Patrick Collisson (Of Auctomatic and BTYS fame and the older brother to the prolific @TrustTommy) has an article about innovation, startups, and how to make Ireland more like Silicon Valley in this week’s Irish Times Innovation.
Darwin, meet Degas. 
There’s an exhibit on how Darwin influenced 19th Century art, and vice-versa. The o will be at both the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and the UK’s Fitzwilliam Museum. For details, check out the article in SEED magazine.
Get all ‘Gattaca’ with only $48,000
Want your own genome sequenced? Well, now you can have it for only 48 thousand USD. Start saving your pennies.
Wasn’t 111 a nice (atomic) number?
A team of 21 scientists have manged to make 4 atoms of a yet-unnamed element with 112 Protons.
OMG IT’S HUGE!
Hanny Van Arkel, a Dutch primary school teacher and amateur astronomer will be talking in Dublin on June 15th about discovering the Biggest thing in the universe: Hanny’s Voorwerp, Dutch for “Hanny’s Object. A mysterious object measuring a million million million miles across. She’ll be giving a talk ‘Galactic Anomalies’ on Monday, 15 June at 8pm in Trinity College Dublin and Wednesday, June 17 in Letterkenny IT. v Book your tickets online at www.astronomy.ie or by calling (01) 847 0777.
