The Cancer Envy Campaign
Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate out of the common cancers; only three percent make it past five years, with the majority only making it to 4-6 months after diagnosis.
Issue 1573
21st Mar 2014
A call for doctors
The number of doctors travelling abroad on ‘humanitarian’ missions in order to provide help for the millions of people suffering in less developed countries is nanoscopic.
Dirty Stethoscopes
A study published this month has displayed the possibility that a doctor’s stethoscope could be a major source of bacterial transmission in clinical practice.
Three is no longer a crowd
We are even closer to seeing Britain become the first country in the world to allow a three person baby to be born through IVF, as draft rules were announced last week to regulate the process.
Oh, what’s wrong with the world today?
It used to be that the world was an absolutely awful place. People were starving left and right in all those countries to the South, the hole in the ozone layer was going to kill us all, there was no more oil left, grubby foreigners were going to steal all
The Dying Earth
Maciej Matuszewski reviews Jack Vance’s highly influencial series set far in the future on a dying planet Earth
Jesse feels the need for <del>meth</del> speed
Surely the overwhelming critical success of Breaking Bad could have set up Aaron Paul for a better cinematic role than this one. He has won two Primetime Emmys, and yet one of the first roles he manages to land is in a video game adaptation...
Hating headlines that tell you how to feel
Old people have always had it in for BBC3. Unlike the sleepy old BBC4, home of gentle documentaries presented by the lovely Lucy Worsley, BBC3 is an overactive puppy, full of rebellion and naïve excitement that spends most of its spare time engaged in an act of passion with the
Alien in Scotland
Grating noise over a blackout. A pinprick of light. The noise intensifies, the light grows. More. More. The light spills out, begin to refract. Colours seep through.
Imperial lose at Chichester
Katherine Fok gives her account
Hitotsubashi University Meeting
The Kendo Club went international recently as it played host to a score of students from Hitosubashi University, Tokyo. As the only University in Japan specialising entirely in the Social Sciences, and one of the top-ranking Japanese Universities, it may be helpful to think of it as the Japanese LSE
A 5-star hotel experience
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a tricky film to review. Put quite simply: it’s a Wes Anderson film. In every conceivable way, as with all of his films before it, it is the essence of its predecessors mixed up, distilled, and delivered to the silver screen in a blast of pure, surreal, bittersweet joy.