Author: Trebuchet Magazine

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

‘Experts’: lower fat diets reduce weight and BMI

23/12/2012

Yeah yeah yeah: Reducing overall fat in the typical diet can lead to small reductions in body weight in adults that could be highly significant on a population-wide scale. ...

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Synthetic fuel could eliminate US need for crude oil

22/12/2012

The United States could eliminate the need for crude oil by using a combination of coal, natural gas and non-food crops to make synthetic fuel, a team of Princeton researchers has found....

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The many maps of the brain

21/12/2012

Your brain has at least four different senses of location – and perhaps as many as 10....

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Magnetic fish point to Santa

20/12/2012

Christmas carp at Czech markets suggest fish geomagnetic sensing capabilities...

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Extraverted gorillas enjoy longer lives

19/12/2012

Gorillas with an extravert personality live longer than their more introverted peers, a study suggests....

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Pokemon & face-recognition processes

18/12/2012

As human beings, we have a highly sensitive and efficient cognitive and neural mechanism for recognizing faces. Pokemon provides useful tools for facial recognition. ...

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Trapped in a Raid: Psychology and World of Warcraft

17/12/2012

The sense of immersion in role-play and computer games is sometimes viewed as dangerous, as players' strong perceptions of fictional worlds are assumed to make them lose contact with reality. ...

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Hanging Offence: Debut Contemporary

17/12/2012

Opportunities are immense, they are global and with a little bit more planning and strategizing, a bit more knowledge, information and know-how when it comes down to how to navigate the art system,...

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Advice for bag-in-box wine drinkers: Keep it cool

16/12/2012

Advice for bag-in-box wine drinkers: Keep it cool. Published in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, it emphasizes the importance of storing these popular, economical vintages at cool...

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Alzheimer’s: Potential Breakthrough

15/12/2012

Despite researchers' best efforts, no drug exists that can stop the onslaught of Alzheimer's disease. Review offers renewed optimism in fight against fatal neurodegenerative disease...

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Smoking may worsen hangover after heavy drinking

14/12/2012

WARNING: People who like to smoke when they drink may be at greater risk of suffering a hangover the next morning. ...

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The Poor: Baby Daddy’s Gone Die

13/12/2012

Watch em die: Gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor set to increase over next 10 years. Study show the economics plays an important role in life expectancy even in countries with Socialised...

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Green Bean Galaxy

New Galaxy Found! and it glows green…

13/12/2012

Many galaxies have a giant black hole at their centre that causes the gas around it to glow. However, in the case of green bean galaxies, the entire galaxy is glowing, not just the centre....

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Zombie Pandemic: Academics promote strategic plan

12/12/2012

About 60% of infectious diseases are caused by viruses, bacteria and other pathogens that make the jump to humans from other species. How do we prevent society's inevitable entropy. ...

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Tea As Irresponsible as whiskey?

11/12/2012

Put the kettle on? When tea drinkers were viewed as irresponsible as whiskey drinkers....

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The Christmas spirit

10/12/2012

As the nights draw in and the temperature begins to drop, many of us will be thinking of ways to warm up on the dark winter nights. However, few would think that remembering days gone by would be an...

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Hanging Offence: Breese Little

10/12/2012

We work on the premise that the gallery should always operate with increasing momentum, growing in step with the careers and aims of the artists we work with...

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When you lie, your nose temperature raises

09/12/2012

Researchers confirm the 'Pinocchio Effect': When you lie, your nose temperature raises. This study demonstrates that body temperature in the orbital muscle –placed in the inner corner of the eye-...

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Grief is not a disease, but cancer is — what about erectile dysfunction?

08/12/2012

People are unanimous that wrinkles, grief and homosexuality are not diseases. What about drug addiction or absence of sexual desire? Or erectile dysfunction, infertility or obesity?...

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Move Em Out

07/12/2012

Emigration of children to urban areas can protect parents against depression...

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When Hobgoblin met Bloodstock

07/12/2012

Hobgoblin is excited to unveil its exciting new partnership with Bloodstock Open Air Festival. The collaboration sees both parties teaming up to bring METAL 2 THE MASSES at Bloodstock 2013, offering...

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Fish glow green when processing glucose

05/12/2012

Glowing fish shed light on metabolism. A tiny, translucent zebrafish that glows green when its liver makes glucose has helped an international team of researchers identify a compound that regulates...

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Origin of intelligence and mental illness linked to ancient genetic accident

04/12/2012

Scientists have discovered for the first time how humans – and other mammals – have evolved to have intelligence...

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Tomahawk! Patton and Co release new Video: Stone Letter

03/12/2012

Tomahawk's video for "Stone Letter" the first single from their forthcoming album Oddfellows, is here! ...

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Hanging Offence: TJ Boulting Gallery

03/12/2012

Controversial ideas are often the more important and interesting ones. But no, controversy is a byproduct, not the end point. ...

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Homicide Spreads like Germs

02/12/2012

"By using the principles of infectious disease control, we may be able to predict the spread of homicide and reduce the incidence of this crime,...

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Don’t Sweat, Shake

01/12/2012

Mild vibrations may provide some of the same benefits to obese people as exercise ...

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Scott Kelly, Live

29/11/2012

Bringing some much-needed light to London's Black Heart next week, Kelly will play songs from both of his most recent albums: Songs of Townes Van Zandt and The Forgiven Ghost in Me....

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Invisibility: Somebody Else’s Problem

28/11/2012

A new UCLA psychology study shows that people often do not recall things they have seen — or at least walked by — hundreds of times....

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Grapefruit Kills

27/11/2012

'Adverse effects include sudden death, acute kidney failure, respiratory failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, bone marrow suppression' Headsup on grapefruit/prescription drug combinations....

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