Red Ink and Difficult Happiness. Interview Pt 2 [Beth Hart]

I got a ton of tattoos, at first I bullshitted and said that every one meant something to me and it was some deep thing, and it really wasn’t....

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Tinnitus and the Brain 3D Mapped

Activity directly linked to tinnitus was very extensive, and spanned a large proportion of the brain...

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Make Better Music 74: Notes on Composition

When approaching a music writing session, have some sense of the idea you intend to reveal...

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Feeling Invisible… Deliberately. Weird Science Simulation

The feeling of invisibility changes our physical stress response in challenging social situations...

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The Radiophonic Workshop. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2015

Although they're still going strong these are in a way end-of-an-era shows carrying a huge and fascinating weight of history....

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Presenting the Ping Pong Ourobouros of Singapore

The white, pearl-like spheres will become luminescent by night, and the sentences will join up to form lines flowing around the circular shape....

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Great Things – Rebecca Pelly-Fry, Griffin Gallery [Interview]

I guess there is an element of wanting to put our stake in the ground and say that we believe the artists we show are going to go on to great things....

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Serotonin and Depression : Busting the Myth

The widely held belief that depression is due to low levels of serotonin in the brain - and that effective treatments raise these levels - is a myth, argues a leading psychiatrist...

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His Hobo Cabaret [Seasick Steve]

The downhome drawl, the dungarees, the hobo stories, the homemade instruments. Seasick Steve Live @ Eventim Apollo, London. April 14th 2015....

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10x the Speed! Boosting Wifi with Photodiodes

The system can potentially send data at up to 100 megabits per second....

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Forgiving Jeremy Clarkson: Forgiving Ourselves. [Top Gear]

The culture wars have become so divisive, even the organisation that tolerated Jimmy Savile is obliged now to take sides....

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Only a Few? Smoking and Denial

It seems that people are aware about the dangers of tobacco for health, but might consider that the risks are not for themselves, but only for other people....

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Watching the Hugos burn. Sci-Fi Controversy Wreaks Havoc

At this point, the Hugo Awards of 2015 look as good as dead, and everyone is now fighting over a corpse....

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Cancer-busting broccoli FTW!

Broccoli sprout extract protects against oral cancer in mice and proved tolerable in a small group of healthy human volunteers...

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Riffs thick enough to float a ship [Rongeur]

Rongeur's sparse instrumentation gives the music room to breathe...

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The Sweat Smell of Success

In a way, happiness sweat is somewhat like smiling - it is infectious....

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Freelancing, self employment and accountants.

A gross day rate multiplied by 365 sounds impressive to some but the take home reality is generally less… much, much less. Plan accordingly....

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Courtney Barnett likes chairs

Courtney Barnett's songs are like diary entries, written to be sung to a captivated audience...

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Essence of old school rock [The Amorettes]

Over all too soon, leaving just telltale scuff marks, a ringing in the ears and the faint smell of perfume ...

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Then bury your head in it…. Nuclear Waste Disposal

Deep borehole disposal has been developed primarily in the UK but is likely to see its first field trials in the USA next year. ...

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A folksy bagpipe-led interlude unexpectedly sweeps in [Skyforger]

Their use of a jaw harp is perhaps unique in metal....

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Fasten your fascinators, Swingamajig is landing

An eclectic line up boasting not only the Electric Swing Circus, but a whole host of seriously crowd rousing beats...

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Big bangs, pulsars, black holes and supernovas [Fujako]

Off-key gamelan clangs, swarming keyboards and pitch-slowed kickdrums hammer that recurring distopian atmosphere home...

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How to Promote Backyard Bird Diversity

Neighborhoods most attractive to birds were those in which many yards had fruit or berry-bearing trees and shrubs...

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We are watching your culture too. Captured

Captured highlights the premise that embracing diversity is essential for the continued development of Native American art....

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Can You Catch Norovirus from Your Dog? Maybe.

It is not clear just how much of a problem canine infection and transmission may represent for humans...

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A bewitching yet ruinous and wretched pastime [The Picturebooks]

Combining classic garage rock, the North European darkness of doom metal and the melancholy exhilaration of riding a custom chopper through the old Route 66 ghost towns of Arizona...

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Faith No More UK Dates Announced

- Playing main stage Download Festival Saturday June 13th - Band to record session at legendary BBC Maida Vale studios - Sold out US headline tour starts April 15th...

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Red Ink and Difficult Happiness [Beth Hart]

This has been the most difficult, the most scary experience I’ve had writing and making a record and I know why. It’s because I was scared....

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Charging out: Dataflame’s costly domain transfer fees

In 2014, popular web domain registrar 123-reg created a disgruntled buzz when, they started charging people to move their domains away. In 2015, it seems that Dataflame are charging £15+vat to...

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