Risky Gambling or Shrewd Business? Does Your Brain Know the Difference?

Risky gambling choices are influenced by a single brain connection ...

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Loitered Lens: Edward Rogers

Photos of Edward Rogers at Islington Assembly Hall, on a night where Ray and Dave Davies shared the stage for a near Kinks reunion....

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The Hills are Alive with Laibach European Dates (Spring 2015)

European dates for Laibach's Sound of Music tour...

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Radioland: Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity revisited (Matthew Bourne/Franck Vigroux)

Radioland: A Kraftwerk re-werk that is well-executed, worthy but only partially successful....

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Smug-Shaming, or Why We Love to Hate Hippies

When you don't seek out ethical products, you denigrate those who do...

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When All is Dark, Have Faith in Night

By a poetic descent into the underworld, one is confronted with truths that only can be revealed in darkness....

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Mind of Blue. The Neuroscience of the Minor Key

Study of jazz pianists finds 'happy' and 'sad' music evoke different neural patterns...

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The Architecture of a Problem (Part 2) Psychoanalysis and Creativity

Malcolm Quinn expounds on the implications and applications of psychoanalysis and art...

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Did You Really Want to do That? Free Will Gets Computer Analysed

Berlin researchers test mechanisms involved in decision-making...

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Of Short Cinema and Semiotics: PoetryFilm

PoetryFilm: image, text and sound techniques in very experimental forms...

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Guaranteed New Year Weight-Loss, Effortlessly

Astronomers find new way to measure the pull of gravity at the surface of distant stars...

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Music turned septic. Kalash Tirich Mir (German Army)

The faltering synth drones and brittle percussion of Kalash Tirich Mir seem like a terribly appropriate soundtrack to our cultural stalemate...

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GERROFFF MOI LAAAANDD! Prehistoric Farmers Weren’t As Important as We Thought

New research shows same growth rate for farming and non-farming prehistoric people ...

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Loitered Lens: Black Star Riders (The Scala)

Hard rock riffage at the London stop of the Black Star Riders Killer Instinct tour. Photos...

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Machine Intelligence Can Save the Planet. But do we trust it (not to kill us)?

Can human-machine superintelligence can solve the world's direst problems?...

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Of the flesh and its many variations (Oliver Jones)

Photorealistic works underscoring the impact that today’s ceaseless stream of beauty-obsessed media can impart...

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Weed or Wine – What’s Your Poison?

No easy answers in UW study of legal marijuana's impact on alcohol use ...

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War, Government, and Surveillance (Killing Joke, live at the Roundhouse)

Timely musings on Killing Joke at the Roundhouse, London. UK. November 6th 2015 ...

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A Bounteous New Year to All (but save it ’til you’re hungry)

Let hunger be your guide. Eating when we are not hungry is bad for our health...

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Please Come Home! Lonely Robot at The Scala

As the last significant gig in progressive rock's calendar, Lonely Robot at The Scala made a great finale to the year. ...

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Can YOU Tell if You’re Facebook Dependent?

You might have a Facebook dependency. But that's not necessarily a bad thing...

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Loitered Lens: The Amorettes

The Amorettes are the real deal, delivering pure raw pussy powered rock and roll....

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Cloudy Clouds and Cloudier Clouds. Where’s the Powder At?

Scientists discover that salty sea spray affects clouds ...

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Star Wars and the Escapism of the Mindless

What will a future Democratic president's agenda will entail? Hint: Take note of which Republican declarations Democratic partisans are fuming in self-righteous outrage against now....

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Harbingers of Failure. Are You The Eternal Betamax?

Harbingers of failure have the unusual property that they keep on buying products that are taken from the shelves...

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The Architecture of a Problem (Psychoanalysis and Creative Practice)

Professor Malcolm Quinn shares his thoughts on psychoanalytic approaches in art and design....

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Klever Kitty! Scientists Isolate the Antidepressant Component of Ketamine

Team IDs brain circuit involved in party drug's antidepressant effect ...

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HMV 363 instore with Killing Joke

Review and pictures of Killing Joke Oct 23rd at the HMV 363. ...

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Heretic! Religion and Politics, Causing Mayhem for 2000 Years

Scientists find: Religion and politics led to social tension and conflict, then and now ...

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Loitered Lens: Simo

Photos of Simo at St Moritz Club London 23.11.15...

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