Bao is the latest short film to be paired with a Pixar blockbuster, and it’s been the most memorable short film the company has put to monitor. A Chinese-Canadian mother makes ‘bao’, and in the jaws of her mouth is startled to discover it has come to life as a...
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I’m not ashamed to admit I’m the type of person who gets excited over new pens and refuses to write in certain notebooks for no other reason than that they are simply ‘too pretty’. Given that the new academic year is not far away, I will soon be able to...
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Recent claims that the Student Loans Company (SLC) has been spying on the social media accounts of vulnerable students come as no surprise to those knowledgeable about the institutionalised hardship experienced by students from unsupportive family backgrounds. According to The Guardian, 150 randomly selected students who were recognised as estranged...
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Abi Parsons explores petrichor - the smell of rain - and why so many of us love it so much.
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Here are the main takeaways from UFC 227: Conor vs. Khabib – the biggest fight in UFC history After Conor McGregor’s absurd attack on Khabib Nurmagomedov’s bus in Brooklyn earlier this year, I called for the UFC to be brave and punish its biggest star sufficiently. Inevitably, in a business...
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Manpreet Kaur reveals how best to prepare for studying Chemistry at Warwick.
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About a month before I started university, I went to an open mic poetry night with a couple of friends. As a typical to-be fresher, I remember being nervous about what to expect from university life; I’d visited Warwick before, several times, but had no idea what life would be...
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What is the scutoid, and how do you find a new shape in a world where there surely can’t be much geometry left to discover?
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When I went to see Mission Impossible: Fallout it was for a distraction after a bad day. I’d not seen any of the previous entries but it looked like a fun action film that would divert my attention for two and a half hours. It definitely succeeded in that regard,...
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LGBT pride has its origins in radical organisation against homophobic and transphobic oppression. The first ever pride parade in 1970 was organised in commemoration of the first anniversary of Stonewall, a series of riots which took place in response to a police raid of Manhattan gay bar the Stonewall Inn....
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Dance music is a strange thing: it demands more from the listener than simply an attentive ear… the goal, of course, is to make people move. Producers can aspire to turn this undertaking into something ambitious and cerebral, or they can resign themselves to the silliness and make something straightforward...
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Freedom of Information (FoI) requests sent to 54 institutions by The Sun has found that university staff have spent a total of £204 million using corporate credit cards on various luxuries.
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25% of British adults rarely read books for enjoyment, according to research, with some citing a lack of time and a whopping 40% saying they’d just rather do something else. The results, from a 2013 YouGov survey, highlight how many people in society generally don’t value books or reading for...
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