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    Sky Grief: What Can We Do About Light Pollution? 

    Sean Bromilow On a crisp, cloudless night in Nottingham, how many stars can you see? According to this interactive map, made with data from the Countryside Charity’s 2023 Star Count, it’s likely that you won’t spot more than 10 stars in the entire sky. This isn’t a local issue,...
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    The Importance of Endometriosis Awareness Month

    Yasmin Azizbayli March is not only a month of endometriosis awareness but also a month of educating people and spreading their knowledge about a disease that is often very hard to detect. Endometriosis is a global problem that afflicts both men and women, causing chronic pain that can prevent...
  • The Long-Lasting Impact of Being Spiked

    Will we ever be able to truly escape the danger of being spiked? The normalisation of being spiked, or knowing someone who has, is alarming, especially with the move from drinks being spiked, to our bodies being injected with illegal unknown substances. How can one possibly escape a small...
  • Fuelling The Fire: The Hidden Grip of Caffeine Addiction on Students

    Katie Sullivan Caffeine as an accessible, fairly harmless drug has been integrated into the lives of university students as a staple. It has been made a normal part of student life to the extent that there are programmes that exist to encourage the consumption of energy drinks in more...
  • ARFID: The Misconceptions and Truthful Reality of the Most Misunderstood Eating Disorder

    Charlotte Deville In light of Eating Disorder Awareness Week (26th February to 3rd March), the UK’s leading eating disorder charity, Beat, focused on raising awareness of ARFID. This condition is severely misunderstood and lesser known compared to similar conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. Impact’s Charlotte...
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    Slow Travel: Ditching the Itinerary for Going with the Flow

    Since the Pandemic, there has been a certain resurgence in the appeal of ‘Slow Travel’. The concept centres on “allowing the world to move just a little slower so that we actually notice it” and “taking the time to make a connection – to the land and each other”....
  • Why We Were Born in the Right Generation

    Ella Beadman Many Gen Zers have adopted the saying “I was born in the wrong generation” feeling that they identify more with previous fashion trends, music tastes, and the simpler lifestyles associated with earlier decades. Yet more often than not, it is easy to view the past as a...