Archive – Page 191

Spare tyres on Space Stations. Exercise in Orbit

23/03/2012

Bet those bicep curls don't sting half as much in orbit. Exercise has benefits, even when it's done in space Astronauts have been taking part in short spaceflight missions since 1961. They...

‘Someone who has seen the world, and doesn’t much like it’ : An Academic in Africa.

23/03/2012

Trebuchet's Academic in Africa is amazed by the talents of Nigeria's ambulatory merchants and sedentary guardsmen. Plus nostalgic reflection on Wine Gums. There are a huge number of things...

Or are you just pleased to see me?

22/03/2012

Holding a gun makes you think others are too. Self-fulfilling prophesies have their uses. Actively imagining a successful outcome, as used by athletes preparing themselves for performance, has...

Skint and Demoralised: Live [Review]

22/03/2012

A Northern poet first and foremost, the wheels of Matt Abbott's vehicle go round and round. Trebuchet Magazine reports on Skint and Demoralised live. "If you reveal your secrets to the wind,...

Seeing around corners: MIT Develop the Ultimate Periscope

21/03/2012

A new imaging system could use opaque walls, doors or floors as 'mirrors' to gather information about scenes outside its line of sight The principle behind the system is essentially that of...

Love on a Pillow: [DVD]

21/03/2012

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this week is the curiously titled Love on a Pillow. (Its original title, Le Repos du Gerrier, or Warrior's Rest, made no sense either.) Also curious is the fact...

Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds Collaboration: ‘Stare’

20/03/2012

'We're like the Biggest Happiest Family Ever. Just the other day when I was over in Berlin, Das Bobby Raths (Erased Tapes Uber Boss) called me up and was like "Yo, Justino! what are you...

Trace Elements: iLove

20/03/2012

Neuroscience reveals the brain’s love pleasure chemicals are usually released for 1½ to 3 years max. In other words, being in love should last you roughly as long as your next mobile...

Art Improves Quality of Life in Stroke Victims

19/03/2012

New research just published by the European Society of Cardiology sheds some pretty interesting light on what looks, on first glance, like more scientists taking chunks of time, brainpower and...

Wilfred [Comedy Series]: Review

19/03/2012

Every now and then, a very silly concept will come along and sweep you off your feet, rendering you genuinely mournful when it's all over. A dog that thinks it's human, is fiercely possessive...

How messy are your globular clusters? Messier?

18/03/2012

A globular cluster, slightly bulging at the midriff. Named 'Messier 9' How quickly we become jaded to astronomical discovery. A globular cluster. Sounds a bit like something you find in your...

Emma Sywyj: Interiors

18/03/2012

'The work was born out of a photography project I started at university. 'At the time I was moving every year to a new accommodation, from halls to shared houses. This is the way when...

Eco Tourists Stress Wild Apes Out

17/03/2012

Sadly, eco tourism impacts too. And although the stressful effects of human contact with orangutan populations in Malaysia seem temporary, it's hard not to feel that no stress at all is a better...

Maya Jane Coles: DJ Kicks

17/03/2012

Whoop! Funky vibes all round are coming through my Grados. Sixteen years into its long reign as Mixmag's 'most important DJ-mix series ever', DJ Kicks continues to do what it has always...

Rejected in Love, Fruitflies Hit the Booze

16/03/2012

Knocked back in love, fruitflies start knocking back the shots. We've all done it. Researchers at University of California, San Fransisco studying the behaviour of drosophila fruit flies, have...

Elfin Saddle: Devastates

16/03/2012

I love it when music fascinates me. It's a rare, almost extinct occurrence nowadays, having had my ears sanded down and numbed by years of exposure to the ever-expanding, if not broadening,...

Last Chance to Save the NHS [Petition]

15/03/2012

From avaaz.org: Dear friends across Britain, We have just days to save the NHS. Opposition from doctors, nurses and patients has rocked the government. Our massive outcry now can persuade undecided...

Bill Drummond Presents: SURROUND: Damascus in London

15/03/2012

Bill Drummond - My Arab Spring - Part Two...

Trans Fatty Acid Anger: TFAs linked to aggression

14/03/2012

And you thought the worst thing about a Twinky bar was the yucky goo in the middle. We found that greater trans fatty acids were significantly associated with greater aggression Trans fatty acids,...

Anomie Belle: Interview

14/03/2012

Scheduled for release on April 2nd, Yppah's Eighty One is an album of glossy synth texture and crunching gravel percussion. Reflecting Yppah's move to southern California to be closer to the...

Wave Them Around Like You Just Don’t Care: Gesture-based commands for iTunes/Spotify

13/03/2012

Flutter- Controlling your music through hand gestures. An intuitive leap from www.flutter.io, bringing the wireless functionality of the XBox Kinect to the home computer. In this case, using the...

Bloodstock Festival: Lineup Announcements

13/03/2012

Bloodstock 2012 Festival: Lineup Announcements ...

Trace Elements: Mars & Venus, Mum or Dad?

13/03/2012

There are countries where little boys and little girls grow up to marry their mums and dads. The UK is one of them. It may sound wrong, very wrong, but it’s human nature. So that includes you....

Missing Person: Owain Roberts (The Reasoning)

12/03/2012

A more serious Trebuchet News story than usual today. An appeal for help or information concerning the disappearance of Owain Roberts. A police description of Owain follows, but a critical piece of...

Loitered Lens: Killing Joke

12/03/2012

Photos of Killing Joke at the Roundhouse in March 2012...

Rashid Rana: NAE at Hyson Green

12/03/2012

Rashid Rana’s: Everything Is Happening At Once ...

Alcohol Reduces Stroke Risk

11/03/2012

Hooray! Booze can lessen the risk of women getting strokes. Stop sniggering at the back. Not that kind of stroke. According to new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH),...

On Regaining a Spirit of Defiance: Part Two

11/03/2012

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. — T.S. Eliot The vehemence of the imagination motivates. It rages against oppression, as it, in equal...

Can You Hear This?

10/03/2012

In both animals and humans, vocal signals used for communication contain a wide array of different sounds that are determined by the vibrational frequencies of vocal cords. For example, the pitch of...