Month: July 2015

Decision Frames : How Retailers Influence Your Pizza Order

Explaining the way people decide to customize their food orders and the implications for retailers and customers alike....

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The Homely Path through Chaotic Woods (Nostos)

A collection of musical pieces which disturb, wrongfoot, disorient and occasionally attack the listener, whilst still being peppered with the ghost of expected song structures ...

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Live Long and Jump High : Seaworld’s Killer Whales Don’t Die Young

This article represents the first peer-reviewed publication that directly compares reproductive and survivorship patterns between captive and wild killer whales...

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Lauding Republicans (reluctantly). US Election Hyperbole and Hypocrisy

McCain is not a war hero. Heroes do not drop bombs on civilian targets from tens of thousands of feet...

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Sleep Tight, Make Memories Bright

The beneficial impact of sleep on memory is well established, and the act of sleeping is known to help us remember the things that we did, or heard, the previous day...

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A Talent Show Without the Talent? X Factor Returns… Again

Even after so many years of being served up candy floss, there are still so many people thinking, in all honesty, that it has something to do with musical talent, vocal prowess or even the nursing of...

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Mick Harvey UK Summer Dates

Starting at London’s Lexington on 30 July, the tour includes performances in Glasgow and Newcastle....

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Thundering Underdogs and Bubblegum Cool (Skyforger Interview)

When we write our songs, we don’t really care if the riff is heavy metal, thrash or death or black metal or whatever, we just care if it sounds good. Skyforger interview...

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Horny by name, not by nature. Breeding the Colorado Bighorn

The health of Colorado's bighorn sheep population remains as precarious as the steep alpine terrain the animals inhabit...

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Facets of True Beauty: Chong-Il Woo

Not only are Woo’s subjects physically striking, but the historical significance of their roles within Korean history demonstrates how integral one’s culture is to one’s essence of being....

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Well-preserved or Just Pickled? Old Age and Harmful Drinking

Harmful drinking in later life is more prevalent among people who exhibit a lifestyle associated with affluence and with a 'successful' ageing process...

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Loitered Lens: Misterwives

Pinned between the pre pubescent girls, horny dads and the PA system, Carl Byron Batson frames Misterwives at Islington O2...

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Reduced Circumstances = Reduced Emissions? CO2 and the Financial Crisis

The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession - not the reduced use of coal...

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New Strats and Teles : Reconditioning Guitars for Sound Lounge

The idea that a loved but untouched instrument can find a new and noble home is one that warms the hearts of many musicians. As it did with Sound Lounge / Fair Frets founder Keiron Marshall when he...

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Phobic? Learn Something New For Fear Management

It is not only important to break the links between environmental cues and fear, but also to substitute new learning about safety for further fear management....

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If I ran the economy…

The fact that our market is distorted enough that millions of working families now need state help to meet basic living costs is the problem. Not the ‘scroungers’ ...

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Wood Stress and Woodquakes. How Hard is Your Wood?

The sound we hear when we listen to wood is analogous to seismic waves released by earthquakes. Examining wood stress, fundamentally, at last....

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Monthly Metal and Melancholy Menace : Cradle of Filth, Orchid….

This is probably Cradle of Filth 's best album in a while, being neither immediately accessible (and so disposable) or opaquely impenetrable (and so rubbish)....

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Pirates (near) the Caribbean? Centuries-Old Shipwreck Discovered

Our accidental find illustrates the rewards -- and the challenge and uncertainty -- of working in the deep ocean," ...

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Meet the Deepwater Goby Fish that Science Missed

By thoroughly investigating reef ecosystems that lie just below shallow coral reefs, describing new species, documenting depth ranges of new and known species, we are providing the baseline...

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What Were the Skies Like Before Fossil Fuels?

"Life in the ocean has a big effect on clouds," said co-author Dennis Hartmann, a UW professor of atmospheric sciences....

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The Black Guy in the Middle: Skindred’s Benji Webbe

‘Look, humour me, just try it. Do some dancehall stuff on top of the punk we do’. Next thing you know we’re called Dub War and we've got a record deal. - Benji Webb...

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Coaches Can Help Prevent Sports Injuries

Teaching coaches about the prevention of sports injuries and contact restrictions pays off, say researchers who tracked injury rates among youth football players...

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Finding the Child Inside : Kathy Curtis Cahill

My main interest is still people and their inner selves hidden behind the public face. I am looking for ways to show that still vulnerable child inside....

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Too Much Telly Gets Your Toddler… Bullied?!

The toddler 's TV watching habits were reported by their parents and their victimization in grade 6 was self-reported by the children themselves....

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Loitered Lens : Primus live at Brixton Academy

Primus wanted to remind you that they’ve always been a band looking forward, reminding us that the old stuff was just that....

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Austerity : The Colonialism of the Corporate

The blood-sucking tyrannies of neoliberal austerity were inflicted on the Greek people by means of election ruses....

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Why Do You Notice Human Screams, But Not Jetplanes?

Screaming really works," Poeppel says. "It is one of the earliest sounds that everyone makes...

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Cleaners that Kill

Imagine if, in an effort to clean the air more efficiently, you were involuntarily introducing chemicals more dangerous than the ones you were trying to scrub. ...

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Crank Thy Humbuckers – Ratatat Release Magnifique

Mahoosive dynamics, the customary duelling guitar chops, and surf drums pulling everything together. Air guitar and dancefloor screwface, in one handy pack. Cribbens!...

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