Sensitive subjects are not out of bounds for award-winning Brenda Romero and her team of developers in Galway, writes Graeme Lennox (more…)
Games guru takes fun to another level
categories: Games
Parents refuse to give children flu jab over safety fears
categories: Raising Children
Parents are refusing to give their children the flu vaccination over worries about its safety, research has shown. (more…)
Depression genes ‘trap generations in poverty cycle’
categories: Psychology
Poverty is biologically entrenched because people with a tendency to depression have children together and then fail to look after them properly, an academic has claimed. (more…)
Anxiety, depression and drugs — teenagers’ stories
categories: Psychology
As a new report reveals that teens are among the most troubled age group in the developed world, young people and parents share their experiences of mental illness (more…)
Sci-fi novels by women, chosen by Naomi Alderman
categories: Science Fiction
Science fiction is often perceived as a man’s genre; people think of “nerds” in box rooms writing stories about 1950s-style lantern-jawed heroes fighting space battles and making it with alien babes. The reason for this cliché escapes me — particularly as the science fiction I love best is written by women. (more…)
Why poetry has never been better
categories: Poetry
The poetic arts have never been healthier, declares the Cheltenham Festival’s Guest Director in charge of poetry (more…)
Books of the year: poetry
categories: Poetry
Celebrating a year of fine collections (more…)
Poetry reading could be arresting
categories: Poetry
Six people have already responded to Ian Bailey’s request for financial assistance to publish his first book of poetry, contributing €800. Four remained anonymous. The “journalist and academic lawyer” has taken to FundIt in order to raise €3,000 to pay for the printing of The West Cork Way: A Collection of Poems and Ballads. (more…)
Bryan Appleyard on the emotive force of poetry
categories: Poetry
We turn to poetry in times of need, but can it really help? And why doesn’t it sell more copies? (more…)
DNA test to prove legend of Pocahontas and the mulberry tree
categories: Legends
The legend that Pocahontas, the Native American princess brought to England 400 years ago, planted a mulberry tree that still bears fruit is to be tested by scientists. (more…)