Archive – Page 129

Rice and Redemption : The Learning Farm

10/06/2014

I am glad that some of them are now coming back and learn the old skills of the farm. A person should know how to grow their own food....

Shatterproof Smartphone Screens Soon

09/06/2014

University of Akron polymer scientists have developed a transparent electrode that could make smartphone displays shatterproof....

Matisse Live : Tate Modern

09/06/2014

Here art is about joy, tranquillity and hope. Not all art can be like this, but when it is, it is often at its most beautiful and poignant...

The Lost Art of Angkor Wat

08/06/2014

Long-lost paintings have been discovered on the walls of Cambodia's ancient Angkor Wat temple...

Loitered Lens : James

08/06/2014

The Electric Ballroom was so packed there was a genuine risk of impregnating the total stranger who you were forced to rub up against....

Fat’s ‘Off’ Switch Found

07/06/2014

Scientists this week reported that a molecular pathway called mTORC1 controls the conversion of unhealthy white fat into beige fat...

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Empire’s Ghost : Scottish Nationalism

07/06/2014

In a sense, this is Scotland’s guilty secret. Independence was not taken by the English, but given up by Scots....

Happy Couples Sleep Better

06/06/2014

Couples are more likely to sleep in sync when the wife is more satisfied with their marriage...

The Real Deal : M. Patrik Romanskylov [Interview]

06/06/2014

I’m the real deal. I had to add so many ‘Posts’ before the ‘Modern’ to make that distinction clear...

Loitered Lens: Slash and Myles Kennedy

05/06/2014

Slash and Myles Kennedy played the House of Parliament in June 2014. Here are some photos. ...

The Fight of the Bumblebee

05/06/2014

Bees are essential to our food chain and the populations of our native bumblebees have declined in recent decades...

Jon Edwards, Anne-Marie Helder (Panic Room) : Interview

05/06/2014

It’s fun for us as musicians to see how the material subtly changes and develops when you play it live...

Midsummer Music Festival 2014

04/06/2014

Midsummer Music Festival gathers some of the world's finest classical musicians into an intimate and charming performance space....

Answer Code Request : Code

04/06/2014

While this is not an “in your face” album, the best of these precisely engineered tracks have a strong pulse and circulation...

Guillaume Cailleau (super 8) and Jan Slak

Unconscious Archives #13

03/06/2014

An international line up of live audiovisual improvisations producing tangible sound and visceral vision, corporeal signals and audience interference....

Burning Toward the Light (Lloyd Yates)

03/06/2014

Our music comes from what we like. We create our sound from what we like. Lloyd Yates...

How to erase a memory – and restore it

02/06/2014

'We can form a memory, erase that memory and we can reactivate it, at will'. UCSD scientists get god-like....

Kenneth Clark in front of Renoir’s La Baigneuse Blonde (pl.1), c.1933 Private collection

Kenneth Clark : Looking for Civilisation

02/06/2014

Behind the carefully enunciated words, is a man whose whole existence revolves around art, and that each phrase is born of a lifetime’s experience and understanding....

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Smell Good. Look Good.

01/06/2014

Across the range of odors, odor pleasantness directly influenced ratings of facial attractiveness. ...

Loitered Lens : Arena

01/06/2014

Arena’s brand of heavy neo-prog is as cheesy as hell. But they do the whole thing so well it just doesn’t matter...

Broad Vision : Future Human at GV Art

31/05/2014

Integrating art and science, Future Human plays with the possible, the probable and the implausible through a collection of interdisciplinary artworks, experiments and speculative designs...