Month: August 2015

Want more Female IT Professionals? Make Computer Rooms Less Geeky

University of Washington set about working out how to make IT classrooms less daunting...

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UK Culture is Becoming a Dead Parrot. What do you want? Cash?

The Warwick report offers sensible guidelines for the future of UK Culture. But will anyone in power heed it?...

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More Women at Work, More Murders. Gender Equality and Homicide Increase

The greater a country's gender equality in employment, the higher its homicide rate ...

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They’re still here, but have they still got it? (Motörhead)

Motörhead : With their 22nd album Bad Magic, have the legends still got it?...

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An uncompromising sonic attack: Damnation Festival

2015 promises to be an 11th installment of Damnation Festival to remember. Leeds November 7th 2015...

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Pop a cap on your head. Limp Bizkit rock Brixton

Limp Bizkit, Queen Kwong & Mother’s Cake kick out the jams at the Brixton Academy 27th August 2015. ...

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We Can Predict that For You Wholesale? Murder Forecasting hits real life.

New knowledge about murderers who commit what is called spontaneous domestic homicide...

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Legends of music congregate for the faithful (Ramblin’ Man Fair 2015)

It was a weekend to wear your denim (double or triple) and not to care too deeply about musical fashions, time, or even bad behaviour. ...

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Napoleon Complex: Are Weaklings more violent than Macho Men?

Insecure men are more likely to commit violent assaults with weapons and to cause injury if they feel others see them in this light too....

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Elder statesmen of the third wave: The Oblivion Particle (Spock’s Beard)

Swirling Mellotron and Hammond organ, blasts of hard rock guitar, rich layered vocal harmonies, and a strong sense of melody. ...

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Boozy Baby Boomers: The Dangerous Drinking Habits of the Over 65s

One in five older people who drink alcohol are consuming it at unsafe levels - over 21 units of alcohol for men and 14 units for women each week - according to a study by King's College London. ...

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Shooting stars! 1967-75 in pictures (Led Zeppelin)

Exhibition of candid photographs of the Led Zeppelin's earliest years '67-75 where the elevation of youth, beauty and music combine....

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Soul-Gazing: Charting The Daily Ebb and Flow of Spiritual Awareness

'Sometimes the situation you are in affects your spiritual awareness. Other times your spiritual awareness affects the situation you're in.'...

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I Dream of Wires: A history of modular synthesis (Film)

Robert Fantinatto and Jason Amm's I Dream of Wires draws out the turning points in the history of modular synthesis and the music it continues to generate...

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No Passion for Your Job? Don’t Worry, We Can Supply That.

People who have not found their perfect fit in a career can take heart: There is more than one way to attain passion for work....

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Fraudulent Four: It’s time to sue 20th Century Fox for Fantastic Four

A hopeless mess without discernible form, sympathetic characters or clear narrative structure...

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Smartmouthed Kids get the Grades: Vocabulary & Academic Achievement

Two-year-old children with larger oral vocabularies enter U.S. kindergarten classrooms better at reading and mathematics...

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Loitered Lens: Ramblin’ Man Fair

Photos from Ramblin' Man Fair. Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July 2015, Maidstone, Kent...

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Some Ecological GOOD News. Reclaiming Oil-Damaged Soil

We proved we can remove all the bad actors and all the contaminants and at the same time have a final product with agricultural value...

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A Hypocrite’s Guide to the Internet (Part two)

Drew Michael walks us through more examples of our own miserable double-think....

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Does Having Racially Diverse Friends Boost Your Career? Oh Yes

Employees with a racially diverse group of friends outside of work may actually perform better at their jobs, a new study suggests....

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Deeper and Darker: Magnet EP (The Fierce and the Dead)

If Spooky Action had something of a punky, garage-rock vibe, Magnet is darker and denser...

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White-Collar Junk: The Rise of Prescribed Opiate Addiction

While most opiate addicts are still addicted to only painkillers, the number of addicts using heroin and the number of users who are addicted to both painkillers and heroin are increasing faster than...

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And still they scream (The Sonics 2015)

The suited old gentlemen taking the stage might have entered the Forum slowly, but as soon as the beat kicked in the dust fell off the band, and the beast emerged....

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Brain and Brawn : Higher Intelligence Improves Physical Performance

New research reveals a distinct association between male intelligence in early adulthood and their subsequent midlife physical performance....

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Shit music vs. Shamanic hardware with Author & Punisher

I think one of the main things destroying our country right now is the boredom of white people. We're bored and depressed so we collect guns and aim them at immigrants....

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The Internet Told Me! Wikipedia Research Subject to Information Sabotage

When researching acid rain, evolution, and climate change -- cast a critical eye on source material...

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Deep vulnerability and paranoia. Salt (Roseau)

Salt's sound palette mixes electronic pop with more organic, natural sounds - the record's sonics were apparently inspired by a walk around a giant abandoned warehouse nearby ...

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Evolution’s Double Throw : Beer Yeast

The crucial genetic mashup that spawned the yeast that brews the vast majority of beer occurred at least twice -- and both times without human help...

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Industrial, metallic and alienating, Melk En Honing (Author & Punisher)

Similar in both subject matter and delivery to Godflesh, Ministry and Killing Joke, you'd expect this to be neither an immediate nor an uplifting experience. However.... ...

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