Last week I provided a couple of my pictures at work for the article The Lowdown on Living and Working in Ireland. One of the pictures I selected was a favorite: a completely empty O'Connell Street on a Monday morning:

I love this picture not only for the beautiful colors in the sky and the nice contrast they make with the shadows of some of the Dublin landmarks (the General Post Office and the Spire), but also because of the strange feeling of seeing one of the busiest spots in Dublin completely empty.

Amnesty International published a report about human rights in the world. The death penalty (capital punishment) is still a dark spot in many places. A 2014 report published by the same organization shows that there are unfortunately still 58 countries in the world that retain and actively use the death penalty.

Yesterday at the office we were discussing the possibility of the UK leaving the European Union. Some time ago, we actually wrote on our company blog about what Brexit would mean for European workers. But with all this Brexit discussion, we forget the UK is actually one of the oldest members of the European Union (1973).

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I saw an editorial piece last weekend in The Guardian where the author asked the question: If condoms are OK for Zika, why not Aids, Pope Francis? I thought it's true that the HIV/AIDS infection is rarely mentioned in the news nowadays. There has been huge progress in HIV/AIDS treatments since the time I was a medical student, but the prevalence of HIV (the percentage of a population that is affected by the virus at a given time) is still bad, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa:

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