It’s all in the profile – the impressions we form online
Social media has become somewhat of a necessity in our day to day lives – the frame-by-frame status updates on just how many shots so and so has taken, the odd picture of the funniest person asleep in...
View ArticleMan up: Do you have to earn your gender?
Picture the JCR on a Friday night. In the corner next to the dart board and pool tables a large of circle of guys are stood up, drinking, sharing banter and flirting with the females closeby – why?...
View ArticleA problem of “twinkle twinkle little star”
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. A beautiful poem and song, but the fact that stars twinkle is terribly frustrating to astronomers. It is impossible to study an astronomical...
View ArticleFrom emo to hip-hop: the neurobiology of music
I am guilty of trying to force my music taste onto other people. You see, I’m quite sure that if everyone would just listen hard enough to the dulcet tones of synthesised prog rock or whatever musical...
View ArticleEarth to Pandora: avatars by 2045?
Emerging from the cinemas, bleary eyed and squinting, transported from 161 minutes in the land of Pandora many fell into a ‘post- avatar depression’, lamenting in the emptiness of a life without blue...
View ArticleThe Information Age: what will the martians think of us?
In thousands of years’ time, a small green creature on the planet Gliese 667 Cc, 22 light years away, will be analysing astronomical data. They will notice an anomaly. They will discover that passing...
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