News
Could Artificial Photosynthesis = Global Cooling? Ask a Boffin
Scientist invents way to trigger artificial photosynthesis to clean air (read more)
Month: April 2017
Society
They Might Be Dragons! Inventing Trauma for Population Control
State manufactured fear is a phantom which can never be fought. But it can be ignored. (read more)
News
The God Shot: Banish Prostate Cancer with Espresso
Drinking more than 3 Italian-style coffee cups a day reduces prostate cancer risk by more than 50 percent (read more)
Sound
Slippers and Chardonnay Time? (Womadelaide Epilogue)
25 years of festivals proves that, despite grumbles from the old ‘uns, Womadelaide knows best. (read more)
News
Snap Your Shiny Suspenders for Sustainable Rubber
Findings by Delaware scientists could transform the multi-billion-dollar plastics and rubber industries (read more)
Sound
Loitered Lens: Dätcha Mandala
Supporting Hayseed Dixie on UK tour duties, Dätcha Mandala walk off with the show. Photos (read more)
Society
Shake, not Spin: How To Interpret Political Debates
Post-Trump, Post-Brexit, we now know that there’s a trick to interpreting political debate. (read more)
News
Know Your Moles: The Star-Nosed Mole
Strange-looking creature yields surprising insights about nerves, brains and extreme adaptation (read more)
News
Are You Getting Enough? (Sleep): Sleep Patterns and Sounds
Associating sleep sounds with sleep patterns provides a whole new prospect of sleep diagnostics. (read more)
Features
Joy and Division: Peter Hook (Interview)
Peter Hook talks New Order, Joy Division and women in yoghurt. (read more)
News
Asteroids: If the impact doesn’t get you, what will?
In an asteroid impact, violent winds, shock waves from impacts pose greatest threat to humans (read more)
Sound
Grey Monday (More Blue Rinse than Blue Skies): Womadelaide
Kids waving flags, fruitbats cackling and an improvisational spin at Womadelaide (read more)
News
Frog Slime: The Cure for the Common Cold… Almost
Frog slime kills flu virus (read more)
Society
Mastering Fear: A User Guide
What if fear could be used not as a wall, but as a gate? (read more)
News
‘With Deep Regret’ (for about ten minutes): Teachers’ Resignation Letters
Teacher resignation letters paint bleak picture of US education (read more)
Art
Look On My Works, Ye Mighty. And Grind.
Buried hubris and follies of personality along southern France’s Atlantikwall (read more)
Society
Sci-Fi London: Film, Music, Literature and Canine Cosplay #SFL17
Ten days of sci-fi film, live music, immersive experiences and more (read more)
Society
Deep State, Media Vampirism and the MOAB Bomb
With the MOAB, High Dollar Despotism And Perpetual War show off their latest toy (read more)
News
Shell Beans, Not Schools: In Search of the WIld Fava Bean
Seeds from a site in Northern Israel are the ancestors of today’s fava beans (read more)
Sound
Sunday Sparkles Sweetly in the Rain (Womadelaide 2017)
Every festival draws a downpour – even in Southern Australia. Womadelaide’s dreich day. (read more)
News
Scary Moment? Set Brain to ‘BRAVE’ for Fear Management
Weakening communication between two parts of the brain in mice reduced their fear levels (read more)
Sound
Let fly the rasping growls and demonic riffery! Sacred/Scared (5Rand)
Italian thrash/groove/melodic death metal four piece 5RAND test the waters for their debut (read more)
News
In Car Cow Avoidance Systems GO!
Automated cow avoidance for cars on Indian roads (read more)
Art
Moroccan Pop: Hassan Hajjaj
Moroccan Roll: Hassan Hajjaj blends US, Arabic and London imagery in a pop art approach that is all his own (read more)
News
Born to Love Heroes? Fairness, Justice, and Children
Japanese research into the roots of justice may contain hints for solving social ills (read more)
Sound
Oozy Bluesy Doom: Sacred (The Obsessed)
Doom metal with passion and refinement – The Obsessed are back after a brief 23-year break (read more)
News
Sex Obsession Kills Snakes! Randy Reptiles’ Reckless Rutting
Snake orgy research reveals s-s-secret to longer life (read more)
Society
War Profiteering and the Business of Slaughter. Ker-Ching!
Let’s call the oligarchy of the elite what they are. Murderers. Cold blooded, remorseless murderers. (read more)
Society
Thanatopolis II: Ghostly Frescoes, Industrial Art (at Waterloo)
Thanatopolis II: An Evening with Autopsia (read more)
Sound
Sore Feet and Shambolic Frontmen at Womadelaide
The scale and extent of Womadelaide can be punishing. Happily, the entertainment is worth the pain. (read more)