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Monday 12th December 2011

Club Med – But not as you know it…

Forget the MED-iterranean — join me on my journey as a MED-ical student as I make  the  transition  from  lecture  theatre  to  operating theatre and plunge headfirst into my first week of cardiothoracic surgery. I was thrilled to finally see surgery after years spent in front of various…

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Sunday 11th December 2011

Sweeping Cuts Hit The BBC

Due to the fact that the licence fee has now been frozen until April 2017, the BBC is facing major cuts of up to 20% in its budget. As a result the BBC needs to make significant savings, and some programmes will see a reduction in their budgets…

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Sunday 11th December 2011

Scandinavia Remade

Steig Larsson, Niels Arden Oplev, Noomi Rapace and Tomas Alfredson — not exactly the names you would expect to have a lot of resonance in the world of cinema or television. After all, more often than not foreign film is the exclusive refuge of avid fans in search…

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Sunday 11th December 2011

‘Ashun’ Restaurants

I derive a particular pleasure from dining at Asian restaurants. As I walk through China Town, torn between the smells and sounds emanating from the bowels of each kitschy establishment, my mind whirs with anticipation. It is not the prawn crackers, nor the delicately perfumed Jasmine tea, that…

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Saturday 10th December 2011

Impact Introduces: You Cry Wolf & RedKites

You Cry Wolf After playing popular venues such as Rescue Rooms and Spanky van Dykes, You Cry Wolf are beginning to establish themselves as the ones to watch on the Nottingham music scene. The unsigned, Brighton-based 4 piece draws influences from all manner of the arts to create…

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Saturday 10th December 2011

News In Brief

Karni keeps a Nottingham School on the road The SU’s student-run charity Karnival has made a donation of £2,000 to St Augustine’s Primary School in Park Avenue. The donation was made after a local MP asked for help to save the school’s bus service, due a cut in…

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Saturday 10th December 2011

Ai Weiwei on the issues of Modern China

Ai Weiwei is the famed artist behind the 2008 Olympic Stadium, ‘The Bird’s Nest’, as well as the ‘Sunflower Seeds’ exhibition in the Tate Modern last year. His work is recognised around the world as displays against the Chinese Government; his semi-nude self-portrait ‘Grass Mud Horse’ in particular…

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Saturday 10th December 2011

A Little Comfort From The Cold

As we move into the winter months, sunglasses are being left at home and it’s time to don your hats and scarves and battle the cold weather.  But these well-loved items of knitwear aren’t the only way to warm up this winter. There are plenty of dishes to…

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Saturday 10th December 2011

Britain’s New Fundamental Scientist?

Some readers might remember the London School of Economics’ (LSE) controversial evolutionary psychologist, Satoshi Kanazawa, who is perhaps best known for his blog, the Scientific Fundamentalist. With titles ranging from “Why beautiful people have more daughters” onto “Why all women are prostitutes”, Kanazawa managed to become Psychology Today’s most…

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Saturday 10th December 2011

A Space Oddity

Since the re-entry of NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) last September, a number of journalists have written articles which read like the plot summary of Deep Impact. But does returning space debris really pose a threat to us? With around 1,000 operational spacecraft currently in orbit, it’s…

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