Archive - Trebuchet

Can Email Responses Predict You’re Personality? You Bet.

03/04/2016

Personality influences how one reacts to email errors ...

Loitered Lens: The Quireboys (Islington Academy, 2016)

03/04/2016

A four-headed pile-up of hard rock in Islington saw The Quireboys come out tops. Photos...

Creative Mind-Wandering or Disastrous Zone-Out, Which do You Do?

02/04/2016

Whether your mind-wandering is intentional or accidental makes a difference to how useful it is...

Smoke, Mirrors, and a Dishonest Lexicon.

02/04/2016

Even the words we use are skewed to obfuscate truth and maintain elites. What we call 'terrorism' could also be termed 'effect'. Essay...

What’s the Point of Men? The Twofold Cost of Sex

01/04/2016

The existence of males is of enormous cost to a species, so why does nature tolerate them?...

The Great Gig Under the Pavement (Dave Kerzner/District 97)

01/04/2016

Different but complementary, the progressive rock of Dave Kerzner and District 97 light up Soho's Borderline...

No Fracking Wonder. Earthquakes linked to Hydraulic Fracturing

31/03/2016

Fracking - not wastewater disposal - linked to most induced earthquakes in Western Canada ...

(Why) Nothing Ever Happens, Nothing Happens at All

31/03/2016

Possessions, Suffering, Charity. A trinity to stultify a population and assuage the morality of the comfortable pragmatists....

No Nookie for the Picky: How Sexual Perfectionism Puts Women Off

30/03/2016

When women feel their partner demands perfection, sex life suffers ...

Rearrange the Deck Chairs and PLAY ON! Titanic Mass (Dynazty)

30/03/2016

Dynazty's technically-profuse Melodic Scandinavian Metal album is as huge as you'd expect. It even has a power ballad....

Technoboffins Rejoice! Phone-based laser rangefinder works outdoors

29/03/2016

Depth sensor built from off-the-shelf parts filters out ambient infrared light...

‘More alike than we are different’. noeverything I AM (Interview)

29/03/2016

Their music blends innovative electronics, pop-influenced sweetness, and spiritual elements. Codex Europa interviews noeverything....

How to Make Friends, Influence People, and Get Given Fish: Antarctic Birds Learn to Recognize Humans

28/03/2016

How brown skuas, which evolved and lived in human-free habitats, recognized individual humans just after 3 or 4 visits...

Hanging Offence: Jo Melvin (Director of the Estate of Barry Flanagan)

28/03/2016

Dr Jo Melvin, Director of The Estate of Barry Flanagan expounds on curation, controversy and the responsibilities of maintaining an artist's legacy....

Can Your Name Shorten Your Life? Um…Kinda.

27/03/2016

What's in a name? In some cases, longer life ...

Loitered Lens: Jesus and Mary Chain (Forum, 2016)

27/03/2016

Photos of the Jesus and Mary Chain live at Kentish Town Forum, March 11 2016...

The Wince Test. How to Tell if You Suffer From Empathic Pain

26/03/2016

Emotions consist of general components that are also elicited by similar impressions and specific components...

Celebrating the A&M Years with Monster Magnet

26/03/2016

Reviving material from their years with A&M, Monster Magnet's only UK show of 2016...

Too Much, Too Soon. How High Intensity Training Could Hurt You

25/03/2016

Warning: High-intensity training could hurt you if you're not an athlete ...

Playing Out Desire’s Magic Theatre (Purson)

25/03/2016

Psych-rockers Purson treat the 100 Club to some oldies, as well as new material from their Desire's Magic Theatre album...

Peaty Pinots and Gamay in the Gloaming. Global Warming Moves Wine Regions North

24/03/2016

Global warming pushes wines into uncharted terroir ...

Hillary’s Hair-Trigger Partisans Versus Trump’s Smalltown Nostalgists. A Zero Sum Game

24/03/2016

In a battle between Trump and Clinton, should it come to that, no-one wins. Essay...

Useless Old Holiday Photos? Not quite. Tourist Snaps Show a Rise in Seabirds

23/03/2016

Old tourist photos show a rise in seabirds over the last century ...

Make Better Music 81: Monetizing Music

23/03/2016

Doing it for the love will only last so long. What happens when you have to eat? How to make better music, and make money doing so....

The 1-400 by Terry Kerby, Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory University of Hawai'i620

Scuttled, Sunk and, er, Mislaid. The Wreck of the 1-400 Mega-Submarine

22/03/2016

Bronze bell recovered from World War II aircraft-carrying submarine off Oahu coast ...

Music rooted in a landscape, yet unapologetically synthetic. (Avalon Emmerson)

22/03/2016

Avalon Emmerson musically evokes her home state, without reducing it to Marlboro man cliches...

A Computational Tool to Tame Golf’s SCARIEST Drive

21/03/2016

Computer simulations may help golfers tame the sport's 'scariest 155 yards' ...

Caliban’s Rage at the Blank Touchscreen: On Becoming a 21st Century Savage

21/03/2016

The acceleration of technology beyond the layman's ken makes us little more than blissfully ignorant slaves - should we not be noble savages instead? ...