Month: June 2015

Fewer Handguns, Fewer Handgun Homicides. Proving the Obvious

Passing a background check in order to purchase a handgun was associated with a 40 percent reduction in firearm-related homicide rate...

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Loitered Lens : Sleaford Mods

Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn bring it on....

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Unto the Breach. Strategic Flooding and Warcraft

Strategic flooding is a highly risky tactic. It can only be successful if there's a well-thought-out backup plan and a plan for fast repairs...

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Sleepers awake as Camden Rocks.

Skindred, LTNT, Red House Glory, Outside the Coma, Beasts, The Dirty Youth - for each band there is a different tributary toward whatever end they see coming....

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Just Laibach and Think of Korea [Laibach]

Laibach’s Liberation Day Tour will coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula’s liberation from Japanese colonization and subsequent division into two enemy states...

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Smell the air and rub the sky

For most of us in the cities and towns the weather is just something that happens to us, something inconvenient, an impediment. Perhaps we should pay it more attention. ...

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We Can Heal That For You Wholesale : Injectable Medichines

Electronic devices that can be injected directly into the brain, or other body parts, and treat everything from neurodegenerative disorders to paralysis...

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Secret Gardens, Crests of Darkness and Goblin Metal.

No filler. A roundup from the bleak plains of heavy metal, featuring Nekrogoblikon, Ecnephias, Crest of Darknessm Secrets of the Sky and Angra...

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Looking good and rocking hard [LTNT]

Diverse personalities they may be, but musically they have honed what they do to a level of classical precision....

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Secret Trade Courts: are the scales TTIPing?

Tobacco companies could get litigious if a country passes laws to help people quit smoking. Agrochemicals companies could throw the book at governments that block chemicals they consider dangerous....

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Environment, Phone-Churn, and a Landfilled Goldmine

Where frequent upgrades are encouraged and recycling schemes not actively pursued, valuable materials integral to phone manufacture are lost, causing damage to the environment...

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Can You Handle Every Virus You Ever Had?

On average, participants had been exposed to about 10 viral species over their lifetimes...

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Fighting to be treated fairly on the internet

A revolutionary power shift from internet giants such as Google to ordinary consumers is critically overdue...

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Rock now, Rock the Night! Loitered Lens [Europe]

Joey Tempest banging out some ultra weird shapes...

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Jaz Coleman Spoken Word Tour

Letters from Cythera...

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A saxophone short, but mesmerising nonetheless [Knifeworld]

Psychedelic grooves, Zappa-style horn arrangements, intertwining guitar and bassoon lines, and layered vocal harmonies....

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Something of a mixed bag: Food Chain [London Afrobeat Collective]

I can hear this on an sunny afternoon whilst the crowd are still working out the kinks from the night before, but headlining material it ain’t....

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Sonically cosmic, if not slightly kosmische [Amon Tobin]

Tobin modestly describes the release as a “small personal project”, but conceptually at least, it's a major release....

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The Stoned Pygmy Story You Didn’t See Coming

The researchers noted that cannabis might not be the only recreational drug that protects against parasites....

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Entrenched imperial orders do not die pretty deaths

The angst, humiliations, and sundry degradations of working people that are inherent to capitalism are unbearable for the multitudes...

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Quick to Laugh: Genetic Trait or Witless Imbecile?

People with the short allele of 5-HTTLPR showed greater positive emotional expressions...

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‘Meat is just like dog food to me’ [The Picturebooks]

We had a bassist but he tried to Yoko Ono us....

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Money, Masculinity, and Marital Infidelity

The affairs of economically dependent men simply don't garner media attention, so we hear about this kind of infidelity far less often...

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Hanging Offence: Kristin Hjellegjerde

I think it is often necessary for art and literature to touch on subjects that can be difficult. If people in arts don’t do it, who will?...

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Learning, Memory, Mood: Different Neurons for Different Functions

University of Queensland researchers have identified two types of stem cells in the hippocampus, a region of the brain crucial for learning and memory....

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Showing the depth of the songbook at Bury Met [Mostly Autumn]

Shaking up the setlist in such a radical way was a bold move, but a very welcome one...

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