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In its second year, Nightvision’s Terminal V festival is already becoming a stalwart of the Edinburgh house scene

1st April Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh The wired atmosphere is palpable from the minute we sit down on the shuttle bus in St Andrew Square.  Glitter, mesh, unicorn colours and a myriad of other festival styles adorn every single person on their way to the highly anticipated Terminal V.  When watching airplanes hurtle down the […]

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Terminal V to bring the best in electronic music back to Edinburgh on Easter weekend

1st April Royal Highland Centre On the outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland’s largest outdoor and indoor venue is set to host a day of musical wonder and audio-visual installations for all electronic music fans, as Terminal V have brought Christmas forward and are making use of the Royal Highland Centre’s three stages to provide for house […]

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Love What Survives is Mount Kimbie’s diverse and innovative new offering

4/5 stars Mount Kimbie and their otherworldly sound are arguably responsible for the pioneering of post dup-step over a decade ago. Since then the electronic duo have continued to flirt with a variety of freeform styles. Their new album Love What Survives explores a myriad of musical genres, each song so individual you can barely […]

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Finding Banksy: the quest to identify the enigmatic artist

On 4 April 2017, the most recent of a whole host of claims to have identified Banksy had finally was found to be false. The identifier, Alice Evans, claimed that a man singled out in a video shot at an art show curated by Banksy’s former manager in Bethlehem was the artist himself. Evans was […]

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Is the new 12-sided pound coin really worth it?

As if the new plastic banknote wasn’t exciting enough the Royal Mint has introduced a new 12-sided pound coin into circulation. According to the Treasury will be “the most secure coin in the world”. This is the first time the pound coin has been changed since 1983, but according to the government it is worth […]

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This Week in History 17 March 2001: The Eden Project officially opened to the public

This Friday marks the opening of the Eden Project in 2001: the dream of Tim Smits, who had a vision for showcasing the rainforest and Mediterranean climates and ecosystems.  In his own words he wanted to, “create a place like nothing anyone had seen before – a place that explored human dependence on plants and […]

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Stem cells: a miracle cure or playing God?

Stem cell use and research is considered by some as a morally ambiguous development for medical science.  The topic has recently been thrown into the eye of the public after Olympic Skier Chemmy Alcott decided that storing stem cells from the umbilical cord and placenta after giving birth was a worthwhile insurance plan for her […]

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Anything to declare? Just my watermelon

A recent scandal involving fake watermelons and 3,000lb of marijuana prompted further investigation into how far people will go to smuggle illegal products over borders.  Creativity seems key when it comes to drug smuggling, but these artistic fiends seem to have fallen s+=hort in terms of practicality in their imaginative attempts. Most people like to keep […]