During my O- and A- levels, I had a strange study ritual. While most people revised with quiet music in the background, I studied in a dark room with crime podcasts playing in my headphones. Stories about disappearances, serial killers, strange investigations—voices calmly narrating events that were anything but calm. It was probably not the healthiest study environment. In hindsight, writing essays while listening to murder investigations was a strange study habit. Some nights I would finish...

“By the pricking of my thumbs,  Something wicked this way comes.”  — Macbeth, Act 4 Scene 1 Image: Macbeth, Act 4 Scene 1. 2015 Square Talk in association with Apollo Arts Production of Macbeth, directed by Nicolas Walker. When those words were first uttered on the Elizabethan stage, there were no amplifiers trembling in their wake, no distortion thickening the atmosphere, no drums rolling like distant artillery. There was only a bare wooden platform, a restless crowd, and a human voice...

Image Source: My sister, a highly qualified student at the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), her iPad, and sheer artistic talent If...