264 hours stands as the current Guinness World record for staying awake the longest. However, unlike jumping out an aeroplane without a parachute from 7,500 metres and landing in a net, Guinness stopped recognizing it due to safety concerns. Instead, Norfolk-born President of the Norwich Astronomical Society Mark Thompson decided to attempt the longest running…
Arts, Venue
The Creative Process: Creative spaces
We’ve all heard people say that a clean space makes a clear mind. But what sort of space helps nurture creativity? It’s a question that many have attempted to answer in the past, hoping to unlock the secrets of society’s most famous artists. Quite simply, there is no one answer to this question. Creative spaces…
Science
What Science is there to look forward to in 2021?
COVID has not only dominated our lives for the best part of a year now, but has also dominated the news, and scientific developments which would normally be on the forefront of the news have been out-shadowed by grim talk of vaccines, death tolls and new strains. Although we may not have got rid of…
Science
Is our current understanding of the Universe wrong?
The Universe is expanding, this we know for sure, but for decades Physicists have been struggling to understand and work out the rate of this expansion – this is often thought of as one of the greatest mysteries in science. The Hubble Constant, named after the famous American Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble, is the value given…
Science
New evidence discovered from black hole collision
Scientists have discovered the largest collision of two black holes ever detected. Researchers detected gravitational waves originating from 17 billion light-years away. Due to the expansion of the universe, this collision would have occurred 7 billion years ago, making it the oldest detected collision, having happened at slightly before halfway through the universe’s lifespan. This…
Arts
Degas at the Opera
I visited Paris over the Halloween weekend, and one of my stops throughout the city was the Musée d’Orsay. This museum is in a beautiful building that was previously a train station built in 1900, which now houses mostly French art from the late 1800s and early 1900s. To my delight, I found that the…
Science
The hunt for dark energy
It is currently widely accepted that both space and time started with the Big Bang. The universe started as a small singularity that was infinitely dense and has continuously expanded since. This can be evidenced by an observed pattern called redshift (a result of the wavelength of electro-magnetic radiation increasing). However, gravity in simple terms…
Science
The future of human spaceflight
This year marks 50 years since the Apollo 11 mission, but what is the future of human spaceflight over the next ten years? This talk, chaired by journalist Richard Hollingham, included a panel of guests all with different backgrounds in spaceflight: European space agency engineer Vinita Marwaha, science journalist Sue Nelson, extreme medical doctor Beth…
Film
The death of DVD
In the last decade society has shifted from having DVD’s lining the shelves of TV cabinets and bookcases, to streaming sites like Netflix and Amazon Prime dominating the film and television industry. DVDs were a phenomenon when they were first invented and changed the shape of both the television and film industries. Unlike CD’s, the…
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