Halloween is just around the corner now, and here at The Panoptic, we are ready to shock you with the variety of music that we’ve been jamming out to. This week we feature songs by Joji, The Tings Tings and Parcels. Enjoy!
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Singles of the Week
This seems to be a week of unity with the Korean War finally drawing to a close. How long this peace will last is not for certain, but one thing that is more indubitable is that the united Panoptic team will keep churning out our singles of the week.
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Raindance 25: Our Reflections
This year the team at The Panoptic were delighted to attend the 25th Raindance Film Festival, celebrating indie films from across the world. Now that it has ended, we wanted to share our reflections from the festival from everyone who was part of the reviewing team.
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City of Joy
(Trigger warning – references to rape and sexual violence throughout.) Madeleine Gavin’s City of Joy provides a sensitive insight into the plight of Congolese women today, without reducing their stories to the usual, easy-to-sell emotional porn. Having achieved what countless others before her have (unsuccessfully) tried to do, I have no doubt that City of Joy is…
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Why Science Must Reward Failure
Any scientist will tell you that science is a process of trial and error. Error, however, is rarely rewarded (and often not even admitted to) by the scientific community. This is a result of stagnation in the way that scientific discoveries are made public, with scientific publishing seemingly stuck in a paradigm unaffected by the…
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David Bellamy’s Arctic Light: An Artist’s Journey in a Frozen Wilderness
An intrepid explorer as well as a keen artist, David Bellamy is a man of many talents. Arctic Light: An Artist’s Journey in a Frozen Wilderness successfully exemplifies this, pairing frozen landscapes sensitively captured in watercolour with sharp and funny anecdotes of the trials and tribulations faced during Bellamy’s countless expeditions.
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Taha at the Young Vic
The vivid story of the turbulent life of the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali is recounted to an intimate audience within Taha.
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Okja: Bold, Bizarre, Brilliant
Those as deeply invested in Netflix as me (namely, other recent graduates struggling to adapt to the real world) will have also noticed a recent surge in the number and quality of original films and TV shows released by the company. Working together with a mix of highly-esteemed directors, Netflix has raised the stakes and…
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#MakeScienceCoolAgain – just how damaging is scientific inaccessibility?
The March for Science took place in cities across the world yesterday, with Washington’s protest seeing tens of thousands in attendance. People poured onto the streets in defiance of the impending budget cuts to research, vocalising the importance of science both on personal, and universal levels. However, in the midst of this positive solidarity, I was particularly struck…
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The Science of Friendship
In fact, studies have shown that a number of different species also exhibit behaviours similar to that which we would classify as friendly. Whilst the precise reasons for this are still under speculation, there is likely to be a cross-species evolutionary drive towards forming buddies. Investigations into chimpanzee behaviour in Uganda and the Ivory Coast led…
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