Author: Trebuchet Magazine

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

Turner Prize 2013 Shortlist Announced

Turner prize shortlist...

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Guapo – to play again!

Guapo and Stars in Battledress to play Thursday 25 April @ Corsica Studios, London. Tickets here. ...

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Relative Rudeness : Cultural Customer Service Pitfalls

Research shows that culture plays a significant role in how frontline workers deal with customer rudeness and abuse...

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Final Line-Up Cambridge Folk Festival 2013

After last years amazing festival - we can now announce the final line up for the Cambridge Folk Festival 2013. ...

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About Trebuchet

Trebuchet’s writers are university lecturers, record label owners, gallery curators, professional journalists, avid readers and you....

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Weblink Google and Cancer

The same sort of mathematical model used to predict which websites people are most apt to visit is now showing promise in helping map how lung cancer spreads in the human body...

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TV = Antisocial behaviours

Five year-olds who watch TV for three or more hours a day are increasingly likely to develop antisocial behaviours...

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Hanging Offence : Charlie Dutton Gallery

'communications between gallerists, artists and the viewers can become misunderstood: rudeness, anxieties and insecurities are a lethal cocktail'...

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Emergency Preparation [Zombie watch]

Well designed and planned exercises are essential to ensure that the UK can respond effectively to emergencies of all kinds says emergency based research...

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Hot Memory, Cold Sore

The virus that causes cold sore s, along with other viral or bacterial infections, may be associated with cognitive problems...

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Swans Review : Mouth to Mouth

Review of Mouth to Mouth Festival. Curated by Swans leader Michael Gira news of Mouth to Mouth bolstered expectations of an loud night of outsider noise and insider musical elitism. ...

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Nanowire Solar Cells

A single nanowire can concentrate the sunlight up to 15 times of the normal sun light intensity increasing the potential for highly efficient solar cells....

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Where’s Maggie?

Never stop looking, never stop looking... for Maggie. Trebuchet visits Margaret Thatcher's funeral...

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Down Syndrome Breakthrough

Sanford-Burnham researchers discover that the extra chromosome inherited in Down syndrome impairs learning and memory because it leads to low levels of SNX27 protein in the brain...

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Thatcher in DegreeArt

Will her image become a universal iconograph? And if it does, what exactly will it signify?...

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Men and women get sick in different ways

A new study highlights evidence for considerable differences between the sexes in five domains – cardiovascular disease, cancer, liver diseases, osteoporosis, and pharmacology....

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Sports fandom and forgiveness

Celebrity confessions : Deep in Sports fandom do we really believe that anyone believes them anymore? ...

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Sexuality and Dementia

Managing the delicate issue of sexual expression amongst people with dementia. Sexuality and Dementia study produced by Griffith University....

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Hanging Offence : Ruth Garde

'I'm not sure there is such a thing as an artistic controversy, but there have certainly been many controversies surrounding art' Ruth Garde, curator, talks to Trebuchet about Michaelangelo, Bernini...

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Supercomputer Decodes the Noisey Cosmos

Noisey Cosmos | scientists from the international Planck collaboration have made the closest reading yet of the most ancient story in our universe: the cosmic microwave background...

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Lyme Disease Considered Least Metal

Scientists have confirmed that the pathogen that causes Lyme Disease —unlike any other known organism—can exist without iron, a metal that all other life needs to make proteins and enzymes....

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GV Art and Mind Symposium

GV Art, in partnership with Art and Mind, announce the attendance of Charles Ferneyhough at the GV Art and Mind Symposium 16 on May 7th....

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UK Drug Policy Not Scientific

UKdrug policy : Government decision to promote abstinence for drug users 'is about saving money not science' ...

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Olive Oil : Superfood

Extra virgin olive oil helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) yet another health benefit of this amazing product...

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Family dinners nourish good mental health

Benefits of family meals to good mental health examined in a large community sample of adolescents....

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Career Options for Geek Chicks

Women may be less likely to pursue careers in science and math because they have more career options...

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Hanging Offence : Erarta Galleries

'although much of the popular appeal of contemporary art is in its ability to provoke, we need to be mindful of the media, politicians and governments in relation to the arts' Erarta Galleries' Beth...

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Good news for Nice People

Conscientious, nice people are more likely to have higher grade point averages, according to new research from psychologists at Rice University....

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180,000 dead by Sodas

Sugar-sweetened sodas, sports drinks and fruit drinks may be associated with about 180,000 deaths around the world each year...

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Robert Louis Jefferson

In the late 19th century Journalist and Epic Cyclist Robert Louis Jefferson made some spectacular cycles from London to the Constantinople, Khiva and beyond....

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