Month: September 2016

Curious Oxymoronic Aggression: Be Nothing (Boston Manor)

Weighty, progressive pop punk rock metal from Blackpool's Boston Manor...

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Life on Moors? Searching for Martians in a Yorkshire Saltmine

Yorkshire Salt Mine Could Help Shed Light on Martian Life...

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Lessons in Leadership: What Sanders Could Learn From Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn's leadership triumph shows what Sanders might have been...

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Ancient Eruptions in an Unusual Martian Region

Unusual Martian region leaves clues to the planet's past...

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Loitered Lens: Sharks @ King’s Cross Station

Scenes from King's Cross as Sharks bring the Ya Ya Pop to London...

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Sleep Not Before the Winter’s Gate (Insomnium)

Epic and ambitious melodic death metal from Finland's Insomnium...

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Honey, Quit Harshing My Buzz: Bumblebees Hit the Woozy Gravy

When Bees Are Buzzed, Their Behavior Changes...

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Sharp Synths and Sweet Beats at the Jazz Cafe (Nite Jewel)

Ballerina deportment, Existential composure, and a swathe of lo-fi grooves. Nite Jewel at the Jazz Cafe...

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Black is the New Pink. Black Pigs, Better Bacon

New mutation found that suggests humans across the world have selected and bred black pigs...

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Loitered Lens: Peter Hook and the Light

A duel of personalities, That stretch all true realities. Peter Hook and the Light at the Forum. Photos...

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Slim Shadysaurus: What We’ve Learned From the Patterns on a Psittacosaurus

What dinosaurs' color patterns say about their lives ...

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Nu Gods for Old: Sumerian Alliance Tour (Born of Osiris/Veil of Maya)

Black Crown Initiate, Volumes, Veil of Maya and Born of Osiris on the Sumerian Alliance Tour...

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It’s All in Your Head: Beer, Foam and Sloshing

Analysis reveals capillary effects that dampen sloshing...

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Overwhelming and Almost Annihilating Awe: Dark Matter (Lustmord)

Lustmord draws upon an audio library of cosmological activity to confront us with deep, cosmic time...

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Freak Show Candy Floss (Voodoo Vegas)

Voodoo Vegas serve up hard-hitting no-frills rock, killer riffs and shredding solos. ...

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Are You Enjoying Your Video Game? Computer Says No

Introducing the Game User Experience Satisfaction Scale (GUESS), a psychometrically validated instrument that measures satisfaction...

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Is the US A New Weimar? If So, The Democrats Made It

If Donald Trump is the symptom of US sickness, it is the Democrats who are the disease...

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A Decade of ‘Delics: Shroom, Ten Years On

Ten years later, the cultural history of the magic mushroom still gathers fans and furore...

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Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix… Rock ‘n’ Roll In The Making

Join producers Terry and Phill Brown in Metropolis studios to hear the tall facts behind legendary sessions by Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Rush, The Who, Pink Floyd and many more....

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Banging Rocks to find Life on Mars

Seismic activity on Mars may produce enough hydrogen to support life...

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Loitered Lens: The Laura Holland Band

Photos from a pace-changing big band at the Cambridge Rock Festival 2016...

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Now That’s Impressive: Water-Powered Satellite to Orbit Moon

Cornell's quest: Make the first CubeSat to orbit the moon...

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It’s A Start: Being Bipolar, Accepting I’m Ill (Mental Health)

The first step to better mental health is accepting there's a problem. ...

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Sonic Space Opera via a Magic Machine (An Endless Sporadic)

Eclectic and Experimental, An Endless Sporadic's sonic space opera recalls the great Zappa...

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New Tech to Classify Galaxy Types, instead of Pesky Humans

Perhaps it's the fault of digital watches, but humans are rubbish at describing galaxies. Report...

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Are You Ready For Parenthood? Try This Simple Test!

The essential guide to whether you're ready for kids. Tongue may be slightly in cheek....

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The Women Who Find Beardedness Attractive (no, really!)

Research examines how beardedness affects women's attraction to men ...

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Astral Tweaks: Transcendence (Devin Townsend Project)

Never one to keep things simple, Devin Townsend returns to the Project with characteristically symphonic grandeur...

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Parents’ Terror at Physical Activity Guidelines for Kids

Many parents lack the confidence to get their kids to exercise ...

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The Right Stuff. Rogue Taxidermy (Lisa Black)

Unsettling and incisive, Lisa Black's artworks ask questions of the viewer and our approach to nature...

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