After months of frenzied anticipation Pokemon Go has finally landed on smartphones across Britain. Nearly two weeks after it’s release, the game has already gone down in cult legend. In fact, it was only a matter of time until the Pokefever broke into the Warwick bubble. With the student population...
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It is fairly common in the U.K. for young people to undertake a ‘gap year’. Traditionally, this ‘gap’ materialises between high school and university. Many are unsure about what course they want to pursue or simply need a breather before falling back into essays, revision and exams. In my case,...
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The negative response to Sophie Rudd's presence on University Challenge stems from our obsession with the physical rather than the emotional.
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Holmes for Rent is an English adaptation of Christian Blex’s German language musical Sherlock H. The English adaptation has been co-written by Christian Blex and Jack Plummer and reworked by director Robin Kendall for the Edinburgh Fringe. The show’s humour is heavily influenced by classic British comedies like Blackadder, Monty...
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After the recent vote to approve the renewal of the submarines carrying Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent, we decided to pit two Science & Tech writers against each other to answer a simple question: Should Science be used to kill people? Reece Goodall says YES: As the government pushes a vote to...
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Professor Perkins, co-founder of University of Warwick’s Film Department passed away on 15th July, 2016. Professor Perkins started teaching at the University of Warwick in 1978 and went on to form Warwick’s Film Department which soon topped UK’s league tables for Film Studies. He is known, both nationally and internationally, for...
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Warwick has launched scholarships worth £500,000 in total for under-represented Postgraduate students starting their course in the upcoming academic year. The Warwick Taught Masters Scholarships Scheme 2016/17 invites under-represented students to apply for these scholarships. The scholarships consist of 100 individual student awards of £5000 for both eligible Home and...
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Having grown up listening to the likes of Razorlight, the Kooks, and just about every major indie band in the early noughties, I have developed a certain soft spot for that marriage of mellowed out guitars and angsty song writing. Hell, that’s why I started my own music blog in...
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After being in orbit for 186 days, witnessing almost 3000 sunrises and sharing over 700 photographs, Tim Peake, the British astronaut on board the International Space Station, has had to readjust to life back on Earth after he returned on the June 18. Looking retrospectively, his mission, Principia, had two main...
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Victor F. Perkins, co-founder of Warwick’s Department of Film and Television Studies, has died aged 80. Victor, known academically as V.F. Perkins, began teaching at the University of Warwick in 1978, co-founding the Department of Film and Television Studies whilst working here. The department is now frequently ranked amongst the...
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A recent Warwick graduate, Stephen Pithouse is in the process of finishing the designing and manufacturing of a new robotics interface. Earlier this week, Stephen graduated with a first class degree in Engineering and is going on to take up a job with Industrial Automation company FANUC. The interface that...
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A banner condemning an injunction on occupations at Warwick was unveiled in a one-person protest at a graduation ceremony on the afternoon of Saturday 23 July. Connor Woodman, a Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) graduate, unveiled a banner which read: “Students Against Injunctions” as he went up to collect his...
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Warwick University’s week of graduation ceremonies saw mixed reactions to inclusion of the UK’s national anthem, a plea from the vice-chancellor for graduates to learn from Brexit, and a student’s gesture of protest against Warwick’s ruling against sit-in demonstrations. BREXIT Vice-chancellor Stuart Croft, conducting his first round of graduation ceremonies...
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