Youtube has been an interesting niche in the media ecosystem. What once started as amateur videos by outcasts has become the video platform of the Internet and one study calculated 13-24-year-olds watch 4 more hours of Youtube than conventional TV per week. You can’t deny that it’s a key cog...
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Nintendo isn’t typically associated with sports games, but here’s a look at one of its most iconic sporting series. The first Punch-Out!! was born out of technological and economic necessity, rather than any particular desire to make a boxing game. Nintendo was investigating new sprite handling technology at a time...
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Jemma Macgregor reports on an innovative exoskeleton which could help humans achieve undreamt physical feats.
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Morrisons branches in Coventry and Leamington Spa will provide customers with a “Quieter Hour” to shop every Saturday from 9-10am.
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The University of Manchester’s Students’ Union (SU) leaders painted over a mural of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “If”, and replaced it with “Still I Rise”, a poem by Maya Angelou.
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Returning home for summer is always chaotic. You’re either working 24/7 to try and replenish that overdraft or you’re one of the lucky ones who’s travelling and taking incredible Instagram photos for us losers to scroll through and dream about. Whatever we’re all doing though, we all share one common...
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In a recent Thomson Reuters report ranking the most dangerous countries in the world in which to be a woman, India comes out on top. This comes as a shock to many; that India, the world’s largest functioning democracy, could be more hostile towards its women than Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi...
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The summer after school ends can often become all about ‘the wait’ for results. For me, that period was both shorter and longer than for most others. Having done the IB, my results came out about a month before A-Levels results were available. This meant that most people I knew,...
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Reece Goodall explores the multiverse theory in the world of Rick and Morty.
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With exams now over and eight weeks of summer ahead, students suddenly find themselves with a lot of free time on their hands. While it may be nice to have time away from studying and reading, we all have moments when boredom hits. In case this happens, I have compiled...
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Over the past year our society has witnessed significant change. Through the combined efforts of campaigns like Time’s Up and the #MeToo movement, women are questioning and re-evaluating their positions in society in a way that has not happened before. However, despite a growing trend of challenging societal norms, a...
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A recent study has found that students applying for summer internships are being asked whether their parents went to university. Questions of this nature have been used by firms to improve workforce diversity.
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Formula 1 (F1) is a sport of small margins, evidenced by only 0.044 seconds separating Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel during qualifying for the British Grand Prix. With such fine distinctions between teams there are often suspicions of underhanded tactics being used, whether it be different fuel mixes or aerodynamic...
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