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  An open letter to the Editor of The Stag,   st [‘NOTE 1: this questionnaire was to GAUGE opinion, NOT to form the basis of the review or the final decisions. NOTE 2: these are the ca...

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FEATURES»

Normally, an excuse for shoe shopping is the best thing that could happen (I acknowledge that other great things can happen too, like too Personally, I think sandals are ugly. I just cannot work them, and trust me, I have tried.

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SOCIETIES»

  Sending a big thank you to everyone that participated to make Surrey Student PEN’s Refreshers Fayre a great day! The Surrey PEN society aims to make people here at the University of Surrey aware that free speech is not something easily attained, and shouldn’t be taken for granted. In fact, we are highly privileged here in the UK with the ability to speak our minds; this is not the case in many countries across the globe.

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SCIENCE & TECH»

  According to physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, we have just 1,000 years left to escape “fragile” Earth before we face extinction.  He bases such claims on the earth being too delicate a planet to withstand humanity’s constant abuse.

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ARTS»

  There is a general standard of clichés when it comes to music journalism, that all writers are at one time or another guilty of using; describing an act as the “bastard love child of x and y”, or using the term “meteoric rise” when meteors tend to be best known for their falling. For example, I far too often use the word “seminal” in reviews, when I’m fairly sure that, if I heard such a word in real life, I’d assume you were the victim of some sort of thesaurus-related accident that left you sounding like a pretentious arsehole.

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SPORTS»

  Arsenal          1 – 3   Bayern Munich Porto               1 – 0   Malaga AC Milan       2 – 0   Barcelona Galatasaray   1 – 1   Schalke 04   The big game from the first night in the second week of the last sixteen of the Champions League occurred in London. Arsenal were thoroughly outplayed for long periods, particularly the first thirty minutes of the game, and Bayern looked both highly dangerous in sustained periods of possession and on the break.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS»

Leeds Student,   The NUS, however, had other ideas. An open letter published on NUS Connect’s website from Aaron Kiely, the NUS Black Students’ Officer, demanded ‘that the Editor of Leeds StudentGuardian Student Blogs   Dave Halls, President of Surrey’s Student Union, wrote an open letter in support of   It is interesting to note that the NUS then released another post on NUS Connect, from Liam Burns, President, stating that although they have a ‘no platform to Fascists’ policy, the NUS is a ‘member- led organisation’ and ‘[they] cannot and should not attempt to comprise the independence and autonomy of our members by dictating to them’.

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Mini guide to science writing


Published 22nd Apr 2013


  Now, our section isn’t all about the latest in science and technology news – it’s also about us authors and our writing. Each article is unique to its author’s style and perspective (as long as it’s not a product of churnalism…).Read more...

AMS Predicts Higher Energies of Positrons in Space


Published 22nd Apr 2013


  The team behind the $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) has announced it has detected an excess of particles, known as positrons, at high energies that could point way towards possible detection of dark matter.Read more...

A Cosmologist’s Gold Mine


Published 22nd Apr 2013


  Data acquired by the European Space Agency’s €600 million Planck surveyor satellite, launched in 2009, has provided the most detailed picture yet of the universe’s cosmic microwave background (CMB); revealing details about its birth and first instants.   Scientists now peg the age of the universe at 13.Read more...

Biofuels ‘worse than fossil fuels’, according to new study


Published 22nd Apr 2013


  A report published by the UK think tank, Chatham House, claims that the increasing use of biofuels will be more harmful to the environment than fossil fuels, and will cost motorists as much as £1.3bn a year by 2020.Read more...

Hawking’s Appeal to Humanity


Published 22nd Apr 2013


  According to physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, we have just 1,000 years left to escape “fragile” Earth before we face extinction.  He bases such claims on the earth being too delicate a planet to withstand humanity’s constant abuse.Read more...

Bitcoins and bullions - The rise of the electronic currency


Published 22nd Apr 2013


  10 years ago it would have seemed unlikely that a comparison between precious metals and information ‘bits’ would ever have arisen. When stock markets crash and natural disasters occur, financiers lose faith in bonds, shares and currency and invest in things which are expected to retain their value.Read more...

Who says Connect-4 is just for humans?


Published 4th Mar 2013


  Now, we all love a brain teaser to stimulate our minds and get that ‘feel-good’ satisfaction. Funnily enough, so do our human-like friends Chimpanzees, according to some new research at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire.Read more...

A Swift Breakthrough for Solar Energy


Published 4th Mar 2013


  Scientists from University of California, Santa Barbara, have taken a step forward from conventional methods of harvesting energy from the sun, and now something promising has emerged. As described by Professor of Chemistry, Martin Moskovits, it is the “first radically new alternate to semiconductor-based solar conversion devices to be developed in the past 70 years”.Read more...

The Green Revolution


Published 4th Mar 2013


  Last year I wrote an article outlining the change in mindset about the future of the energy markets and the new policies which governments have decided to implement. I called it ‘The End of the Nuclear Renaissance?’ This article intends to follow the ever-unraveling aftermath of Fukushima and the consequences it is having on one key-player.Read more...

The Horse-meat Scandal


Published 4th Mar 2013


  The common saying “It’s what it says on the tin” has proven to be inaccurate in the case of supermarket products such as beef burgers. Some of the major supermarkets, famously Tesco, were selling beef burgers with horse meat present.Read more...

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