Declining Testosterone is Not Natural

25/06/2012

'"Also, regular sexual activity tends to increase testosterone," he explained.' An interesting interpretation of the realities of marriage there from Gary Wittert MD (professor of...

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Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill signing

25/06/2012

GOSH IT’S A HIPPY Sightings of the world’s best known comic writer are rarer than hen’s teeth these days. Gosh were honoured by his presence on a cloudy Saturday afternoon, seated...

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Work starts on fossil fuel free cargo ship

24/06/2012

Arr Harr! Swab the decks you lazy lubbers! Hoist the mainbrace, keelhaul the yardarm and pack the bilges with legal-under-maritime-law Filipino crewmen working for slave wages. Working sail is coming...

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In the Name of My Father

24/06/2012

My parents modest, single-level, brick home stands on property that was once part of a sprawling estate owned by the Candler family, Atlanta’s Coca-Cola patricians. Built during the post-war,...

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Good parenting more beneficial than money

23/06/2012

The relief that this news piece prompts in a sizeable number of male readers will be tangible from the moon. Sons of fathers with high incomes tend to end up with higher than average incomes...

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Where Do We Go Now? [Film]

23/06/2012

Set in a remote, mountainside Lebanese village, where the church and the mosque stand side by side, you’d expect Where Do We Go Now? to be a political affair. Particularly when you consider the...

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Kitsune Soleil Mix

22/06/2012

Much in the same vein as the earnest would-be intellectual stilting the atmosphere at an after hours house party, Intelligent Dance Music (for all its worthy pseudo philosophic concept and eagerness...

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Sex and Love: The Brain Knows the Difference

21/06/2012

It seems sad but significant, that the research methodology involved used erotic pictures to stimulate sexual desire, but a picture of the subject's 'significant other' to provoke...

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Wave Gotik Treffen [Festival Review (part 1)]

21/06/2012

How do you review an event that takes place over four days in multiple venues, includes numerous styles of dark music and if done properly takes the rest of the month or more to recover from? To...

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Pirate Bay Evades BT Blocks within Minutes

20/06/2012

The obligation to block access to the Pirate Bay was volubly resisted by BT and many of the communications group's UK competitors....

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La Sera [Live Review]

20/06/2012

Yes, they were all very competent musicians. Yes, her voice was crystal clear and soared above the music very nicely indeed . It was easily to imagine some of these songs being used in some sequences...

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Methane Levels Threaten Florida

19/06/2012

Florida's going to drown, and although the study that suggests it is focussed on melting icecaps, it's pretty obvious that all those noxious methane cowfarts have something to do with it. Is...

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Baddies: Camden Barfly

19/06/2012

Ahh, The Barfly, Camden. A little place dear to my heart. The scene of many a crime, mass alcohol consumption and general shenanigans. It’s compact, the lighting is bad but the sound is good,...

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FOUNDation builds houses from skips

18/06/2012

'Dumpsterhouses', a concept developed by Utrecht-based radical recyclers Foundation take the instantly recognisable structure of the refuse skip, and uses it as the basis to create small...

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Hotel Room Microbes Like TV Too

18/06/2012

Well at least it shows that people in hotels wash their hands after using the toilet. It comes as something of a surprise that in a study on microbial levels in hotel rooms, that bathroom door...

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Panic Room: Skin

18/06/2012

Over the past four years, Welsh rock band Panic Room have established a strong reputation both on record and as a live band. Their dynamic mix of rock, pop, metal, folk and jazz manages to combine...

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Bedwyr Williams bound for Venice Bienniale

17/06/2012

Bedwyr Williams in a project jointly curated by Mostyn and Oriel Davies and supported by the Arts Council of Wales will be the artist to represent Wales at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013 International...

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Loitered Lens: The Damned

17/06/2012

Founding members of The Damned, Brian James & Rat Scabies, performed the classic first Damned album Damned Damned Damned in its entirety...

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A Scientific Model to Predict Movie Flops

16/06/2012

A group of Japanese scientists have surprised themselves by being able to predict the success or failure of blockbuster movies at the box office using a set of mathematical models. The researchers...

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When in doubt, blame the Proles

16/06/2012

'Our political class don’t have capacity to do anything else but blame increasing numbers of people, to avoid discussing a politics they didn’t realise they were charged with...

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Bella Union sign The Flaming Lips

15/06/2012

Perhaps a little bit of shutting the stable doors after the horse has bolted, seeing as the news was all over Twitter a couple of days ago, but indie label Bella Union announce today that they have...

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Syd Arthur : On and On

15/06/2012

Syd Arthur wear their Pink Floyd influences openly. There’s the Syd Barret reference in their name, as well as a typographical similarity between the A for Arthur on their album cover and the...

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How Elvis Presley Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

14/06/2012

The non-rational interactions of art upon flesh prompt another study into Elvis Presley's music. Or so goes the headline. Reading through the test results, it seems that heavy metal has as...

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The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls [Live]

14/06/2012

It is with sadness that I must report the departure of The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls. A band I had the pleasure of bearing witness to just this April 2012. The band decided it is the right time...

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UK art trade campaign to stop royalties for artists

13/06/2012

Anyone polluting the comments thread on this story with anecdotal observations along the lines of : 'I'm a plumber, why don't I get a royalty on work I did ten years ago?' can take...

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The Victorian English Gentlemens Club + Fever Fever : Live

13/06/2012

'Every review calls us a "Norwich three-piece"…. No, "FEMALE-FRONTED Norwich three-piece"….' Fever Fever bemoan halfway through their set. And I guess this...

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The Overcoat : Pleasance Theatre

12/06/2012

The Overcoat is a Finnish Play, at the Pleasance Theatre in London, produced by the Scottish theatre company ACE. It was performed at Edinburgh Festival last year and is part of a project to bring...

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Nuclear Fusion is Go

11/06/2012

Nuclear Fusion. A goal that has been with us for decades, but always elusive. If it happens, it will change everything. If it doesn't, at least we learned what a torus looks like. Mechanical,...

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Pandamonium : Signal Gallery

11/06/2012

The rather cheeky Signal Gallery has challenged all of us, from the panda lovers to the miserable cynics, to see this exhibition and remain with our hearts unmelted. They believe it can’t be...

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King Mob Rock Cruise

10/06/2012

When my band King Mob was invited to play on a ‘rock cruise’ I had no idea what to expect. We were collected from Stockholm airport at 4pm local time and bussed to the White Ship, a great...

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