As Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer becomes a perpetual cinematic success, we feel obliged to remind ourselves of those who had been smashing atoms (an essential aspect of the nuclear process) far before the film’s titular theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Often …
Discovering the Dolomites: A Summer Escapade Like No Other
An ode to the Dolomites.
As the summer period slowly finds its way towards its end, I find myself reminiscing more and more about the incredible moments I experienced at its start. One particular moment I nonetheless recall ever-more vividly than the rest: an impromptu …
A Buzzy Summer in Dublin
Dublin City Council and others finally put their money where their mouth is
As part of the government’s All-Ireland Pollinator Plan 2021-2025 (AIPP), a previously announced initiative to make Dublin greener has recently been concretised by the ex-Lord Mayor, Ms Caroline Conroy, through the erection of “pollinator friendly pots, flowers boxes, and hanging …
The Importance of Gaeilge
Is it time to rebrand the Irish language?
In popular culture, Ireland is colloquially synonymous with its saints and scholars, resplendent landscapes, and magnificent language. The first of these may now confidently be labelled a mere historical adage. The second will undoubtedly forever remain. The third, however, is …
Supersonic flights: back in vogue?
How realistic is supersonic flight?
Science is notorious for its role as a mediator between the great aspirations and innate limitations of humanity. Being literally translated from the Latin ‘scientia’ as ‘the acquisition of knowledge’, its broad applicability and consequent importance increases alongside our unquenchable …
A letter to first-year law students
Sébastien Laymond’s advice on how to successfully get through your first year at the school of law
No. The rumours you’ve heard aren’t true. Law isn’t an impossibly strenuous and boring course. As the building block of society, it is a wondrous and tremendously important subject, and when applied correctly, it can do great wonders for us …
Sex and neurotransmitters: the science behind our orgasms
Sébastien Laymond delves deep into the neurological and biological intricacies of our sex lives
Orgasms are just one of the many indescribable sexual wonders that animals have the pleasure of experiencing. Granting us access to an elevated state of pleasure and euphoria, its effects are truly insatiable. The orgasm (as a phenomena) has been …