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Born in Canada, Karlin Lillington grew up in Silicon Valley. As a reporter and columnist with the Irish Times, she’s covered the political, social, business and cultural side of information and communication technologies for nearly two decades. Like the Irish technologists she profiles on page 36, she hops on to planes regularly between Dublin and San Francisco. “It doesn’t surprise me at all that a strong, tech industry link has developed since the 1990s, between the Valley and Ireland,” she says. “Both places value informality, creativity and a biting sense of humour.”
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield has served as Commander of the International Space Station, where he conducted a record-setting number of scientific experiments, oversaw an emergency spacewalk and became known for his breathtaking photographs, tweets and educational videos about life in space. The Canadian colonel also made a foray into music, his zero-gravity version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” receiving over 10 million views in its first three days. Hadfield’s new book, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth (Macmillan) is out now. He writes for Cara (page 136), ahead of his visit to Dublin in January 2014, about a family trip to Japan.
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