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Did You Know the Common Ingredient that May Cause Alzheimers?

13/12/2017

Canola oil linked to worsened memory & learning ability in Alzheimer's ...

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Loitered Lens: Billy Bragg and Sean McGowan

13/12/2017

Activist singer-songwriters go head-to-head at Islington's Assembly Hall...

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Intense Self-Questioning or Going With Gut Feeling – What Makes Good Decisions?

12/12/2017

A good decision is not made in one go ...

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Distressed, Dirty, Disfunctional: Roma Zuckerman

12/12/2017

Dirty, dysfunctional minimalism confuses and fascinates simultaneously...

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Greenouse Gases, Atmospheric Methane – Cows Say ‘It Wasn’t Us!’

11/12/2017

Researchers establish long-sought source of ocean methane ...

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Openings: An Esoteric Short Story

11/12/2017

Voices from another dimension, or glitches in the wiring? Into the Esoterics of Music...

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Exclusive Colleges Make For More Inclusive Colleges. Whut?!

08/12/2017

Student-led protests for inclusive campuses are more likely at selective universities ...

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Do Mekong River Dams Need to Ruin Villages?

08/12/2017

Towards an algorithm for dam operators that will increase fish harvests and still generate power...

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Can Your Gut Microbiota Change, Regardless of Diet?

07/12/2017

Exercise changes gut microbial composition independent of diet, team reports ...

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New Puritans, Pearlclutchers and Inquisition by Tweet

07/12/2017

Puritans, religious zealots, and demagogues call for protection. Who protects us from them?...

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Glycine: Cheap, Readily Available Energy. But From Where?

06/12/2017

Researchers generate electricity from low-cost biomaterial ...

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Looking for a New Islington? Billy Bragg

06/12/2017

Billy Bragg's Bridges Not Walls tour rolls up to the proletarian boulevards of Islington...

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What’s For Afterbirth? The Benefits, or Not, of Placenta Consumption

05/12/2017

Research finds that consuming placentas has little to no effect on postpartum mood and maternal bonding...

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Triple Threat: Charlotte Branson [Interview]

05/12/2017

In conversation with pop's brave new hope for hopeful, brave pop...

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Adam, ‘Ad ‘Em: Science Asks What Makes Poetry Work

04/12/2017

What gives poetry its aesthetic appeal? ...

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Steven Rutter

From Me To You (Steven Rutter)

04/12/2017

How does a futuristic vision hold up when time passes? Very well, in Steven Rutter's case...

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Could Robotic Arms Become Thought-Controlled Limbs?

01/12/2017

Amputees can learn to control a robotic arm with their minds ...

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Nitin Sawhney

Live at Ronnie Scott’s: Nitin Sawhney

01/12/2017

Heavyweight vinyl, heavyweight venue, heavyweight talent...

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Will Humanity Succumb to Origami-Powered Soft Robots?

30/11/2017

Artificial muscles give soft robots superpowers ...

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Suitably Complex Brutality: Red Before Black (Cannibal Corpse)

30/11/2017

Focus, work ethic, rhythmic dexterity and lots of entrails...

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Electric Cars, Perpetual Motion and the Home Energy Mobius Strip

29/11/2017

Energy from electric cars could power our lives - but only if we improve the system ...

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The Many Uses of Dead Baby Whales

29/11/2017

Blue Planet II's weekly reminder that you are a sh*t...

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Nick, Find a Cave and Hide Your Face

28/11/2017

What could Po$$ibly make a $eemingly $en$itive arti$t $uch a$ Nick Cave Play I$rael?...

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New Methods for Avoiding Mortuary Mixups

27/11/2017

Serious mortuary errors could be reduced by applying common patient safety protocols ...

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Bloomberg New Contemporaries

27/11/2017

When the idea is to introduce new voices in contemporary art, it helps not to have the judging panel overshadow the artists...

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UK Subs

Loitered Lens: UK Subs and The Angry Agenda

24/11/2017

Grassroots garage punk brings a dose of righteous anger to The Flag...

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Is This a Bad Time? 24-hour Working

23/11/2017

More needs to be done to ensure 24-hour working is not the new norm ...

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Mr Big

Don’t Get Old, Get ‘Spiritual’! Mr Big [Live]

23/11/2017

You're never too old to kick out those jams. Mr Big lay into Shepherds Bush Empire...

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Alchemical Ponderings – Where Exactly Does Gold Come From?

22/11/2017

An international group of scientists reveals the mystery about the origin of gold ...

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The Space That Holds the Stars

22/11/2017

Professor Bobby Acharya on the Depth of Dimensions in Physics and Mathematics...

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