Album Review: The Talkies by Girl Band
★ ★ ★ ★ The Talkies is Girl Band’s much anticipated return to the fray after a 4-year hiatus, and it cements their status as one of Dublin’s strongest exports.…
Album Review: Uknowwhatimsayin¿ by Danny Brown
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Something is happening with rap’s favourite eccentric Danny Brown. His signature screwball flourish of hair is now a no-frills buzz cut, his trademark broken teeth…
Album Review: All Mirrors by Angel Olsen
★ ★ ★ ★ While many musicians reach a point in their careers where they start incorporating string arrangements and black-and-white portrait photography as album art, Angel Olsen has a…
To Upgrade, Or Not To Upgrade: The Ethics of Human Augmentation
Have you ever thought about what humanity would look like in the future? Would we have flying DeLoreans like in “Back to the Future”, would we be venturing to distant…
Impossible Efficiency: Magnets and Heat Recovery
A study published in the journal ‘Science Advances’ has demonstrated a new way of converting heat into electricity. This technology could improve the efficiency of some industrial processes and save…
Poo to the Rescue: Why we are Giving Faecal Transplants to Koalas?
Can the key to saving a species from extinction be in its faecal matter? However outlandish that question may appear, the answer appears to be a tentative yes. This comes…
Don’t be Afraid of the Wolf at the Door
English and Scotsmen trekked across the Irish Sea in the wake of the Cromwellian wars and plantation of Ireland. To their dismay, the land they had come to was still…
Budget 2020: “In the Shadow of Brexit.”
In his opening remarks, Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe said that budget 2020 was ‘developed in the shadow of Brexit.’ The budget he went on to deliver had very few…
Making Drugs Safe: What would drug testing look like if introduced in Ireland?
In a relatively recent 2014 Eurobarometer poll, psychoactive drug usage among 15 to 24-year-olds in Ireland was shown to be the highest in Europe. The needless deaths of Irish teenagers,…
Unplanned: The Film, The Controversy
The Film Unplanned, based on the memoirs of Abby Johnson, is a film that follows Abby as a clinic director at a Texas Planned Parenthood location, and her subsequent transition…
Opinion: UCDSU’s Climate Hypocrisy Is Unacceptable
On October 2nd, UCDSU held a €2 Pretty Little Thing sample sale. Backlash from students who were disappointed in the Union’s willingness to work with a company well known for…
NEW RESEARCH: ASMR is totally not creepy
A recent study by Harvard Professor Dr. Matt Walker PhD, 48, into the field of neurology has found that ASMR, is “totally not creepy at all” and instead found that…