Tanned Pilots : The Secret

Airline pilots can be exposed to cockpit radiation similar to tanning beds...

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About Political Correctness

Political correctness is not actually about quelling ‘freedom of speech’ for the sake of defending others from offense....

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Easter Islanders’ Fuzzy Teeth Reveal Moai Mystery

Hardened plaque from ancient teeth is helping resolve the question of what plant foods Easter Islanders relied on before European contact....

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Aynsley Lister, Farnham Maltings [Live]

His brand of melodic rock-infused blues might not be particularly edgy or on-trend, but is unlikely to go out of fashion anytime soon ...

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Sigmar Polke at the Tate: Where Mao meets the Sausage Eater

Polke’s humour wasn’t sarcastic, it was a form of rebellion. His volatile artistic tendencies that leave us breathless in awe were his way of shedding each and every conceptual artistic form....

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Do You Speak Cow?

Studying the ways cows communicate with their young, carefully examining acoustic indicators of identity and age...

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(No) Token Gestures

The circumstances of its birth have made Token determined to follow its own agenda and pay no attention to passing trends, focussing on what it sees as the most important elements of what it calls...

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Nuclear Isotopes Show Where The Life Is

How star dust - the remnants of exploded stars - plays a role in the formation of life-supporting planets...

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The Last Honky Tonk in Nashville

You’ll get a solid handshake, by men who believe a firm handshake can tell a lot...

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Loitered Lens : Portico

The sublunary tones of an album featuring vocal performances from Jamie Woon, Jonno McCleery and Alt-J's Joe Newman found their complement in the atmospheric setting...

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Happy CEOs Make Bigger Profits

Managers whose language displays an optimistic state of mind are more likely to have a positive influence on their firm's position in the market. ...

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Hovver Bovver

The first time researchers have directly measured the impact of moving visual patterns on free flight in birds. ...

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11 Months Old and Jailed By Israel

With its brutalization of children, Israel is sowing the seeds for a bloody and hate filled future....

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Loitered Lens : Robbie Boyd

Big hook folk-pop, Robbie Boyd at Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, December 10th. Photos....

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Cast of Characters : The Kid [South Africa]

The simplicity that exists in the Andy Griffith Show or maybe Leave it to Beaver still exists in the small town life in the Cape...

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Office Jerks and their Uses

People do not need to be jerks to have fresh ideas. However, such an attitude helps when you want to steamroll your ideas so that others will accept them...

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Scott Laudati : Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair [Poetry]

Between the suburbs and the city, and all that they stand for in Laudati's oeuvre, there is the ever-present fear not of age itself, but of fading away rather than burning out...

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Your Band Plays Bloodstock! How?

Details of a raft of options for you to get your band to Bloodstock....

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Suicide Girls : Interview

Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, certainly more than three cookie-cutter formulas, and there is nothing wrong with feeling sexy and confident about your body. - Interview...

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Love Buzzard, Shacklewell Arms

Launching their single 'Give it Some Range', Love Buzzard brought the blues to The Shacklewell Arms (and faces)...

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On Killer Cops and Reverse Racism

Does one identify with and/or benefit from hyper-authoritarian power or does one empathize with the plight of the powerless?...

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Carrot or Stick, Which Works?

A "first carrot, then stick" policy can drive cooperation toward a specific goal...

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Tom De Freston : The Charnel House [Book]

One of the major successes of de Freston's imagery lies in the fantastically delicate positioning of the horrible and the harrowing with the everyday...

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How Red Wine Stops Cancer

By alcohol source, the lowest cancer incidence is in people who drank red wine...

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Loitered Lens : Toyah

Photos of Toyah at the O2, Islington....

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Reduce Stress? Check Your Email…. Less.

Easing up on email checking can help reduce psychological stress....

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Luna Rossa : Secrets and Lies

Luna Rossa increasingly feels not so much "Panic Room unplugged" as a separate parallel band in its own right. ...

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Breastfeeding Could Save NHS Millions

The NHS could save more than £40 million a year by increasing the length of time that mothers breastfeed...

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Taylor Momsen, Acoustic [Live]

When she chooses, Momsen has the ability to convey emotion, forgivably narcissistic emotion, but emotion nonetheless....

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Dislocated Shoulder : What *Not* To Do

We do not recommend self-setting of shoulder dislocations...

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