Are we becoming addicted to technology?
Constantly checking your phone reduce your productivity, but can we consider this an 'addiction', and how does this affect our brains?
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The Crown: The crowning glory of historical drama
The Crown's season two is reviewed by the Boar's lifestyle editor, Katie Sewell.
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Don’t want to have a rubbish New Year’s Eve? Have a big night in
The culturally resonant image of New Year’s Eve is of massed throngs outside the London Eye, counting ecstatically down to the moment the calendar resets, and we resume our weary trudge through January and beyond. The main attraction is a washed-up pop star who’s enjoyed a little too much adult...
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Entitled mooching millennials are ruining Netflix for everyone
Netflix is revolutionary in much the same way that colour television was for our parents. We are no longer at the mercy of television schedules, adverts are non-existent, and you don’t even have to press a button to play the next episode. 47% of millennials don’t consume ‘traditional’ TV –...
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Interest in studying abroad in the past two years has fallen by 16%
For a variety of reasons, social and financial, fewer students have this year been interested in studying abroad.
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Have we been betrayed by the brand with Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp?
I wrote an article about Animal Crossing: Wild World a few months ago (https://theboar.org/2017/07/never-before-has-something-been-so-simple-and-yet-so-addictive/), in which I detailed how the game was my literal life until around the age of 11. So of course, when I heard that Nintendo were releasing a mobile game, I was over the moon at...
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Universities sign new ‘fair-pay’ code to regulate the pay of vice-chancellors’
Jo Johnson, the universities minister, is set to introduce a new "fair remuneration code" governing vice-chancellors' salaries.
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Warwick withdraws from California campus project
The University of Warwick has announced that plans to establish a campus in California have been withdrawn
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Doctor Who – ‘Twice Upon a Time’
Two Doctors refuse to regenerate - Giles Allen-Bowden refuses Peter Capaldi's swansong, 'Twice Upon a Time'.
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Is the ‘happy hormone’ the reason for human intelligence?
New studies suggest that dopamine, the "happy hormone", could be one of the key factors that make the human brain different to that of other animals and leads to our superior intelligence.
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Why reading should be everyone’s New Year’s Resolution
Reading has always been a big part of my life. My earliest memories include my mother reading me The Chronicles of Narnia and my childhood Christmas and birthday wish lists always looked more like bibliographies than the average listicle of a child who’d swallowed the latest Argos catalogue. Don’t get...
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The Disaster Artist: Review
The Disaster Artist begins with a selection of comedians, actors, writers and other Hollywood types professing their love for one of the worst films ever made: The Room, the film that The Disaster Artist lovingly chronicles the making of. This review should be prefaced by the fact that I have...
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The normalisation of binge-drinking
Constance Bobotsi discusses the downsides to the binge-drinking culture on campus.
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