Archive – Page 105

Image courtesy of Jonathan Freeman and Eric Hehman.

Babyfaced Killer or Killerfaced Baby. Can You Tell?

23/06/2015

Facial cues conveying trustworthiness are malleable while facial cues conveying competence and ability are significantly less so...

Shambolic youth and vigour (LTNT)

23/06/2015

We’re recording. Carefree and silly, it's going be hard to get a serious question past them. LTNT Camden Rocks interview...

Anxiety of Indolence : Is Your Armchair Killing You?

22/06/2015

An increase in sedentary behavior was associated with an increased risk of anxiety...

Make Better Music 74 : Collaboration

22/06/2015

The ability to listen, appreciate, evaluate and contribute towards a fellow-musician’s creativity is a high order skill and the rewards often completely justify the effort....

Sneezin’ Ticket? Virus Transmission and Commuting

21/06/2015

In increasingly mobile modern societies, long-distance transmission can rapidly spread pathogens....

Loitered Lens : Tav Falco at Oslo, Hackney

21/06/2015

Lithe and lean, Tav Falco plays up to the calls, draws the crowd in deeper and deeper....

Forget Life on Mars, Is There Volcanism on Venus?

20/06/2015

The observation of hotspots by Venus Express, combined with the geologic mapping from Venera and Magellan, make a strong case for a volcanically active Venus...

Where do Supermassive Quasars get Supermassive Quasar Fuel?

19/06/2015

Energy for quasars comes from supermassive black holes inside the cores of distant galaxies. But where do the supermassive black holes get their fuel?...

Does the Devil Have the Best Tunes?

19/06/2015

Passion at every level, from personal trauma, hit and run thrill and love, to the way the world is moving: its cruelty, its pains and pleasures....

Simulated view of a black hole by Alain Riazuelo of the French National Research Agency, via Wikipedia.

Black holes: Killers, or benign copy machines?

18/06/2015

Proponents of the firewall theory take an all-or-nothing approach to complementarity. Without perfection, they say, there can only be fiery death....

Foot-stomping hip-swivelling rockabilly country-blues (Tav Falco)

18/06/2015

This crowd love Falco and Falco loves them back. He poses and postures, treats the audience to some fancy tango moves, and writhes on his back as if possessed. Tav Falco live. ...

Fire and Bristone. Delving the Earth’s Sulphur Core

17/06/2015

For millennia, tales have been told of the underworld being awash with fire and brimstone. Now at least, we can be sure of the brimstone. ...

Bursting the pink bubble of partisan fantasy

17/06/2015

You do not actually believe that it is possible to vote away oligarchic rule and militarist/police state imperium… do you?...

It’s not flab, it’s hormones! (Or lack thereof)

16/06/2015

Turning off the Cupcake neurons makes the fruit flies "feel" hungry...

Cleaning ladies also experience the sublime (Aine O’Dwyer)

16/06/2015

Where Scarlatti or Bach strove to elevate the consciousness with uplifting symmetrical counterpoint, O'Dwyer reaches into a slightly different church music tradition...

Paleolithic tools by Aaron Stutz, Emory University.

Mammoth to Go? Paleolithic Disposable Cutlery Found

15/06/2015

The rich array of artifacts shows a mix of techniques dating to early Upper Paleolithic...

Balearic shearwater by Beneharo Rodríguez

Drop that Glowstick! Light Pollution Threatens Balearic Birds

15/06/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcapn ecological reason for Ibiza clubbers to ditch the ubiquitous LED bikini. At last. Could someone please come up with a convincing...

Fewer Handguns, Fewer Handgun Homicides. Proving the Obvious

14/06/2015

Passing a background check in order to purchase a handgun was associated with a 40 percent reduction in firearm-related homicide rate...

Loitered Lens : Sleaford Mods

14/06/2015

Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn bring it on....

Unto the Breach. Strategic Flooding and Warcraft

13/06/2015

Strategic flooding is a highly risky tactic. It can only be successful if there's a well-thought-out backup plan and a plan for fast repairs...

Sleepers awake as Camden Rocks.

13/06/2015

Skindred, LTNT, Red House Glory, Outside the Coma, Beasts, The Dirty Youth - for each band there is a different tributary toward whatever end they see coming....

Just Laibach and Think of Korea [Laibach]

12/06/2015

Laibach’s Liberation Day Tour will coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula’s liberation from Japanese colonization and subsequent division into two enemy states...

Smell the air and rub the sky

12/06/2015

For most of us in the cities and towns the weather is just something that happens to us, something inconvenient, an impediment. Perhaps we should pay it more attention. ...

We Can Heal That For You Wholesale : Injectable Medichines

11/06/2015

Electronic devices that can be injected directly into the brain, or other body parts, and treat everything from neurodegenerative disorders to paralysis...

Secret Gardens, Crests of Darkness and Goblin Metal.

11/06/2015

No filler. A roundup from the bleak plains of heavy metal, featuring Nekrogoblikon, Ecnephias, Crest of Darknessm Secrets of the Sky and Angra...

Looking good and rocking hard [LTNT]

10/06/2015

Diverse personalities they may be, but musically they have honed what they do to a level of classical precision....

Secret Trade Courts: are the scales TTIPing?

09/06/2015

Tobacco companies could get litigious if a country passes laws to help people quit smoking. Agrochemicals companies could throw the book at governments that block chemicals they consider dangerous....

Environment, Phone-Churn, and a Landfilled Goldmine

08/06/2015

Where frequent upgrades are encouraged and recycling schemes not actively pursued, valuable materials integral to phone manufacture are lost, causing damage to the environment...