News
Edging It, Or Not. The One Small Step that Stops Teens Taking Risks
Teenagers are notorious risktakers, but new research suggests there is a way to calm them down. Report (read more)
Month: January 2016
Sound
Loitered Lens: Killing Joke (HMV)
Photos of Killing Joke instore at HMV Bond Street. 23rd October 2015. (read more)
News
Exercise Alone Won’t Help You Slim! But what DOES work?
Why you won’t lose weight by exercising constantly, and what you can do about it (read more)
Society
The Man in the Amazon Castle (No Spoilers)
Amazon Prime and Ridley Scott team up to bring Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle to the screen. Trebuchet recommends (read more)
Events
Iggy Pop Tour Tickets On Sale NOW
Details and ticket link for Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression European Tour 2016 (read more)
Society
David Bowie, Time Travel and a film called Interstellar
Reminiscences of Bowie are Proustian moments of total recall, but they can also link generations. A story of memory and hope (read more)
News
Psst, Keep this to yourself: How to Expose Massive Conspiracies
Equation shows that large-scale conspiracies would quickly reveal themselves. But maybe that’s just What They Want You To Think! Or not. Perhaps. (read more)
Sound
Taste, restraint and Donna Summer. The goth-metal way. (Aghast Afterglow)
Classically trained female vocals, Donna Summer covers and guitar shred which sounds like ‘Yngwie Malmsteen with a sense of taste and restraint’. Aghast Afterglow’s debut album has to be good. Doesn’t it? (read more)
News
Thwack! Feel the Flow with Pressure-Sensitive Rubber Gloves
More than mere Marigolds, Tokyo University researchers develop pressure-sensitive rubber gloves for medical workers. (read more)
Sound
Dark, Relentless Glory: Monthly Metal Medley
In the midst of death… Heavy Metal, that most persistent and insidious weed, offers up new releases from Witchcraft, Ghost Witch, Gomorrah and Conan. We review. (read more)
News
Wanna Swap some Cells? Get Some Acoustic Tweezers in Your Handbag
Acoustic tweezers provide much needed pluck for 3-D bioprinting. But what do they do? Report (read more)
Sound
The Illusion’s Reckoning (Mantra Vega)
After two years of writing and recording, Mantra Vega release The Illusion’s Reckoning. Worth the wait? Tim Hall reviews. (read more)
News
Early Kinship and Community Displayed at Newly-Examined Spanish Megalithic Tomb
Neolithic megalithic tomb in Spain comprehensively examined for the first time (read more)
Art
(Turk) (Must) (Do) (Better) A Critical Review of Wittgenstein’s Dream
Can we safely dismiss Freudian psychoanalysis with the lancet of irony? Or does the attempt fail? Gavin Turk at the Freud Museum (read more)
News
Zap Those Clouds Away: Smart Windows Get Cheaper
Soft colour composites may offer a cheaper alternative to smart windows. MIT researcher explains how. (read more)
Sound
Loitered Lens: Three Days Grace
Photos of Three Days Grace kicking off their European tour at The Forum, Kentish Town, January 15th 2016 (read more)
News
Fry, not Boil, for a Healthier Diet. WHUT?!
Deep-fried sprouts, anyone? Vegetables fried with olive oil have more healthy properties than boiled ones (read more)
Sound
Barbican Babel (Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective, live)
Bemusement ensues at the London Jazz Festival, as jazz legend Terence Blanchard gets lost in the E-Collective. (read more)
News
Real Life or Social Media – How Many Friends is Too Many?
Are you really my friend? Social media isn’t the same as real life, but a new study suggests the same skills apply. How does it all work? (read more)
Society
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (Film)
The story that proved we CAN fight Big Pharma, Attacking the Devil is a rallying cry to the spirit of truth (read more)
Events
30 Years, Still Undead. The Mission, Tour Details
Thirty years after their first gig, The Mission bring their glorious goth rock back on tour. Dates and Details (read more)
Features
Osiris is a Black Star (David Bowie and the Occult)
Bowie , Elvis, Death & the Egyptian Underworld (read more)
News
Why Spiderman Can’t Climb Walls
There is a size limit to sticky footpads as an evolutionary solution to climbing (read more)
Society
Cuddly Dictators and Visible Boredom: Lost in Karastan
Lost in Karastan is a slightly infuriating missed opportunity, albeit with some charm (read more)
News
Eat Your Way to Better Sleep
Diet-based recommendations might be used to improve sleep in those with poor sleep quality (read more)
Sound
Solid musicianship rather wasted: Resurrection Kings
Resurrection Kings’ Chas West has a great old-school hard rock voice of the sort you don’t hear enough of, and sounds as though he’d excel… given stronger material (read more)
Events
Dark Devotion: Michael Gira Solo Tour
Michael Gira London performance at the Barbican on 30 March 2016, followed by European tour (read more)
Society
The Movements of the Idiot: Are We All Ironic Now? (Part Two)
Handling irony is like handling plutonium: you must be careful that the radiation doesn’t kill you, or at least rob you of the ability to make meanings and give force to ideas (read more)
News
Whipworm, Roundworm, Parasites. What did the Romans ever do for us?
Roman toilets gave no clear health benefit, and Romanization actually spread parasites (read more)
Sound
Loitered Lens: Killing Joke, BBC Maida Vale
Photos of Killing Joke Live at BBC Maida Vale 2015 (read more)