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Four Year Plan

Recently, I have been doing some business planning as part of Limerick’s LEAP programme. One of the things they teach you is the importance of realistic financial planning. Realistic means that the numbers reflect known facts and uncertainties. Projections on a timeframe of 3 or 4 years often turn out wrong, but an unrealistic plan [...]

February 21, 2011   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Bee vs MacBook Pro

vs Bees are efficient pollinators, and play a critical role in agriculture and natural ecosystems. Recently, researchers at Queen Mary College London reported experiments suggesting that bees are even more efficient than previously thought. When faced with a new arrangement of flowers, a bumblebee is able to determine the shortest path linking the flowers. In [...]

October 28, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments