Month: December 2016

In Search of Trojan Asteroids : The Solar System’s Silent Watchers

Trojan asteroids are travel companions to planets as they orbit the Sun. It's time to find them....

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The riffs still come from my fingers (Tommi Holappa, Greenleaf)

Swedish semantics, Horror Lizards, and the eternal churn of stoner rock bands. Greenleaf speak....

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Modified Sawdust Mops Up Oil Spills

Sawdust reinvented into super sponge for oil spills ...

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Two Faces, One Evil: The Bi-Party Sham of US Democracy

Clinton, Trump, Putin - Put any one of them in the White House, the rich still get richer...

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Forget the Protestant Work Ethic. Catholics Are More Committed

Baylor University research suggests Catholics are most committed to their work...

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Seasonal Songwriting: I Am Snow (Heather Findlay Band)

Folky reworks from the Heather Findlay band, and a brace of new songs to add a flourish...

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Hi Donaldski, It’s Me, Vladski! Printing Secret Messages on an Inkjet

Researchers create hidden images with commercial inkjet printers ...

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Science & Modern Man, the right (and wrong) way to take Wyndham Lewis.

Lewis looked upon his contemporaries with a measure of scorn, but at least attempted to engage them positively...

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No Work-Life Laws for Sex Workers: The Modern Coalface of Discriminaton

Work-life laws privilege brothel and community interests, not the workers...

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Loitered Lens: Robert Glasper

Images of a bona fide musical genius at London's Koko...

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3D Print Your Own Music Career (Don’t Blame Us if it’s Short-Lived)

3-D printed wind instruments in any shape or form...

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A Wedding Without a Bagpipe is Like a Funeral

Bagpiping provides a route straight to the heart of another culture....

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Eat Yourself Thin (by chowing revolting sweet potato waste)

The secret slimming effect of sweet potato waste...

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A Bought-Out Police State? Plus Ca Change.

The foundations of a Trump-era corporation-enabling police state were laid by Barack Obama...

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Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff: Exposing Ancient Cereal Cultivation

Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication ...

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The dissonant tritone thing is very particular: Vovoid (Interview)

Vovoid's Denis 'Snake' Bélanger shares some nuggets (of wisdom) at Camden's Underworld...

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WHAT Does it Say About Me?! Should Fiction Depict Real People?

When artistic freedom violates somebody's privacy ...

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Blasted Feminism: Group X, Wyndham Lewis, and Women

Not one to court populist acclaim, Wyndham Lewis looked upon feminism with a mixture of admiration and scorn...

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Synchronous Oscillations: Are You Actually Awake?

Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time...

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Entombed A.D. and Vovoid at Camden Underworld

Stagediving without nets. Blood and floorslime mingle at the Underworld...

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The Beauty of the In-Between: String of Subsequence

Discovering the intricate beauty of the in-between...

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Our New Smartphone Culture

Mobile music, movies and casino games will mean that the 20th century technologies must surely begin to appear more and more archaic...

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What Does Anger Sound Like to Children?

Researchers pair acoustical analysis with brain mapping to understand how children process emotion in speech...

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Return Trip? Magic Mushrooms and Cancer

Psilocybin relieves anxiety and depression in patients with advanced cancer ...

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Loitered Lens: Terrorvision

Photos of Terrorvision onstage at Koko, London, November 2016...

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The Unexpected Healing Power of Platypus Venom

Platypus venom could hold key to diabetes treatment ...

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Clever, Inventive, Versatile… and Dull: Vozrozhdeniye (Arkona)

Accomplished and precise, Arkona's rework of Vozrozhdeniye nevertheless fails to ignite...

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Don’t Tell the Japanese. New Ways of Tracking Blue Whales

New forecast tool helps ships avoid blue whale hotspots ...

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RIP Micky Fitz (The Business)

A fond farewell to Micky Fitz, singer with London punk outfit The Business...

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We Are Infinite Song: Consolations of the Soul

As 2016 enters its final phase, remember: we are as much infinite song as we are earthen flesh...

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