TV Tropes: Writers, Watch And Learn

Calling all writers, readers, TV-watchers, serial binge-watchers, gamers, etc! Do you ever feel like your shiny screens just aren’t distracting enough? Are you bored and/or embarrassed enough of your fictional obsessions to claim that you have ‘no discernible hobbies?’ Worse still, do your favourite pastimes happen to involve the creation and consumption of fiction and/or…

SOPA & PIPA: Explained in four paragraphs

Author’s note: Is there any topic that you would like to see covered in four paragraphs? Leave it in the comments below and maybe I’ll cover it in a later blog. Update: Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of SOPA, said on Friday that he is pulling the bill “until there is wider agreement on a solution.”…

Insomnia

Whether we recognize it or not, many people suffer from insomnia. According to the US department of Health and Human Services in 2007, approximately 34 million Americans regularly suffer from insomnia each year. It is 41 per cent more common in women than in men (according to Wikipedia). As we already know, insomnia is a…