Archive - Trebuchet

Zap Those Clouds Away: Smart Windows Get Cheaper

24/01/2016

Soft colour composites may offer a cheaper alternative to smart windows. MIT researcher explains how. ...

Loitered Lens: Three Days Grace

24/01/2016

Photos of Three Days Grace kicking off their European tour at The Forum, Kentish Town, January 15th 2016...

Fry, not Boil, for a Healthier Diet. WHUT?!

23/01/2016

Deep-fried sprouts, anyone? Vegetables fried with olive oil have more healthy properties than boiled ones ...

Barbican Babel (Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective, live)

23/01/2016

Bemusement ensues at the London Jazz Festival, as jazz legend Terence Blanchard gets lost in the E-Collective. ...

Real Life or Social Media – How Many Friends is Too Many?

22/01/2016

Are you really my friend? Social media isn't the same as real life, but a new study suggests the same skills apply. How does it all work?...

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (Film)

22/01/2016

The story that proved we CAN fight Big Pharma, Attacking the Devil is a rallying cry to the spirit of truth...

30 Years, Still Undead. The Mission, Tour Details

21/01/2016

Thirty years after their first gig, The Mission bring their glorious goth rock back on tour. Dates and Details...

Osiris is a Black Star (David Bowie and the Occult)

21/01/2016

Bowie, Elvis, Death & the Egyptian Underworld...

Why Spiderman Can’t Climb Walls

20/01/2016

There is a size limit to sticky footpads as an evolutionary solution to climbing...

Cuddly Dictators and Visible Boredom: Lost in Karastan

20/01/2016

Lost in Karastan is a slightly infuriating missed opportunity, albeit with some charm...

Eat Your Way to Better Sleep

19/01/2016

Diet-based recommendations might be used to improve sleep in those with poor sleep quality...

Solid musicianship rather wasted: Resurrection Kings

19/01/2016

Resurrection Kings' Chas West has a great old-school hard rock voice of the sort you don't hear enough of, and sounds as though he'd excel... given stronger material...

Dark Devotion: Michael Gira Solo Tour

18/01/2016

Michael Gira London performance at the Barbican on 30 March 2016, followed by European tour...

The Movements of the Idiot: Are We All Ironic Now? (Part Two)

18/01/2016

Handling irony is like handling plutonium: you must be careful that the radiation doesn’t kill you, or at least rob you of the ability to make meanings and give force to ideas...

Whipworm, Roundworm, Parasites. What did the Romans ever do for us?

17/01/2016

Roman toilets gave no clear health benefit, and Romanization actually spread parasites ...

Loitered Lens: Killing Joke, BBC Maida Vale

17/01/2016

Photos of Killing Joke Live at BBC Maida Vale 2015 ...

What’s 570 billion times brighter than our sun? The Millisecond Magnetar

16/01/2016

Astronomers study what may be the most powerful supernova ever seen...

David Bowie, Cuts, and Why ‘Culture’ is becoming Another Planet

16/01/2016

Bowie's mere presence personified the power and relevance of a cultured society that appreciated and allowed him to emerge and for the rest of us to reach for those rewarding stars as well...

Loitered Lens: The Damned (O2 Islington)

15/01/2016

The Damned, Islington Academy, December 2015...

We get so much respect, but we get jealously too (Thundermother)

15/01/2016

Swedish accadacca influenced rockers Thundermother ride the rock lightning....

Ink Levels Low? Fill it up with Rust! 3D Printing Advances

14/01/2016

New rapid method expands the types of metals, alloys, and architectures that can be additively manufactured...

When Society Starts to Eat Itself: Dystopia (Megadeth)

14/01/2016

Lyrics decrying the state of today's society delivered with a backdrop of technically precise and relentless thrash, Mustaine and his boys prove that there is still life in the Megadeth machine. ...

Sweat it Out. Cracking Lower Back Pain

13/01/2016

Exercise associated with prevention of low back pain ...

Make Better Music 80: The Art of Remixing (Part Two)

13/01/2016

Be careful to maintain the integrity of the original piece, while at all times striving to produce something new. ...

But How Do You Get the Lid Off? Mesoglue Revolutionises Nano-Stickiness

12/01/2016

A glue that binds metal to metal to glass to you-name-it, sets at room temperature, and requires little pressure to seal...

All Heroes Must Fall. Farewell to a Space Oddity (David Bowie)

12/01/2016

Bowie drew from the symbols and semiotics of myth, contemporising archetypes which have been crucial to humanity's concept of itself since time unrecorded....