January 2015 - Trebuchet

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Privatising Child Protection

31/01/2015

Protection of vulnerable children is not possible if those delivering the services are not obliged to follow established rules....

Ah Feels it In Me Bones: How Whales Hear

31/01/2015

Bone conduction is likely the predominant mechanism for hearing in fin whales and other baleen whales...

The Male Gaze is a Fact (but there’s a catch)

30/01/2015

Women were viewed more frequently and for longer periods of time - even when their photos were blended in groups of both genders ...

Pretty Vicious

30/01/2015

Pretty Vicious: four disaffected indie teenagers eager to put their hormone-fuelled stain on the music scene...

(When) Do You Feel Lucky?

29/01/2015

People are more likely to turn to superstitions to achieve a performance goal versus a learning goal....

Sometimes you have doubts and delusions and you go off the path a bit [Youth]

29/01/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”M/dropcapartin “Youth” Glover, known by many as the bassist and founding member of the inﬂuential Post-Punk band Killing Joke, is...

Un-boiling Eggs. Finally Some USEFUL Science!

28/01/2015

"Yes, we have invented a way to unboil a hen egg,"...

On Working at Barnes and Noble

28/01/2015

“You want to be a writer,” Kelly said. “Why don’t you work at Barnes & Noble?” “I wear clothes, too. Maybe I should get a job in a sweatshop.”...

Learning Lessons From Scorpions

27/01/2015

Scorpions can teach us a lot about the benefits of prolonging nerve impulses....

I’m not particularly interested in redoing old films (Colin Vaines)

27/01/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”C/dropcapolin Vaines: writer, educator, film producer, cigar smoker and bon vivant is a busy man and his inscrutable demeanour contains an...

Umami Could Make You THIN!

26/01/2015

Kokumi substances could improve the flavour of low-fat foods....

Napalm Death : Apex Predator – Easy Meat

26/01/2015

The visceral fury of punk with the dexterity and precision of metal...

Sporting or Marital, Which Cheat is Worse?

25/01/2015

When fans and consumers can separate an athlete's immoral behavior from their athletic performance, they're much more forgiving. ...

Loitered Lens : Diagrams

25/01/2015

Diagrams live at the Lexington...

The Painkillers Which Could Damage Your Unborn Child

24/01/2015

Opioid-based medications such as codeine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, or morphine may increase the risk for serious birth defects...

Lesotho Breaks, Lesotho Mends. Africa by Bike

24/01/2015

'The longer that I’m on the bike, the more it becomes an extension of myself' ...

So Why Do These Tears Fall at Night? The Sad Side of Success

23/01/2015

Consumers who use products to boost their sense of self-worth tend to dwell on their shortcomings ...

The Marigold : Kanaval

23/01/2015

An intersection between prog, drone, cinematic noise and the cathartic gospel...

Digging for Drugs

22/01/2015

Uncultured bacteria from the environment could provide a dazzling array of new molecules, many of which could become new medicines...

Chris Spedding : Joyland

22/01/2015

Featuring partial reunions of King Mob, with cameos from Johnny Marr and Ian McShane, Joyland is greasy, elemental rock par excellence....

Walking Wins for Health and Happiness

21/01/2015

Walkers experienced improvements in lung power, overall physical functioning, and general fitness, and were less depressed....

Every myth is a memory, formed through complex layers of tellings through time.

21/01/2015

OE: Orpheus and Euridice: For the next half an hour music and poetry weaved in and out of each other in a richly discursive mesh of words and sounds, sometimes obscuring and at other times refining...

Solefald : World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud

20/01/2015

To say that they're referencing Dadaism or Situationism wouldn't be a cop out, but it wouldn't tell you anything either, and that is the danger of this record....