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The milk scheme might be nostalgic for some of you listening. Primary schools across the country provided lukewarm milk to their pupils for around €1.40 a week. The scheme still exists today, but only 10% of schools are using it, so should we bring it back nationwide?Joining Seán ...  Show more

We all have nightmares from time to time, but night terrors are something quite different. For one, they’re not counted as dreams, so how do you explain them?Joining Seán to discuss is Andrew Coogan from the Department of Psychology at University of Maynooth. 

For nearly 20 years now, the web has been Google’s platform; we’ve all just lived on it. Google is constantly changing that platform — it launched another attempt to combat ‘parasite SEO’ just this week — and not all of those changes have worked well. Earlier this year I talked ...  Show more

When Shivaun and Adam Raff's shopping and price comparison website all but vanished from Google's search results just days after launching, the pair began a gruelling legal battle that would end with a landmark judgement and the tech giant receiving a then record fine.European re ...  Show more

We tell the story of the single greatest business ever created: Google search. From its origins as a Stanford research project called BackRub, Google became the front door to the internet. Today it’s an essential service for over half the world, and one that generates more profit ...  Show more

It's easy to look at history and think one idea or another is ridiculous -- but we also have to remember modern civilization has its own vast collection of cartoonish concepts. You know, the sort of stuff we all agreed was "normal" until we really started to think about it. In to ...  Show more