June 2015 - Trebuchet

It’s Gonna Be a Long Day : NASA Add Extra Time

30/06/2015

"Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down a bit, so leap seconds are a way to account for that,"...

Make Friends and Influence Children – With Veggies

29/06/2015

When Valerie's day included serving green beans she was more likely to be described as "thoughtful", "attentive" and "capable."...

Loitered Lens: LTNT in the Studio

29/06/2015

Where formerly fantastic musicians suddenly clam up when faced with the prospect of ‘being recorded’, not so with LTNT...

Could Virtual Reality Treat Alcoholism?

28/06/2015

Researchers said they are optimistic about the potential for virtual reality as a therapy for alcohol use disorders....

Desiree Akhavan in Appropriate Behaviour 2

Don’t give me your lesbian orphan propaganda! (Appropriate Behaviour)

28/06/2015

Appropriate Behaviour is indication of an exceptionally strong new filmmaking talent....

Iron : Supernova Stardust or Bacteria Burps?

27/06/2015

Ancient microbes were respiring iron just like we respire oxygen. It's a hard thing to wrap your head around...

Expanding Worlds : Across the Sheer Size of Africa

27/06/2015

Like my wallet, I'm holding cultural currencies with bills from over twenty African nations. ...

Bringing Brutal Deathgrind to a Bucolic Britain (Brujeria)

26/06/2015

It is said that this unit of banditos is made up of Satanic drug lords who came together to make music on Brujerizmo - their own brand of brutal 'machete metal'....

A Painter of the Mind (Agnes Martin)

26/06/2015

Her artwork can sometimes say as little as it can possibly say whilst still existing. But what an enormous statement that is....

A Horror-rockin Hallowee’n. Alice Cooper UK Dates

25/06/2015

The Alice Cooper show returns to the UK for two special nights at Plymouth Pavilions (Oct 29) and Swindon Oasis (Oct 30) with blood, guts, gore and some of the greatest rock and roll music in...

Sex, fireflies and audiotape: ‘Anima’ purrs (Francesca Belmonte)

25/06/2015

The moon is apparently moving away from us by four centimetres every year, Francesca Belmonte may just have thrown a lasso and dragged it back towards us a fraction...

Want to extend your life expectancy? Wear earplugs

24/06/2015

In London more than 1.6 million people are exposed to daytime road traffic noise levels above 55dB, which the World Health Organization defines as a level of community noise that causes health...

The Blues Needs a National Presence

24/06/2015

The UK blues world has some stupendous talent that should be playing both nationally and internationally...

Image courtesy of Jonathan Freeman and Eric Hehman.

Babyfaced Killer or Killerfaced Baby. Can You Tell?

23/06/2015

Facial cues conveying trustworthiness are malleable while facial cues conveying competence and ability are significantly less so...

Shambolic youth and vigour (LTNT)

23/06/2015

We’re recording. Carefree and silly, it's going be hard to get a serious question past them. LTNT Camden Rocks interview...

Anxiety of Indolence : Is Your Armchair Killing You?

22/06/2015

An increase in sedentary behavior was associated with an increased risk of anxiety...

Make Better Music 74 : Collaboration

22/06/2015

The ability to listen, appreciate, evaluate and contribute towards a fellow-musician’s creativity is a high order skill and the rewards often completely justify the effort....

Sneezin’ Ticket? Virus Transmission and Commuting

21/06/2015

In increasingly mobile modern societies, long-distance transmission can rapidly spread pathogens....

Loitered Lens : Tav Falco at Oslo, Hackney

21/06/2015

Lithe and lean, Tav Falco plays up to the calls, draws the crowd in deeper and deeper....

Forget Life on Mars, Is There Volcanism on Venus?

20/06/2015

The observation of hotspots by Venus Express, combined with the geologic mapping from Venera and Magellan, make a strong case for a volcanically active Venus...

Where do Supermassive Quasars get Supermassive Quasar Fuel?

19/06/2015

Energy for quasars comes from supermassive black holes inside the cores of distant galaxies. But where do the supermassive black holes get their fuel?...

Does the Devil Have the Best Tunes?

19/06/2015

Passion at every level, from personal trauma, hit and run thrill and love, to the way the world is moving: its cruelty, its pains and pleasures....

Simulated view of a black hole by Alain Riazuelo of the French National Research Agency, via Wikipedia.

Black holes: Killers, or benign copy machines?

18/06/2015

Proponents of the firewall theory take an all-or-nothing approach to complementarity. Without perfection, they say, there can only be fiery death....

Foot-stomping hip-swivelling rockabilly country-blues (Tav Falco)

18/06/2015

This crowd love Falco and Falco loves them back. He poses and postures, treats the audience to some fancy tango moves, and writhes on his back as if possessed. Tav Falco live. ...

Fire and Bristone. Delving the Earth’s Sulphur Core

17/06/2015

For millennia, tales have been told of the underworld being awash with fire and brimstone. Now at least, we can be sure of the brimstone. ...

Bursting the pink bubble of partisan fantasy

17/06/2015

You do not actually believe that it is possible to vote away oligarchic rule and militarist/police state imperium… do you?...

It’s not flab, it’s hormones! (Or lack thereof)

16/06/2015

Turning off the Cupcake neurons makes the fruit flies "feel" hungry...

Cleaning ladies also experience the sublime (Aine O’Dwyer)

16/06/2015

Where Scarlatti or Bach strove to elevate the consciousness with uplifting symmetrical counterpoint, O'Dwyer reaches into a slightly different church music tradition...

Paleolithic tools by Aaron Stutz, Emory University.

Mammoth to Go? Paleolithic Disposable Cutlery Found

15/06/2015

The rich array of artifacts shows a mix of techniques dating to early Upper Paleolithic...

Balearic shearwater by Beneharo Rodríguez

Drop that Glowstick! Light Pollution Threatens Balearic Birds

15/06/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcapn ecological reason for Ibiza clubbers to ditch the ubiquitous LED bikini. At last. Could someone please come up with a convincing...

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