16th January 2024
AI models have quickly taken a comfortable role as our personal translators, problem solvers, and even friends- how did we get here? ChatGPT was launched over a year ago, in November 2022. It, and OpenAI’s other public AI model, Dall-E (launched a year before ChatGPT), have become a figurative black hole in the tech discourse ...
16th January 2024
Some call it fate, others call it the “Glasgow effect”. Exceptionally high levels of mortality within the city of Glasgow have earned it this name; but what does it mean? A 2010 study analysed how in Glasgow, a post-industrialised city, deaths were 14% higher in comparison to similar de-industrialised cities such as Manchester and Liverpool. ...
16th January 2024
A recent study was the first to test period products using blood, concluding with interesting revelations for women’s health. Why wasn’t this done sooner? Jo’s monologue in Little Women, The Hot Priest saying “it’ll pass”, Tom Holland’s Lip Sync Battle performance: all credible answers to the tired question, “What’s the female version of the Roman ...
16th January 2024
Animal testing is inherently controversial, is there an alternative, and most importantly, how do we get there? In science, few debates acquire more ethical friction than the one about the use of live animals to establish the safety of pharmaceutical products or cosmetics. The necessity of animal use in labs has been questioned repeatedly through ...
16th January 2024
Emma Currie chats to Dr Zara Gladman about her work as a scientist and rise to fame in the Scottish comedy scene. For those who haven’t frequented Scottish TikTok or Twitter over the past few months, Zara Gladman is a Scottish comedian who has reached the dizzy heights of online viralness for her ‘West End ...
16th January 2024
An inside report from the elusive underbelly of conspiracy theories I arrived, glad to be stepping out of the Uber which had taken a sweaty and uncomfortable 45 minutes in the Friday rush hour traffic. It was raining softly and I could already see the queue for this mysterious unknown speaker growing, it stretched and ...
