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It has been a busy week here in Science Communication. While the Sci Comm’ers have completed and presented our Group Projects, the Science Media Production team have completed their Documentaries and Radio Packages. All of the projects had to communicate an aspect of the courses covered last term (‘Philosophy of Science’ and ‘The Media Representation of Science’) and could do so either through a film or audio product, or through a more artistic product. And they were all brilliant. I was a bit worried when we started these projects, especially since some of the previous years’ projects were shown to us were so cleverly executed (see, The Scientist , Maps of Knowledge  and Ros the Rat and the Paratime Shifts ). Many of the groups this year produced art works and I think this made a refreshing change from the animations and videos from last year (perhaps this a cyclical pattern?). It was great to see the different takes on the ideas presented in class. My group decided to...

I first heard “The Quiet Things That No One Knows” when I was a hormonal 16 year old, and boy did I love it! At that stage I had no idea how this album would change my life, I just thought the guitar in the chorus sounded really cool! “Okay, I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don’t” was the second song I heard from this album that day and I was blown away. I thought both songs were really cool, but back then I thought LOTS of songs were pretty cool and the plethora of bands I should listen to was so massive that to buy every single promising album would have cost me roughly a year’s worth of EMA payments (I worked it out). So it was luck that made me buy this album with the strange picture of an astronaut on the front cover. On first play, I didn’t know what to think. The first track, “Tautou”, was quiet and a little bit spacey and I initially thought the lyrics were repetitive and way too weird. So I was worried. I thought I had bought a dodgy album. And then I heard “Sic Transit Glori...