Archive - Trebuchet

exoplanets by University of Toronto Scarborough

Extra Terrestrials or just a Dirty Lens?

03/05/2014

the search for life on planets outside our own is possible if done the right way....

Shafting the Welfare State

03/05/2014

The reality of social enterprise hides behind opaque language and mysterious ‘third sector’ jargon that alludes to volunteerism and good intentions. The key word is ‘enterprise’. They are run...

Public Bikes in Europe

02/05/2014

Public bikes in major European cities...

Environmentally, Graphene is Not All Good

02/05/2014

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Felix Kubin : Interview

02/05/2014

I don't want to be a pop underground star when I'm sixty on stage. I love the genre of pop but it's just one of many genres....

Children Are Now Exposed to Less Violence

01/05/2014

Physical and emotional victimization (bullying) also declined, as did sexual victimization....

On the Right Side of the Tracks

01/05/2014

Wait, what? We can climb on top of the trains?...

Nanobattery by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

Boffins Build Bendy Battery

30/04/2014

A flexible material with nanoporous nickel-fluoride electrodes layered around a solid electrolyte to deliver battery-like supercapacitor performance...

Make Better Music 72 : Music Theory

30/04/2014

Music theory is way of labelling sounds and ideas in a way that highlights the relationships between them...

A Protein Breakfast Keeps You Fuller

29/04/2014

Participants who ate the higher-protein breakfasts had improved appetite ratings throughout the morning, and they also consumed fewer calories during lunch...

Shamate : China’s Secret Family

29/04/2014

Something purposeful and stubbornly cryptic is obviously gathering pace inside the communist walls of the Middle Kingdom....

Raising the Stakes : New York Flood Odds

28/04/2014

The chances of water overtopping the Manhattan seawall are now at least 20 times greater than they were 170 years ago...

Sendai : A Smaller Divide

28/04/2014

There's a very interesting and productive tension between chaos and order and light and dark running through the album....

Oops! The Neural Pathway of Error Correction

27/04/2014

The first neural circuit for "oops" : the precise moment when one becomes consciously aware of a self-made mistake and takes corrective action...

Loitered Lens : Amund Maruud

27/04/2014

Imagine the King, frenzied and fuelled up on booze and bop pills whilst performing the main dance sequence of Jailhouse Rock - that was the show that blurred before us...

Nano-enforcing the Seventh Commandment – On Olives

26/04/2014

Developing the use of invisible labels in the food industry....

Venetian Snares, Luke Vibert and Red Snapper 24 May

25/04/2014

Venetian Snares, Luke Vibert and Red Snapper 24 May - Soundcrash...

Athlete’s Urine : Aged for 10 Years

25/04/2014

Samples taken from athletes to spot signs of doping should be stored for 10 years, to enable technology to catch up with substances that currently evade detection...

Sleepy Sun : Corsica Studios [Live]

25/04/2014

With each album Sleepy Sun are moving further away from their garage-folk roots and further into straight ahead psych-pop. Moreover, they’re just getting better at being musicians. ...

Bugle Boy : The Glenn Miller Story [Musical]

24/04/2014

Den Stevenson's Bugle Boy which, having charmed the West End (a full house standing ovation at the Garrick, for one), now heads out on another tour of the UK....

Tori Amos : Unrepentant Geraldines

24/04/2014

Striking a balance between vivid imagery and staying the right side of the absurdity barrier. Her lyrics might be colourful, but they are never lurid....