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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Second in a series of articles debating which scientific discipline is responsible for the most significant scientific discovery. Today, Justin Wilkinson argues for Biology. There are many biological experiments of considerable importance, from Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin through to Pasteur’s swan necked flasks, and the disproof of spontaneous generation. However, the experiment that has saved the most lives of any...
First in a series of articles in which writers debate which scientific discipline was responsible for the most important scientific discovery. Daniel Rollins argues for Chemistry. Antoine Lavoisier (1743 –1794) was a French aristocrat who has been called the “father of modern chemistry”. As well as helping develop the metric system naming both hydrogen and oxygen and first identifying sulphur as an element, he is responsible for many of Chemistry’s...
Friday, July 26, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
by Charlie AlbueryWow, what a list we’ve got here, we’ve spanned brain-bending Inception through to bar-battling Bond, and covered two polar opposites of the begrudging boyfriend genre, but we’ve stayed decidedly earthbound. I’m about to launch this list interstellar. There’s only one film I could pick: STAR WARS! This has been my favourite film for as long as I can remember, and it’s unique in that it has unparalleled universality; children love...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
by Katherine Tobin‘This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront… This is not a love story’500 Days of Summer is an untraditional romantic comedy which follows a young greeting-card writer, Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon Levitt) and the semi-titular Summer Finn (Zooey Deschannel) through the course of their relationship. Despite immediately sounding like your classic rom-com, this is a film which sets out to completely reinvent the audience’s...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
by Alex Quarrie-JonesThere are movies that make you laugh, there are movies that make you cry, there are movies that make you jump and movies that just plain confuse you; Inception does all of this. Admittedly it may not be humour that you belt out laughter to, like Dodgeball, or the heart-wrenching moments in Up, but the combination of cinematic aspects added to an intriguing and original premise along with fantastic, compelling and stellar acting...
by Sampad Sengupta Michael Clarke and Darren Lehmann contemplate defeatAfter losing to England in a close encounter at Trent Bridge, one would have expected the Aussies to bounce back strongly in the second Test at Lord’s, but it was not to be. The visitors were humbled by England who won by 347 runs to take a commanding 2-0 lead in the 5-match Test series. The home side were well in control of the game barring a few hiccups, and...
Monday, July 22, 2013
by Alice MacBainWell I have to say it wasn’t easy to choose. But then I was listening to Gershwin, and heard something which left me in no doubt.Jerry Mulligan is a struggling painter who spends a lot of his time in Montmartre, trying to sell his paintings. His "very good friends in Paris", Adam Cook (Oscar Levant), is a concert pianist and used to work for successful music-hall star entertainer Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary). Henri shows him the...
Sunday, July 21, 2013
by Tom HarperUpon my recent exploration of the latest movie archives I was stopped dead in my tracks by Disney and Pixar’s recent announcement of the production of Finding Dory: the sequel to Finding Nemo that no-one asked for nor wanted, and this led me to reflect on how truly sublime all-time classics such as Shrek, Predator and however many Police Academy movies there are out there have been spoiled by the ticking time bomb that is the sequel....
Britain's Chris Froome won the Tour de France today, only the second British cyclist to do so. From the Portmouth Point archives: Fergus Houghton-Connell and Callum Strong discuss the prospects for Froome, Mark Cavendish, Team Sky and British cycling in 2013 and beyond.Fergus Houghton Connell on Chris Froome:"La Vuelta is a very different race to Le Tour de France. In the latter, the mountains are, on average, longer than those of the former, so...
Katie Green's poem, 'Deep Depths', won the Year 8 Leonardo 2013 prize.Dark waves crashed mercilesslyAgainst the jagged rocks below.The almost inky black colour the onlyClue as to the fathomless depth below.I had to jump.I had to jump.I would jump.I WAS going to jump.I had to jump.She asked me if I could hear the music.I could hear it,Slow like a lullabyOver and over in my head.I should jump?I shook my head,Snapping myself out of the trance.They mustn’t have it.They would never have it.I had to jump.The woman held out her hands to me,Inviting me.But...
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Yesterday (July 18th), Texas became the twelfth US state to pass newly restrictive abortion laws; Grace Gawn makes the case for abortion rights. Abortion, the termination of a pregnancy, is an issue that continues to spark emotive debate as to its morality, even 46 years after it was made legal in England following the Abortion Act of 1967. Unless the mother’s life is at risk or there is danger of permanent injury to the mother or child, an abortion can only be carried out up to 24 weeks of pregnancy under current UK law. There...
Yesterday (Wednesday, 17th July), gay marriage was legalised in England and Wales after receiving Royal Assent. Here, Jo Kirby makes the case for gay marriage. Wednesday, 17th July was a landmark victory for progress and equality. Despite fierce opposition from many and claims that allowing equal marriage equates to supporting incest, bestiality, paedophilia and polygamy, MPs and peers voted by convincing margins to legalise same-sex marriage. So what had all the fuss been about? Responses from those who opposed the bill varied...
Yesterday (Wednesday, 17th July), gay marriage was legalised in England and Wales after receiving Royal Assent. Here, Simon Lemieux makes the case against gay marriage. If you are anticipating (or dreading) a piece full of vitriol and quotes from various sacred texts condemning homosexuality, then you will be disappointed with what follows. The case I want to make against gay marriage here is not based upon any particular faith perspective nor, I hope, on unfounded prejudice. A strong and I believe persuasive argument can, I think,...
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