Month: July 2014

Interruptions and Workflow

Interruption can cause a noticeable decrement in the quality of work...

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Contemporary Sculpture, Zabludowicz Collection

At the Zabludowicz Collection, it is not just our perception of different media that is challenged, but also our relationships to time, scale, colour, form and materials...

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Boron Buckyballs Born!

The first time that a boron cage has been observed experimentally. ...

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The Pearl Harts : The Garage, Islington [Live]

The Pearl Harts, a tenacious, rock hungry duo opening the show for Kagoule....

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Breugel to Freud : Prints at the Courtauld

If one pauses to listen, then there are some quietly iconoclastic voices to be heard....

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The Millenial Tofu Surprise

Tofu's new champion recruits are 20-something women who want dishes that are quick, easy to cook and that can help keep them trim...

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Loitered Lens : Twin Atlantic

Photos of Twin Atlantic live at the Hospital Club, 8th July 2014...

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Bigger Health Warnings Bring Better Results

Cigarette warning labels can influence a smoker to try to quit even when the smoker is trying to avoid seeing the labels...

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Austerity = Kids Eating from Bins

Logic has been ignored – and now we have children eating scraps from bins to survive. ...

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Pain Eraser : I’ll Take Two!

Canadian scientists make a breakthrough in pain relief treatments. Using chili and mice....

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Application : System Fork

Fascinating hybrid forms that don't fit easily into genres, but operate along a fluid ambient/electronica/electro spectrum...

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China’s Hidden Water Footprint

China's richest provinces have an outsized environmental impact on the country's water-scarce regions...

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3 Teeth [Album Review]

3 Teeth give their audiences a place to shake it out and survive. A sort of spiritual one night stand. And what is that if not the highest apex of rock and roll?...

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Googling Pregnancy Advice

Following the women's first visit to the obstetrician, many of them still turned to the Internet -- in the form of both search engines and social media -- to find answers to their questions...

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NILE [Live]

Egyptian mythology-themed death metallers NILE get necrotic in Southampton....

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Left-Handers Mostly Born in Winter

On a monthly average, 8.2 percent of left-handed men were born during the period February to October. During November to January, this number rose to 10.5 percent...

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The Festival Burner

Now with bank apps, emails, incriminating pictures, your phone is an invitation to be blackmailed, divorced or arrested. A lost phone infinitely more so....

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Ecstasy Implicated in Spinal Aneurism

Ecstasy could make any pre-existing aneurysms or other arterial abnormalities prone to rupture. Report...

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This is Not a Book About Gavin Turk

By expounding upon Turk's themes, recurrences and symbolic obsessions, a profile develops which is, enchantingly, acres more telling than a full-frontal biographic assault...

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Kangaroos and their Fifth Leg

Unusual gaits by unusual animals, such as pentapedal walking by kangaroos, provide insight into the breadth of solutions available to the same biomechanical problem...

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Loitered Lens : Othon

Othon - 'a joyous celebration with a meze of cultural references'. Photos ...

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Tav Falco’s Urania Descending [Film]

Grab the chance to lurk in the swampwaters of Tav Falco's imagination at the London premiere of his latest film: Urania Descending....

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Time for the Twitter Bubble to Burst

If your Twitter row is resulting in someone being fired, imprisoned or put at risk, it is time to get some perspective on your internet use...

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Congratulations! (If you made it to 30)

More Americans between the ages of one and 30 die from injury than from any other cause...

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Fourth of July Spitroast

There's a whole lot of meat between the rooter and the tooter so that means there's little point in getting it on unless the whole neighbourhood is coming...

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Do Your Own Damned Marketing!

Users of social media websites are less likely to use them to say positive things about their favourite products and services...

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Finntroll (and Friends). [Album Reviews]

The album is perhaps best seen as an intro to the band’s early to mid era - all polkas, accordia, kazoos, strange insect noises and trolls (lots of trolls)....

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Othon : The Garage [Live]

the musical equivalent of opening a fairy tale pop-up book and watching the characters jump out and dance around your head...

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Alt-Fest Organiser Dominic Void [Interview]

Promising edgy art, truly creative sideshows, and oddball theatre, Alt-Fest is more than just an alternative music festival. Dominic Void explains all....

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Art Exhibition at Bloodstock

Tolkien and Metal Art at Bloodstock festival....

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