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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...

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...

Bored of Wordle? Try These

Social media has been overrun with Wordle over the last few months, but is all of it sounding like old news to you now? If you're like me and need a little something more to keep you entertained, here are some...

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...

Horoscopes: Fact or Fiction?

Horoscopes are a source of comfort for a lot of people. They may use it as an excuse for their behaviour, as some kind of strange star-led justification, or as the solitary key to unlocking their love life...

Finding Glasses that Suit Your Face

What Glasses Suit You? Over the past fifty years, rates of short-sightedness (or myopia) have doubled across Europe, with the result that an overwhelming fifty percent of young adults across the continent c...