‘Humans’ season 3 review
Sam Savelli reviews the third season of Channel 4's Humans, which tells the story of the struggle faced by newly conscious synths in a world of unsympathetic humans
Read More
Archives
Can science explain dragons?
George Bailey explores whether science could explain the existence (or lack thereof) of dragons.
Read More
Leamington superheroes come crashing down after bar owner’s defeat
Warwick District Council distributed an enforcement notice to Kevin Murphy, owner of Murphy’s Bar on Regent Street in Leamington. He was asked to remove the decorative superhero statues outside the Grade II-listed bar, to which Murphy had appealed, but ultimately conceded.
Read More
Daniel Cormier made UFC 226 an event for the ages
As the curtains closed on MMA’s most important and spectacular fight card of the year so far, UFC 226, Daniel Cormier provided an iconic moment that will be imprinted for years to come into the already saturated history of the sport. When the dust settled on an electrifying night in...
Read More
BookCrossing: if you love your books, let them go
Described as a ‘modern-day message in a bottle’ by the San Francisco Chronicle, BookCrossing is an online book club which encourages the exchange of books across the entire world. First launched in April 2001 by Ron Hornbaker and Bruce and Heather Pederson, BookCrossing is a service which allows you to...
Read More
Futurama and Keeler’s Theorem
Reece Goodall explains Keeler's Theorem, the mathematical theorem created purely for the benefit of a TV sitcom.
Read More
Warwick at the Fringe: Warwick Comedy presents Where’s the Trampoline?
Next up we have Warwick Comedy with their sketch show Where’s the Trampoline? What’s the concept? It doesn’t matter how far you fall; what matters is how high you bounce back. Where’s the Trampoline? is a fast-paced sketch show centred around the feeling of falling, bouncing, and that awesome thing where...
Read More
Back to Britain after a year abroad
Without a doubt, my year abroad changed my life. I’d lived independently at university for two years, yet there’s something about being thrown to the other side of the world and having to sort everything out for yourself that changed everything. Putting myself in the deep end was the life...
Read More
Why does the BBC no longer get Saturday night?
Reece Goodall explores the ways in which the BBC has failed to win the primetime TV battle for Saturday night. Is Saturday night TV even as important as it once was?
Read More
The Allure of the Movie Poster
The recent passing of Bill Gold, creator of several of the most famous movie posters of all time, is truly a great loss for not only movie poster making but the entire film industry itself. Gold’s work was why films such as Casablanca became iconic. There’s a reason the SU...
Read More
This World Cup is a kick in the teeth for the LGBTQ community
Russia’s pejorative stance on LGBTQ rights has faced longstanding criticism from European nations. In June 2013, a Russian Federal Law banned ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations against minors’ which has been dubbed by Western media as a ‘gay propaganda law’. Since the passing of this law, the Centre for Independent...
Read More
University of Warwick contributes to huge Alzheimer’s disease breakthrough
Manpreet Kaur reports on a huge breakthrough in Alzheimer's disease, thanks to researchers from the University of Warwick.
Read More
What is driving the monumental success of luxury fashion?
Luxury brands such as Gucci, Saint Laurent, Tiffany & Co and Louis Vuitton are performing particularly well in 2018. Indeed, brands such as these are worth more than ever- thanks in part to a younger and profligate shopping group who are eager to indulge themselves on £200 t-shirts. But, why...
Read More