Author: Trebuchet Magazine

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

Stopping binge-eating with food colouring

25/07/2012

Take some students, give them a tube of Pringles, put them in front of a tv screen. Apparently, they’ll eat less of the (actually brand-unspecified) potato chips if, at a regular interval,...

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Velvet Underground and Nico Reissues

24/07/2012

One for the completists. Universal Records will be releasing a 45th Anniversary Edition of the seminal Velvet Underground & Nico, across 6 discs, on October 1st. A chance to revisit, or discover,...

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SeaFox: The Underwater Drone

23/07/2012

Rooftop-mounted misslile emplacements and high-altitude military drones have made UK headlines recently, and with good reason. Suspecting the ever-growing security presence surrounding the Olympic...

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Menomena announce album and tour

22/07/2012

Menomena announce album and tour. Barsuk Records is excited to announce that Menomena will release their new album, Moms, on September 18, 2012 in the US and on October 8 in the UK. Now a duo,...

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Awesome! How Awe Expands Time

21/07/2012

'Time expands in the tube'. So said 1970s pro-surfer Wayne Lynch, referring to the delicate art of tuberiding. It's since become a maxim, a cliche, a canard – used by clothing...

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Ready-Marinated Fish. Scientists find elevated caffeine levels off coastal Oregon

20/07/2012

Now it becomes clear why anglers like to fish at night. Turns out that their piscine prey can't sleep either. In the fishy food chain, it pays to be alert. Caffeine levels in coastal waters off...

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Trebuchet issue two

About Trebuchet

20/07/2012

Honest and Unmerciful. What do you want to think? What you read makes you what you are. Sounds a bit strident we know, but we believe it....

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Sexual Fantasies Don’t Vary from Men to Women

19/07/2012

You remember that old joke about 99% of men admit to masturbating, 1% admit to being liars? Seems that the respondents of a Spanish study into sexual fantasy haven't heard it. Fantasizing about...

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Thurston Moore returns to Cafe OTO

18/07/2012

The need for speed. Usually we try to write a little bit of blurb to go with events listings, before pasting in the relevant information from the venue. Not even going to attempt that on this one...

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The Fouth Height and Urs Bigler bring The Crown to London

17/07/2012

Erarta Galleries London with The Fourth Height + Urs Bigler bring The Crown to Diamond Jubilee London. The photographic exhibition is “the multicultural trash- dreaming” vision of The...

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We Are Scientists Cancel UK Shows

16/07/2012

We Are Scientists come out with the most endearing apology of the year, involving the spectre of the ever-revolting French contribution to the planet's ghastliest foodstuffs. Due to problems with...

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Final Womad Lineup – released!

16/07/2012

With the folk and ethnic scene becoming a greater and greater presence in UK music this year's WOMAD is looking to rule the roost with some serious heavy hitters in Hugh Maskela and Jimmy Cliff...

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Cambridge Folk Festival sets sights high!

16/07/2012

Eclectic and expansive, as the Cambridge Folk Festival should be, the list of acts is now immense. Among the ones to look out for ar June Tabor and the Oyster Band, especially if they play that Joy...

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Bloodstock

Win your band a chance to open for Evile

15/07/2012

Win your band a chance to open for Evile...

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Period Drama: How Hollywood Misrepresents Menstruation

13/07/2012

And if the word 'menstruation' makes you go 'Eeeewwwwww!', maybe the reasearcher has a valid point. An Australian study has criticized Hollywood's portrayal of menstruation,...

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Period Drama: How Hollywood Misrepresents Menstruation

13/07/2012

And if the word 'menstruation' makes you go 'Eeeewwwwww!', maybe the reasearcher has a valid point. An Australian study has criticized Hollywood's portrayal of menstruation,...

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Hubble telescope sights fifth Pluto moon

12/07/2012

Five moons, and STILL not considered a real planet. It's enough to make a person suspect that there is some Plutonian committee based on that distant rock trying to reclaim the status it held for...

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Salute: A Tribute to Human RIghts Olympians

11/07/2012

Wednesday 11 July, London – Gold medallists Tessa Sanderson, Denise Lewis, Dame Tanni Grey Thompson and other medal winning Olympians such as Jamie Baulch and Mark Foster will join...

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Saddlesore? Or too numb to even know?

10/07/2012

Topical news for the day that Bradley Wiggins struts along the streets of Southern France, resplendent in the Maillot Jaune of the world’s greatest cycling race. Six hours and more perched upon...

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Wine Intolerance: The Signs

08/07/2012

Stumbling, hugging your best mate, vowing to 'get those bashtids' or developing a bluey-black tongue do not count as valid symptoms of a wine allergy. Around seven percent of adults suffer...

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Most accurate walking robot yet

07/07/2012

Well, accurate it may be, but it depends upon who you're copying. Not exatly jello on springs, is it? A group of US researchers has produced a robotic set of legs which they believe is the first...

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Marxism 2012 – Kicks Off!

06/07/2012

This years Maxism festival is a packed with speakers and events for the more politically ideologic of Trebuchet readers.  This years topics will obviously centre around the arab spring and the...

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King of the Swingers: Orang Utans Efficiency Examined

06/07/2012

Next, scientists examine the best method for lobbing a turd at gawpers. Urban athletes show that for orangutans, it pays to sway Swaying trees is the way to go, if you are a primate crossing the...

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Website finds horny women via their reading matter

05/07/2012

Pity those of us too superannuated to be young, free and single in the age of the app. Back in the day, discovering whether a potential female partner was in the mood for frolicsome fun was a...

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The Shadow of an Atom: Photographed

04/07/2012

Makes the zoom feature on your iPhone seem a little feeble by comparison. In an international scientific breakthrough, a Griffith University research team has been able to photograph the shadow of a...

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Trojan Records, Clarks Originals and Toddla T Collaboration

03/07/2012

Whether Trojan records teamong up with shoe-makers Clarks originals counts as a masterstroke of brand identitification, or an inducement of harrowing post-traumatic flashbacks, really depends upon...

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Blur – latest tracks – “The Puritan” & “Under The Westway” available for consideration

02/07/2012

BLUR – “The Puritan” & “Under The Westway”  In case you missed it…  This evening, from the rooftop of their west London studio, Blur performed...

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Brompton Dock – Virgin Trains supports Bike Hire Scheme

02/07/2012

Finally a UK bike scheme that supports UK manufacturers.  Press Release:  Bromptondock folding cycle hire scheme launches in Stoke-on-Trent Second dock for Virgin Trains installed at the...

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Spiritualized: New Video

02/07/2012

On the same day as the Pet Shop Boys release a (very dull) video, the manic visual energy of a life spent conducting unofficial pharmaceutical research on oneself makes itself apparent in the...

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Pet Shop Boys: New Single

02/07/2012

Sounds like Pachabel's Canon is getting (yet) another runthrough. This time by those purveyors of dance music (for people who don't dance), Pet Shop Boys. Not the most frenetic of videos...

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