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The next Covid-19: why future pandemics are ‘a certainty’
Thursday October 10 2024, 10:00am. Prof Sir Chris Whitty has warned a future pandemic as big as Covid is “a certainty”. Given the widespread and devastating health, social and economic impacts of Covid, it is important that scientists have a detailed understanding of possible future threats. The World Health Organisation publishes an ...
Music, miniskirts and motorbikes: ‘60s mod culture | Varsity
Nov 13, 2020 · Music, miniskirts and motorbikes: ‘60s mod culture. Fashion Editor Lara Zand maps the mass appeal of mod culture, which epitomised the Swinging Sixties in Britain and saw fashion, music and art intersect. Twiggy, posing in a jersey dress, coloured tights and brogues, has come to be the face of women’s fashion in the 1960s.
SCIENCE - Varsity
Oct 24, 2013 · Maya Kunchur gets you up to date on some of the latest scientific discoveries. 4 October 2024. Anti-climax? The science of the female orgasm. Lucie Debaig investigates the evolutionary rationale behind the ever-elusive female orgasm.
Varsity’s Guide to Cambridge Theatre | Varsity - Varsity Online
Sep 29, 2017 · Just across the road from the Corn Exchange is the Cambridge Arts Theatre. The venue is a 666-seat theatre on Peas Hill and St Edward’s Passage and presents a varied mix of drama, dance, opera and pantomime – including the annual Marlowe Society production. Cambridge Junction. Venture a little bit further afield to the southwest of ...
Georgia Ellery: ‘Pushing our creative minds to get somewhere …
May 29, 2020 · Georgia Ellery: ‘Pushing our creative minds to get somewhere unheard is where the joy is’. The young actor/musician tells Izzi Dickson about her BAFTA-winning acting debut, upcoming Jockstrap EP and love of drone metal. Georgia Ellery. When I catch up with Georgia, it’s 2pm on a Friday and she’s in Farringdon, where she lives with her ...
Lungs: a play about the Big Questions but without answers
Friday February 5 2021, 12:00am. ‘Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That’s the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I’d be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.’. This comic observation is typical of Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs, a dazzling and affecting – if somewhat frustrating – play, in which an unnamed man and woman negotiate starting a family in a ...
‘Talkin’ Bout a Revolution’: The Music of Tracy Chapman
Dec 29, 2020 · Tracy Chapman was introduced on the Late Night Show on the 2nd November as ‘Grammy award winning singer/ songwriter known for her singular voice as well as for her politically and socially active music’. Little more needed saying as the camera cut to a shot of Chapman singing “Talkin’ ’Bout a Revolution”, a song she originally wrote ...
Versace VS Armani: Mistress and the Wife? | Varsity
Jun 15, 2021 · Such a patriarchal tradition is reflected in the fashionable phrase, ‘Versace dresses the mistress while Armani dresses the wife’ incanted by many fashion-lovers. A seemingly harmless phrase, it is steeped in sinister stereotypes and shallow judgements. Michelle Pfeiffer's fitted Armani suit emblematic of the subdued classiness of the ...
University publishing house faces cyber attack | Varsity
Jul 2, 2024 · by Omar Burhanuddin. Tuesday July 2 2024, 8:04pm. Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA) has been hit by a cyber attack, jeopardising the work of its employees. In a statement on Thursday (27/06), CUPA announced they were facing “technical disruption following a cybersecurity incident affecting part of our publishing operation”.