Author: Trebuchet Magazine

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

Alt-Fest Wants to Hear Your Voice

Alt-Fest will feature five live music stages, presenting crucial Goth, Metal and Industrial acts, plus the ‘best-of-the-next’ on a newcomers stage, and the absolute ‘best-of-the-best’ on a...

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Dancing Swedish Girls are Happier

Young girls can dance their way to better mental health. Symptoms like depression, stress, fatigue, and headaches are alleviated with regular dancing....

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Smart Sellotape

Scotch tape, a versatile household staple and a mainstay of holiday gift-wrapping, may have a new scientific application as a shape-changing "smart material."...

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Sam Willis Remixed by Can member [Listen]

Sam Willis follows up his Winterval album with a remix of 'Hello Wendy' by Drums Off Chaos - a percussion project featuring Can's Jaki Liebezeit and drummer Jens Uwe Beyer....

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Do Make Say Think. Live

Constellation Records' staunchest post-rock allies Do Make Say Think open the label's 15th anniversary celebrations with a 27th November performance of their classic second album Goodbye Enemy...

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Gary Numan UK Tour Dates

These concerts will feature brand new songs from the forthcoming 'SPLINTER’ album (due in 2013), plus new versions of tracks from 2011's ‘DEAD SON RISING’ album, which are currently being worked...

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Petition: For An Accountable BBC

The recruitment of the BBC's next Director General must be a process in which the license-payer has influence...

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Peter Gabriel Plays So

The album upon which 'Red Rain', Don't Give Up' and the ubiquitous 'Sledgehammer' featured will be played in its entirety, along with a showcase of tracks spanning the artist's career...

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Naive Fish Make Easy Prey

Big fish that have grown up in marine reserves don't seem to know enough to avoid fishers armed with spear guns waiting outside the reserve....

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Mayan Prophesy Fail

'soil loss could eventually have undercut the Maya's ability to grow food'. Ancient Mayans may have foretold our civilisation's doom, but they failed to foresee their own....

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Secret Garden Party reveals 2013 Theme

This year the Secret Garden will be asking all Gardeners to explore their affinity to the supernatural, the inexplicable and the irrational… to indulge the tussle between the left brain's sober...

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[Listen] Jessie Ware Remixes

Remixes of Jessie Ware's 'No To Love' available to stream...

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Crunching Genital Injury Stats

Women saw a five-fold increase in genital injuries between 2002 and 2008, and show no signs of slowing....

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Dream Trippin’

What you dream reveals what you are. ...

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Syd Arthur: Dorothy [Stream]

A scruffy bunch of Canterbury hair-farmers they may be, but Syd Arthur certainly nailed that awful hopelessness of pavement cafes and flimsy sundresses giving way to the slate-grey gloom of November....

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A Brave New World of Sugar and Caffeine

Sugar mouthwash makes you more motivated, caffeine improves your cognitive function, and fermented-sugar ethanol will convert the schoolrun into an environmentally friendly activity, wafting the...

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Mitch Lucker Memorial Fund

The total amount of the collected money will go straight to the educational fund of Lucker's five-year-old daughter, Kenadee....

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Better Beats

Cleared samples, loops, breaks and beats. Tons of them. Played by a master, Keith LeBlanc. One single dollar charge....

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Drunken Tweets Not Confined to Humans

'all the dead birds had become intoxicated on fermented berries, and that some of the injuries they had sustained were the result of mid-air collisions'. Drunken Birds....

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Sneaky Copulation for shy Macaques

'both males and females can harass copulating partners' Rude monkeys have to resort to 'sneaky copulation' to avoid being interrupted....

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RIP: Mitch Lucker (Suicide Silence) 1984-2012

RIP: Mitch Lucker 1984-2012 - Trebuchet remembers...

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Timbre! Another Sense Falls to the Machines

Timbre is a hard-to-quantify concept loosely defined as everything in music that isn't duration, loudness or pitch. Now machines can detect it....

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Mean Sweets: Children only generous when observed

The child's equivalent of chucking a rusty old washer into a collection box, children are apt to be more generous when they know their actions are being observed....

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Sandy: Satellite View

A satellite view of Hurricane Sandy's landfall on the US coast...

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Hanging Offence: Little Black Gallery

'The UK is far behind the USA and France in the photography market and needs to catch up.' ...

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Beyond Space and Time: New Physics

"Our result gives weight to the idea that quantum correlations somehow arise from outside spacetime, in the sense that no story in space and time can describe them,"...

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Gun restrictions save lives

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapn a dramatic denouement of the inpenetrable mysteries of the bleedin’ obvious, US researchers figure out that restricting...

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Robots as Careworkers

Adults said they are willing to use a robot for reminders to take medicine, but they are more comfortable if a person helps them decide which medication to take. ...

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Size Doesn’t Matter (Shape Does)

'the sexual organs change most rapidly of all morphological features during evolution', the wonders of science bring us new research on the sexual organs of beetles. Hooray!...

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Hanging Offence: Wapping Project Bankside

It is not an annex of The Wapping Project, it is a separate entity informed by all of the wild things I have done over the years at The Wapping Project....

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