Love is in the library as Valentine’s Day approaches. Who’s been checking you out? To the dashing young gentleman in the long coat smoking outside 50 George Square. We made brief eye contact in Sainsbury’s but I’m too shy to speak. Lend me your lighter sometime? – Queen of 50G Ode to the adorable creature […]
Generalised Anxiety Disorder or GAD, along with other mental illnesses, is endlessly discussed but rarely explained on a personal level. We are presented with endless statistics; told umpteen times that the stigma must be broken. But the fact is that the stigma does still remain, anxiety is still passed off by many as people simply […]
Recently I made the impromptu purchase of a highly sophisticated electric toothbrush. Although initially delighted, I started to develop a sneaking suspicion that I had been conned by the clever marketing people at Philips and even, perhaps, by the entire dental industry. Is an electric toothbrush really necessary? Is it, like so many other things […]
The Hilarious World of Depression aims to draw mental illness into the public sphere by openly discussing it. In each episode, host John Moe invites a different comedian to talk about their own experiences with mental illness, bringing a comedic element to a sometimes dark and difficult topic. To Moe, the link between the two […]
There comes a point within everybody’s time at university when you’d honestly rather sit in bed with a pizza, illegally watching a box set on BBC iPlayer, than leave the flat and be a sociable human being. The absolute freedom of university that allows you to be in your pyjamas one minute and cracking open […]
Slacktivism: another horrific millennial term (almost as bad in fact as ‘millennial’). The expression refers to an action that supports a cause, but with minimal effort – a recent example would be ‘checking in’ on Facebook to the Standing Rock reservation. Activity such as this has a divisive reaction. Some argue that even the smallest […]
Big news: Tony Robinson has grown a moustache, and a pretty impressive one at that. Exciting as this is, the most thrilling part of the evening is hearing his distinctive voice in real life, soothing the nerves and triggering peaceful flashbacks to whiling away an afternoon watching Time Team. Robinson first caught public attention in […]
In one of my History of Art courses, I came across a theory known simply as ‘black box’. In science, computing and engineering, ‘black box theory’ refers to a device, a system or an object which can be understood in terms of what it does, but without any knowledge of how it does what it […]