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How to boost your self-esteem

A good and healthy start would be to accept who you are and treat yourself with kindness and respect

A refugee family leaving Memel in Lithuania in June 1939 after the German ultimatum. Photo: Getty Images

How Ireland responded to refugees fleeing Hitler and the Nazis

"Income from commercial rates, totalling €1.5bn, far outweighs the Local Property Tax yield of about €500m"

Is it time to reset property taxes and commercial rates?

"It is interesting to look back at the chemical compounds that were common place in household and medicinal products"

Radium, cocaine, lithium: the colourful history of some chemicals

The absolute value of the earth's gravity was measured in the Crawford Observatory 50 years ago. Photo: UCC

How Cork keeps Ireland's feet on the ground

Historical re-enactment of a surgeon operating on an archer who was wounded during an attack by the Mamluks on the monastery of the Order of the Hospitallers (1250-1291) in Acre in Israel. Photo: DeAgostini/ Getty Images

What was it like to go to the doctor in medieval Ireland?

"David Attenborough commands the attention of millions of people and can turn our gaze to the considerable environmental challenges of our time"

The Attenborough effect: the power of nature documentaries

Is that you Leo?

I should be so lucky: doing the academic locomotion with Kylie

"Climate change can seem too enormous to deal with and too distant to be relevant so making connections to local problems can be very effective" Photo: Getty Images

How to talk to your mates about climate change

"Plucked from the streets of Moscow in 1957 as a 3-year-old, Laika became the first animal to orbit the earth". Photo: Getty Images

A short history of sending animals into space

"The portrayal of the two young teenagers from the northside of Cork City parallels several classical criminological theories that explain young people's transgressive behaviour"

Here's what criminologists make of The Young Offenders

The Young Offenders

More Brainstorm

Brainstorm Podcast

Ideas, insights and new thinking

Climate Change.

"David Attenborough commands the attention of millions of people and can turn our gaze to the considerable environmental challenges of our time"

The Attenborough effect: the power of nature documentaries

"Giving someone the information and telling them what to do won't necessarily result in behaviour change"

Why do we find it so hard to stop using ...

Peat bogs in Connemara. Photo: David Lefranc/Kipa/Sygma via Getty Images

How to read the climate history of a bog

Lana Del Rey: "call her Doris Doomsday" Photo: Darren Gerrish/BFC/Getty Images

Songs for the end of the world: pop music and ...

"Climate change can seem too enormous to deal with and too distant to be relevant so making connections to local problems can be very effective" Photo: Getty Images

How to talk to your mates about climate change

"Despite their popularity with media producers, images of polar bears may not be an effective way to engage the public with climate change"

No more polar bears: the impact of climate change visuals

"In the past there was a strong bias against forestry in Ireland"

Can we plant 22 million trees a year?

More Climate Change

Podcasts.

Historical re-enactment of a surgeon operating on an archer who was wounded during an attack by the Mamluks on the monastery of the Order of the Hospitallers (1250-1291) in Acre in Israel. Photo: DeAgostini/ Getty Images

What was it like to go to the doctor in medieval Ireland?

"We inherited our emphasis on State secrecy from the British, but we enthusiastically embraced it"

Why does the State have so many secrets on its citizens?

My boss is a psychopath: why bad people get good jobs

Why risky play is good for kids

Just what does luxury mean in 2019?

Ideas.

"At present, vaccines are recommended by the Irish authorities, but are not compulsory"

Could the State introduce compulsory vaccination laws?

There are many arguments and counter-arguments around the constitutionality of compulsory vaccination laws

"In keeping with their community-led ethos, the beauty of the GAA is the effort to include players of all sporting capabilities"

How an organisation like the GAA can help vulnerable young men

Dublin Corporation workers on strike in 1968

Can trade unions play a new role in modern society?

A 1920 inspection of the Royal Irish Constabulary by Sir Hamer Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ireland Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images

The forgotten men of the War of Independence

War of Independence

"New additions to a dictionary of medieval language are lost words that have been rediscovered"

10 medieval Irish words we didn't know about before now

Editor's Choice.

"It's said that adolescence begins in biology and ends in culture"

Are you an adolescent until your mid-twenties?

Just one of the 10,000

"Our nose can distinguish and identify 10,000 different smells"

"Today, the realness of streetwear is product drops, limited edition garments and belonging to online community forums". Photo: Chesnot/Getty Images

How streetwear moved beyond the streets