health

It is just the monotony of life. We are into our third lockdown, and it feels like it is simultaneously our first, yet somehow also our fifth. Time is standing still, but life is passing us by. The last social interactions we may have had…

I’m in a cottage by Coney Island, looking out at a relentless and grey Irish sea. I’ve come here to the natural fringe of the island to try and process what has been the strangest of years. The beach is a mere ten metres away across a…

Few social phenomena maintain a pedigree as long and unbroken as opiate use. With earliest evidence dating as far back as 3300 BC, humanity's relationship with the opium poppy has been as enduring as another habit of ours - the written…

If you could measure anxiety levels the way you do temperature, right now, the world would be hotter than the Sahara. The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in societal changes in unprecedented ways. Unemployment is soaring, people are…

In the interest of strengthening national solidarity and by extension inspire compliance to preventative public health measures, a narrative of ‘we are in this together’ pervades popular and political discourse surrounding Covid-19. Such…

COVID-19 has imposed a new way of living on many of us. With necessary restrictions on movement at a national and international level, normality is on temporarily hold and our pace of life reduced to a crawl. While unlike other disasters…

The coronavirus is going to be with us for some time, and naturally, that is a frightening prospect. Even so, the Trump Administration has continuously downplayed the reality of the disease’s severity, leading many to believe they can and…

Achieving sustainability is beneficial for business. If there's a fact that goes under-reported and misunderstood when we talk about "going green," it's this one. Embracing the principles of a sustainable economy is an urgent moral…

For a long time I was blissfully unaware of any such thing as a specific ‘zone’. Like generations before me, I survived. Obviously not in an optimal way; why else would this ubiquitous term enjoy such prominence in our culture now?…

Do you love to check your reflection when walking past a storefront? Do you prep and primp in front of the mirror each time you visit the restroom? Perhaps you're one of many who over-plucked your eyebrows or picked at pimples until they…