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Photo Credit: Stefan Leijon (CC BY-ND 2.0) Plastic. It is a major part of all of our lives from disposable cups to plastic pens and from phone covers to takeaway boxes. Whilst you may think you know the story of our current plastic times, it is highly likely that you have underestimated the scale of the […]
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Photo credit: idaCOM We all know that prevention is better than the cure of illnesses such as heart disease, Type II diabetes, and the flu, but what about illnesses of the mind? Multiple studies have shown that maintaining good general mental health and intervening before symptoms become serious can vastly improve the outcomes of such episodes. […]
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Picture credit: athree23 The first Mad Cow disease case, since 2015 has been identified and confirmed by the Scottish government on Thursday, 25th October, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is generally agreed that Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) as Mad Cow Disease is officially known, is caused by prions. These are modified versions of naturally occurring proteins whose […]
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Photo credit: M. GardeFerdinand (CC BY-SA 3.0) We all know how AMHs (Anatomically Modern Humans) evolved, right? We have all seen the picture… A string of small, hunched over, knuckle dragging monkeys gradually stood more upright until they blossomed into the magnificent specimens that one might see standing behind the counter at any McDonalds in the […]
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On October 27th, from 8 to 11 pm, something wunderbar is happening: the German Society are hosting an Oktoberfest celebration. For those of you unfamiliar with this Bavarian bacchanalia, it began as a celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig in 1810, before quickly degenerating into an annual celebration of beer in Munich, beginning […]
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Germany’s vibrant capital city was my home for six months this year. A city with its finger on every pulse, Berlin hovers on the cutting edge of contemporary culture – the art, music, theatre and food scenes are spectacular. Whilst in winter Berlin is home to candle-lit bars and Christmas markets, in summer the city […]
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The infamous capsule hotel. Everyone’s heard of those little pods into which people cram themselves in an effort to save space and money. I too was one of those people on a recent trip to Japan, curious about what exactly a ‘capsule hotel’ entailed. I imagined rows upon rows of capsules packing the building, and […]
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‘Well did he know the taverns in every town, and every hosteller and bar-maid, far better than he knew any leper or beggar’ – ‘The Friar’s Tale’ It was whilst contemplating how little I had explored Oxford that I had the highly original idea to not just go to one pub, but several, in the […]
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The release of the new Captain Marvel trailer fills me with hope for the future of Marvel’s cinematic universe. For all its epic scope and breath-taking action scenes, Avengers: Infinity War still revolved almost entirely around male characters, their actions, their plains, and their desires. There were maybe two or three moments in the film […]
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It feels inappropriate to refer to Winnie-the-Pooh as a franchise, as though it would sully the precious world found in A A Milne’s classic childhood novels. Nevertheless, as this summer saw the release of yet another film returning to the Hundred Acre Wood, Disney’s Christopher Robin proves that the well of Pooh-related stories has not […]
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As we prepare to watch Tom Hardy graduate from Bane’s venom-inhaling mask in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) to a full-scale parasite in Ruben Fleischer’s upcoming Venom (2018), let’s consider the importance of the mask outside the horror and conventional superhero genre. Despite these stereotypes, this favourite form of disguise has made significant appearances in […]
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