Month: January 2016

supernova

What’s 570 billion times brighter than our sun? The Millisecond Magnetar

16/01/2016

Astronomers study what may be the most powerful supernova ever seen...

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tiny theatre

David Bowie, Cuts, and Why ‘Culture’ is becoming Another Planet

16/01/2016

Bowie's mere presence personified the power and relevance of a cultured society that appreciated and allowed him to emerge and for the rest of us to reach for those rewarding stars as well...

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The Damned

Loitered Lens: The Damned (O2 Islington)

15/01/2016

The Damned, Islington Academy, December 2015...

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thundermother

We get so much respect, but we get jealously too (Thundermother)

15/01/2016

Swedish accadacca influenced rockers Thundermother ride the rock lightning....

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Ink Levels Low? Fill it up with Rust! 3D Printing Advances

14/01/2016

New rapid method expands the types of metals, alloys, and architectures that can be additively manufactured...

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When Society Starts to Eat Itself: Dystopia (Megadeth)

14/01/2016

Lyrics decrying the state of today's society delivered with a backdrop of technically precise and relentless thrash, Mustaine and his boys prove that there is still life in the Megadeth machine. ...

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Sweat it Out. Cracking Lower Back Pain

13/01/2016

Exercise associated with prevention of low back pain ...

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mixing-desk

Make Better Music 80: The Art of Remixing (Part Two)

13/01/2016

Be careful to maintain the integrity of the original piece, while at all times striving to produce something new. ...

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But How Do You Get the Lid Off? Mesoglue Revolutionises Nano-Stickiness

12/01/2016

A glue that binds metal to metal to glass to you-name-it, sets at room temperature, and requires little pressure to seal...

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All Heroes Must Fall. Farewell to a Space Oddity (David Bowie)

12/01/2016

Bowie drew from the symbols and semiotics of myth, contemporising archetypes which have been crucial to humanity's concept of itself since time unrecorded....

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ant

Good goods: Why Small Males Might Be More Attractive

11/01/2016

Small males have more sex appeal, new research shows ...

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microphone

With a Rictus Grin and Another Pint: Surviving The Totally Democratic Bar

11/01/2016

Should we complain if a lot of very average bands and soloists carry on in the belief that they are special?...

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cancer surgery agent

Glowing With Health – Fluorescent Agent Helps Cancer Surgery

10/01/2016

Injectable Agent Illuminates Cancer During Surgery...

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man smoking pipe

The Movements of the Idiot: Are We All Ironic Now?

10/01/2016

Self-knowing idiocy. We either join in or shut up....

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poker machines

Risky Gambling or Shrewd Business? Does Your Brain Know the Difference?

09/01/2016

Risky gambling choices are influenced by a single brain connection ...

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Loitered Lens: Edward Rogers

09/01/2016

Photos of Edward Rogers at Islington Assembly Hall, on a night where Ray and Dave Davies shared the stage for a near Kinks reunion....

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The Hills are Alive with Laibach European Dates (Spring 2015)

08/01/2016

European dates for Laibach's Sound of Music tour...

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radioland

Radioland: Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity revisited (Matthew Bourne/Franck Vigroux)

08/01/2016

Radioland: A Kraftwerk re-werk that is well-executed, worthy but only partially successful....

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sandals

Smug-Shaming, or Why We Love to Hate Hippies

07/01/2016

When you don't seek out ethical products, you denigrate those who do...

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When All is Dark, Have Faith in Night

07/01/2016

By a poetic descent into the underworld, one is confronted with truths that only can be revealed in darkness....

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jazz piano

Mind of Blue. The Neuroscience of the Minor Key

06/01/2016

Study of jazz pianists finds 'happy' and 'sad' music evoke different neural patterns...

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The Architecture of a Problem (Part 2) Psychoanalysis and Creativity

06/01/2016

Malcolm Quinn expounds on the implications and applications of psychoanalysis and art...

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road arrows

Did You Really Want to do That? Free Will Gets Computer Analysed

05/01/2016

Berlin researchers test mechanisms involved in decision-making...

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poetryfilm

Of Short Cinema and Semiotics: PoetryFilm

05/01/2016

PoetryFilm: image, text and sound techniques in very experimental forms...

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Gravity

Guaranteed New Year Weight-Loss, Effortlessly

04/01/2016

Astronomers find new way to measure the pull of gravity at the surface of distant stars...

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Kalash Tirich Mir

Music turned septic. Kalash Tirich Mir (German Army)

04/01/2016

The faltering synth drones and brittle percussion of Kalash Tirich Mir seem like a terribly appropriate soundtrack to our cultural stalemate...

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straw

GERROFFF MOI LAAAANDD! Prehistoric Farmers Weren’t As Important as We Thought

03/01/2016

New research shows same growth rate for farming and non-farming prehistoric people ...

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Loitered Lens: Black Star Riders (The Scala)

03/01/2016

Hard rock riffage at the London stop of the Black Star Riders Killer Instinct tour. Photos...

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Machine Intelligence Can Save the Planet. But do we trust it (not to kill us)?

02/01/2016

Can human-machine superintelligence can solve the world's direst problems?...

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Oliver Jones

Of the flesh and its many variations (Oliver Jones)

02/01/2016

Photorealistic works underscoring the impact that today’s ceaseless stream of beauty-obsessed media can impart...

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