April 2014 - Trebuchet

Nanobattery by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

Boffins Build Bendy Battery

30/04/2014

A flexible material with nanoporous nickel-fluoride electrodes layered around a solid electrolyte to deliver battery-like supercapacitor performance...

Make Better Music 72 : Music Theory

30/04/2014

Music theory is way of labelling sounds and ideas in a way that highlights the relationships between them...

A Protein Breakfast Keeps You Fuller

29/04/2014

Participants who ate the higher-protein breakfasts had improved appetite ratings throughout the morning, and they also consumed fewer calories during lunch...

Shamate : China’s Secret Family

29/04/2014

Something purposeful and stubbornly cryptic is obviously gathering pace inside the communist walls of the Middle Kingdom....

Raising the Stakes : New York Flood Odds

28/04/2014

The chances of water overtopping the Manhattan seawall are now at least 20 times greater than they were 170 years ago...

Sendai : A Smaller Divide

28/04/2014

There's a very interesting and productive tension between chaos and order and light and dark running through the album....

Oops! The Neural Pathway of Error Correction

27/04/2014

The first neural circuit for "oops" : the precise moment when one becomes consciously aware of a self-made mistake and takes corrective action...

Loitered Lens : Amund Maruud

27/04/2014

Imagine the King, frenzied and fuelled up on booze and bop pills whilst performing the main dance sequence of Jailhouse Rock - that was the show that blurred before us...

Nano-enforcing the Seventh Commandment – On Olives

26/04/2014

Developing the use of invisible labels in the food industry....

Venetian Snares, Luke Vibert and Red Snapper 24 May

25/04/2014

Venetian Snares, Luke Vibert and Red Snapper 24 May - Soundcrash...

Athlete’s Urine : Aged for 10 Years

25/04/2014

Samples taken from athletes to spot signs of doping should be stored for 10 years, to enable technology to catch up with substances that currently evade detection...

Sleepy Sun : Corsica Studios [Live]

25/04/2014

With each album Sleepy Sun are moving further away from their garage-folk roots and further into straight ahead psych-pop. Moreover, they’re just getting better at being musicians. ...

Bugle Boy : The Glenn Miller Story [Musical]

24/04/2014

Den Stevenson's Bugle Boy which, having charmed the West End (a full house standing ovation at the Garrick, for one), now heads out on another tour of the UK....

Tori Amos : Unrepentant Geraldines

24/04/2014

Striking a balance between vivid imagery and staying the right side of the absurdity barrier. Her lyrics might be colourful, but they are never lurid....

Suicide Silence announce new album

23/04/2014

Suicide Silence announce new album You Can't Stop Me - release July 14th...

Unlocking the Mysteries of Physics : Quantum Turbulence

23/04/2014

Quantum turbulence is the chaotic motion — at very high rates — of fluids that exist at temperatures close to zero....

James Narh (XXL Streetdance) : Interview

23/04/2014

Street dance has to sit within contemporary culture to stand the test of time, and not end up as a fad that disappears after a session or two....

A picture of books by freedigitalphotos.net/Danilo Rizzuti

You’re Going to Fail (Doesn’t Work)

22/04/2014

Students who said they felt threatened by their teachers' messages that frequently focused on failure reported feeling less motivated ...

Polar Bear : XOYO

22/04/2014

This was jazz, but it was jazz with the raw energy and ferocious intensity of a rock show....

Google Glasses to Guide Surgeons

21/04/2014

Report on the early uses of Google Glass in the healthcare setting...

D S C R D : Interview

21/04/2014

Some people react more poetically, have nice abstract or artistic concepts, create an imaginary world or whatever. We do not have any of this....

Identity Marketing : Are You Consumer or Product?

20/04/2014

Researchers figure out why we hate identity-targeted advertising....

Loitered Lens: The Spitfires

20/04/2014

Photos of The Spitfires, A Watford based 3 piece who have been together since September 2012...

Check Your Privilege

19/04/2014

It’s become a ubiquitous phrase – Check Your Privilege – one that may both encourage and stifle debate, but what is privilege and how does it change?...

Kelis : Food

19/04/2014

An album that keeps its powder dry, thrills and teases, and on vocal performances such as 'Biscuits n' Gravy', enthrals. Kelis, Food. Review...

Miami Will Drown, Scientists Say When

18/04/2014

Sea level rises threaten Miami. Scientists predict how long the city has got....

Gallon Drunk [Interview]

18/04/2014

In the late afternoon, on the last day of winter, James Johnston and Trebuchet’s Kailas caught up to talk over the reinvigoration of Gallon Drunk and the ghosts of the past....

Cutting his Way to Freedom: Henri Matisse

18/04/2014

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is a must-see for so many different reasons. The Tate director, Nicholas Serota, claims it will be “the most evocative and compelling show that London has ever seen”....