Month: December 2012

The Beginning of the End (of year lists)

Trebuchet spurns faffed-about aggregated statistics and seasonally-adjusted ratings systems. Between now and 2013 we'll offer some of our writers' unsullied recollections of albums, events,...

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Alzheimer’s: Potential Breakthrough

Despite researchers' best efforts, no drug exists that can stop the onslaught of Alzheimer's disease. Review offers renewed optimism in fight against fatal neurodegenerative disease...

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Skirmish of Ideas?

IoI has its own clear agendas but the festival definitely has a positive function in bringing hidden or repressed debates to the surface and airing them to a much wider public than they might...

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Smoking may worsen hangover after heavy drinking

WARNING: People who like to smoke when they drink may be at greater risk of suffering a hangover the next morning. ...

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Go Fly a Kite

And don't kites just lend themselves to metaphor? They punctuate the sky, return it to a human scale. They hug the wind. Our minds can't help but follow them up into the empyrean; watching them, we...

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The Poor: Baby Daddy’s Gone Die

Watch em die: Gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor set to increase over next 10 years. Study show the economics plays an important role in life expectancy even in countries with Socialised...

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New Galaxy Found! and it glows green…

Many galaxies have a giant black hole at their centre that causes the gas around it to glow. However, in the case of green bean galaxies, the entire galaxy is glowing, not just the centre....

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Ultraista: Cable Club [live]

Trouble is, I’d rather see RADIOHEAD instead. And I don’t even like Radiohead....

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Zombie Pandemic: Academics promote strategic plan

About 60% of infectious diseases are caused by viruses, bacteria and other pathogens that make the jump to humans from other species. How do we prevent society's inevitable entropy. ...

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Touched by Sir Jimmy

I looked nostalgically at the picture of Jimmy’s face and noticed he’d even put a little smiley on there for me. Yes, Jimmy Savile touched me back in ’93...

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Splashh, Wolf Alice, Big Deal: 100 Club [Live]

With the tight jeans and pointed boots bands stagnating and the now middle-aged grebo bands reforming, East London hairdressers may hit hard times as the kids start growing out those crew cuts into...

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Tea As Irresponsible as whiskey?

Put the kettle on? When tea drinkers were viewed as irresponsible as whiskey drinkers....

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The Punk Syndrome/Kovasikajuttu [Film]

The reason this whole thing works is that it becomes, pretty quickly, a story about actual people, and not just ciphers for what is wrong with them, or the way that society treats them....

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The Christmas spirit

As the nights draw in and the temperature begins to drop, many of us will be thinking of ways to warm up on the dark winter nights. However, few would think that remembering days gone by would be an...

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Hanging Offence: Breese Little

We work on the premise that the gallery should always operate with increasing momentum, growing in step with the careers and aims of the artists we work with...

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When you lie, your nose temperature raises

Researchers confirm the 'Pinocchio Effect': When you lie, your nose temperature raises. This study demonstrates that body temperature in the orbital muscle –placed in the inner corner of the eye-...

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Loitered Lens: Splashh

Carl Byron Batson photographs Splashh at the 100 Club, London...

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Grief is not a disease, but cancer is — what about erectile dysfunction?

People are unanimous that wrinkles, grief and homosexuality are not diseases. What about drug addiction or absence of sexual desire? Or erectile dysfunction, infertility or obesity?...

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A Case For Culture

The arts can engage everyone. Most of all, surely, we want those who may not otherwise be able to join in, to find the world of art available and open to them - whether for simple enjoyment or for...

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Move Em Out

Emigration of children to urban areas can protect parents against depression...

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When Hobgoblin met Bloodstock

Hobgoblin is excited to unveil its exciting new partnership with Bloodstock Open Air Festival. The collaboration sees both parties teaming up to bring METAL 2 THE MASSES at Bloodstock 2013, offering...

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Vhils: Devoid

Regardless of any predisposition against doors, Vhils latest exhibition is deep, rich and amazingly crafted. ...

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Shoot! Existential Photography

An exhibition tracing the history of a fascinating fairground sideshow that sprung up following World War 1: the photographic shooting gallery. ...

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Fanga & Maalem Abdullah Guinea: Fangnawa Experience

…. by the third track, the constituent elements meld into a sound that is properly danceable, and moreover, distinctive. Fangnawa Experience by Fanga & Maalem Abdullah ...

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Fish glow green when processing glucose

Glowing fish shed light on metabolism. A tiny, translucent zebrafish that glows green when its liver makes glucose has helped an international team of researchers identify a compound that regulates...

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Hoxton (Alco) Hall

'mysterious ‘Negro delineators’, trapeze artists, jugglers, singers, performing dogs and the like', Hoxton Hall has moved with the times since 1863....

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Childhood Break Through

Last month’s inclusion in the popular music press and a very favourable review in The Guardian have finally put these guys on the radar and are all good indications that Childhood may now be...

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Origin of intelligence and mental illness linked to ancient genetic accident

Scientists have discovered for the first time how humans – and other mammals – have evolved to have intelligence...

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Are Social Media Values Human Values?

None of the values promoted by a social-media-dominated world are helpful with depth-oriented, long-term thinking...

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David Cronenberg’s Wife: Don’t Wait to be Hunted to Hide

Challenging and chillingly memorable rather than enjoyable; giving a glimpse into the lives of people we either pretend don’t exist or hysterically vilify. It personalises the men who exist in the...

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