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"You want to have a say? Then you have to vote too!"

On 9 June this year, the annual university elections took place again. At a university with over 28,000 eligible voters among students and teaching staff, spread across the entire city, these repre…

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Living Forever

Black Mirror, Season 2, Episode 1: Through an accident, Martha, a young woman working as an illustrator in an English country house, loses her friend Ash. Martha subsequently sinks into grief and l…

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ON/OFF – And you?

In July too, we were out and about on campus and in the faculties for you, and we asked students what they thought. This time we wanted to know:

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Phone off, camera on

At various occasions recently, I've noticed how good it can feel to simply put your phone aside and, if needed, take photos with a good old digital camera. We're now online almost all day, reachabl…

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The day after today

The reddish stone beneath her feet is still pleasantly cool. The first rays of sunlight are already falling clearly and warmly across the wide plains, yet the coolness of the past night retains the…

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30 Years of Click-Clack

The Game Boy, the dinosaur among gaming consoles, is celebrating its 30th birthday this year. Whilst the device is hopelessly outdated, for many children of the nineties it is a journey back in tim…

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German indifference

I once read: "Life is all about decisions". Fair enough, that was on one of those dreadful Pinterest quote images that annoying relatives just love to send into the family WhatsApp group. But funda…

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