Month: August 2016

The Right Kind of Screen Zombie: iPads For Child Sedation

31/08/2016

iPads are as effective as sedatives for children before operations ...

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Brudging the Issue With the EU Referendum

31/08/2016

We keep getting what we deserve and we never ask why. ...

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Can You Smell What it Looks Like? How Visuals Disrupt Memory

30/08/2016

A visual nudge can disrupt recall of what things look like ...

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Loitered Lens: Man and the Echo

30/08/2016

Photos of political popsters Man and the Echo at the Lexington, London...

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The Key to Circadian Sunflower Salutations

29/08/2016

Plant biologists discover how sunflowers use internal circadian timing to follow the sun...

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Street Art to Gallery – An LA Story (Gary John)

29/08/2016

The transition from street art to gallery credibility takes talent and a scoop of good luck. Gary John has both. Profile....

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Sunshine for a Rainy Day: Storing Solar Energy

28/08/2016

An effective and low-cost solution for storing solar energy ...

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Loitered Lens: Anabella’s Bow Wow Wow & Ed Tudor Pole

28/08/2016

Photos of two eighties icons unlikely to crop up on safe pop nostalgia tours...

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Cannabis and Vision Improvement

27/08/2016

Researchers find new role for cannabinoids in vision ...

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Heads Up For a Load of Hieronymous Bosch

27/08/2016

Sneaky September Madrid getaway? Add Bosch at the Prado for some cultural heft...

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Sub Saharan Sexual Satisfaction Shocker

26/08/2016

Sub-Saharan Africans satisfied with their sex lives; 18 percent rate them a perfect 10 ...

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Ban the Burkini? Or Ban Middle-Aged White Male Decision-Makers?

26/08/2016

Legislation covers everyone, not just the few women who dress in a way you find threatening...

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Like Pornography? Love Divorce? It’s Your lucky Day!

25/08/2016

Beginning pornography use associated with increase in probability of divorce ...

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Loitered Lens: 4th Labyrinth

25/08/2016

Photos of the exuberant 4th Labyrinth at Cambridge Rock Festival 2016...

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Friends or Family: One of them Lengthens Your Life. Which?

24/08/2016

Do relationships with family members, or friends, decrease likelihood of death?...

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Mixed Bag: Bleeds, Deluxe Version (Roots Manuva)

24/08/2016

Remixed and reinvigorated, or bleeding a good album dry? Roots Manuva's Bleed, redux....

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So Mucho. Breadwinning and Gender – It’s Not What You’d Think

23/08/2016

Being the primary breadwinner is bad for men's psychological well-being and health ...

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Act V: Hymns With The Devil In Confessional (The Dear Hunter)

23/08/2016

Running at full tilt to catch up with The Dear Hunter's epic multi-part rock opera series...

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Warm or Wet? Where Does Europe’s Eldest Inhabitant Choose?

22/08/2016

Meet Adonis, Europe's oldest known living inhabitant ...

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Scissors, Paste and Acuity: Isabella Kelly-Ramirez

22/08/2016

Deconstructing (and reconstructing) the female beauty myth...

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For Happy Sons, Avoid These Plastics in Pregnancy

21/08/2016

Prenatal Bisphenol A exposure linked to anxiety and depression in boys ...

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Loitered Lens: Présence Autochtone 2016

21/08/2016

Visuals from Canada's festival of First Nation culture...

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Does Your Dog Love You, Or The Treat You’re Holding?

20/08/2016

Study explores canine reward preferences...

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Monette Loza: Sculptures Monumentales, Hossegor (France)

20/08/2016

Freed from the confines of the gallery, sculpture trails offer an artist some room for manoeuvre...

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Bringing in the New: Cambridge Rock Festival

19/08/2016

Blues, classic and progressive rock at another of Cambridge's fine festivals...

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Pimp My Profile: The Unstoppable Rise of Online Prostitution

18/08/2016

Prostitution has gone online - and pimps are thriving ...

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Drugs: The Only Issue In Which Ignorance is a Virtue

18/08/2016

Maybe our ‘war on drugs’ should be reframed as a ‘war’ on ignorance...

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Dark Matter: New Data on The Real Fifth Element

17/08/2016

UCI physicists confirm possible discovery of fifth force of nature ...

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Appropriate Culture (Présence Autochtone 2016)

17/08/2016

Cultural appropriation, contemporary Canucks, positive vibes. Montreal celebrates the First Nation...

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Faster Cats, Quicker Smut: Laser Wi-Fi

16/08/2016

White light from lasers demonstrates data speeds of up to 2 GB/s...

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