Month: September 2013

NHS Gagging Order Fight Intensifies

An incredible 8,222 38 Degrees members, from all across the UK, have donated to help turn up the heat on key MPs about the gagging law. The campaigners are near their target but they need your help....

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Mythbusting: Large Immigrant Families and Poverty

The number of children in immigrant families is not the primary reason more children are living in poverty, a Rutgers study has found....

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Pleading in the Blood : Ron Athey [Book Review]

Seventeen extensive essays from underworld luminaries of art and music attempt to nail Ron Athey’s ethos and individual practice...

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Animals Feel the Rhythm of the Ocean

Animals living in marine environments keep to their schedules with the aid of multiple independent—and, in at least some cases, interacting—internal clocks....

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Loitered Lens : We Banjo 3

When he sang, “We all need more banjos in this world,” everyone in the tent was united in their agreement. ...

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Monocentric Lens for Pin-Sharp Surveillance

'Next year, we'll build an 85-megapixel imager with a 120-degree field of view, more than a dozen sensors, and an F/2 lens – all in a volume 'roughly the size of a walnut'...

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What’s Behind The Mask?

Trebuchet's debate about banning full-face veils rears its partially obscured head again...

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Wait for the Drop. Anticipation and Music

The auditory cortex performs a role beyond just processing sound. Rather, this area of the brain appears to be activated during other activities that require learning and thought, such as confirming...

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Breaking Bad: The Aesthetics of Aspirational Evil

Vince Gilligan has said in interviews that Breaking Bad started as an idea of creating show in which a sympathetic protagonist became a terrifying antagonist. Revisiting the show, this becomes clear....

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Remember Agincourt : French Horn Causes Deafness

Between 11 percent and 22 percent of the participants showed some form of hearing loss. No data yet on the English Horn....

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De-Strat-Shun : Victoria and Albert Museum

Destroying a Fender Stratocaster and the resultant noise, David Austin performs De-Strat-Shun at the Victoria and Albert Museum...

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The Jokers, Kings Cross

The Jokers to play a headline gig at London’s Water Rats in Kings Cross....

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Robert Mapplethorpe : Fashion Show

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”R/dropcapobert Mapplethorpe: Fashion Show Caution: Borderline NSFW image appears mid-way through text His delicate gaze saw with clarity...

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A Final Use for Crap CDs

While other researchers have experimented with using zinc oxide to degrade organic pollutants, Tsai's team is the first to grow the photocatalyst on an optical disk....

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The Songs of Lovecraft’s Children

Gary Hill won’t make a fortune from The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft, or be interviewed on breakfast TV about it, but it had to be written....

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Violent Drunks : Not What, but Where

The context in which drinking occurs also appears to play a role in violence against partners...

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Touchstone : Oceans of Time

There are still plenty of heavier passages where they show their metal side. But there is far more light and shade....

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Men Cheat Because they’re Horny

Unsurprisingly, men cheat on partners because they act on their sexual impulses. Less predictably, research suggests these urges are stronger than womens'....

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Lydia Lunch Part 2: Allies, Enemies and Joe Rogan.

If you ever stick around after one of my shows the amount of hugging that goes on is insane. I’m Mother fucking India! ...

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Enduring the Heat with Paracetemol

Paracetamol improves the time someone can exercise in the heat, and that this occurs alongside a reduced body temperature...

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The Meat Puppets [Live]

Trippy and meandering as the hastily recorded studio version of themselves, live, the Meat Puppets just about delivered the goods musically. ...

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Immigrant Sahara Dust Outbreak

Concentrations of inhalable particles more than doubled during a major Saharan dust intrusion in Houston, Texas...

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Veiled Racism, Veiled Sexism

Shouldn’t everyone be allowed to wear whatever she or he wants, whether it’s a veil, a rubber miniskirt or a clown outfit? Should the State really be able to tell us how we must or mustn’t...

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Wide-Faced Lies

Men with wider faces are more aggressive, less trustworthy and more prone to engaging in deception...

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Mesmerism and Quantum Entanglement [Interview]

Our true contact with eternity is right here, right now. Judgements, explanations, rationalisations will never teach us...

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Got Rhythm? You Probly Talk Gud Too

It may be that musical training, with an emphasis on rhythmic skills, exercises the auditory-system, leading to strong sound-to-meaning associations that are so essential in learning to read...

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PAFT Relief with Rachael Reichert

CyBelle Horizon: a comic book, a video and a catwalk show all surrounded by vintage issues of American comic books. It could, and perhaps should, have been a total disaster...

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Gromit Unleashed (RWA, Bristol)

The Gromit trail acted as an excuse to explore the diverse areas of Bristol. It encouraged us to walk round the city, disguising exercise as fun entertainment. ...

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Luna Rossa : Interview

'The Sleeping Pills & Lullabies title was an idea of mine. It was the idea of two different ways of falling asleep…'...

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Let your fingers do the talking

When the communicator's finger slightly rubs an everyday object, the physical interaction creates an ad hoc speaker that makes it possible to hear the recorded sounds....

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