Month: November 2014

Cold Feet and Garlic Bread – The Hidden Link

The mechanism in that creates the connection between cold and pain is the same receptor that reacts to the pungent substances in mustard and garlic....

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Manami Mogg’s Metal Medley

This is the proverbial bollocks, with an utter mastery of brutality and method in equal measure....

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Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers [Live at the 100 Club]

Some 20 plus years into their careers Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers are STILL one of the greatest live acts on the planet...

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Different Gender, Different Words. How Mothers Talk to Kids

Parent-child conversations are gendered, with mothers talking more expressively to their daughters than their sons. Report...

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Late Rembrandt

The Rembrandt in the paintings at the National Gallery... is a man who suffered: as a victim of unfortunate tragedies, and as a result of personal flaws....

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Are You ‘Beat Deaf’?

Beat-deafness, though very rare, is a problem not simply of how people feel a pulse or move their bodies, but instead, how people synchronize with sounds they hear....

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Damnation Festival 2014

To compare this to tinned sardines doesn’t really do it justice… it’s closer to tinned beans, or cous-cous squashed unceremonially into a really small tub...

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Dub No Bike With My Head – Dublin Resists Bikes

Participants thought traveling by bike was inconvenient, dangerous, and too hard to deal with in a wet climate...

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Assassinated Beauty : Proud Camden

The exhibition is a retrospective of photos of Manic Street Preachers taken from Cummins' first NME shoot with the band in 1992...

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Billy Idol : Hammersmith Apollo

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphe Birmingham Mail said, “Idol lacks Cliff Richard’s ability to communicate as one with an audience”. Well if...

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GV Art : Lost in Fathoms

The show feels like stepping into a noir detective story, surrounding the disappearance of the island of Nuuk...

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Cowbell : The 100 Club [Live]

Both Cowbell and their amazing music have yet to be revealed....

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Watching: Bourdieu [Vid]

Sociology is a Martial Art follows the day to day mental life of Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist at the forefront of Post-structuralist theory until is death in 2002....

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All Speed, No Control. Daft Beetles

To take the sprinting gold from the tiger beetle, a person would have to hit 480 miles per hour....

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Centinex Vs Kong Vs 1349

1349: This is, in fact, the hellhound’s very own knackers...

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From the Frozen Aisle : One Entire Bison

The Yukagir bison mummy, as it is named, has a complete brain, heart, blood vessels and digestive system...

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The Hold Steady / So So Glos

Non-violent, no frills hard hitting (musically) rock and roll on a school night...

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Leaders Need to Look Healthy, Not Intelligent

It it always pays for aspiring leaders to look healthy...

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Ja Ja Ja Nordic Music Club : The Lexington

Ja Ja Ja Nordic Music Club at The Lexington in London, was set up to both promote the area's musical talent, and dispel any preconceptions....

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Beer Without Biff : Putting the Flavour Back in Alcohol-Free

Beer: making 'alcohol-free' varieties more palatable for the consumer...

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Luna Rossa : The Borderline

Stripped-down intimacy rather than full-on rock. Luna Rossa at the Borderline...

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Venetian Snares / Boxcutter : The Laundry

Sonic voyages of demonic dancehall, paper cut melodies, rapid silences, and violent arrhythmia...

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Pagan Britain (and Ronald Hutton)

Qithin the generous limits imposed by the evidence you're free to imagine the past how you like....

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In Flames, Wovenwar and While She Sleeps. Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Entering the fray with a blistering intro, In Flames demonstrated what an experienced metal band should sound like....

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Resveratrol Doubts

Resveratrol supplementation may actually oppose the effects of exercise...

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Julian Bahula [African National Congress] : Interview

When Julian Bahula tells you music contains the power of revolution, that it is “a weapon for the struggle,” you believe him....

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Newly-Observed Planet-Forming Binary System

Observations on a planet-forming system which is only a few million years old and lies about 450 light-years from Earth...

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Loitered Lens : Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers

The greatest showman alive is once again exorcising the demons of rock and roll from their rictus poise and commercial grave. Shack Shakers Photos...

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Milk : Nature’s Stinking Fraud

A high milk intake in women and men is not accompanied by a lower risk of fracture and instead may be associated with a higher rate of death...

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The BBC Is Snooping on You

The BBC regularly uses spying powers granted under The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, intended for the interception of communications by terrorists....

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