Month: April 2013

Kid Congo Powers : Interview [Pt.1]

When The Cramps asked me to be in The Cramps, I quit everything, threw my shoes in their air and my books out the window and said, I’m going with you!...

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And then she was gone

Perhaps some of the cheers were from people glad she was gone, who knows?...

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Where’s Maggie?

Never stop looking, never stop looking... for Maggie. Trebuchet visits Margaret Thatcher's funeral...

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Down Syndrome Breakthrough

Sanford-Burnham researchers discover that the extra chromosome inherited in Down syndrome impairs learning and memory because it leads to low levels of SNX27 protein in the brain...

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Metal Machine(gun) Music : DISARM

DISARM, currently showing at the Lisson Gallery in London features playable musical instruments created from illegal firearms and artworks of sci-fi sonic weapons...

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Thatcher in DegreeArt

Will her image become a universal iconograph? And if it does, what exactly will it signify?...

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Men and women get sick in different ways

A new study highlights evidence for considerable differences between the sexes in five domains – cardiovascular disease, cancer, liver diseases, osteoporosis, and pharmacology....

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The Legacy of Thatcher

As Thatcher is buried, we examine the legacy of her policies in several key areas...

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Sports fandom and forgiveness

Celebrity confessions : Deep in Sports fandom do we really believe that anyone believes them anymore? ...

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Mrs T’s Southern Stuffed Ham

I will be thinking of Maggie when I next have a big ol’ lick...

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Counterfeit i : Mindfulness and Music

'Dark' music can be empowering because in listening to it, your mind is brought through some places that you may not go on your own....

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Sexuality and Dementia

Managing the delicate issue of sexual expression amongst people with dementia. Sexuality and Dementia study produced by Griffith University....

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Hanging Offence : Ruth Garde

'I'm not sure there is such a thing as an artistic controversy, but there have certainly been many controversies surrounding art' Ruth Garde, curator, talks to Trebuchet about Michaelangelo, Bernini...

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Supercomputer Decodes the Noisey Cosmos

Noisey Cosmos | scientists from the international Planck collaboration have made the closest reading yet of the most ancient story in our universe: the cosmic microwave background...

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Loitered Lens : Stiff Little Fingers

Always a lightning rod for the angst and alienation of a troubled province, Stiff Little Fingers can still provoke. Photos from their recent Forum gig. ...

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Lyme Disease Considered Least Metal

Scientists have confirmed that the pathogen that causes Lyme Disease —unlike any other known organism—can exist without iron, a metal that all other life needs to make proteins and enzymes....

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Ian McCulloch : Holy Ghosts

Mac's voice has aged with the same sweet languid complexity as an oak-barelled Sauternes....

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GV Art and Mind Symposium

GV Art, in partnership with Art and Mind, announce the attendance of Charles Ferneyhough at the GV Art and Mind Symposium 16 on May 7th....

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UK Drug Policy Not Scientific

UKdrug policy : Government decision to promote abstinence for drug users 'is about saving money not science' ...

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The Most Interesting Man In The World: George W. Bush

The overall trait of the dog is loyalty, an instinct of which George W. Bush seemed to possess none. So why is he painting them?...

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Olive Oil : Superfood

Extra virgin olive oil helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) yet another health benefit of this amazing product...

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Troller : [Album Review]

Troller seem undecided which direction to go in – sepulchral or affirmative and this seems to be the sound of a group still in transit....

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Family dinners nourish good mental health

Benefits of family meals to good mental health examined in a large community sample of adolescents....

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No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Final Part]

'Art is not made by committee' SWP concludes his series on the art of the soundtrack...

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Thatcher’s War on the Self

Thatcherism, with its jingoism, slogans and partisanship, was all about destroying the self. ...

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Career Options for Geek Chicks

Women may be less likely to pursue careers in science and math because they have more career options...

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Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs [Live Review]

Essentially, they need to be detained Clockwork Orange-style with their eyelids clamped open and forced to watch the New York Dolls until their guyliner runs...

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Hanging Offence : Erarta Galleries

'although much of the popular appeal of contemporary art is in its ability to provoke, we need to be mindful of the media, politicians and governments in relation to the arts' Erarta Galleries' Beth...

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Good news for Nice People

Conscientious, nice people are more likely to have higher grade point averages, according to new research from psychologists at Rice University....

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180,000 dead by Sodas

Sugar-sweetened sodas, sports drinks and fruit drinks may be associated with about 180,000 deaths around the world each year...

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