October 2013 - Trebuchet

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BaccaRAT? Scientists Create Casino For Rodents

31/10/2013

For the study, rats gambled for sugar pellets using a slot machine-style device that featured three flashing lights and two levers they could push with their paws. ...

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Drifting through Frieze

31/10/2013

Checking out Dürer, Richard Serra and Richard Silver, Trebuchet's art correspondent finds much to interest her outside of Frieze....

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What’s That Smell? Gaming and Ignored Body Signals

30/10/2013

What's that smell? Immersive video games can numb you to realizing important body signals in real life....

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Jesu : Every Day I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came

30/10/2013

Is the success of 'The Great Leveller' enough to elevate this release? More of an EP with filler than an album, so arguably not....

Brighton Dome : earsthetic

29/10/2013

Meshing together visual art, new electronic music and experimental soundscapes, the programme of events aims to celebrate artists who break new ground with their symbiosis of sound and visuals....

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Applied Carpe Diem : Perspectives on Dying.

29/10/2013

How would you live your life, if you knew there wasn’t much life left to live?...

Top Ten Rappers Who Produce

28/10/2013

The rap game is hard to break into. Ask any "lyricist" trying to make it in the music business today - it's much harder to be successful as a rapper than it was 20 years ago. ...

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Stormageddon. Can the UK Learn from Sandy?

28/10/2013

There are some parcels of land that Mother Nature owns, and when she comes to visit, she visits...

Sean Molloy [Interview]

28/10/2013

The area I live in, in a way, motivates me to work on ways to overcome its inherent ugliness. ...

How Smartphones Can Ruin Your Career

27/10/2013

87 percent of people said answering a call was rarely or never acceptable in business meetings....

The Savage Nomads : Reunited Lovers [Interview]

27/10/2013

It is quite shocking how much people take for granted these days; how easy it is record songs by yourself so quickly. Embrace it!...

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Clean Hands Cause Unfounded Optimism

26/10/2013

Test subjects who washed their hands after a task were more optimistic than those who did not wash their hands, but it hampered their future performance in the same task domain...

Tory Scum and Proud

26/10/2013

Tory Scum and Proud: The Show You Won't See on Channel 5...

A Magnificent Haunting [Film]

25/10/2013

Not quite detailed enough to create a true immersion in the blending of fantasy and reality it attempts, but as a piece to lightly charm, A Magnificent Haunting is recommended....

Peter Van Hoesen : Life Performance

25/10/2013

This was a very spirited performance. It has the sound quality of a studio recording but the energy and sudden shifts of a live set...

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Israeli Scientist Finds Un-Gay Insects

24/10/2013

Tel Aviv University researchers insist that their same-sex mating insects are NOT gay. No sir. No gay bugs here in Israel....

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The Young Dürer : Courtauld Gallery

24/10/2013

It is through drawing the figure, that the Young Dürer became the highly celebrated Dürer. Review...

Bring to Light/Supersonic

23/10/2013

The inaugural Bring To Light event presented by Supersonic Festival shall commence this weekend (25-27 October) at the recently launched, new Library of Birmingham. ...

The Presence LDN : Interview

23/10/2013

I won’t use a computer to make music ever again. Those things lead to a shiny but soulless place in the heart....

Bloodstock 2014 – Updated Lineup

22/10/2013

Bloodstock Open Air announce the addition of Megadeth to the 2014 lineup...

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We’re masochists (Imperial Teen)

22/10/2013

'We're not in a gay band, we're just in a band. On the other hand we're not NOT in a gay band, I just think 'who cares?'' Imperial Teen interview....

Lux Lives – Long Live Lux Interior

21/10/2013

We raise a large glass in honour of Lux coming into this world and into our lives. Long live Lux Interior. One very important message from the scriptures of Interior is to love life, live with a...

Hanging Offence : Arebyte Gallery

21/10/2013

'We intend to make Arebyte a space dedicated to research and the practice of New Media and Performance arts.' Nimrod Vardi talks to Trebuchet...

London Film Festival : The Lunchbox

20/10/2013

Review of the London Film Festival choice The Lunchbox...

Let The Liberals Drink Tea

20/10/2013

The liberal tradition has always been to place property rights above human rights...

London Film Festival : Short Term 12

19/10/2013

Short Term 12 is an impressive, emotive film that indicates some good material to come from Cretton....

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Dad Rock : How Music Taste Changes

17/10/2013

As we settle down and middle age begins to creep in, the last musical age, as identified by the researchers, is dominated by 'sophisticated' – such as jazz and classical – and 'unpretentious' –...

Black History Month : Interview

17/10/2013

There is a tension in Black history that makes it all the more interesting.That is to say, it highlights the many struggles and centrality of people of African descent in making the modern world....

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Why Does Your Heart Slow Down?

16/10/2013

One of the reasons for the age-dependent reduction in maximum heart rate is that aging depresses the spontaneous electrical activity of the heart's natural pacemaker...