A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
If you are looking to fill a few days before you go home, you’re staying with us over the summer, or you simply need something to take your mind of work and study for an afternoon, it’s worth checking out the ‘What’s on – Portsmouth’ website for details of what events are coming up.
Sadly, there are people selling fake tickets for big events, from concerts and festivals to sports events. Don’t end up disappointed and out of pocket. Make sure you are buying your tickets from official vendors, the box office, or reputable fan reseller sites, and check out these tips to ensure the tickets you buy are genuine.
“To hang out is an assertion that individuals should have the freedom, funds, and capacity to dictate their own experience. It’s time we treat this assertion as a defining political issue within higher education.” – James Coe
Maintaining a calm state of mind is important at all times for your continued wellbeing but the wicked state of the world means that often this is not at all easy. Happily, reading for pleasure for just six minutes a day has been found to have a profound impact on stress levels and general wellbeing.
AI is, predictably, getting into hot water amid law suits where artists and their supporters are trying to sue companies that created and own the AI that have begun ‘scraping’ (learning from observing) artists works and producing new works based on what it has learned and then copyrighting these works.
Lesbian Visibility Week started in Western California before being brought to the UK and promoted by the Diva media group four years ago to counter the marginalisation of lesbians in general and help counter the myth that there was any generalised conflict between cis-gendered lesbians and trans women.
The Wellbeing Cafe is back! Open to all students from 3.00-4.30 pm on Wednesdays until 31 May in the Careers & Employability Centre.
The mind is easily tricked. Some artists make their living using paint to deceive us into believing we are seeing impossible things – floating trees or bricks recessed in a formerly flat faced brick wall in the shape of a tree. It’s fascinating stuff.
What did Einstein write on his final blackboard? He was working even while slowly dying in hospital, trying to unify physics, but that is the topic of a future video. For now, let’s enjoy Einstein’s last problem…
Sometimes it is just nice to gaze out over the local landscape. If you’ve never been down to the boating lake, aka “swan lake” in Southsea, it is just a (fairly long) stroll along the seafront. Sometimes, an escape from the everyday is just a hop, step and a walk (or short bus ride) away.
