21st September 2020 - The Glasgow Guardian



ScottishPower E-bikes are free to ride Tuesday 22 September

21st September 2020

World Car-Free Day hits Glasgow in order to reduce emissions. Sponsored by Scottish Power, nextbike is offering free hour-long rides on their bikes on  22  September.  To use this free offer, people will need to enter the code “Carfree1hr” in their nextbike rental app. Each customer can redeem the voucher once. People are being encouraged ...


Truth or an unfortunate coincidence? The books that predicted Covid-19

21st September 2020

Hannah Smith investigates whether these literary sensations really did predict the pandemic. “There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” In his 1947 work The Plague, Albert Camus perfectly explains the rather unsurprising reaction of people in such an event as a pandemic. ...


The search for extraterrestrial life may be well known, but the response is not

21st September 2020

As the search for extraterrestrial life continues, Ross McCool examines the possible outcomes of alien contact. For as long as we have looked to the skies, we have questioned what lays beyond. Nasa has long-held discussions with experts to discuss strategies for the ongoing search for life. In 2014, Michael Merrifield, professor of astrophysics at ...