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The problem with operating 50 "laboratories of democracy" at once, plus D.C. and five major territories, plus the federal government, is that sooner or later one piece of America's legal patchwork runs afoul of one of the others. This is…

A stranger, a teacher, an entity from some mysterious Irish town you’ve never heard of. You’ve most likely become comfortable with them by the end of the exams; purely due to the ‘mere-exposure effect’, a theory which suggests that we feel…

Animal Rights activism in Dublin is gaining substantial impetus owing to the growing awareness of the vegan lifestyle. With plant-based alternatives to food, personal products and clothing gaining popularity in the market, the animal rights…

It is no secret in the world of higher education and academia that stress and burnout are a significant part of daily life. It’s often seen as just another part of the college or graduate experience, almost an expected rite of passage. If…

The most basic definition of data science is that it involves the collection, storage, organisation and analysis of massive amounts of data. Yet without a deeper understanding, one might think a data scientist sits in a dark room, huddled…

With veganism gaining rapid momentum in the western academic and philosophical spheres, it becomes relevant to discuss various intersectional concepts that have arisen in its context. In her ground-breaking work The Sexual Politics of Meat,…

In 2016 a 16 year old Argentinian girl, Lucía Pérez, met up with two men she thought were friends, who she thought she was going to hang out with and smoke some weed. They led her to an abandoned building, brutally raped her, impaled her…

Big Ideas 2019 includes a fairytale-inspired innovation to save the lives of firefighters, The Quickstitch for rapid wound closure and energy efficient wastewater recycling Twelve investor-ready start-ups will pitch their new technology…

"The Grand Experiment," — these are the words founding father Alexander Hamilton used to describe the United States’ Democratic Republic. That was in 1788. Were you to compare what constitutes a "progressive" political idea in 2019 to the…

There are some 2.3 billion video gamers in the world today who play video games for hours at a time every week. They can be very involved with multiplayer games. They tend to have their own avatar which can be personalised to different…