3rd September 2020
Which up-and-coming artist will play a humble set in Your Kitchen? Will your favourite band headline The Living Room? Has the online gig bestowed the power of the dream festival line-up into our hands? Or could a weak wifi connection be the new “Sorry, no the night pal”? The feeling of attending a gig is ...
2nd September 2020
The largest study to date on the topic used data from nearly 400,000 people in the UK Biobank. Researchers at the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Health and Wellbeing have announced they have found people with genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease exhibiting clear differences in certain biomarkers. It supports a link between a major genetic ...
2nd September 2020
The motion has been put forward by deputy council leader Paul Kelly and University of Glasgow Rector candidate Junaid Ashraf. Councillors in the Glasgow suburb of North Lanarkshire have passed a unanimous decision to support the Black Lives Matter movement and review the process of decolonising education. This joint Labour and SNP motion was introduced ...
2nd September 2020
With the announcement of Studio Ghibli’s new CGI film, have we seen the last of traditional techniques? The first full-length traditionally animated film to be augmented with computer-generated (CG) animation was Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective, where cel-shading was used in one scene to produce the gears inside Big Ben. The animators were inspired by ...
1st September 2020
Indoor gatherings and house parties are believed to be the transmitter of the recent spike in Covid-19 cases. Glasgow has reintroduced lockdown restrictions regarding indoor visits as the city sees a spike in Covid-19 cases. First minister Nicola Sturgeon communicated today that indoor meetings, most notably meeting family and friends indoors will be strictly prohibited ...
1st September 2020
Lloyd Russell explores Glasgow’s Priory Bar pre-lockdown and why this underrated venue remains at the heart of the Scottish music scene. Nestled on the hedonistically neon-soaked Sauchiehall Street lies what many people in the music scene perceive as the heart of Glasgow’s punk scene, The Priory. Loud, screeching guitars accompanied by the crashing of drums ...
