Next time you hit Rubix on a Wednesday night and are looking forward to being in the loving arms of your boyfriend/girlfriend, you may want to consider your consumption of alcohol and how it disturbs your sleep pattern. Apart from the obvious reasons why alcohol isn’t great for your love life (erectile dysfunction), alcohol also affects your snoring; it relaxes the tissue at the back of your throat, making you snore much more loudly.Read more...
Reports have surfaced recently that Libyan authorities have once again cut access to the internet in a final attempt to cease protests and halt the approaching civil war.
Technicians from Google commented that internet traffic from Libya had dropped substantially on Thursday 3rd March at 5 pm (GMT).Read more...
A full-length robot marathon in Japan saw its first ever winner on 27th February. The knee-high, two-legged robots competed in Osaka in a race made up of 423 laps of an indoor circuit.Read more...
Publishers Weekly
Romantic novelist Rebecca Dean’s latest book, The Other Boleyn Girl.
As the countdown to the 'Royal Wedding of the Century’ begins, the book has many parallels to Will and Kate.Read more...
Amy is pleased to let you all know that she will be running a series of poetry workshops every Thursday. The workshops are open to students, staff and the public and everyone is welcome, regardless of writing experience.Read more...
The list includes the book behind the award winning adaptation The Social Network. The Times describe the novel at number one, Michael Lewis’ The Big Short, a novel on misfit conmen amidst financial crisis in Wall Street, as ‘A triumph .Read more...
Hwaet! Where is our Mother Tongue?
Lost in the annuals of Henryson and a bard long dead?
Rich tapestry of mistakes and rough percussion,
Come back to aid this tale, simple not refined.
Across the glens and barren lands,
Treillis stared, his eyes bitter,
Like flames and power in his hands.Read more...
On Saturday 5Life of Pi, Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Love in the Time of Cholera. Supported by the BBC, Publishers Association and World Book Day, World Book Night was incredibly successful and popular with 10,000 spectators gathered in central London to celebrate reading.Read more...
The West wind shall blow
Cutting ligatures of lease
Under voracious skies
Through clouded fate returns us to shame
Again the pit’s empty
Of servant and slave
Though now we must suffer
Under pressure of name
Tho...Read more...
The week of 7 February saw “Free Week” return to the university campus. Organized by the Christian Union (CU), this annual week of events encourages students to consider life’s big questions and the answers Christianity has to offer.Read more...