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So you’ve lost a parent at that weird stage in your life. You’re not a child, but you still live at home. The state won’t care for you, but you haven’t got a career or your own spouse or family to care for you either. Any sentiments you get…

This series I’ve been writing over the last year concerns the curiosity to understand why we respond to art in whatever form it takes. We become curious as to why we are affected by art and seek out reasons. Curiosity leads to us to…

Cancer has been an ever present aspect of my life for the last number of years. It has defined the way I think and how I approach different situations. Here’s the funny thing though; I don’t have cancer. Nor do any of the people in my…

Medicinal cannabis seems like one of the health topics du jour but it has a long history grounded in medical research. In 1841, an Irishman named William Brooke O’Shaughnessy noticed folk use of cannabis as a medical treatment in Calcutta.…

A week and a half ago, I was sitting in a cafe in a whitewashed village in the south of Spain, transcribing a message from a rape survivor through headphones on my phone, wishing as I listened to such harrowing facts that I’d ordered the…

I first met Christopher Barr in Tel Aviv, where we had both been selected to show work in an exhibition titled 'Home Truths', at the International Photography Festival. Having never met before, we arrived, hot and exhausted from a red eye…

In 2013 Angelina Jolie made headlines by revealing that she had undergone a prophylactic double mastectomy, removing both breasts to reduce her risk of cancer. For people with BRCA1/2 mutations, such as Jolie, this can be a wise decision.…

A stationery shop on Dublin’s Camden Street has gotten involved in the debate on same-sex marriage in the run up to the May’s referenda. A number of homophobic leaflets have been circulated around Dublin by a small section of the…

Ups and downs at the LHC Don't they look happy! It’s been an exciting few weeks over at CERN. After a scheduled 2 year downtime, the Large Hadron Collider was due to restart last week, but the momentous occasion was delayed by a short…

It’s been a while since there has been a Shot of Science and a lot has happened since the last one! Rosetta mission reveals findings from 67P Keeping up with the very latest science news, we really can’t ignore the…