An algorithm for love
Over 91 million people worldwide use dating websites or apps, but how do they actually work? Could there be an algorithm for love after all?
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The vanity of ‘plandid’ culture
Hazel Needham exposes the latest instagram trends and what they mean for our generation.
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WMG students design the fastest car in worldwide competition
Four teenagers from Coventry have come in first place for designing the fastest car in a worldwide competition. The team, named ‘Academy Racers’, consisted of: Abi Hirons, Callum Kennedy, Eddie Hodierne and Elias Khimasia, all of whom are students at the WMG Academy in Mitchell Avenue, Coventry. The students spent...
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Stranger Things – ‘Trick or Treat, Freaks’
Time for Halloween - Sam Savelli reviews the latest installment of Stranger Things, 'Trick of Treat, Freaks'
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Is slang killing our individual expression?
Purists decry the reign of such words as “sick”, “bruv” and “lol” (if we’re being fussy, this isn’t even a word: it’s an acronym). Our parents don’t understand them, and our teachers despair of them. Many people view today’s youth slanguage as the plague of our previously rich English tongue....
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Canary Wharf Exodus- Brexit toll on Graduate Jobs
Triggering Article 50 on the 29 of March paved way to a lot of uncertainty. The inability of the EU and U.K to delineate a clear path from Britain’s exit has motivated the senior executives of many investment banks to announce their decision to relocate graduate jobs to financial centres...
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The Horrors: “We’re at our best when we’re just trying to make a really loud noise”
The first thing I hear when I begin my interview with Josh Hayward, guitarist of post-punk turned alt-rock outfit The Horrors is “You’ve got a really cool name for a paper, by the way. I want that on record.” For a band who have never been shy of making noisy...
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“You wouldn’t sober, you shouldn’t drunk”: Drinkaware campaign finds two-fifths of West Midlanders have experienced sexual harassment on a night out
As many as two-fifths of young people in the West Midlands have experienced sexual harassment on a night out.
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Are the novels of tomorrow written for today?
Mass surveillance, environmental disasters, the rise of technology; do these sound familiar? They are not only features of our favourite post-apocalyptic tales, but realities of the 21st century. Why is it that we are so drawn to stories about our status quo coming to an end? Perhaps it is because...
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Baroness D’Souza on how to keep the House of Lords relevant, Brexit, and the current government
When trying to find information about Baroness D’Souza, The Former Speaker of The House of Lords, a stream of articles relating to her recently exposed expenses will be all that appears. £4000 on Fresh Flowers over six years. Taxis kept waiting outside opera houses for hours. According to the Daily...
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Drug possession in Leamington almost trebles in five years
Drug possession in Leamington Spa has nearly trebled in the last five years, according to a statistics from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.
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Do Nobel Prizes perpetuate sexism within science?
Since the first awards in 1901, only five percent of Nobel Prize winners have been women - why are female researchers not being acknowledged?
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