Archive – Page 144

Dear Media, Where Were You?

09/11/2013

A few days ago on 5th November, hacktivist group Anonymous succeeded in mobilising hundreds of thousands of people in 477 locations in over 150 countries around the world. ...

Monkey Mindgames : The Brain-Machine Interface

08/11/2013

In a study led by Duke researchers, monkeys have learned to control the movement of both arms on an avatar using just their brain activity....

Peru Maravilloso [Album]

08/11/2013

If the material is jaunty and lacking in nose-flutes it is because this is a reflection of Peruvian popular music in the 60s/70s, not some anthropological/musicological quest for an imposed...

Kunt and the Gang : Long Island, Rickmansworth

07/11/2013

An evening of total past the knuckle filth for one evening only at Long Island, Rickmansworth....

A picture of a zombie attack by Freedigitalhotos.net/satit_srihin

Zombiezzzzzzzz: Putting the genre to rest

07/11/2013

Hordes of undead roaming the streets are one thing, but stagnant and creatively bankrupt popular culture that never goes away is another. It’s time the genre got shot in the head....

A picture of a happy couple by Carl Byron Batson

When Arguing : Wives Matter More

06/11/2013

When it comes to keeping the peace, it's more important for wives – than for husbands – to calm down after a heated argument...

Palms [Album]

06/11/2013

The emphasis on tight contrapuntal instrumentation elevates Palms as one of THE records of 2013....

A picture of some onions growing by Sunny Keenan

Dustbowl II : Our Dying Soil

05/11/2013

Cultivating soil continuously for too long destroys the bacteria which convert the organic matter into nutrients...

Aesthetics and the Art of Audio Field Recording

05/11/2013

'What is the artistic element of so seemingly ‘passive’ an activity as pointing a mic and pushing the record button?' Steven Miller teaches us how to record, and how to listen....

Why Computers Can’t Tell Jokes

04/11/2013

Unlike digital computers, which are designed to follow rules, the computations performed by the neural networks that make up our brain are inherently context dependent...

Burton Morris : Poptastic

04/11/2013

When I paint a coffee cup it is because it represents the coffee shop culture as a whole. Something that is very much a part of my daily life....

A picture of a man and a lightbulb by Michagan State University

Measuring Creativity

03/11/2013

A team of researchers led by a Michigan State University neuroscientist has created a quick but reliable test that can measure a person's creativity from single spoken words....

A picture of The Presence LDN by Kailas Elmer

Loitered Lens : The Presence LDN

03/11/2013

Do it out in the street and they’d lock you up. Do it up on a stage and everybody gets into it. I guess that’s the weird magic of the thing – going nuts in a public place. The Presence LDN,...

Hello Girls! Women Gawp at Cleavage Too

02/11/2013

Though the men in the study exhibited such visual behavior consistently, the researchers found that women's eye patterns actually were similar to men's. ...

Daring to Have Dreams

02/11/2013

All too many individuals had their dreams kicked out of them at an early age. We must come back to fantasy to keep a grip on reality....

Hastings Storytelling Festival

01/11/2013

Hastings Storytelling Festival celebrates the narrative art, and may just restore your faith in a decent yarn. None of which will be 140 characters or less....

Band Diaries : Vienna Ditto

01/11/2013

It’s a queasy, greasy, sleazy sort of sound that inspired a load of complaints from the upstairs neighbour, but he’s an idiot....

A picture of dice by Freedigitalphotos.net/Boaz Yiftach

BaccaRAT? Scientists Create Casino For Rodents

31/10/2013

For the study, rats gambled for sugar pellets using a slot machine-style device that featured three flashing lights and two levers they could push with their paws. ...

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Drifting through Frieze

31/10/2013

Checking out Dürer, Richard Serra and Richard Silver, Trebuchet's art correspondent finds much to interest her outside of Frieze....

A picture of a video game joypad by Freedigitalphotos/Arvind Balaraman

What’s That Smell? Gaming and Ignored Body Signals

30/10/2013

What's that smell? Immersive video games can numb you to realizing important body signals in real life....

A picture of the Jesu Album Every Day I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came

Jesu : Every Day I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came

30/10/2013

Is the success of 'The Great Leveller' enough to elevate this release? More of an EP with filler than an album, so arguably not....

Brighton Dome : earsthetic

29/10/2013

Meshing together visual art, new electronic music and experimental soundscapes, the programme of events aims to celebrate artists who break new ground with their symbiosis of sound and visuals....

A picture of a sunset by Carl Byron Batson

Applied Carpe Diem : Perspectives on Dying.

29/10/2013

How would you live your life, if you knew there wasn’t much life left to live?...

Top Ten Rappers Who Produce

28/10/2013

The rap game is hard to break into. Ask any "lyricist" trying to make it in the music business today - it's much harder to be successful as a rapper than it was 20 years ago. ...

A picture of Hurrican Sandy Damage by Google and NOAA

Stormageddon. Can the UK Learn from Sandy?

28/10/2013

There are some parcels of land that Mother Nature owns, and when she comes to visit, she visits...

Sean Molloy [Interview]

28/10/2013

The area I live in, in a way, motivates me to work on ways to overcome its inherent ugliness. ...

How Smartphones Can Ruin Your Career

27/10/2013

87 percent of people said answering a call was rarely or never acceptable in business meetings....

The Savage Nomads : Reunited Lovers [Interview]

27/10/2013

It is quite shocking how much people take for granted these days; how easy it is record songs by yourself so quickly. Embrace it!...

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Clean Hands Cause Unfounded Optimism

26/10/2013

Test subjects who washed their hands after a task were more optimistic than those who did not wash their hands, but it hampered their future performance in the same task domain...

Tory Scum and Proud

26/10/2013

Tory Scum and Proud: The Show You Won't See on Channel 5...

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