Month: July 2015

All About the Self Esteem? Obese Teens in Denial

an increasing number of overweight adolescents do not consider themselves as obese teens....

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Reverend Horton Heat, Islington Academy.

During a dusty warm front in old London town, Reverend Horton Heat and his punkabilly ensemble took to the stage at Islington Academy...

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Highway Slime : Worms Hitchhike on (and in) Slugs

Worms invaded the guts of slugs, survived and proliferated within the intestines, and were subsequently excreted alive with the slug feces....

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3 Weeks to Go! Countdown to Bloodstock!

BLOODSTOCK HQ is a-buzz with activity with just over three weeks to go!...

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Coma Ecliptic : a Progressive Metal Monster

There is more than one number that feels as though it contains a whole concept album's worth of music in seven or eight minutes....

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Seeking (and finding) the Soft-Bodied Jumping Robot

By seamlessly blending soft and rigid body parts -- a structural innovation used by animals and insects -- a team of Harvard scientists has created a new kind of durable, soft-bodied jumping robot...

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Bass, Beats, Bumps and Bees. (Peru Boom)

Bass, bleeps, beats and bumps from Peru's underground dance scene. What's that doing here, and can it revive a flagging bee found comotose in the reviewer's garden? Peru Boom 2015...

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Do Men Feel Threatened By Female Bosses?

In three experiments, Netchaeva and her co-authors discovered that men feel more threatened when they answer to female bosses....

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An Uncanny Phenomenon: Wild Kingdom (Clayton Campbell)

Los Angeles media artist Clayton Campbell unveils a difference in perception between today’s society and past generations'...

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Can Windfarms Hurt You… With Bass Sounds?

an international team of experts dealt with the fundamentals of hearing in the lower limit range of the audible frequency range (i.e. infrasound), but also in the upper limit range (i.e. ultrasound)....

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Loitered Lens : Magenta

Magenta play dense and complex music with a heavy and unapologetic influence of 70s Yes. ...

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Magnetosphere Waves Look Perfectly Surfable

Magnetosphere waves : two recently published papers highlight these shapely waves at the boundaries of near-Earth space....

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Sweet dreams: Primus ’ Wonka ends on a winsome note.

Backed by mesmerising animations of an elephant bouncing on a trampoline, no one can deny that Primus put on a great show...

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Goat Meat, The Meat on the Street, We Love to Eat

Goat meat is becoming more popular in America, and in large part it's been due to the desire of immigrants to retain the tastes and preferences of their country of origin...

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Moving glass, Bending Light. Linda Sue Price (Interview)

Experience neon in a new way — not as a sign — rather as fluidly moving glass ...

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Smartphone App Says ‘Go Home, You’re Drunk’

The Alcohol Tracker smartphone app enables users to log the number of beers/shots/glasses of wine they have knocked back on a given day which it then tots up for them in units...

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Boys on parade (Beasts)

It’s an unspoken thing really, whether we play to five people or a thousand, it just comes out naturally. As soon as we start playing it just happens for us....

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Working those Muscles in Artificial Gravity

For the first time, we're showing there's a symbiosis when one combines the best aspects of exercise, and the best aspects of artificial gravity. ...

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Bringing West Africa to South Sudan

In South Sudan, all of us were reminded of the African continent's sprawling size and rich diversity....

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Next-Generation Hydrogel Sprayskin : Stretchy Scabs!

A new protein-based hydrogel sprayskin that, when exposed to light, mimics many of the properties of elastic tissue....

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No Ruinporn Here. Altstadt Echo Modern Cathedrals pt. 1 & 2

Modern Cathedrals label founder Altstadt Echo steers between these two seductive poles, resisting the temptation to sonically contribute to the proliferation of Detroitian ruinporn ...

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Nobel Laureates Call for Climate Protection

Without climate protection, our ever-increasing demand for food, water, and energy will eventually overwhelm the Earth's ability to satisfy humanity's needs....

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Loitered Lens : The Movielife

Proving time hasn’t dampened the punk rock spirit or the sheer energy of The Movielife....

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Smokers: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Smug

Being around other smokers may be a major reason why cancer survivors are smoking and should be something that is addressed...

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Rills, fills and dirty drum machines. Unravel (Bendejo)

Owes as much to the mechanics of dub as to the sequencing of techno, with dub's technique of using a looped passage to overwrite the 4/4 time structure driving the low-end beats....

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Could Your Phone Detect Your Pregnancy?

Small add-on devices could turn a smartphone's built-in optical components into biosensing technology to monitor diabetes, test for pregnancy, monitor hazardous gases among other applications...

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Flights of Fancy and an Unwanted Runway

The UK has not built a full-length runway in the South East since World War 2. Should it?...

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How Does Your Brain Know it’s Summer?

The brain encodes seasonal changes in daylight duration through GABA activity along with changes in the amount of chloride located inside certain neurons....

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Let’s carry on from where we left off (The Movielife)

For a band who most thought would never reunite (including the band themselves) this return to the stage was grasped with relish....

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Do YOU cover up your cat’s Kill Count?

Cat owners do not accept that cats are a threat to wildlife, and oppose management strategies...

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