“Secrets of the Brain”: Special Screening of the New BBC Horizon Documentary With Award-winning Filmmaker Andrew Smith and Professor Gilly Forrester
On a chilly Monday evening, September 22nd, families and individuals from around Sussex gathered in the Fulton Building for the exclusive pre-screening of a brand-new BBC Two Horizon episode –…
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Gen Z is more mentally ill, nervous, and less socially able than previous generations. In his 2024 book The Anxious Generation, social…
Student’s Health Spotlight – Meningitis: A Student-Focused Breakdown
A serious and sometimes life-threatening illness, meningitis is a condition involving inflammation of the tissues surrounding the brain. Most commonly, this takes the form of an infectious disease, caused by…
Portslade Science Fair was a Hit Among Families
On Saturday, 5 July 2025, from 11 am to 3 pm, families gathered at East hill Park Café in Portslade for the town’s first-ever free science fair. The fair welcomed families across…
Mankind’s Epic Journey: ‘Human’ Live with Ella Al-Shamahi
In a dimly lit Komedia in the North Laine, Ella Al-Shamahi starts her live show off-stage with an enticing prologue, immediately drawing the audience into of humanity’s most profound stories.…
Is the UK Offshoring its Emissions?
Currently the UK is positioned as a global climate leader, due to a 48% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990. The government regularly publishes reports suggesting we are on…
“I long for a time when the term ‘woman scientist’ is no longer necessary”- In Conversation With MRI Physicist, Dr. Iris Asllani
Dr. Iris Asllani has worked at the Clinical Imaging Science Centre (CISC) for the past 7 years, despite the pandemic having ‘distorted her sense of time’. With a background in…
Climate, conflict and collapse- The End of Bronze Age Civilisation
David Wengrows “What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West” explores the technological creations of different communities that defined success and advancement across civilisations. Within…
You Can Quit Smoking, But Not Air Pollution
It’s a tough time to be someone who’s recently given up smoking. Despite feeling healthier and having the benefit of quitting before 22, I can’t help but feel defeated in…
Strychnine Is Good?
“Some folks like water, some folks like wine, but I like the taste of straight strychnine”. These are the opening lines to a song by 60s garage rock band, The…
Of Mountains And Men: The Current State Of Statehood In Papua New Guinea
Host to an estimated 840 living languages, Papua New Guinea (PNG), situated on the eastern side of the island of New Guinea within Oceania’s subregion of Melanesia, is known as…
Trump And Science – ‘2 Fascist, 2 Furious’
It has barely been a month and yet here we are. Trump is back in office for the second time and the scientific world has been plunged in chaos. While…
The TikTok Ban, ByteDance, and the “Splinternet”
The US TikTok ban represents more than the surface level new-cold-war tension between America and China. It personifies a growing divide between both advocates and critics of a global, open…
Were The Greeks All Pederasts?
Ancient Greece and its eminent persons have been associated with intelligence, artistic creativity, philosophical thought, and being foundational to Western civilisation for millennia. Though, in the last 50 years, there…
The Brainrot of Snapchat Discovery
As of late, the term Brainrot is in the majority of student vocabulary. Awarded Oxford University’s word of the year for 2024. It is often associated with phrases like ‘Skibidi…
Screen Addiction Isn’t Just Detrimental To Generation Z and Above: It’s Time To Consider Everyone.
It’s quite clear that the severity and frequency of screen addiction cases has worsened significantly since the pandemic. Amongst the chattering of brain-rot, I’ve come to observe a growing consensus…
Knepp Estate: A Lesson on Nature’s Resistance
I didn’t expect the first week of graduate school to involve waking up in the early hours of the morning to the sound of torrential rain on the roof of…
Biology and Biases: How biology enables societal and systemic discrimination
Hierarchical segregation and discrimination are practices that have existed in some form for as long as formal societal structures have existed. However, the reasoning behind these practices have changed over…
Wild Isles Live: An Evening with Alastair Fothergill OBE
Last month, I was fortunate to attend Wild Isles Live, an interactive show encompassing the BBC’s landmark natural history series (produced by Silverback Films), staged as part of the 2024…
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
For the final edition of The Badger, and as the academic year draws to a close, it feels fitting to conclude with a celebration, and given that I am an…