Most people have a good understanding of what happened during the Reformation. The town of St Andrews itself is saturated with stories from this rather turbulent time in history. While the theological and social…
Howdy Laidlaw peeps, here are my reflective ramblings: Film is a uniquely sensory experience in that it can make us feel things physically, as well as emotionally. Consider: have you ever flinched when watching a…
POLONIUS: … What do you read, my Lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words. Hello from sunny California! Contrary to the title of my post, my project is not on Hamlet. However, the quote from the prince-with-daddy-issues is…
Having passed the halfway mark in my internship I feel now is a good time to reflect on where I have come. Time has simply flown by in a whirlwind of experiments and data analysis, setbacks and breakthroughs, times of…
I arrived back this week to a very summery, very quiet St. Andrews and a whirlwind of paperwork and urine. From tutorials to risk assessments to Standard Operating Procedures my days will be bursting for the…
Growing up as a child, I remember a simple mantra my mother lived by and never failed to remind me of: Nothing good can be borne out of frustration. I have to admit, as with much of my mother’s advice, this simple…
What do volcanoes, earthquakes, giant millipedes and ancient forests all have in common? You can see traces of all of them along the Fife Coastal Trail! My project involves collating information about a number of…
My project – Musical leadership in opera, concert and recording: an observation of period instrument performers – has been a whirlwind of activity from the word go. The first four weeks of my internship made up my…
Strings of symbols dwell in so many realms of our lives; we use them to communicate the language and the stories we share with each other every day. For another example, look slightly deeper into the recesses of your…
My research so far has been somewhat hindered by the fact that my samples have not yet arrived from America! They were purchased in a physic/palm-reading shop in Los Angeles, where my supervisor learned that lapis…