 2010 and is available at the following link: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N44/mcgovern.html I’ve now spent two months seeing gas priced per… Read More »The world’s imperceptible slide towards standardization

Three eighteen inch pizzas, plus one slice, in ten minutes and two seconds. 16.27 seconds per slice if you prefer the SI units! Joey Chestnut, he’s your man, a world… Read More »Eating Your Way to 37 Pizza Slices in Ten Minutes

This article appeared in the Tuesday 28th September 2010 edition of MIT’s “The Tech” Newspaper available at the following address: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/PDF/N40.pdf Half an hour waiting in a long snaking queue, or… Read More »Charity Extraction

One week ago now, the Taoiseach was ’round the bar, then on the radio, then sitting on the fence, a sitting duck, deciding what way to play his cards after TD Coveney’s… Read More »Things to Learn from Cow-on Gate

A building sky, far out ahead, As clouds lie flat, upon their heads, Facial features, silhouettes On yellow, orange, then dark red, Square chins and noses off to bed.

We Europeans all hear that everything in the US is ginormous. As testified by the first photo here, it’s pretty clear that in the states, the question isn’t, “Small, medium… Read More »Some Things in the US are just HUGE!

I was just heading down the stairs when I saw on my right hand side those eating-standing-up tables and a girl giving out something. “Must be the wine and cheese-party”,… Read More »Commonalities You'd Like to Tape

I was just heading down the stairs when I saw on my right hand side those eating-standing-up tables and a girl giving out something. “Must be the wine and cheese-party”,… Read More »Commonalities You’d Like to Tape

Dragging feet on midnight tiles, The drag of a fag’s last quarter inch, Eyelids tilt over powder-dry eyes, Bus doors encapsulate night crowds. A saturated Luas, saturated with gazers Penetrating… Read More »Life Coaching