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Moustaches and Marking: An Academic in Africa

08/01/2013

Saharan dust that turns the air a shade of orange and covers everything (including the inside of your lungs) in a thick layer of grit. And the sunsets are amazing. ...

Our Ancestors: Social Climbers or downright loafers?

07/01/2013

Did humans really come down from the trees or did we have to come down from the trees to become human? ...

James Herbert: Ash [Audiobook]

07/01/2013

Suddenly, what should have been a relaxing holiday in an area of stark natural beauty became a torturous experience, as if we were trapped in an overlong horror novel with too much description and...

James Cameron new eco-film revealed

06/01/2013

Trees and the insects that eat them wage constant war. Insects burrow and munch; trees deploy lethal and disruptive defenses in the form of chemicals....

Django Django: Shepherds Bush Empire [Live]

06/01/2013

The world outside could’ve been on fire for all we knew, no one cared though, we were sweating inside. So was the band. So were the walls. Django Django: Shepherds Bush Empire....

Vapour Death to MRSA!

05/01/2013

Hydrogen peroxide vapor enhances hospital disinfection of superbugs. Johns Hopkins to begin decontaminating isolation rooms with robotic, vapor-dispersing devices. ...

On Porn and Prostitution

05/01/2013

The market in education meant a market in women’s bodies. The welfare cuts meant a market in women's bodies. The social work cuts meant an expansion to the market for young men's, women's, and...

Oh, Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree

04/01/2013

The needles of the plant Pseudotsuga menziesii, commonly known as the Douglas fir could be used to sterilize nano devices destined for medical applications....

Claudio Parentela

04/01/2013

The rigidity of conventional responses to sexual imagery takes a beating in Parentela's collages - their brutal exposition of the flawed humanity beneath and beyond the adland exterior is made...

Where do Jellyfish come from?

03/01/2013

Scientists have cast doubt on the widely held perception that there has been a global increase in jellyfish....

GOVES: A Crèche for the Lonely and Peculiar

03/01/2013

Sitting somewhere within the well-established tradition of trying to blend electronica and contemporary composition, this is introspective, lower-case music that by now seems a little out of its...

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Relax. You Can Change

02/01/2013

young people, middle-aged people and older people all believe that they have changed a lot in the past -- but that they will change relatively little in the future....

Steve Harley: HMV Forum [Live]

02/01/2013

His songs were moderately touching but not heart stopping. The middle-aged faithful in the all-seated audience appreciated the old songs and were quietly appreciative rather than dancing in the...

Higher, Drunker, Faster: Female Students Binge-Drinking

01/01/2013

The amount drunk per unit of time is higher among women. In other words, even though male students drink more often, females do so more intensively in shorter periods of time...

Loitered Lens: The Damned, Roundhouse

01/01/2013

Described by the photographer as a highlight of the year, the band saw the return of the best-known red beret-wearer this side of Amelie - Captain Sensible. Which, as the t-shirt hoisted aloft...