Archive - Trebuchet

A mixture of figuration and abstraction. Interview [Bernie Clarkson]

28/03/2015

'It was such a surprise to win the trip and exactly the sort of prize I would have chosen for myself'...

Opting out of the attention economy.

27/03/2015

Firms will realize substantially greater success if they use moderately energetic commercials rather than highly energetic ones...

Siena in all its least-known corners (Federico Pacini)

27/03/2015

Pacini photographs the off-season, with its overcast skies and grey suburban areas....

Defining ‘Natural’. Why ALL food additives need standards.

26/03/2015

After decades of debate there remains no generally accepted definition of a "natural" food product....

Blues purists must die [JJ Grey]

26/03/2015

JJ Grey will no doubt continue his slow ascent in the blues world, playing to rapt (but quietened) audiences throughout the world...

Fallow and Flower, For Feeding the Bees

25/03/2015

Flower strips sown into farmers' fields not only attract bees but increase their numbers...

Despair, evil, murder and suicide. Monthly Metal Medley

25/03/2015

This is like rolling a natural 20 in a particularly bleak game of D&D. You’ve lucked out, and the Gods do smile upon thee, which is certainly a step up from most weeks when it’s more like an...

Opossum in your Snakebite, Sir?

24/03/2015

The antivenom would probably work against venoms from poisonous snakes, as well as against scorpion, plant and bacterial toxins...

Make Better Music 73: Mindful Qualities

24/03/2015

Quality requires a mindfulness and quietness to allow ideas to form, take shape, emerge and grow...

Natural Nettles Give Cancer the Sting.

23/03/2015

A highly effective way of defeating cancerous cells...

Wigger, Wigga, Once Again

23/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”F/dropcapurther musings on whether we were racist to use the term ‘wigga’ in a Trebuchet article…. Wigga. The word...

Two before bedtime? The Sensitivity Pill

22/03/2015

Under tolcapone's influence, game players were more sensitive to and less tolerant of social inequity...

Deadly Particles at KOKO [Starset]

22/03/2015

For those of us who have stared into alien eyes, we got the message. ...

All about that Vertebral Wedging

21/03/2015

Men prefer women who exhibit specific angles of spinal curvature over buttock mass...

Built with vision and prowess [Planetary Assault Systems]

21/03/2015

A thriving and rapidly evolving sonic ecosystem, producing an expansive soundfield that's simultaneously serene and nervous...

At it like rabbits? Kids, Vids and Sex

20/03/2015

As the portrayal of women as objects of lust reflects patriarchal values, media images that support this type of male dominance may provoke resistance in female viewers....

Free-fall bliss of the iris [Richard Diebernkorn]

20/03/2015

Diebenkorn himself has said that he was unaware of his surroundings as an artist...

Bicarbo-load for Better Vision

19/03/2015

By opposing the effect of light, bicarbonate limits the size of the photon response and quickens its recovery...

Cafe OTO Call/Response invocations [Zun Zun Egui]

19/03/2015

Add some Mauritian sunshine with Zun Zun Egui's unique blend of roots, jazz and shoegaze...

Schizophrenic? Check your fingers, chaps.

18/03/2015

Asymmetry has a potential utility as a diagnostic test in determining the presence of schizophrenia...

Cannibalisation: recycling of recyclings of recyclings [Asmus Tietchens : Fahl]

18/03/2015

Does the strategy of infinite recycling accrue a new aesthetic or degrade the existing one?...

Shifty Eyes. Influencing Moral Decisions By Tracking the Gaze

17/03/2015

Moral decisions can be influenced by tracking moment to moment movements of the eyes during deliberation...

Take science out of it; everything is fiction (The Rezillos)

17/03/2015

'the music, the song writing and the recorded performances are by far the most important thing'...

BBC Radiophonic Workshop : Southbank Centre

16/03/2015

Rare live shows from the original line up of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop...

Searching for the Great American Album [JKutchma]

16/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is eternal credence in the idea of “the great American novel”. The essential capturing of American culture – its...

Tilting trees for better biofuel

15/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”Y/dropcapou’re gonna BURN, you beech! Take 2: You’re gonna Burn, you birch! Why the willow wept…. Imperial researchers...

clouds by MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC

Turbulent times : The Physics of Clouds

14/03/2015

Being based in London, Trebuchet gets quite a lot of practise with clouds. Next up: The physics of black nose-crust/Tube bogies? In 1941, Russian physicist Andrey Kolmogorov developed a theory of...

The Man Who Brought Fantasy to the Masses [Terry Pratchett Eulogy]

14/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt is fitting that Terry Pratchett, who did so much with the written word, will now have acres upon acres of column inches dedicated...

A band looking to the future rather than the past [Karnataka]

14/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt’s been more than two years since Karnataka last toured the UK. Fronted by their third lead singer (former Riverdance singer...

Live longer by spending less time alone.

13/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”U/dropcaprr hur hurr. That’s a scientific euphemism, that is. ‘Spend less time alone’. They mean ‘shagging’,...

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