Snow in Nenthead!!! My beloved mine is a Miners’ Winter Wonderland! Water Wheel in Smelt Mill Old Workshop and water wheel launder Barracks and Assay House Ore carts in front of Carr’s Mine The Portal to Smallcleugh Dec 4, 2025

By Shirley, studying History and Politics MA (Hons) Getting started with revision for an exam or big assessment can feel a bit daunting and probably the last thing you want to be doing right now. We’ve all been there: staring at the same page for 20 minutes, reorganising our desk for the third time, or […]

The brain integrates information not only from the five external senses – hearing, smell, taste, touch, and vision – but also from the three internal senses: interoception, proprioception, and the vestibular sense. (See our blog for the crossmodal correspondences between the senses, Vision, haptic touch, and hearing, Multisensory processing, and Food for thought: taste, smell […]

The last stable release for 2025 will go out on Wednesday 17th December and the first of 2026 will be made on Wednesday 7th January. Dec 4, 2025

It’s the end of semester one for my second year. I’ve submitted my 1000 word proposal a while ago and had some time thinking about it in the background. I took Narratives of Digital Capitalism taught by Ben Collier. It invited me to dig for inherent logics of businesses, how technology is never inevitable, how […]

About Edinburgh For anyone needing a visual, here is a movie (format .mov; 16Mb) showing the city of Edinburgh from the top of Blackford Hill. The latter is one of Edinburgh’s 7 extinct volcanos which is just 5 minutes walk from the University’s science campus, Kings Buildings, on the south side of the city of […]