News
Unwarmed. How The Last Frontier of Global Warming Stays Frosty
Exploring the cold, sluggish band of deep ocean that resists the global meltdown (read more)
Month: May 2016
Sound
Manami Mogg’s Moggy Metal Mix 2 (Wo Fat, Interment, Death Angel, Regret)
With the suburban bliss of both Primary and Secondary Feeders shattered by the horticulturalists next-door, Manami Mogg reviews the month’s metal releases (read more)
News
Join Us! Join Us! What Poor Entrepreneurs need to become Rich Entrepreneurs
Poor communities a ‘hotbed’ of entrepreneurial creativity, but need help to grow (read more)
Society
Deeper Into the Hepatitis Bathtub
A booksigning followed by dinner should be simple. In newly-cleansed Manhattan, it’s anything but (read more)
News
Quit Talkin’, I’m Textin’: Electronic Media Killing Parent/Child Communication
Electronic media keeping kids from communicating with parents (read more)
Sound
Loitered Lens: Eagulls
Photos of Eagulls at Islington Assembly Hall, May 2016 (read more)
News
Upwardly immobile? Top Income Earners Don’t Move About Much
Study dispels myth about millionaire migration in the US (read more)
Sound
Soundtracking the Great Game: (Stylotone Vinyl Reissue of Khartoum)
Frank Cordell’s epic soundtrack receives a lavish vinyl reissue (read more)
News
Acoustic Researchers Rid Golf Courses of Clanging Bores (well, some of them)
Acousticians track down the reason a type of driver creates a loud clang when it strikes the ball (read more)
Sound
Make Better Music 82: Monetizing Music (Part Two)
Working musician Simon Laffy ponders the recurring problem of making music pay (read more)
News
A New Hope For Bleached Coral Reefs?
UN report finds parts of coral reef ecosystems may survive in barely known deeper environments (read more)
Society
All Wrong: the misguided adventures of an art world hero (Grayson Perry)
The roving potter lines up his newest quaint exhibits: the northern working classes (read more)
News
Human Resources Shocker: Suffering Heart Failure is NOT Good for Career Motivation!
One-third of heart failure patients do not return to work (read more)
Sound
Musicians Wanted: Singer. What Lies Beneath (Mike Kershaw)
Heading up a supergroup of sorts, prog rock keyboardist Mike Kershaw releases What Lies Beneath. Review (read more)
News
Is it Done Yet? Archaeologists Find 5000 Year-Old Recipe for Beer
Revealing a 5000-year-old beer recipe in China (read more)
Sound
Like circuit bending, but with more control: Interview (Weightausend)
Weightausend discusses hijacking obsolete digital sound modules, hash-induced panic attacks, and Doctor Who (read more)
Sound
Notable for its Collaborators (Faulkner)
Interview with Dimitri Farougias from US Pop band Faulkner. (read more)
News
Meet the Self-Healing Electronic Material that means the End of Walloping the Telly
Self-healing, flexible electronic material restores functions after breakage (read more)
Sound
Loitered Lens: The Fall
Photos from The Fall playing live at The Garage, Islington (read more)
News
Eat Less, Exercise More. No. Exercise More, Exercise More. What Really Beats Obesity?
Exercise, more than diet, key to preventing obesity (read more)
Art
Tracing Mescaline Lines (Eric Yanez / Dubeejunk)
A nod to European fin de siecle visuals, and another to 1960s psychedelia inform Dubeejunk’s striking graphics. Profile (read more)
News
Absolut-ly Shocking. Children, and the Impact of Alcohol Advertising
Middle-school kids see several alcohol ads a day (read more)
Sound
An Ominous and Unsettling Ambience: #1 (Daghraven)
Intricately constructed and spanning the gap between melancholy and tragedy, Daghraven makes for brooding archeological listening (read more)
News
No Calculator in the Kitchen? Why Girls From Progressive Countries are Better at Maths
Girls from progressive societies do better at maths, study finds (read more)
Sound
Loitered Lens: The Dead XIII
Horror metal from straight outta Catacombs, The Dead XIII morgue Islington up. Photos (read more)
Sound
Me Generation, not Re-Generation. (The Treatment, Islington Academy)
The Treatment breathe some new life into UK rock at the Islington Academy (read more)
Events
A Capella Invasion: Pentatonix UK Tour
The first wave of the summer’s a capella surge hits with the Pentatonix UK tour (read more)
Society
In New York City with the Hepatitis Bathtub
En route to NYC for a NOFX book signing, Scott Laudati takes the Red Sox and racism trail (read more)
News
If You Knew Where a Hand Had Been, Would You Still Shake It? In-hand Eye Improves Robotics
Robot’s in-hand eye maps surroundings and determines hand’s location (read more)
Sound
Technical Brutality for (nearly) a Gravenous Hour (Katalepsy)
Blasting their way to the top of the Death Metal scene, Russia’s Katalepsy release album number two. Review (read more)