Casting Off: Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain

Charting absence, memory, and loss through the familiar, reimagined...

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Repairing the Rainforest – It Works!

Restored forest now shelters dozens of endangered species ...

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The real cost of music?

Suffering for your art is common practice, but is it worth dying for?...

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Why You Definitely Don’t Want to Eat Apricot Stones

Man develops cyanide poisoning from apricot kernel extract ...

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Portraits: Zia Mohiuddin Dagar and Stephen O’Malley

Sunn O))) guitarist and sonic adventurer Stephen O'Malley on his latest find: Dhrupad Music...

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How We Push Clever Kids to Cheat

Kids praised for being smart are more likely to cheat, new studies find ...

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Opportunity Can’t Be Looted

Nobody loves a looter, but industrial-scale corruption is just fine...

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Will to Power (Arch Enemy)

Will to Power packs a furious punch, but have Arch Enemy released one of the metal Albums of the Year?...

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Eva Gold: A Bead of Sweat, Stilled

Simple yet loaded interventions at 3 Ada Road...

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If You Like it (Intact) Better Put a Ring on It: Frailty and Older Men

Frailty and older men: Study identifies factors that speed/slow progression ...

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Loitered Lens: Presence Autochtone 2017

Scenes from stage and Street at Montreal's Presence Autochtone festival...

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Nature Imagery Soothes Prisoners

Nature images, shown to people deprived of access to nature, can reduce tension and help defuse anger...

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Culling Yet More ‘Savages’: North Korea in Context

If you wish to inflict genocide on a people, it's OK as long as you term them 'savages'...

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Adam Lee: This Earthen Tent

Experiential visions that are both magical and foreboding, familiar and strange...

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Cabin Fever? How to Avoid Catching Bugs on Planes

New boarding procedures and smaller cabin size may limit infection on planes ...

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To Die For? Iranian Metallers Heterochrome Offer Melancholia Against All Odds

Progressive metal from Iran. Now that's extreme....

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Why Is Yawning Contagious?

Yawning - why is it so contagious and why should it matter? ...

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Rocking the World: Présence Autochtone 2017 (Part Two)

Celebrating the deep rumble of First Nation culture in Montreal...

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How Much Does Your Mind Wander at the Wheel?

Mind wandering is common during driving ...

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Mindkult, No Funeral and Livid (Reviews)

Morbid, Miserable and Doomy as a 1990s first-person Shoot 'em Up. ...

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First Glimpse of Water on Trappist-1 Planet Group

Hubble delivers first hints of possible water content of TRAPPIST-1 planets ...

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Pact Infernal on Stroboscopic Artefacts (Monad XXV)

Architectural depth and space, dark sonics, incantatory beats - Stroboscopic Artefacts produce the goods once more...

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Feel-Good Food: Eating Triggers Endorphins

Eating triggers endorphin release in the brain...

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Graveyard of Empires: Afghanistan Prepares its Killing Grounds… Again

There is no draining the swamp of the collective mind, for the swamp and citizenry are one. ...

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Drink Coffee, Live Longer

Higher coffee consumption associated with lower risk of death ...

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Monira Al Qadiri: The Craft

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Gut Instinct Doesn’t Wither: Old’uns Are As Streetsmart as Da Yoof

80-year-olds as street-savvy as 18-year-olds ...

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What Does Dignity Taste Of? Présence Autochtone 2017

As cultural expressions, food sit proudly alongside painting at Presence Autochtone...

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Dance Away the Dementia: How Dance Maintains Brain Function

Dancing can reverse the signs of aging in the brain ...

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