Month: April 2017

Could Artificial Photosynthesis = Global Cooling? Ask a Boffin

Scientist invents way to trigger artificial photosynthesis to clean air ...

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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....

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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...

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Slippers and Chardonnay Time? (Womadelaide Epilogue)

25 years of festivals proves that, despite grumbles from the old 'uns, Womadelaide knows best....

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Snap Your Shiny Suspenders for Sustainable Rubber

Findings by Delaware scientists could transform the multi-billion-dollar plastics and rubber industries...

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Loitered Lens: Dätcha Mandala

Supporting Hayseed Dixie on UK tour duties, Dätcha Mandala walk off with the show. Photos...

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Shake, not Spin: How To Interpret Political Debates

Post-Trump, Post-Brexit, we now know that there's a trick to interpreting political debate. ...

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Know Your Moles: The Star-Nosed Mole

Strange-looking creature yields surprising insights about nerves, brains and extreme adaptation...

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Are You Getting Enough? (Sleep): Sleep Patterns and Sounds

Associating sleep sounds with sleep patterns provides a whole new prospect of sleep diagnostics....

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Joy and Division: Peter Hook (Interview)

Peter Hook talks New Order, Joy Division and women in yoghurt....

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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...

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Grey Monday (More Blue Rinse than Blue Skies): Womadelaide

Kids waving flags, fruitbats cackling and an improvisational spin at Womadelaide...

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Frog Slime: The Cure for the Common Cold… Almost

Frog slime kills flu virus ...

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Mastering Fear: A User Guide

What if fear could be used not as a wall, but as a gate? ...

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‘With Deep Regret’ (for about ten minutes): Teachers’ Resignation Letters

Teacher resignation letters paint bleak picture of US education ...

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Look On My Works, Ye Mighty. And Grind.

Buried hubris and follies of personality along southern France's Atlantikwall...

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Sci-Fi London: Film, Music, Literature and Canine Cosplay #SFL17

Ten days of sci-fi film, live music, immersive experiences and more...

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Deep State, Media Vampirism and the MOAB Bomb

With the MOAB, High Dollar Despotism And Perpetual War show off their latest toy...

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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...

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Sunday Sparkles Sweetly in the Rain (Womadelaide 2017)

Every festival draws a downpour - even in Southern Australia. Womadelaide's dreich day....

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Scary Moment? Set Brain to ‘BRAVE’ for Fear Management

Weakening communication between two parts of the brain in mice reduced their fear levels...

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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...

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In Car Cow Avoidance Systems GO!

Automated cow avoidance for cars on Indian roads...

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Moroccan Pop: Hassan Hajjaj

Moroccan Roll: Hassan Hajjaj blends US, Arabic and London imagery in a pop art approach that is all his own...

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Born to Love Heroes? Fairness, Justice, and Children

Japanese research into the roots of justice may contain hints for solving social ills...

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Oozy Bluesy Doom: Sacred (The Obsessed)

Doom metal with passion and refinement - The Obsessed are back after a brief 23-year break...

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Sex Obsession Kills Snakes! Randy Reptiles’ Reckless Rutting

Snake orgy research reveals s-s-secret to longer life...

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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. ...

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Thanatopolis II: Ghostly Frescoes, Industrial Art (at Waterloo)

Thanatopolis II: An Evening with Autopsia...

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Sore Feet and Shambolic Frontmen at Womadelaide

The scale and extent of Womadelaide can be punishing. Happily, the entertainment is worth the pain....

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