Chemical of the Week: Arsole
“My friends don’t call me “Rim Job” for nothing. I love everything about Arsole, but especially its ring-like structure. Let the chemistry begin…”
Science: Love/Hate
Will Lawn “Bitches, bitches, physics makes us all its bitches”. Of Montreal have got it spot on, we really are physics’ bitches. We spend all day, every day obeying its…
Sussex in South-East Asia: An Interview with Dr. Alan Stewart
Charlotte Alldis It has been ten years of hard work from Dr. Stewart and his Sussex-based team, but finally the Conservation Project in Papua New Guinea is well under way.…
Drugs Live: Science or Circus
W.T. Who’d have thought that not only would the 21st Century bring about the completion of the human genome project, the discovery of the Higgs-Boson, but also people gurning their…
Predestined and Prolonged (fragment)
Byron Taylor I am the face of your futurity, I am the scope of your skill The hemispheres of your head. I am the leaves that Sweep your spirit’s streets,…
My games maker experience
Ashni Lakhani The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games was a sporting event that people all around the world stopped to watch. World records were broken and feelings of national…
A Clockwork Orange: A history of ultra-violence
Charlie Jones When A Clockwork Orange burst onto the world cinema stage in 1971 it became an instant cult classic; shocking its audience with its brutal monochrome vision of a…
Glued to our screens?
The 21st Century Real Virtual World Jonathan Stefanni-Machado Apple’s highly anticipated iPhone 5 was released on 21 September in the UK, and despite the absence of a midnight launch, it…
University challenged
As a new generation of students’ arrives at ‘liberal-lefty’ Sussex The Badger asks: are they walking into a bohemian wonderland or an institution mirroring an increasingly conservative education system? Harry…
Chemical of the Week: Cummingtonite
Hey guys, I’m Laurie, and I just love Cummingtonite. This chemical, or mineral (WHO CARES, right!?), has SUCH a sexy name and I dig anything that forms its crystals in…
How many degrees of empathy? An interview with Simon Baron-Cohen
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen is a controversial figure. He is an internationally renowned autism researcher and famed for his many popular science books. The general public, at least going on book…
The Noblest of Science
Last Thursday night people across the globe held their breaths in unison, as the winners of the highly coveted, unparalleled and prestigious Ig Nobel Prizes were announced. Each pioneers in…
Science: Love/Hate
Sophie Moonshine I once made my way onto a “best quotes” list in my first year of school. I hadn’t given my throw-away comment much thought, but it was one…
The Sporting Underworld: Initiations
Initiation as a word has been dragged down into the doldrums of the English Language with the bad connotations it has recently acquired. Is their reputation deserved or has media…
Shake your bumba? Try some Zumba! (Alternative Sports at Sussex)
Staying fit and doing exercise is great, but not everyone wants to join the gym or a sports club. We have found some alternatives to the main sports among the…
The Fun of the Fair
Freshers’ Fair is a different thing to different people. To returning students running the popular sports clubs it seems to be a bit of a chore. To the more obscure…
The Big Lemon is Back
A student-led initiative has been established with the aim to reinstate the eco-friendly Big Lemon bus service between Brighton centre and campus. The company, which operates sustainable vehicles using recycled…
International Students Threatened
Long suffering International students studying at London Metropolitan University (LMU) could afford to breathe a sigh of relief this week after a judicial verdict by a High Court judge granting…
Track the Campaign – Democracy 2012
For this year’s Track the Campaign, the Badger has joined forces with The Independent newspaper’s valiant Democracy 2015 movement. Carrying the slogan: “People Politics, Not Party Politics”, Democracy 2015’s aims…
A Moving Market
Since the start of term, a concern for both the University and the Students’ Union has been the location of the popular fruit and vegetable market. The market has been…