Eleanor Mannion

Giving Bees a Sanctuary to Save the Planet

There have been many apocalyptic reports on bees at risk. But these stories usually focus on honey bees, which are not endangered. The news is worse regarding wild bees. These industrious insects pollinate over half of the world’s flowering species. Habitat loss plays a major role in the decline. While that problem may seem daunting,…

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Singing for Empathy

Singing has been employed for myriad purposes such as expressing love, conveying spiritual beliefs, selling products, and satirizing people (Tom Lehrer’s “Wernher Von Braun“). Now we can add developing empathy to the list. In “School Sings ‘Stefania,’” RTEnews mobile journalist Eleanor Mannion captures scores of students performing the Ukrainian song that won this year’s Eurovision…

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Saga of a Badminton Player

In the pool, on the track, and in all other venues, elite athletes are more alike than different. Winners and losers share the same goals and passions.  They achieve nearly identical results. For example, in the one hundred meter sprint, just a few hundreds of a second separate the Gold from the Silver. But what…

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