‘Maybe Elon Musk is quite gullible. He seems to fall for a lot of conspiracy theories’
Helen Lewis discusses her new book, The Genius Myth, which sets out to unravel the mystery of what we mean when we call someone a genius
Charles Darwin
How Irish scientist John Tyndall supercharged the modern debate on consciousness in lecture 150 years ago
Tyndall contended there was no point in the history of the cosmos when ‘creative acts’ of a ‘deity’ were required
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renée Bergland – A rich and rewarding study
Though they never met, Darwin and Dickinson shared a visceral sense of the world as a living entity
No grand theory can explain the Ukraine crisis
Politics: The past couple of months have been embarrassing for intellectual elegance
The Darwinian roots of Squid Game and Parasite
Crossover success due to ‘all living in the same country, called Capitalism’, says film director
‘Supertramps’ provide new insight into big question of evolutionary theory
TCD scientists use genomics to explain decades-old mystery of biogeography
Greek myths, fairy tales and now TikTok: our enduring love affair with horror
Halloween horror taps into cultural roots going back to ancient Greece via the Romantics
How well do you understand your sense of smell? Try these three experiments
Unthinkable: Covid may have given us a fresh appreciation of smell, ‘the Cinderella of the senses’
Ah, lads, you couldn’t be more Irish if you were tipping Revenue off about a neighbour’s tax affairs
Patrick Freyne: All that’s left for Ant and Dec to do is drink red lemonade from an old Tayto bag
The Botanic Gardens and me: Conor Pope traces his family tree through the Gardens’ history
‘I don’t think very many people in the country have such a direct line of descendancy to something so special’ – family historian Tricia Kearns
Ian O’Riordan: Following JM Synge’s footsteps over his beloved native terrain
Foothills of Dublin and Wicklow mountains evoke spirit of famed Irish playwright/poet
Another Life: Plants capable of adapting behaviour to survive
Michael Viney: ‘Within hours it had grown another 8cm or so, curving to tighten its grip’
Can you tell the health of an ecosystem by looking inside its flowers?
A tiny detail inside cowslips may enable the diagnosis of overall grassland health
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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