Why Are We So Obsessed With Celebrity Diets? Late last year, the second season of HBO’s hit teen drama, Euphoria, was launched. With it, over sixteen million viewers tuned in, making it the streaming service’s second most-watched show ever. It falls behi...
Is There Any Benefit To Giving Up Coffee? Before starting college, I had never been much of a coffee drinker. Perhaps I’d enjoy the odd mocha, or some syrup-laden frothy concoction, but the majority of café visits consisted of a hot chocolate order (a...
Are We Overusing The Term Gaslighting? In 2018, the term ‘gaslighting’ was voted one of the year’s most popular words by the Oxford University Press. Since, its usage has only soared, with a continuous increase in Google searches and a general, not...
Do Games Like Wordle Actually Make Us Smarter? News is just in: Ireland is officially the leading Wordle playing country in the world. According to the online gaming database, Solitaired, thirteen per cent of the Irish population google the vocabulary-base...
How Do Filters Affect The Way We See Ourselves? Snapchat was launched in 2011, and with it the first widespread, mainstream use of AR filters. Suddenly teenagers all across the globe were posing with dog ears and swapping their faces with their friends: the...
Why Does True Crime Appeal So Much to Women? Over the past ten years, there has been a marked increase in the popularity of true crime. Across platforms such as YouTube, Netflix and Spotify, a splurge of documentaries and podcasts have cropped up, videos...
How to Deal with Gym Anxiety Whether you’re planning a trip away or are braving the possibilities of heat on home soil, for many of us, the anticipation of summer also comes with the desire to add some tone to otherwise unexposed body par...
Uncovering Street Art in Belfast ‘We used to have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in Europe,’ a red-haired woman tells nearby passengers as Dublin’s industrial northside chugs behind us. Is this true? A quick Google tells you that yes...
How to Cope with Toxic Positivity on Social Media Positive mind, positive life, positive vibes. Be you. Protect your aura, don’t let anyone bring you down. Everyone with an Instagram account is all too familiar with the plethora of positivity quotes that tend...
Why is Manifesting so Popular? In 2020, the number of searches made over the concept of manifestation skyrocketed, with its immense, newfound popularity eventually even lending itself to meme-ification. A once- niche, New Age movement, it h...
