Fracking Versus Science Communication
The word ‘fracking’ has become aligned with unconditional taboo in the United Kingdom in a two year interval. Strong public scepticism has been fuelled by the parade of paraphernalia arriving from the USA...
Halloween, Council and Education
This week's editorial...
Atheism and the Irony of Religion
Irony has always been, well, ironic. Take for example Aristophanes, great ancient Greek satirist of whom Nietzsche said ‘that transfiguring, complementary genius, for whose sake one pardons all of Hellenism for having existed’, and his play The Clouds.
Saudi Arabia: Is driving a human right?
I’ve always been in love with driving. In school, when I was learning to drive, my Physics teacher told me that he wished that we were in Saudi Arabia, where women are banned from driving, because then at least I’d shut up about it in his lessons.
Confessions of a GTA: Part 4
“On a field trip a GTA is the best person to be”
Royalties from the Royalty
Christy Kelly on the Monarchy
Boris: Resolute Vertebrate Jelly Part II
Eoghan should probably have a chat to Boris next week...
An 80km jaunt in Wales
James Ellis’ reflections on an ultramarathon
The Joy of Dichotomy
Daniel Adams on the joy of dichotomy
Of Commemoration and Elections
Looking back on a week of graduation, elections, rain, rain and rain.
Kelly-vison: Reflections on Journalism
Christy Kelly on journalism
Kelly-vison: How Noble are the Nobel Prizes?
Christy Kelly on the Nobel Prizes