Month: November 2014

Exhuming Vampires in Poland. No, REALLY!

Potential 'vampires' buried in northwestern Poland with sickles and rocks across their bodies were likely local and not immigrants to the region...

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Cast of Characters : The Mad Cop [Lesotho]

Tattooed on his meaty forearm was a swastika, black, encircled in blood red. He could wrap his hand around my forearm....

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A Sound So Loud it Bends Light

The novel device platform could improve wireless communications systems using optical fibers ...

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Palestine: What Hope Peace? [Film]

There is nothing left of 'Palestine', just small and disconnected pockets of pain. Further divisions and segregation will not work....

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Dogs : They Hear Ya

Dogs react to both verbal and speaker-related information and that these components appear to be processed in different areas of the dog's brain...

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Nick Harper : Interview

'no two people hear music or even see the world in the same way, and it’s your vision that counts for you in the end' ...

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Bigger WiFi, Broader Broadband

New WLAN networks might reach communication partners at a distance of several kilometers....

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Stuart Semple : Anxiety Generation

The emotive focus within Semple’s work then is desire and its role in creating anxiety, largely within the intersections of sex, power, or violence. ...

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Fingernails for Stem Cells

Nails: the right signals or environmental cues could induce nail stem cells to generate additional types of tissue. Report...

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Mariachi El Bronx III

Here they’ve taken the vernacular and made something contemporary and lasting...

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Blitzing Your Baggage: Terahertz Screening

Screening devices using terahertz waves could make public spaces more secure than ever. Report...

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London Drum Show

Spread over two floors, the London Drum Show was a mixture of commerce, education and performance. ...

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Essence : Lara Woolley/Susan Zeppellini

Figurative ceramics, painting and photography, exploring themes such as magical realism and mysticism through to the macabre and grotesque...

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Tom de Freston : Orpheus and the Minotaur

De Freston' s work has little to do with the emphatic and aggrandising tradition of history painting....

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Terry Riley and Africa Express at Tate Modern [Film]

Tate Modern and Africa Express present Terry Riley’s In C Mali is released online on 27 November at The Space...

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Loitered Lens: The Dough Rollers

Drowning out the critics with a drop of Dublin's finest distilled malt, The Dough Rollers rock the Apollo...

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Is Screenburn Hereditary?

Screen time of children is significantly associated with parental screen time...

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Reeves Gabrels [Interview]

Reeves Gabrels, currently guitarist in The Cure and formerly David Bowie’s collaborator in Tin Machine, interviewed...

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Transatlantic Ash Cloud Chaos Imminent

Another ash-cloud drama could be imminent, this time with consequences for trans-Atlantic as well as European travel. Report...

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Red Square : Steam

Compared to previous Red Square releases, this is slightly darker, slightly colder in tone. ...

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Teach Yourself to Hear Purple

A nine-week training programme sees if adults without synaesthesia can develop the key hallmarks of the condition. Report...

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Steve Rothery : Bush Hall [Live]

The closest thing to Fish-era Marillion in their mid-80s prime as you're likely to get...

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Givin’ it Some Verbal. Office Abuse by Gender

Among the studies that show significant differences, a majority conclude that men are more at risk (11 studies) than women (5 studies)....

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Conan : Camden Underworld [Live]

A gig fuelled by what might best be termed dark psychedelia (or doom metal and its many sub-varieties)...

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Fighting Obesity with Coffee

Coffee consumption may lower the risk for chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease...

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Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble

This album marks the release of the band’s darkest material since Pork Soda...

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Exodus: Gods and Kings

Will Exodus: Gods and Kings Fulfill Ridley Scott's Promise?...

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Kissy Kissy Icky Icky – The Microbiology of Snogging

Researchers calculate that about 80 million bacteria are transferred during a 10 second kiss...

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Adam X : Irreformable

Adam X is open and unashamed about his industrial/EBM connections, in sad contrast to some other producers...

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Loitered Lens : In Flames / Wovenwar / While She Sleeps

Capturing the frenzy at the Shepherd's Bush Empire...

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