Month: June 2014

Practise (Not Parentage) Makes Musicians

Genetics and environment work together to help people become accomplished musicians...

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The Eye of Time : Acoustic

The album Acoustic places you in a paused sense of feeling, a disruptive and causal sense that yesteryear and future are being played out....

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Watching TV Shortens Lifespan

As the population ages, sedentary behaviors will become more prevalent, especially watching television, causing additional health problems related to aging....

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Loitered Lens : Deadline

Photos of UK punk/hardcore band Deadline....

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Where are all the Penguins?

Satellite imaging is being increasingly recognized as a valuable method for remote animal population monitoring...

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Of Old Gits and Hamsters’ Arses

Farage and Co. are not a bold rejection of the old order – they’re simply extreme expressions of it...

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A Baldness Cure that Works!

"By eight months there was full regrowth of hair," said co-author Brittany G. Craiglow, M.D....

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Naked from the Waist Down

'No matter how well prepared you are, you can’t predict all the uncertainties.' A half-naked man proves a metaphor for travel in Africa....

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Cheer Up, or Just Shut Up?

People with low self-esteem want their loved ones to see them as they see themselves. As such, they are often resistant to their friends' reminders of how positively they see them....

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Stylus Stories

It is modern folklore, providing an insight into the human condition and a soundtrack to match. Stylus stories listening club....

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Unlucky or Just Lazy?

The way they label people on welfare – by calling them 'lazy' or 'unlucky', for instance – can easily have a big impact on people's attitudes to people on welfare...

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Can Analytics Drive Creativity?

For some this questions appears to be the unholy marketing spawn of a top floor baking table. For others, knowledge and data have always facilitated the creative market. ...

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Thinness and the Mediterranean Diet

Children with a high adherence to a Mediterranean-like diet were 15% less likely to be overweight or obese than low-adherent children...

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Metrist : The People Without

These are not clean, conventional productions and are all the more interesting for it. ...

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Sunshine is Addictive

There is real health value in avoiding sunlight as a source of vitamin D. Boo!...

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British Folk Art at Tate Britain

Challenging our perceptions of art and viewing rituals in art galleries : British Folk Art....

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Mixed Race Couples Spread the Love

Couples that interacted with couples of another race showed a greater positive attitude toward the other group. News...

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Loitered Lens : Beast Within UK

This is rock and roll and the brakes can't be put on for a bunch of overpaid kids kicking a ball and falling over a lot whilst people starve to death nearby....

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Tesla : O2 Academy, Islington

No glitter, no razzle-dazzle, but a rapport that oozes sincerity and solid music to follow up. Tesla, Live at the O2, Islington. ...

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Empire’s Ghost Pt. 3 : Scottish Nationalism

Scottish Nationalism has always been just a reaction to a changing world, and an attempt to find a place in it...

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The Taste of Moonshine

NASA scientists have created a new recipe that captures key flavors of the brownish-orange atmosphere around Saturn's largest moon, Titan...

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Forbidden Rice

With rice so readily available today, it is hard to imagine that stealing something as simple as a handful of black rice could result in a death penalty...

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Sobering Thoughts and the 100 Yard Stare

Soldiers who kill in combat are less likely to abuse alcohol post-deployment...

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Finding Nick Tosches

I asked him how he had gotten his first book published. “It’s a dead industry”, he said....

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Peer Pressure and the Cool Kids

Seeking popularity and attention by trying to act older than one's age may not yield the expected benefits. ...

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Hearts Aren’t for Drowning (Nicole Atkins)

My old label had some suggestions that I sing like Alanis Morisette! I said, 'F*ck that!' ...

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Gore Grabs Attention, Generally

People exposed to core disgusts (blood, guts, body products) showed higher levels of attention the more disgusting the content grew...

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Hans Bouffmyhre

Four different tracks from an album given different treatments. Hans Bouffmyhre's Where I Belong remixes. Review...

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Smartphones Cause AIDS!

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapell, who’da thunk it? ‘Smartphone apps carry higher infection risk than online dating sites or clubs’. Even those...

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Death of a Salesman – Harare Style

In Zimbabwe... relationships are still alive, still important. They’re the only thing that carried so many through such trying times....

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