Written for Pi newspaper Amped up on scifi with films ranging from epics like Solaris to the big-time Hollywood hits Inception and Pacific Rim, it’s sometimes hard to distinguish fact...
In UCL Pi newspaper, print edition. My unedited, unabbreviated version below: A rant on our government's uselessness Re climate change. Woman up, world! Get the fuck up and start investing...
Bit of a re-hash, but worth looking into associated links. Especially buildings created from wood - brilliant. In the same way that local filter bubbles can inhibit our capacity to...
Posted in UCL Pi magazine, my original version unedited: We’ve been brought up to believe sleep is a necessary but avoidable luxury – Watching Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Men, 24 –...
“Fracking has the real potential to drive down energy bills” Hydraulic fracturing operation at a Marcellus Shale well Cameron’s foray into the Shale gas debate is convincing. Who wouldn’t like...
Written a few months ago, this look into endorphins was a submission for the Biochemical Society’s annual Science Writing competition – for the layperson. I can see some flaws, but figured...
If you had to lose your legs to save your unborn child – would you do it? It’s one of those typical (and frankly preposterous) TV plots that demand a...
Dancing is not getting up any time painlessly like a speck of dust blown around in the wind. Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces...
“Why do I feel scared in some environments, but not in others?” For a while I thought the answer to this question was based entirely on events in that environment...
What a terrible day: a day when I am lexically stumped and mentally stupefied. However, it was also the day for the Wellcome Trust / Guardian Science writing competition. Having made...
The few times I snuck into philosophy lectures during university I remember being confused. Not so much by the philosophical terminology (having spent a good few years in the larceny...
