High spirits and witchy fingers: How the Ouija Board possessed the world
We’ve seen it in the movies and on TV; “Stop it!” one of the pretty co-eds says to the other, their fingertips gently brushing the top of a moving tear-shaped counter with a window in the middle. “I’m not doing anything,” the other cries. They stare at each other, then back to the board, as it spells out of message from the spirits, unclear yet whether they’re friend or foe. The Ouija Board™, scaring the bejesus out of us since 1891.
Are there patterns emerging between Mourinho now and the man who left Chelsea in 2007?
As the pressure continues to mount on the man in charge at Chelsea, are there any parallels between Jose Mourinho's first departure and the current crisis he is experiencing?
The main point of that question answers itself. Unlike 2007, the club's most successful manager has not yet left and who is to say that he cannot find a solution or that the power-brokers at Stamford Bridge will not back him to the hilt this time round. However, there are a number of similarities between his antics this time, and the last time he left the London club in 2007.
After conquering television, can streaming change the face of traditional cinema?
At this stage, it is safe to say streaming services have well integrated themselves into the TV landscape, thanks to huge hits like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black. When it comes to film, however, the story has been a little different.
October has seen two very significant events when it comes to streaming services and new films. The most high profile was the release of Beasts of No Nation on Netflix, having skipped a traditional theatrical release, which is the sort of 'prestige' feature that you'd usually see receiving a big theatrical push around awards season. So are they shifting their focus to change the way we experience the cinema?
Are scientists seriously considering that an 'alien megastructure' exists around a distant star?
The headlines that greeted the discovery of an oddly behaving light pattern being emitted from a star around 1,500 light years away were somewhat predictable given the findings didn't quite rule out the possibility that this could be the work of intelligent life.
Scientists are still searching for answers, but are they serious that it could really be aliens? Well, probably not, but they're not saying that that it's an impossibility either.
It's time Tiger Cubs looked outside their area code when buying a house
Newstalk's business editor Vincent Wall takes particular issue with South-Dublin natives who won't cross the Liffey at a time when challenging accommodation issues are affecting significant sections of the population at the moment: from those who are homeless and waiting for social housing, to those who are forced to pay increasingly high rents.
At the core of the issue is the whole question of housing supply and the fact that we’re not building sufficient new homes – whether houses or apartments - to meet the needs of a growing population and to inject some liquidity into the second-hand market.
From celebration to stagnation: Why has Portugal's government ground to a halt?
Portugal's elections should have been a major victory for Europe's left, but the country is now in the middle of a political crisis. So what exactly is happening?
President Aníbal Cavaco Silva has sworn in incumbent Pedro Passos Coelho as Prime Minster after his centre-right party got the most votes in the election, but lost their majority in Parliament.
However, the left-wing, anti-austerity parties have taken over the majority of the legislative branch in the Assembly of the Republic (parliament), and they have declared that they will not stand idly by as the Social Democratic Party attempts to return to power without a majority.
