Month: August 2015

With Women, Seduction Starts at the Stomach

Eating may prime or sensitize young women to rewards beyond food. It also supports a shared neurocircuitry for food and sex....

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Loitered Lens : Presence Autochtone

The festival takes over La Place des Festivals, in the heart of Montreal's entertainment district, with a huge suspended teepee as the centrepiece....

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The Slaver and the Snarl. Dog Bites (and avoiding them)

There was a common tendency for victims to blame themselves for the attack, rather than the animal...

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Two Joans, good grace & strong cider. Cambridge Folk Festival 2015

Blessed by great weather the festival was a sold out success with myth making performances from The Proclaimers, Joan Baez, Wilko Johnson, Joan Armatrading and The Unthanks....

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Spots or Stripes? Why Animal Camouflage is WRONG

Stripes might not offer protection for animals living in groups, such as zebra, as previously thought....

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Exclusive track: Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux (Asphyxia)

Listen to Asphyxia : Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux - released 14th August....

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Presence Autochtone : Finding and Founding First Nation Culture in Montreal

This year, Présence Autochtone (Montreal First Peoples Festival) celebrated its 25th anniversary of bringing the culture of the aboriginal people of Canada and the rest of the Americas, through...

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Are you Ready for 11 Billion? World Population – Soon.

The primary driver of global population growth is a projected increase in the population of Africa. ...

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Scenes & Sonics (National Gallery)

Six very different musicians/sound artists/composers each select a work from the National's collection and create a soundtrack to accompany it....

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The Fall, Clapham Grand, November 2015

Characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, The Fall are always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics....

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Make Better Music 76 : The Recording Process

No matter how boring, frustrating, agonising or infuriating it may seem simply going over and over the parts to be recorded, the value of that repetitive hand-eye/finger-digit movement will bring to...

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Sexting : How Often, Who To?

These findings show a robust relationship between sexting and sexual and relationship satisfaction....

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Innate Talent, Meticulous Painting (Shizu Saldamando)

Born to parents of Mexican and Japanese decent, Saldamando’s work embodies components that reflect her bi-racial heritage....

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Love Hurts, Especially for Women

Women experience more emotional pain following a breakup, but they also more fully recover....

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A Hypocrite’s Guide to the Internet

The way "our" people are humanized, and the “terrorist” demonized is classic media sleight of hand....

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Cedric de Smedt : New Work on Video

‘I’m evolving into a very dark and bitter universe, where emptiness is almost oppressive and where time seems to have stopped'...

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Loitered Lens : Cortes

Cortes delivered the spoils to an eager London audience....

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Lose Weight Fast, Barbecue Yourself Slim

The metabolism of the fat samples, the makeup of the fat cells and the patients' resting metabolic rates were measured....

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Powerlessness, Anxiety and the Political Tides: A Coping Strategy

We build a structure of false consciousness… that we, often, mistake for our convictions, and tragically mistake this dismal dwelling for the whole of existence....

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Dopey Olds and their Role in Child Development

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcapcting like a witless idiot whilst looking after your children gives a positive boost to their development. Which is why new parents...

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Easy on the whiskey now! Cockadoodledon’t (Vinyl re-release)

Listening to Th' Legendary Shack Shakers feels like swillin' liquor in a Kentucky barn which, if you're very lucky, you aren't sharing with the hogs....

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Sunrise Celebration at Boomtown Fair

BoomTown Fair is a 49,999 capacity theatrical festival that creates a totally immersive environment with ambitious themed stage sets and winding streets, complete with interactive venues transporting...

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A Talent Show Without Talent. X Factor (Part two)

The society that allowed us to flourish creatively whatever our background or income is in rapid decline. That cannot be right....

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One Lump or Two? How Sugar Makes Caffeine Clump

New insights into the way in which caffeine, sugar and water interact at the molecular level to affect the taste of hot beverages....

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Nordic Techno goes IKEA. Laiva T#16

A moment of head-down eyes-closed dancefloor reverie is captured perfectly....

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Betwixt the Body and the Brain. Why Stress Makes Your Body Tired

The brain is just like any other biological tissue, it can be overused and can suffer from fatigue...

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The decadent and defiant paintings of Nick Brown

The drips that flow from Brown’s landscapes don’t just enhance the unceasing presence of movement that circulates through his work, but they exude a ghostly aura that brings to mind the passing...

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Tomorrow’s Detox Diet Today : Chimpanzee Clay Chewing

Chimps have recently started to boost the minerals in their diet by eating the clay which also helps them 'detox' and digest their food....

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Cold Soup?! Get Stuffed! It’s Vertical Salad. Gazpacho

Gazpacho is, potentially, a cornerstone of the vegetable juice purge diet, with the rare novelty of actually being delicious....

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You Can Go Your Own Way (But You Won’t). Social Behaviour and Majority Rule

The more diversity there is in behaviour, the more likely people are to copy the majority....

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