
Sweat at The Royal Exchange review: It didn’t make me sweat (or shed blood, or tears)
Lynn Nottage’s gritty play about the interconnected lives of nine Americans, living and working in one of the poorest towns in Pennsylvania, had all of the potential and material: but, disappointingly, it just didn’t deliver what it should have

Ice, Ice, Maybe? The art of remembering and forgetting, from a roundworm’s ice bath
Love an ice bath? So do roundworms – because they can remember that they’ve just had one. The storing of memory is a complex phenomenon, but a recent study has found that roundworms can delay their forgetting of their memory if they’re placed on ice

Stick or twist: Why do students choose to stay in the south of Greater Manchester?
The universities along Oxford Road churn their students into Manchester city centre, and south of the city. As students turn into graduates, why do we disregard North Manchester and stay in the same southern areas?

Margarita Month at Zouk: All style, less substance
Zouk is offering a trio of Margaritas this February to celebrate Margarita Month; yet it seems like all the thought was put into presentation, and less into the drink itself