April 2015 - Trebuchet

In Denial? Flour Beetles in a Harsh World

30/04/2015

Flour beetles exhibit a highly tactile form of courtship in which the male mounts the female and stimulates her...

Girls can growl! [Devilskin]

30/04/2015

Hugs were had, drinks spilled and firm handshakes shook....

Child Safety? There’s an App for That

29/04/2015

Health professionals can and should unite with industry to optimize children's already frequent use of mobile devices to help promote their health and well-being...

Death Metal is a Serious Business [Dawn of Azazel]

29/04/2015

The relentless hammering and visceral roars will keep their core audience happy – but it leaves you wondering what they'd come up with if they let go of their single-minded obsession with brutality...

Megatron or Optimus Prime : Which Leader Are You?

28/04/2015

The Transformers' characters and the stories told in the cartoon are a modern example of traditional folklore as a means of educating individuals about leadership....

Superflex Installation View, 2015 von Bartha, Basel

Hanging Offence : von Bartha

28/04/2015

More and more people will only buy with their ears and not their eyes. Therefore we must work very hard to educate people about artists and the importance of art in culture and society...

Piling it On : Television and Obese Children

27/04/2015

Kindergartners and first-graders who watched as little as one hour of television a day were more likely to be overweight or obese ...

Red Ink and Difficult Happiness. Interview Pt 2 [Beth Hart]

27/04/2015

I got a ton of tattoos, at first I bullshitted and said that every one meant something to me and it was some deep thing, and it really wasn’t....

Tinnitus and the Brain 3D Mapped

26/04/2015

Activity directly linked to tinnitus was very extensive, and spanned a large proportion of the brain...

Make Better Music 74: Notes on Composition

26/04/2015

When approaching a music writing session, have some sense of the idea you intend to reveal...

Feeling Invisible… Deliberately. Weird Science Simulation

25/04/2015

The feeling of invisibility changes our physical stress response in challenging social situations...

The Radiophonic Workshop. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2015

25/04/2015

Although they're still going strong these are in a way end-of-an-era shows carrying a huge and fascinating weight of history....

Presenting the Ping Pong Ourobouros of Singapore

24/04/2015

The white, pearl-like spheres will become luminescent by night, and the sentences will join up to form lines flowing around the circular shape....

Great Things – Rebecca Pelly-Fry, Griffin Gallery [Interview]

24/04/2015

I guess there is an element of wanting to put our stake in the ground and say that we believe the artists we show are going to go on to great things....

Serotonin and Depression : Busting the Myth

23/04/2015

The widely held belief that depression is due to low levels of serotonin in the brain - and that effective treatments raise these levels - is a myth, argues a leading psychiatrist...

His Hobo Cabaret [Seasick Steve]

23/04/2015

The downhome drawl, the dungarees, the hobo stories, the homemade instruments. Seasick Steve Live @ Eventim Apollo, London. April 14th 2015....

10x the Speed! Boosting Wifi with Photodiodes

22/04/2015

The system can potentially send data at up to 100 megabits per second....

Forgiving Jeremy Clarkson: Forgiving Ourselves. [Top Gear]

22/04/2015

The culture wars have become so divisive, even the organisation that tolerated Jimmy Savile is obliged now to take sides....

Only a Few? Smoking and Denial

21/04/2015

It seems that people are aware about the dangers of tobacco for health, but might consider that the risks are not for themselves, but only for other people....