In a word . . . predictive

There have been so many announcements in recent years of the death of the inventor of predictive text

From Young Scientist hopeful to the twinkling lights of Hong Kong

Wild Geese: Anne O’Riordan is senior managing director at Accenture Life Sciences

Mesmerising: The power of the human mind to respond to suggestion

Anton Mesmer combined his ideas with a flair for the dramatic that orthodox medicine found distasteful and the public found intriguing

Pension reform navigates slowly on old roadmap

Cantillon: 13 years since urgent call for ‘full review of pension coverage’

Meet the Malmgrens: the extraordinary family US presidents turned to

Harald was adviser to four consecutive presidents and daughter Pippa followed him into the White House

Turkey burghers – An Irishman’s Diary about the reviving fortunes of America’s true native bird

Fats Domino, rock’n’roll pioneer, dies aged 89

The star whose hits include Blueberry Hill and Ain’t That a Shame sold more than 110 million records

What Warren Buffett and Dale Carnegie can teach business about dissent

Miranda Green: Some companies are unhealthily reluctant to allow internal debate

Trump and the protesters

Half a millennium later the Reformation still shapes our world

Alone in northern Europe, Ireland remained Catholic following Luther’s revolution

Chris Johns: Forecasts provide a buffer against inconvenient uncertainty

Perhaps with our new-found awareness of the fragility of forecasts, we can use them in more productive ways

Roddy l’Estrange: A Christmas Tale for Vinny

Out of work and out of sorts, but charity raffle presents an opportunity

Auction Results: key to Oscar Wilde’s cell at Reading Gaol sells for £15,000

Victorian sketches of Arctic exploration make €24,000

Street life: visionary who changed how we think about cities

US author Jane Jacobs championed the organic development of the world we live in

Why are we still changing our clocks back?

On the centenary of the introduction of Daylight Saving, is it time for a review?

The unusual final year of Mozart’s life gets an airing in Kilkenny

The Mozart programme at Kilkenny Arts Festival featured compositions for mechanical organ and glass harmonica

Proclamation ‘superior’ to US declaration of independence

Historian says 1916 document should be read in entirety not judged on individual phrases

America Letter: Bald eagle proves it is no Thanksgiving turkey

Up close, the national bird of the United States shows why it is a symbol of strength

Muslims hit for six by NYPD monitoring of cricket

For a decade cricket became a sinister means of surveilling New York’s Muslim community

Culture Shock: And so to bed . . . the nightmare of sleepless nights

The way we sleep, and when we sleep, has been altered by human invention – from pills to alarm clocks – but most profoundly by artificial light

British Open: Bringing it all back to the Home of Golf

There is something extra special about a tournament staged at the hallowed Old Course at St Andrews

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