Month: June 2014

Fatherhood and the Work/Life Balance

There is no "one size fits all" image of how men view their role as fathers within the context of the workplace...

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Loitered Lens: Throne

Pictures of Throne live at the Cob Gallery, London...

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Buy Before You Die

Marketing's cringiest ebb to date: 'some people might want to spend more and work less – just in case their time runs out'...

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Empire’s Ghost Pt. 2 : Scottish Nationalism

Although the precise question of Scotland’s relationship with Union is rightly a question for Scots, the nature of that Union is a matter for all...

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Blake / St. Mungo’s Broadway : Interview

Homelessness can affect anybody and everybody. Homelessness is not a class or economic problem. It’s a social and support problem....

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Cloud Atlas : Beyond the Vale

It's Heidi Widdop's distinctive vocals that set Cloud Atlas apart from many of their obvious peers, but this album's sound is as much about Martin Ledger's soaring melodic lead guitar...

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Bloodstock 2014 : Preview

As always with a Bloodstock lineup, there’s a hugely eclectic mix of Metal sounds and subgenres taking to the stage...

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Nicole Atkins : Slow Phaser

an album of vignettes that, while emotional, exhibits a diversity beyond the singer's own and thereby transcends the pitfalls of contemporary pop...

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Secret Cinema presents Back to the Future

Secret Cinema Presents announce extra tickets for their Back to the Future event....

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Dale Chihuly : Halcyon Gallery

Going Beyond the Object into Shadows of Pure Colour: Dale Chihuly’s Glass Sculptures at the Halcyon Gallery...

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Dirty Kids Avoid Asthma

Children free of wheezing and allergies at age 3 had grown up with the highest levels of household allergen...

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Rice and Redemption : The Learning Farm

I am glad that some of them are now coming back and learn the old skills of the farm. A person should know how to grow their own food....

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Shatterproof Smartphone Screens Soon

University of Akron polymer scientists have developed a transparent electrode that could make smartphone displays shatterproof....

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Matisse Live : Tate Modern

Here art is about joy, tranquillity and hope. Not all art can be like this, but when it is, it is often at its most beautiful and poignant...

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The Lost Art of Angkor Wat

Long-lost paintings have been discovered on the walls of Cambodia's ancient Angkor Wat temple...

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Loitered Lens : James

The Electric Ballroom was so packed there was a genuine risk of impregnating the total stranger who you were forced to rub up against....

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Fat’s ‘Off’ Switch Found

Scientists this week reported that a molecular pathway called mTORC1 controls the conversion of unhealthy white fat into beige fat...

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Empire’s Ghost : Scottish Nationalism

In a sense, this is Scotland’s guilty secret. Independence was not taken by the English, but given up by Scots....

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Happy Couples Sleep Better

Couples are more likely to sleep in sync when the wife is more satisfied with their marriage...

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The Real Deal : M. Patrik Romanskylov [Interview]

I’m the real deal. I had to add so many ‘Posts’ before the ‘Modern’ to make that distinction clear...

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Loitered Lens: Slash and Myles Kennedy

Slash and Myles Kennedy played the House of Parliament in June 2014. Here are some photos. ...

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The Fight of the Bumblebee

Bees are essential to our food chain and the populations of our native bumblebees have declined in recent decades...

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Jon Edwards, Anne-Marie Helder (Panic Room) : Interview

It’s fun for us as musicians to see how the material subtly changes and develops when you play it live...

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Midsummer Music Festival 2014

Midsummer Music Festival gathers some of the world's finest classical musicians into an intimate and charming performance space....

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Answer Code Request : Code

While this is not an “in your face” album, the best of these precisely engineered tracks have a strong pulse and circulation...

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Unconscious Archives #13

An international line up of live audiovisual improvisations producing tangible sound and visceral vision, corporeal signals and audience interference....

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Burning Toward the Light (Lloyd Yates)

Our music comes from what we like. We create our sound from what we like. Lloyd Yates...

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How to erase a memory – and restore it

'We can form a memory, erase that memory and we can reactivate it, at will'. UCSD scientists get god-like....

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Kenneth Clark : Looking for Civilisation

Behind the carefully enunciated words, is a man whose whole existence revolves around art, and that each phrase is born of a lifetime’s experience and understanding....

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Smell Good. Look Good.

Across the range of odors, odor pleasantness directly influenced ratings of facial attractiveness. ...

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