• The Thrill of the Chill: Why We Love A Good Scare

    Rayyah Uddin  If you’ve ever screamed during a horror movie, only to immediately laugh and claim that ”you knew that jump-scare was coming”, then congratulations: you’ve experienced one of psychology’s most delightful contradictions. Humans, for reasons scientists are still debating, love to scare themselves. Not always, of course –...
  • 50 Shades of Beige: Embracing the Bare

    Rayyah Uddin Once upon a time, you walked into your wardrobe, dodged an avalanche of hangers, before declaring: ”I have nothing to wear.” You were standing in front of enough fabric to clothe a small village- but nothing felt quite right. Behold, the beige wardrobe (and no, we don’t...
  • Trust Your Gut, and Choose Better Bread

    Summer Revely Bread is a staple part of the student diet, and in later life. I’d argue that toast and toasties only come second to pesto pasta in the dream lineup of post-night-out carb loading. But have you ever thought about what is actually in bread? And the contrasting...
  • Your Brain on Birth Control

    Summer Revely Since the release of the first contraceptive pill in the 60s in the USA, which saw a staggering 1.2 million users in its first year on the market, being on contraception has become a staple in the lives of 150 million females across the globe. The originally...
  • Why Breakfast is Still the Most Important Meal of the Day

    Summer Revely Are you surviving your 9ams fuelled by caffeine and panic? We’ve all been there. The constantly busy schedules, late nights in the club or completing summatives, and brief sleeps interrupted by early mornings make breakfast seem impossible at times. The crazy changes to the circadian rhythm that...
  • From Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Manchild’ to Vogue’s recent article, are straight men becoming an ever bigger target of disgust than before?

    Lara Samme As ‘Movemeber’ continues to be celebrated and charities for men’s mental and physical health urge the importance of donating, we should reflect upon the dystopian horrors of a ‘man-hating world’. Vogue Magazine and following trends ‘What Vogue says goes’… 2025 really seems to be the year of...
  • A Beginners Guide to a Digital Detox

    Holly Innis It’s nearly midnight. You’ve been doomscrolling on TikTok for the past hour and learnt nothing except that people think Brooke Monke’s feet are abnormally large. You go onto Instagram reels for a moment’s relief, and you’re greeted by a morbidly obese Al cat crashing into a washing...