Author: Trebuchet Magazine

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

Violent video games turning gamers into deadly shooters

22/05/2012

Well, duh! But never mind, perhaps the other part of the phenomenon involves gamers being able to heal serious gunshot wounds by walking into floating red cross packages. Violent video games turning...

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Hot Chip: New Video

21/05/2012

Hot Chip continue the build with another new video, this time for 'Night and Day'. Peter Serafinovitz is back behind the cameras on directorial duties, after his initial collaboration with...

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Sports slow your brain

20/05/2012

'students who participated in contact sports scored significantly lower in memory and learning skills than expected' "These results were found shortly after the season and we do not know...

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Foul-Mouthed Characters get more of Everything

19/05/2012

My my, this is a prim piece of news. First up, note that the research comes from Brigham Young University, the Utah-based seat of Mormon higher education. Far be it for we at Trebuchet to cast...

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Kapow Comic convention starts tomorrow

18/05/2012

Masked denizens make prepare to have your 11×17 300dpi fanboy desires inked.   Kapow Comic Convention is recognised as one of the major UK conventions related to comic and fantasy. ...

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Dinowalrus release video for ‘Beth Steel’

18/05/2012

Let me put you in the picture, let me show you what I mean, the messiah is my sister, ain't no king when she's my queen. This 'news' piece is really an excuse to soften you up for...

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Wave Gotik Treffen [Preview]

18/05/2012

Alexei Monroe looks ahead to Europe's annual descent into darkness at Leipzig's Wave Gotik Treffen…. Leipzig's annual Wave Gotik Treffen a.k.a WGT is one of Europe's most...

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Tav Falco London in-store

18/05/2012

Post-modern pop classicist TavFalco makes rare appearance in London to promote psychogeographical book. Tav Falco was cool before cool was cool. Or so the internet would have us believe. He is, in...

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Meat. Manly?

17/05/2012

Yeah, but are you man enough for a big bowl of Brussels sprouts? Why are men generally more reluctant to try vegetarian products? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research,...

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Jesus Jones, PWEI & The Wonderstuff to tour

17/05/2012

For the first time in ages the curious appeal of grebo threatens to deplete UK babysitter stocks far below levels considered safe.  Grandparents, cleaners, and clucky plump aquaintances have all...

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Drug from lizard saliva reduces the cravings for food

16/05/2012

Could this be the germ of truth in the frog-kissing myth? Those princesses always look delightfully slim after all. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have uncovered a, seemingly obvious,...

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Bill Ward will not join Black Sabbath on tour

16/05/2012

This tour is cursed. Statement on Upcoming Black Sabbath Shows Dear Sabbath Fans and Fellow Musicians, I sincerely regret to inform you that after a final effort to participate in the upcoming...

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Mindless Self Indulgence to Tour

16/05/2012

The four-headed and many-limbed beast that is Mindless Self Indulgence has woken up after a three year slumber to ravage the UK with their ever unique brand of musical mayhem and stage-destroying...

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Sex and Death – Exhibition

15/05/2012

This spring, 20 Earlham Street will host a celebration of art and design, bringing their worlds together in a dynamic and holistic way to explore the historically recurring relationship between...

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Bloodstock

Bloodstock Update: Witchsorrow, Dripback, Battalion

15/05/2012

Bloodstock Update: Witchsorrow, Dripback, Battalion...

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Bad boys are more attractive when seen through ‘ovulation goggles’

15/05/2012

'Ovulation goggles'. You heard it here first. No, seriously. 'Ovulation goggles', in a proper, academic press release. Thanks to research conducted by Kristina Durante (assistant...

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Animal Collective announce new album

14/05/2012

Baltimore's Animal Collective announce release dates for their unpronounceable tenth album : Centipede Hz NEW ALBUM – CENTIPIDE Hz – Monday 3rd September 2012 (UK)/Tuesday 4th...

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Lizard spit helps you lose weight

14/05/2012

Could this be the germ of truth in the frog-kissing myth? Those princesses always look delightfully slim after all. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have uncovered a, seemingly obvious,...

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US Army to compost surplus explosives

13/05/2012

But are your exploding vegetables organic? University of Arizona researchers are studying the environmental effects of insensitive munitions compounds, or IMCs, which are new, more stable explosives...

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Smartphones and human interaction

12/05/2012

Just remember the music industry maxim: 'nobody with a smartphone has the authority to write you a cheque'. With endless applications, high-speed wireless Internet access, and free messaging...

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Crime & the City Solution Gearing Up for Tour

11/05/2012

Crime and the City Solution and planning a tour. Oh great spirit this rarest of events has flashed the cloud crossed heavens with elation.  Crime and the city solution NEVER tour… ever....

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Art. A mirror to reflect society, or a hammer to shape it?

11/05/2012

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?               But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,...

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Restricting wi-fi access can’t curb territorial customers

10/05/2012

Oh yeah, you know it. And they haven't even mentioned the wars that take place for control of the plug socket…. CHESTNUT HILL, MA (May 8, 2012) – Increasingly "plugged-in"...

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Viagra: Heartwarming alternative use

09/05/2012

A lovely story. Firstly because it gives us the opportunity to come up with gleeful screamer headlines about giving kids Viagra. Not going to deny it, that's a gift. More importantly though,...

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The Mercy House: Barfly, London.

09/05/2012

The Mercy House are getting a reputation for reinventing smartrock for a new generation. But will it blend?  The Mercy House have the right musical mixture for the times, simultaneously...

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Maximo Park: New Single/Video

08/05/2012

If you enjoyed This is England, you'll recognize Thomas Turgoose in this. Maximo Park's “Hips and Lips” single and “The National Health” LP out June 11 on V2/...

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A different kind of gas giant.

08/05/2012

What's that smell? Sauropod dinosaurs could have produced enough of the greenhouse gas methane to warm the climate many millions of years ago, at a time when the Earth was warm and wet....

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The Pork Gene

08/05/2012

Pork chops, bacon, sausages, stew. Your mouth may be watering just from reading their names. Or perhaps it's gone bone-dry and you're trying desperately to rid your mind of the images....

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Too Many Batgirls

06/05/2012

Shameful use of the word'batgirl' in the title, we'll admit. But it worked…. Early spring means more bat girls There must be something in the warm breeze. A study on bats by a...

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Band and Brand: The View from the Corporation

06/05/2012

Music and arts fans are used now to seeing the debate on artist sponsorship portrayed from the point of view of the artist. Sacha Taylor-Cox voices it from the brand's side. What is less...

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