Natalia Ilina

Natalia Ilina

The Planet is fine?

Two years to the day after the Paris agreement was signed, over 50 world leaders and hundreds of ministers gather again in the capital of France. They will discuss concrete solutions to reduce global warming, and most importantly, to boost…

László Fejes Tóth’s theorem proved

A Chinese-Russian tandem proved László Fejes Tóth’s zone conjecture. For more than 40 years, mathematicians in the field of discrete and combinatorial geometry were trying to prove the theorem. Finally, Alexandr Polyanskii and Zilin Jiang from the Israel Institute of…

Keep Calm and Brexit On

If the way the Brexit negotiations are handled is not one of the best examples of Murphy’s laws, then what is? “If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.” Yesterday, this “something” manifested in the form…

New development in the Brexit talks!

According to Donald Tusk on Twitter several minutes ago, he and Theresa May are “getting closer to sufficient progress” to attack stage two talks in December. “Tell me why I like Mondays! Encouraged after my phone call with Taoiseach @campaignforleo…

Irreconcilable differences?

The negotiations of the UK-EU divorce are still going on, but who gets custody of Northern Ireland? Although there have been no concrete developments in the UK-EU negotiations, there are rumours circulating that a draft with the Irish border solution…

Good Auld Ireland

How well do you know the Irish countryside? Do you look for new walking and hiking trails, visit castles and ruins, explore the prehistoric sites? Have you been to Dun Aonghasa, seen the Shanes Castle, walked the Viking Triangle, climbed…

Pope Francis threatened in Myanmar?

On Monday, Pope Francis completed the first meeting of his weeklong trip to Myanmar. The Pope met with General Min Aung Hlaing this Monday evening, although originally, it was planned on Wednesday. No details of the meeting have been disclosed…

A gender-neutral France?

The French take their national motto seriously. They are proud of their  “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” formula, which is French for “liberty, equality, fraternity”. Today, the accent is made on “equality”.   “Every three days, a woman dies in a domestic…

All set for Black Friday?

Black Friday is coming to Ireland! All shops, big and small, actual and virtual, promise you discounts between 20 and 70 per cent this weekend. We’ll save you some time and post here some of the best deals you can…