Hello and welcome to The Looking Glass, WBGS' very own Academic Blog. This year we are planning to breathe new life into this amazing blog as the Academic Head Boy team for 2025- 2026! However, at the Looking Glass we need your help to catapult this blog into it's GOLDEN AGE. We need your articles, your essays, your opinions and your finest work to MAKE THE LOOKING GLASS GREAT AGAIN! If you have read something interesting or watched something that sparked a thought on social media - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you entered a competition, however big or small - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you are interested in a specific field, issue or period - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you have produced artwork, a piece of music or creative writing - WE WILL PUBLISH IT! Your creative skills have been called to action - now we must muster to create, discover and explore. You are the creative minds of the future. The Plato's, the Newtons, the Angelo's, the Nietzsche's. This is your calling. This is Y...
AYAAN SHAH (L6P) Take a look around you, how many different materials can you see? Your device, which you are using to read this article, is composed of hundreds of tiny components, each made up of a myriad of materials, each designed and used for a specific purpose. Or consider the window - decades of innovation in material production have led to the windows we have today, transparent yet insulative. Recently, I stumbled upon an exciting field of science that spans physics, chemistry, and biology: materials science. I believe that this field will play a crucial role in the future of society and civilization, and in this article, we will examine the history, technology, and employment of a material we rely on every day: glass! The original raw materials of glass production comes from sand. Sand is formed when rocks compress with each other over a long period of time, creating small crystals known as quartz. These quartz crystals have a chemical composition of silicon dioxide, which is ...