Veracity of Soul and Materialist Reductionism

a person who believes they have no soul is as dangerous to our besieged planet, in their own way, as one who is out to save the soul of others...

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Asthma : Not Just What You Breathe

Subjects' beliefs about the odor, specifically whether it was potentially harmful (asthma-triggering) or therapeutic, influenced both their psychological and physiological responses to odor exposure....

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Entrails Vs King of Asgard Vs Secret Cutter

Metal is a means of escape, perhaps even transcendence; its extremity allowing an explosion of raw passion and primal emotions...

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Teaching Computers Bad Grammar

Developing grammar-correcting software that could be tailored to a user's specific linguistic background....

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Make the Money, Change the Game

If one had to buy diesel for a car or generator, it was best to buy in the morning, prices could increase many times over by afternoon....

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Wolves in the Throne Room : Celestite

One gets the sense that Wolves in the Throne Room are soundtracking the Joseph Campbell monomyth of their own lives, but rather than a Disneyesque prog version, they’re going deeper. ...

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Being Danish Makes You Happy

Genetics could be the key to explaining Denmark's levels of happiness, according to research from the University of Warwick...

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Knifeworld : The Unravelling

Fans of Zappa should find a lot to like about this record, as should anyone who thinks there should be more bassoons in rock. ...

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Educated and Elitist : Tea Party Thinking

The political polarization that we witness today is linked to the way in which Americans live in segregated worlds...

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Takahito Irie : Interview

I like the Sci-fi stuff. We always harbour desire and imagination for future life, and humans are making it real....

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Eye Movements Reveal Love or Lust

Where your date looks at you could indicate whether love or lust is in the cards....

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Loitered Lens : Gold Lake

Photos of Gold Lake at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen...

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Chill Your Way to Social Success

Why exercising and relaxation techniques have been successful in treating and mood and anxiety disorders...

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Singapore’s Library Board Pulps Books

Should the library be allowed to impose a moralistic "pro-family" (anti-LGBTQ) policy over its public access collections and withdraw those books which do not reflect those so-called "community...

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New Light on Dinosaur Extinction

A long-standing debate about the source of the asteroid that impacted the Earth and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs has been put to rest...

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Neil Gaiman at the Barbican

For an hour or so, we could almost taste the wetted air of foggy heaths and breathe the scent of mythical caves....

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Send Scriptonite to Palestine!

This is not a conflict, it is a slowly unfolding genocide....

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Applied Carpe Diem – Living and Dying with ALS

To fully appreciate life, we also need to understand and appreciate death...

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Interruptions and Workflow

Interruption can cause a noticeable decrement in the quality of work...

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Contemporary Sculpture, Zabludowicz Collection

At the Zabludowicz Collection, it is not just our perception of different media that is challenged, but also our relationships to time, scale, colour, form and materials...

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Boron Buckyballs Born!

The first time that a boron cage has been observed experimentally. ...

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The Pearl Harts : The Garage, Islington [Live]

The Pearl Harts, a tenacious, rock hungry duo opening the show for Kagoule....

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Breugel to Freud : Prints at the Courtauld

If one pauses to listen, then there are some quietly iconoclastic voices to be heard....

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The Millenial Tofu Surprise

Tofu's new champion recruits are 20-something women who want dishes that are quick, easy to cook and that can help keep them trim...

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Loitered Lens : Twin Atlantic

Photos of Twin Atlantic live at the Hospital Club, 8th July 2014...

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Bigger Health Warnings Bring Better Results

Cigarette warning labels can influence a smoker to try to quit even when the smoker is trying to avoid seeing the labels...

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Austerity = Kids Eating from Bins

Logic has been ignored – and now we have children eating scraps from bins to survive. ...

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Pain Eraser : I’ll Take Two!

Canadian scientists make a breakthrough in pain relief treatments. Using chili and mice....

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Application : System Fork

Fascinating hybrid forms that don't fit easily into genres, but operate along a fluid ambient/electronica/electro spectrum...

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China’s Hidden Water Footprint

China's richest provinces have an outsized environmental impact on the country's water-scarce regions...

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