Month: April 2015

How to Promote Backyard Bird Diversity

Neighborhoods most attractive to birds were those in which many yards had fruit or berry-bearing trees and shrubs...

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We are watching your culture too. Captured

Captured highlights the premise that embracing diversity is essential for the continued development of Native American art....

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Can You Catch Norovirus from Your Dog? Maybe.

It is not clear just how much of a problem canine infection and transmission may represent for humans...

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A bewitching yet ruinous and wretched pastime [The Picturebooks]

Combining classic garage rock, the North European darkness of doom metal and the melancholy exhilaration of riding a custom chopper through the old Route 66 ghost towns of Arizona...

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Faith No More UK Dates Announced

- Playing main stage Download Festival Saturday June 13th - Band to record session at legendary BBC Maida Vale studios - Sold out US headline tour starts April 15th...

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Red Ink and Difficult Happiness [Beth Hart]

This has been the most difficult, the most scary experience I’ve had writing and making a record and I know why. It’s because I was scared....

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Charging out: Dataflame’s costly domain transfer fees

In 2014, popular web domain registrar 123-reg created a disgruntled buzz when, they started charging people to move their domains away. In 2015, it seems that Dataflame are charging £15+vat to...

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Kissy Kissy Icky Icky. Why kids don’t snog

A hardwired signal in the brain accounts for young children’s temporary aversion to bestowing physical affection on the opposite sex. It takes at least a decade of marriage to make the...

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Lacking in natural grease, Rock Top Trumps Deathmatch

You can spend hours in your bedroom practising your scales and hours more preening and primping but you can’t spray on that magical gritty rock and roll quality...

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That serotonin high is a gut feeling

It is estimated that 90 percent of the body's serotonin is made in the digestive tract....

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An undercurrent of groove and funk… gone dull. [Polar Bear]

Two tracks in, and the band departs to leave the irritatingly named Leafcutter John to give the audience a few minutes of meandering ambient nonsense....

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Quakes or cancer : Which Fracking Death Would YOU Prefer?

'there are a lot of potential ways that fracking may be distributing and spreading radon'...

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System of a Down Rage Against Armenian Genocide

So all-encompassing was this attempt to exterminate a nation that the term “genocide” was invented...

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Bloodstock 2015 Updates and Club Nights tour

Bloodstock 2015 strengthens its lineup with seven more bands, and announces a slew of club nights to warm up the metal glands...

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A time-traveller’s log : The Stele of Revealing

Over the 3 days comprising the 8th, 9th and 10th of April 2015 Thelemites around the world will celebrate the transmission of Liber Al Vegis to Aleister Crowley in a Cairo hotel room....

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Fish brings Misplaced Childhood back on tour

It was not only a breakthrough album for the band but also for me as an artist because I was finally discovering my own individual style as a lyricist and singer....

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HRH Prog 2015

Pwllheli is a long way from anywhere at the far end of a winding single-track railway line. The train stops many, many times at little request stops, but only if you know how to pronounce the...

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Language games across the checkmate of infinity

These are not really poems, that's why I put the word poem in inverted commas in the title. ...

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Too scared to sleep? Nightmares and insomnia – the link

Depression and insomnia are strongest risk factors for frequent nightmares ...

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Officer?! There’s mashed potato on the Pentonville Road! [The Lovely Eggs]

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere are six people who probably tune in to my witterings, four of whom have probably already abandoned ship half way through this...

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Hubble looks into the galactic past

Eight unusual looped structures orbit their host galaxies and glow in a bright and eerie goblin-green hue...

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A more melodic variation on the metal theme [Karnivool]

Metal is mostly preaching to the converted, but the congregation at London's Roundhouse was definitely devout and ecstatic....

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How cigarette smoking superbugs get even more super

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”N/dropcapicotine-addled MRSA superbugs get even badder-assed when they are exposed to cigarette smoke. It figures. Work starts on the...

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A battle between nature and technology [Clark]

Clark's music expresses a world precariously balanced, sounding equally on the brink of triumph and disaster; the two often intertwining...

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Test Dept – DS30 : April 23, Ritzy Picturehouse

This screening of DS30 is accompanied by a selection of archive material of the group on film and video which will be followed by a Q & A with founding members ...

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West Africa Redux : Twenty Kinds of Awesome in Africa

'whenever I mention Mali, Ghana, or Sierra Leone, the inevitable question is usually, "What was your favorite place?"'...

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Official: Smartphones Make You Stupid(er)

The cognitive effects of 'being in search mode' on the Internet may be so powerful that people still feel smarter even when their online searches reveal nothing...

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An initial crunch, then a soft succulent filling [Port Royal Patties]

'New Product Development can be time consuming and wasteful. On the other hand, customers want to see NPD from time to time'...

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The Other Garden

Four artists explore themes of temptation and paradise lost, voyeurism and privacy, curiosity, obsession and gratification...

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Artist or designer? [Alexander McQueen retrospective]

McQueen wraps the girls up protectively, in fabrics fitted so elegantly and perfectly that you begin to wonder if the clothing is meant to be like a shield....

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