Month: January 2013

Trailer Park Boys come to UK

The Trailer Park Boys stage show comes to Hammersmith Apollo for one night only on Friday 3rd May. Be ready....

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Social networks may inflate self-esteem, reduce self-control

Pitt and Columbia researchers publish evidence on Social Network behavior and how it relates to users' self-control, body-mass indexes, and credit-card debt...

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Veronica Falls : Waiting For Something to Happen

Pulling the pace back from their 60s infused debut, the focus here is much more on the idiosyncrasies of British guitar music and they actually pull it off quite wonderfully....

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Dobie : We Will Not Harm You

It has everything from raw beats to polished electro. It makes you want to dance and just sit down and get stoned all at the same time. It’s got a swagger to it....

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Meshuggah and Devin Townsend headline Brixton show.

Meshuggah and The Devin Townsend Project co - headline show at O2 Academy Brixton 3rd May 2013...

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Lung death pictures for smokers

Disadvantaged groups stand to benefit from hard-hitting tobacco warnings...

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Mariko Mori : Royal Academy

What would happen if I sat in the same gallery space at the Royal Academy, gazing and pondering this work for a whole hour? Here’s how it went:...

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Plissken Festival : Greece

'instead of everything shutting down, we're doing the opposite and going full force'....

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30% of teen girls report meeting online friends

Study highlights special risk faced by abused and neglected online teen girls. ...

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Loitered Lens: Andreya Triana

Photos of Andreya Triana supporting Macy Gray at KOKO, December 2012...

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Col’ Jon’s Home Style Breakfast [Recipe]

'momma used to prepare us Brains n’ Eggs for breakfast. Pappy used to make stupid Zombie jokes about it when he wasn’t telling us about Iwo Jima'...

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Freya Pocklington : Wolves Find Dogs Delicious

These were stories that would have been told if the Brothers Grimm had been two daschunds...

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Cup colour influences the taste of hot chocolate

Two researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Oxford have proven that hot chocolate tastes better in an orange or cream coloured cup than in a white or red one....

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Becoming Picasso : Courtauld Gallery

Picasso responded immediately to the art and culture that surrounded him in Paris – in the first part of 1901 he devoured the sights and excitement of the city and its artists. In the second part...

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Single Women, Sex and Colonial Religion

Research reveals how single women shaped the religious culture of colonial Latin America...

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Holy Motors [Film]

The truth, and the beauty of the film is that it is wide open to interpretation. ...

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The most surreal science article ever.

transposable elements, or jumping genes, which are largely idle in mammals...

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Cis or gender. What’s Your Privilege?

Transphobia is not about an academic term, it is about the reality of living in a country where you can’t even guarantee your doctor will speak to you like a human being, and where the risk of...

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Big Bird and Your Brain

Using brain scans of children and adults watching Big Bird on Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children's brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and...

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Interview: Reptile Youth

'if you have a country where the same old guys have been in power for a long time then it’s going to be a shit country'...

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Computers push molecules

Berkeley Lab bioscientists and their colleagues decipher a far-reaching problem in computer simulations....

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Martha Parsey: If 6 was 9

Parsey 's palette still has strongly sepia tonality and again dials into the mythic feminine figure, however there is a technical development in these works that we haven't seen before....

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Finding Chicago’s food gardens with Google Earth

Urban agriculture is promoted as a strategy for dealing with food insecurity, stimulating economic development, and combating diet-related health problems in cities....

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Evolution of a Classic [Folk Music]

The sipsi is a small reedpipe, played using circular breathing, with a wild and thrilling sound. I was immediately captivated by the lumpy nine-time rhythms and mind-boggling technique....

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Babies learn In Utero

Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language....

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Matthew Houlding: Ceri Hand Gallery

Leaving the cold of snow-strewn January for one evening, to view far flung landscapes imbued with warm yellows, enhanced with rich sea blues and framed with complex shapes was a nice diversion....

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How to treat heat like light

New approach using nanoparticle alloys allows heat to be focused or reflected just like electromagnetic waves...

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Tomahawk: Oddfellows

Is it a bad thing that we're given an album of the classic-era Patton that we've learned to revere? No way....

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Rapper Zay-Gee to Invade Lithuania

He quipped that if the Lithuanians didn’t give up without a shot being fired then he just might send the girls over to ‘work some shock and awe’....

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Joe Rogan ‘s Kale Shake Recipe

How to make Joe Rogan's Kale Shake, which blender is the best to use if you can't afford a BlendTec blender and you're in the UK and you're a beginner. ...

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