Month: January 2013

Galactic geysers fuelled by star stuff

Seen from Earth, but invisible to the human eye, the outflows stretch about two-thirds across the sky from horizon to horizon....

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Loitered Lens: Reptile Youth

Fired up, quite possibly by a pre-gig interview with Trebuchet's Sarah Corbett (in which they talked about the Arab Spring and the London riots) Reptile Youth went on to cane Hoxton silly(er)....

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Playing Sport for Fun

To protect against injuries, young athletes may need to play more just for fun...

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Guns: America’s Addiction

America is addicted to guns and the politics of aggression, aimed entirely at the target audience of consumers, is exploited for commercial and artistic gain....

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NASA satellites saw Cyclone Freda’s widening eye

Tropical Cyclone Freda intensified over the last couple of days in the warm waters of the Southern Pacific Ocean, and NASA's TRMM and Aqua satellites measured the rainfall within the storm, and...

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Spaghetti Whores and Tasty Capers

Along with almost every highly-flavoured or highly-priced delicacy man has ever put to his lips, capers have been thought to have aphrodisiac properties...

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The short end of the stick

Some men voice complaints of shortened penis following prostate cancer treatment. ...

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Perps and Papers: An Academic in Africa

A lot of unhappy rumbling, and us standing around trying to look as serious and threatening as we possibly could. ...

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Living Colour:Intimate UK Gig

Legendary, ground breaking funk-metal group Living Colour have today announced that they will be coming to the UK this March to play what is currently their only UK show...

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Simian Ghost cover Bowie [Free Download]

Swedish chillwave adepts Simian Ghost cover David Bowie. Free download....

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Schultz: White Blood Cells

It's a cliché but this one really is strictly for the hardcore and it's all the better for that. ...

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Nick Cave News: New Album, Intimate Tour.

Ahead of the latest 2013 release 'Push the Sky Away' Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will perform in very atmospheric venues in London, Paris, Berlin and LA....

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Volbeat Reveal Album Details

Danish metal band Volbeat has revealed the band is in the studio recording a new album for release in Spring, 2013....

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Helloween; Straight Out of Hell

Helloween break an extended silence with the release of Straight Out Of Hell. New album due on January 18th...

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Rob Cottingham: Captain Blue

Parts of the album sound like a far lighter version of Touchstone, with the dual male-female harmony lead vocals recalling that band's early years when Cottingham handled a greater proportion of the...

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Girls better at school, worse at tests

Why do girls get better grades in elementary school than boys—even when they perform worse on standardized tests?...

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Hanging Offence: Arts Canteen

Arts Canteen is a new UK-based arts venture that explores intercultural artistic relationships between the Middle East and the UK. Trebuchet meets Kelvin De Veth, curator and link-maker....

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Let crying babes lie

Let crying babes lie: Study supports notion of leaving infants to cry themselves back to sleep...

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Loitered Lens: Macy Gray

A throatful of gravel and a bag of class, Macy Gray rules the pink feather boa onstage at Koko, London...

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Magnetic fields created before the first stars

"No one knows how magnets work!" - Bochum physicist calculates field strengths in the early universe...

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The Benefits Cap: Four Things We Have Learned

The Conservatives’ only hope is an improvement in economic growth, and as their actions have cut rather than encouraged consumer spending, this grows ever more unlikely....

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Get moving on those resolutions

For those short on time, aerobic, not resistance, exercise is best bet for weight, fat loss...

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You’re Kidding! Portuguese Goat Stew [Recipe]

Just taste it. A warming hug of a stew, but with all of the ornery attitude, cunning, fastidiousness and bravado of the animal that went into it....

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Benoit Pioulard new album March 4th

Hymnal is the fourth kranky album by Thomas Meluch under his musical alias Benoit Pioulard, following Précis (2006), Temper (2008) and Lasted (2010). It was written and recorded throughout a year...

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Head kids, hurt bad

Second impact syndrome: A devastating injury to the young brain. Science shows that it's more or less okay to band kids on the head once. ...

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Charlotte Sometimes: Interview

After four albums, dropped deals, reality television, a rare jaw disease that almost crippled her singing career, and a few lost loves, Charlotte has proven there is no plan B. ...

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Wilko Johnson Diagnosed with Cancer

Legendary Guitarist Wilco Johnson of the Dr Feelgood has been diagnosed with Cancer of the Pancreas....

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Avoid Fructose!

Fructose Ingestion and Cerebral, Metabolic, and Satiety Responses. Associations between fructose consumption and weight gain. Booze and fried bananas also implicated. ...

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Scorpionics in Action

we will construct a personalised HATE CHART for you, which will be based on your answers to our searching questionnaire. From this soul map you will quickly discover the TRAITOR inside who insists on...

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Space travel is harmful to the brain

As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study out today in the journal PLOS ONE shows that cosmic radiation could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease....

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