Opinion
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Treating COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquinine: can you teach an old drug new tricks?
Assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at Trinity, Niamh O'Boyle, with an important piece underlining why nobody should self-medicate when fighting COVID-19.
1 May 2020
Research
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Confinement: the fear of death, the price of life and the risk of living
A fascinating opinion-editorial by Laurent Muzellec, professor in marketing, Trinity Business School, which was first published in the Irish Independent.
30 Apr 2020
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COVID-19 and why conscious capitalism can be the new normal
The Covid-19 virus pandemic has changed and will continue to change the world in profound ways. Our social, economic and political world will never be the same.
15 Apr 2020
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Indian citizenship has now been reduced to ‘us’ versus ‘them’
A thought-provoking piece written by Trinity professors, Rahul Sambaraju and Suryapratim Roy, and published by The Conversation, which considers two controversial changes to citizenship laws in India.
2 Mar 2020
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Quantum internet: the next global network is already being laid
Written by Trinity and CONNECT's Dr Harun Šiljak, and published by The Conversation, this piece looks ahead to see what the future holds in a world with access to a quantum internet.
18 Feb 2020
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Opinion: Sinn Féin’s surge signals a precarious path ahead
Gaily McElroy, Trinity's professor in political science, with a thought-provoking opinion piece on the results of the Irish general election, first published by The Conversation.
11 Feb 2020
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Palestinians will never be convinced a deal with Israel is worth making if annexation is packaged as peace
Writing for The Conversation, Trinity's Professor Brendan Browne responds to the so-called “deal of the century” for Israel-Palestine “peace” unveiled in Washington this week.
30 Jan 2020
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Things people say about exercise that aren’t true
It can be hard to include exercise in our busy lives, despite the best of intentions. There are a lot of reasons people don’t exercise, and a lot of misconceptions about exercise. Here are nine common misconceptions about exercise and what research actually tells us.
16 Dec 2019
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Understanding autism: new research dispels common assumptions
Ruth Byrne from Trinity College Dublin and Kinga Morsanyi, from Queen's University Belfast explore new insights into the autistic mind and what it’s like to have autism.
13 Dec 2019
Research
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Nature versus nurture: how modern science is rewriting it
The question of whether it is genes or environment that largely shapes human behaviour has been debated for centuries. During the second half of the 20th century, there were two camps of scientists – each believing that nature or nurture, respectively, was exclusively at play.
27 Nov 2019
Research