Archive - Trebuchet

Napoleon Complex: Are Weaklings more violent than Macho Men?

27/08/2015

Insecure men are more likely to commit violent assaults with weapons and to cause injury if they feel others see them in this light too....

Elder statesmen of the third wave: The Oblivion Particle (Spock’s Beard)

27/08/2015

Swirling Mellotron and Hammond organ, blasts of hard rock guitar, rich layered vocal harmonies, and a strong sense of melody. ...

Boozy Baby Boomers: The Dangerous Drinking Habits of the Over 65s

26/08/2015

One in five older people who drink alcohol are consuming it at unsafe levels - over 21 units of alcohol for men and 14 units for women each week - according to a study by King's College London. ...

Shooting stars! 1967-75 in pictures (Led Zeppelin)

26/08/2015

Exhibition of candid photographs of the Led Zeppelin's earliest years '67-75 where the elevation of youth, beauty and music combine....

Soul-Gazing: Charting The Daily Ebb and Flow of Spiritual Awareness

25/08/2015

'Sometimes the situation you are in affects your spiritual awareness. Other times your spiritual awareness affects the situation you're in.'...

I Dream of Wires: A history of modular synthesis (Film)

25/08/2015

Robert Fantinatto and Jason Amm's I Dream of Wires draws out the turning points in the history of modular synthesis and the music it continues to generate...

No Passion for Your Job? Don’t Worry, We Can Supply That.

24/08/2015

People who have not found their perfect fit in a career can take heart: There is more than one way to attain passion for work....

Fraudulent Four: It’s time to sue 20th Century Fox for Fantastic Four

24/08/2015

A hopeless mess without discernible form, sympathetic characters or clear narrative structure...

Smartmouthed Kids get the Grades: Vocabulary & Academic Achievement

23/08/2015

Two-year-old children with larger oral vocabularies enter U.S. kindergarten classrooms better at reading and mathematics...

Loitered Lens: Ramblin’ Man Fair

23/08/2015

Photos from Ramblin' Man Fair. Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July 2015, Maidstone, Kent...

Some Ecological GOOD News. Reclaiming Oil-Damaged Soil

22/08/2015

We proved we can remove all the bad actors and all the contaminants and at the same time have a final product with agricultural value...

A Hypocrite’s Guide to the Internet (Part two)

22/08/2015

Drew Michael walks us through more examples of our own miserable double-think....

Does Having Racially Diverse Friends Boost Your Career? Oh Yes

21/08/2015

Employees with a racially diverse group of friends outside of work may actually perform better at their jobs, a new study suggests....

Deeper and Darker: Magnet EP (The Fierce and the Dead)

21/08/2015

If Spooky Action had something of a punky, garage-rock vibe, Magnet is darker and denser...

White-Collar Junk: The Rise of Prescribed Opiate Addiction

20/08/2015

While most opiate addicts are still addicted to only painkillers, the number of addicts using heroin and the number of users who are addicted to both painkillers and heroin are increasing faster than...

The Sonics at Koko, London, by Carl Batson

And still they scream (The Sonics 2015)

20/08/2015

The suited old gentlemen taking the stage might have entered the Forum slowly, but as soon as the beat kicked in the dust fell off the band, and the beast emerged....

Brain and Brawn : Higher Intelligence Improves Physical Performance

18/08/2015

New research reveals a distinct association between male intelligence in early adulthood and their subsequent midlife physical performance....

Shit music vs. Shamanic hardware with Author & Punisher

18/08/2015

I think one of the main things destroying our country right now is the boredom of white people. We're bored and depressed so we collect guns and aim them at immigrants....

The Internet Told Me! Wikipedia Research Subject to Information Sabotage

17/08/2015

When researching acid rain, evolution, and climate change -- cast a critical eye on source material...

Deep vulnerability and paranoia. Salt (Roseau)

17/08/2015

Salt's sound palette mixes electronic pop with more organic, natural sounds - the record's sonics were apparently inspired by a walk around a giant abandoned warehouse nearby ...

Evolution’s Double Throw : Beer Yeast

16/08/2015

The crucial genetic mashup that spawned the yeast that brews the vast majority of beer occurred at least twice -- and both times without human help...

Industrial, metallic and alienating, Melk En Honing (Author & Punisher)

16/08/2015

Similar in both subject matter and delivery to Godflesh, Ministry and Killing Joke, you'd expect this to be neither an immediate nor an uplifting experience. However.... ...

With Women, Seduction Starts at the Stomach

15/08/2015

Eating may prime or sensitize young women to rewards beyond food. It also supports a shared neurocircuitry for food and sex....

Loitered Lens : Presence Autochtone

15/08/2015

The festival takes over La Place des Festivals, in the heart of Montreal's entertainment district, with a huge suspended teepee as the centrepiece....

The Slaver and the Snarl. Dog Bites (and avoiding them)

14/08/2015

There was a common tendency for victims to blame themselves for the attack, rather than the animal...

Two Joans, good grace & strong cider. Cambridge Folk Festival 2015

14/08/2015

Blessed by great weather the festival was a sold out success with myth making performances from The Proclaimers, Joan Baez, Wilko Johnson, Joan Armatrading and The Unthanks....

Spots or Stripes? Why Animal Camouflage is WRONG

13/08/2015

Stripes might not offer protection for animals living in groups, such as zebra, as previously thought....

Exclusive track: Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux (Asphyxia)

13/08/2015

Listen to Asphyxia : Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux - released 14th August....

Presence Autochtone : Finding and Founding First Nation Culture in Montreal

13/08/2015

This year, Présence Autochtone (Montreal First Peoples Festival) celebrated its 25th anniversary of bringing the culture of the aboriginal people of Canada and the rest of the Americas, through...