January 2014 Page 2 of 3

A picture of Leonid Tishkov, Private Moon

Arts Catalyst : Republic of the Moon

17/01/2014

An exhibition about the moon that proposes a Manifesto should by rights fall apart in great steaming chunks of hubris, but it doesn’t, it has value and holds interest by raising lasting questions. ...

Is there a Sixth Sense?

16/01/2014

Do we have a sixth sense? A University of Melbourne study found that people could reliably sense when a change had occurred, even when they could not see exactly what had changed....

Maria Kempinska, Jongleurs : Interview

16/01/2014

Can a woman be beautiful and funny? I have heard many intelligent men say no, but I totally disagree. But the road to comedy fame is decidedly harder....

How to Game Kickstarter

15/01/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you pitch it. Keyword triggerphrases guaranteed to prompt that Pavlovian give...

Emptyset : Recur

15/01/2014

This is an album based on a limited and austere sonic palette repeatedly and imaginatively stretched to breaking point....

The Quireboys : Acoustic Tour

14/01/2014

The Quireboys are pleased to announce a very intimate string of evenings early 2014....

Do Kids Make You Happy or Sad?

14/01/2014

Happiness, unhappiness, and how often you've stood on a Lego brick in the small hours of the morning....

Touring Mbare Township (Part 2)

14/01/2014

It’s a common problem I've encountered in Zimbabwe. If there’s one person there who is staunchly pro-Mugabe, he or she dominates the conversation, cowing others into quiet agreement....

A picture of a school hallway by Michigan State University

No Breaks for Hip-Hop Students

13/01/2014

Time to fight the power. Black and Latino "hip-hop" students are disproportionately punished in urban schools. ...

Hanging Offence : David Roberts Art Foundation

13/01/2014

The market attracts more and more accessory and opportunist professions that blur the definition of what art is....

An Alternative to Student Loans

12/01/2014

Students would commit to paying a fixed percentage of their income (6%) during their prime earning years ...

Loitered Lens : Mostly Autumn

12/01/2014

A year of ups and downs for Mostly Autumn ends on a high note. Photos of Mostly Autumn at the Bilston Robin 2....

Why Do We Need Sleep?

11/01/2014

Sleep may be important because it weakens the connections among brain cells to save energy, avoid cellular stress, and maintain the ability of neurons to respond selectively to stimuli...

Cleantech Crash? Why Government Should Go Green

11/01/2014

The government has a definite role to play in the promotion of new green technologies and energy sources, no matter what budget hawks like to think....

LTJ Bukem / Roni Size : Village Underground

10/01/2014

Soundcrash return with another night of bass, following a sell out the last time around, legends of the Drum and Bass game LTJ Bukem and Roni Size are back....

A picture of Colin Leslie Eyewear sunglasses

Business Interview : Colin Leslie Eyewear

10/01/2014

People need to appreciate that we are all responsible for our environment. If we wish to maintain certain standards and ways of living, we need to....

British Bulldog? UK Dogs and Aggression

09/01/2014

Nearly seven percent of owners responded that their dog barked, lunged, growled or actually bit when people came to the house, and five percent reported these behaviours on meeting people when out on...

A promotional picture of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, amended

Charlie Brooker is Rubbish – A Meditation

09/01/2014

Brooker’s nosedive into Planet Shite was neither inevitable nor certain. We all get older, but we don’t have to get old....

Saudi Arabia’s First Dinosaurs

08/01/2014

Dinosaur fossils are exceptionally rare in the Arabian Peninsula, with only a handful of highly fragmented bones documented thus far....

Touring Mbare Township (Part One)

08/01/2014

Comrades in arms separated by the melanin in their skin. Sterling Carter visits the war graves of Mbare, Zimbabwe....

Wind Power to Fight Wind Power

07/01/2014

Installing wind power plants at certain favorable locations in a power grid can make the grid more robust against extraneous disruptions...

Drawing Inspiration

07/01/2014

Symbols don't mean anything; rather they are fecund triggers to the imagination that allow meaning to arise through their contemplation....

A picture of the hashtag campaign #icanchangethepast

In Search of Time Travellers

06/01/2014

If there were time travelers among us, would they be on social media? How would you find them? Could you Google them?...

A picture of Night Sins album To London or the Lake

Night Sins : To London or The Lake

06/01/2014

Some riffs threaten to have hooks, some abstract intimation of catchiness seeps into the choruses. Tiny hints of distinctiveness begin to echo through like squeaks from a hamster in an aircraft....

A picture of books by freedigitalphotos.net/Danilo Rizzuti

You Are What you Read. Really.

05/01/2014

Reading a novel may cause changes in resting-state connectivity of the brain that persist...

A picture of Toseland by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered lens : Toseland

05/01/2014

Initially I thought Tom Cruise was doing a bit of moonlighting (Bruce Willis stylee) when I saw the band's frontman stroking his little organ (it was dark in there). But it was just double world...

Jason Forrest – Donna Summer – Download

04/01/2014

Official Free Download links for 4 LP's and 4 Eps from Jason Forrest / Donna Summer...

Second Generation Biofuel Breakthrough

04/01/2014

The use of 'difficult-to-digest' sources, such as plant stems, wood chips, cardboard waste or insect / crustacean shells, offers a potential solution....

A picture of commemorative UK coins with Kitchener

An Emotive Wartime Journey. Yours for £2

04/01/2014

That the Royal Mint Advisory Committee chose to commemorate that 'emotive wartime journey' with the iconic image of Lord Kitchener should come as no surprise....