Why can’t I stop watching The Simpsons?
Barnaby Merrill uses his love of The Simpsons to look at what makes a show rewatchable. What's the formula for a show that you can watch again and again?
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Scientists reveal the universe’s largest baby photo (of a planet)
Dan Turley reports on the recently released images of a newly-born planet, forming around its star.
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Review of ‘So Great a Man: The Ploughboy’ by Lucy Skoulding
Lucy Skoulding, former Books Editor at The Boar, has just released her first novel of a trilogy. She co-authored with Robert Scott, her step-grandad who writes under a pseudonym. The trilogy spans 200 years of a family’s life. Born in the Scottish borders, William Neal spent his first years as...
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Gareth’s greatest gift has been a renewal in tactics
Growing up as a fan of the English national football team hasn’t been easy. My first vivid memory was of the 2006 World Cup, and of angrily storming out of the room in a manner which was only slightly less petulant than Rooney’s stamp. As I’ve grown older and watched...
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Research suggests macro-level factors are to blame for malnutrition
Manpreet Kaur reports on research from the Warwick Medical School which reveals that the double burden of malnutrition is due to macro-level factors.
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University of Warwick awarded £2 million to fight disease in East Africa
The £2 million has been awarded to the NIHR Global Health Research Group on the Application of Genomics and Modelling to the Control of Virus Pathogens (GeMVi) in East Africa at Warwick University.
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Warwick ranked 4th best university in Europe for 2018 by Times Higher Education
The University of Warwick has been ranked 4th in Europe in the Times Higher Education (THE) Europe Teaching Rankings 2018, under Oxford, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne.
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30 years of hurt, never stopped me gaming
Football is coming home apparently. At least that’s what I hear from almost any person on the street who is either inebriated or just come from watching England win against whatever country they just played. But for many like myself, watching the football leaves us feeling like Moss from the...
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Love Island should do more to support body positivity and diversity
As the popularity of Love Island amongst young women increases, Hazel Needham discusses the show's shortcomings in its failure to show diversity of body type and to encourage body positivity
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Warwick at the Fringe: Reactivists presents As It Happened (Contemporaneous Notes)
In the third edition of our Warwick at the Fringe series, Jessie Kolvin meets the team behind the emerging theatre company Reactivists to discuss their new show. What’s the concept? Since the 1st January 2018, five female writers have worked together to create weekly responses to the socio-political events of...
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‘Artificial ovary’ could help cancer patients have children after damaging treatment
Georgia Simcox reports on a potential new treatment which could allow women to conceive naturally thanks to "artificial ovaries".
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We must debate climate change as the socio-economic issue it is
The Committee on Climate Change was recently quoted as stating that several governmental departments remain ignorant to the issue of rising temperatures. That doesn’t surprise me because, despite recent progress, it isn’t enough, and getting people to care is hard. As someone who has been taught about climate change from...
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Critics condemn Berlin’s Humboldt University’s institute for Islamic theology
Last Friday, Berlin’s Humboldt University’s supervisory committee voted in favour of establishing an institute for Islamic theology, which critics have condemned for having a conservative Islamic advisory board. The publicly funded institute will be provided with €13 million (£11.5 million) from the city of Berlin to achieve its purpose in...
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