Illuminating the sea with memories: Joaquín Sorolla through light and colour
Leo Li delves into the life and work of Spanish Luminist painter, Joaquín Sorolla.
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To my white bauhinia
Leo Li laments the blissful ignorance of youth to the impermanence of beauty in this elegy to a white bauhinia.
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The dragon trapped in the open cave
In this fantasy tale of two dragons, uniting through their solitude, Leo Li writes on the true meaning of returning home.
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Black cat syndrome
‘And there’s nothing as ominous as a cat that looks just like its shadow’. In this chilling piece, Leo Li masterfully crafts a vessel into the complex omen of the black cat.
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On the Plane that Flew Over
Our Heads that Winter Day
“Nowhere is farther away from home than an airport’s baggage claim”. Leo Li writes on the silent sorrow of leaving home for the start of a new year and term.
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Wet matchsticks
In this pensive poem, Leo Li reflects on the impermanency of life.
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Supercomputer simulations surprise on lunar origin
New simulations from Durham’s Institute for Computational Cosmology have suggested an alternate origin for the Moon.
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Frieze of Life
In this meandering account, Leo Li explores the exhaustion and disillusionment that can surface in student-life.
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Monsoon Season
“Shall I compare him to a summer’s day? If so, his absence to a summer’s rain?”
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Primordial black holes: solution to the dark matter enigma?
Ancient black holes from the very beginning of the Universe seem an increasingly plausible dark matter candidate. Maybe the Universe isn’t as harmonious as we’d hoped.
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