Becoming Picasso : Courtauld Gallery

Picasso responded immediately to the art and culture that surrounded him in Paris – in the first part of 1901 he devoured the sights and excitement of the city and its artists. In the second part...

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Single Women, Sex and Colonial Religion

Research reveals how single women shaped the religious culture of colonial Latin America...

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Holy Motors [Film]

The truth, and the beauty of the film is that it is wide open to interpretation. ...

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The most surreal science article ever.

transposable elements, or jumping genes, which are largely idle in mammals...

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Cis or gender. What’s Your Privilege?

Transphobia is not about an academic term, it is about the reality of living in a country where you can’t even guarantee your doctor will speak to you like a human being, and where the risk of...

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Big Bird and Your Brain

Using brain scans of children and adults watching Big Bird on Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children's brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and...

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Interview: Reptile Youth

'if you have a country where the same old guys have been in power for a long time then it’s going to be a shit country'...

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Computers push molecules

Berkeley Lab bioscientists and their colleagues decipher a far-reaching problem in computer simulations....

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Martha Parsey: If 6 was 9

Parsey 's palette still has strongly sepia tonality and again dials into the mythic feminine figure, however there is a technical development in these works that we haven't seen before....

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Finding Chicago’s food gardens with Google Earth

Urban agriculture is promoted as a strategy for dealing with food insecurity, stimulating economic development, and combating diet-related health problems in cities....

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Evolution of a Classic [Folk Music]

The sipsi is a small reedpipe, played using circular breathing, with a wild and thrilling sound. I was immediately captivated by the lumpy nine-time rhythms and mind-boggling technique....

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Babies learn In Utero

Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language....

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Matthew Houlding: Ceri Hand Gallery

Leaving the cold of snow-strewn January for one evening, to view far flung landscapes imbued with warm yellows, enhanced with rich sea blues and framed with complex shapes was a nice diversion....

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How to treat heat like light

New approach using nanoparticle alloys allows heat to be focused or reflected just like electromagnetic waves...

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Tomahawk: Oddfellows

Is it a bad thing that we're given an album of the classic-era Patton that we've learned to revere? No way....

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Rapper Zay-Gee to Invade Lithuania

He quipped that if the Lithuanians didn’t give up without a shot being fired then he just might send the girls over to ‘work some shock and awe’....

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Joe Rogan ‘s Kale Shake Recipe

How to make Joe Rogan's Kale Shake, which blender is the best to use if you can't afford a BlendTec blender and you're in the UK and you're a beginner. ...

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Galactic geysers fuelled by star stuff

Seen from Earth, but invisible to the human eye, the outflows stretch about two-thirds across the sky from horizon to horizon....

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Loitered Lens: Reptile Youth

Fired up, quite possibly by a pre-gig interview with Trebuchet's Sarah Corbett (in which they talked about the Arab Spring and the London riots) Reptile Youth went on to cane Hoxton silly(er)....

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Playing Sport for Fun

To protect against injuries, young athletes may need to play more just for fun...

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Guns: America’s Addiction

America is addicted to guns and the politics of aggression, aimed entirely at the target audience of consumers, is exploited for commercial and artistic gain....

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NASA satellites saw Cyclone Freda’s widening eye

Tropical Cyclone Freda intensified over the last couple of days in the warm waters of the Southern Pacific Ocean, and NASA's TRMM and Aqua satellites measured the rainfall within the storm, and...

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Spaghetti Whores and Tasty Capers

Along with almost every highly-flavoured or highly-priced delicacy man has ever put to his lips, capers have been thought to have aphrodisiac properties...

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The short end of the stick

Some men voice complaints of shortened penis following prostate cancer treatment. ...

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Perps and Papers: An Academic in Africa

A lot of unhappy rumbling, and us standing around trying to look as serious and threatening as we possibly could. ...

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Living Colour:Intimate UK Gig

Legendary, ground breaking funk-metal group Living Colour have today announced that they will be coming to the UK this March to play what is currently their only UK show...

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Simian Ghost cover Bowie [Free Download]

Swedish chillwave adepts Simian Ghost cover David Bowie. Free download....

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Schultz: White Blood Cells

It's a cliché but this one really is strictly for the hardcore and it's all the better for that. ...

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Nick Cave News: New Album, Intimate Tour.

Ahead of the latest 2013 release 'Push the Sky Away' Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will perform in very atmospheric venues in London, Paris, Berlin and LA....

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Volbeat Reveal Album Details

Danish metal band Volbeat has revealed the band is in the studio recording a new album for release in Spring, 2013....

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