Author: Trebuchet Magazine

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

Investors look to Twitter for Data

27/03/2012

The next generation of financial investors will plan their strategy according to Twitter data. If knowing what people had for breakfast, when they last went to the bathroom, and their favourite links...

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Soundgarden European Tour and New Single

27/03/2012

Back together, back on tour, and a new single out in a month. Soundgarden's lyricism always set them slightly apart from the slew of 90s grunge-rock bands. More by accident than design, the band...

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New insight into male pattern baldness

25/03/2012

Bald men insist it's a sign of virility. All that rubbing against the headboards, dontcha know? Still, it might be worth looking a touch less vigourous in return for a full pelt, no? A new study...

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Wasp

Mega-wasp, coming to a litterbin near you

24/03/2012

Mega-wasp, coming to a litterbin near you...

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Spare tyres on Space Stations. Exercise in Orbit

23/03/2012

Bet those bicep curls don't sting half as much in orbit. Exercise has benefits, even when it's done in space Astronauts have been taking part in short spaceflight missions since 1961. They...

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Or are you just pleased to see me?

22/03/2012

Holding a gun makes you think others are too. Self-fulfilling prophesies have their uses. Actively imagining a successful outcome, as used by athletes preparing themselves for performance, has...

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Seeing around corners: MIT Develop the Ultimate Periscope

21/03/2012

A new imaging system could use opaque walls, doors or floors as 'mirrors' to gather information about scenes outside its line of sight The principle behind the system is essentially that of...

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Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds Collaboration: ‘Stare’

20/03/2012

'We're like the Biggest Happiest Family Ever. Just the other day when I was over in Berlin, Das Bobby Raths (Erased Tapes Uber Boss) called me up and was like "Yo, Justino! what are you...

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Art Improves Quality of Life in Stroke Victims

19/03/2012

New research just published by the European Society of Cardiology sheds some pretty interesting light on what looks, on first glance, like more scientists taking chunks of time, brainpower and...

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How messy are your globular clusters? Messier?

18/03/2012

A globular cluster, slightly bulging at the midriff. Named 'Messier 9' How quickly we become jaded to astronomical discovery. A globular cluster. Sounds a bit like something you find in your...

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Eco Tourists Stress Wild Apes Out

17/03/2012

Sadly, eco tourism impacts too. And although the stressful effects of human contact with orangutan populations in Malaysia seem temporary, it's hard not to feel that no stress at all is a better...

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Rejected in Love, Fruitflies Hit the Booze

16/03/2012

Knocked back in love, fruitflies start knocking back the shots. We've all done it. Researchers at University of California, San Fransisco studying the behaviour of drosophila fruit flies, have...

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Elfin Saddle: Devastates

16/03/2012

I love it when music fascinates me. It's a rare, almost extinct occurrence nowadays, having had my ears sanded down and numbed by years of exposure to the ever-expanding, if not broadening,...

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Last Chance to Save the NHS [Petition]

15/03/2012

From avaaz.org: Dear friends across Britain, We have just days to save the NHS. Opposition from doctors, nurses and patients has rocked the government. Our massive outcry now can persuade undecided...

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Trans Fatty Acid Anger: TFAs linked to aggression

14/03/2012

And you thought the worst thing about a Twinky bar was the yucky goo in the middle. We found that greater trans fatty acids were significantly associated with greater aggression Trans fatty acids,...

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Wave Them Around Like You Just Don’t Care: Gesture-based commands for iTunes/Spotify

13/03/2012

Flutter- Controlling your music through hand gestures. An intuitive leap from www.flutter.io, bringing the wireless functionality of the XBox Kinect to the home computer. In this case, using the...

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Bloodstock

Bloodstock Festival: Lineup Announcements

13/03/2012

Bloodstock 2012 Festival: Lineup Announcements ...

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Missing Person: Owain Roberts (The Reasoning)

12/03/2012

A more serious Trebuchet News story than usual today. An appeal for help or information concerning the disappearance of Owain Roberts. A police description of Owain follows, but a critical piece of...

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Alcohol Reduces Stroke Risk

11/03/2012

Hooray! Booze can lessen the risk of women getting strokes. Stop sniggering at the back. Not that kind of stroke. According to new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH),...

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Can You Hear This?

10/03/2012

In both animals and humans, vocal signals used for communication contain a wide array of different sounds that are determined by the vibrational frequencies of vocal cords. For example, the pitch of...

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Gilberto Gil, Roots Manuva: Back to Black Festival

09/03/2012

Gilberto Gil, Roots Manuva: Back to Black Festival 29/6 – 1/7 Gilberto Gil – everyone's favourite ex Minister for Culture comes to the UK for the London 2012 Festival. Exploring...

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NinjaTune: Free Tracks for International Women’s Day

08/03/2012

NinjaTune – spotlighting some of the women on their label with a free tracks giveaway. Make what you will of International Women's Day – a timely, albeit paltry acknowledgement of the...

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2:54 Announce Album and UK Tour

07/03/2012

Everyone's favourite punk, hard-rock, r 'n' b sister duo 2:54 announce the release of their eponymous debut album, 2:54. Maybe it's best not to mention that Collette and Hannah...

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Share the Pain: What Women Want From Men

06/03/2012

An early contender for the 'Still No Cure For Cancer' award for scientific research into things we all knew already, the American Psychological Association today release the findings of a...

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Swedish Band Lingua Call it Quits

05/03/2012

Trebuchet's interview with Lingua in November 2010 teased some lucid quotes from guitarist Misha Sedini, amongst them this psalm to the merits of self-motivation: On our first record, we leaned...

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Earthshine Reflects on the Search for Extra Terrestrial Life

04/03/2012

Some ideas just have a clear beauty of their own that satisfy something primal in us. This one is far from being the most complicated concept, but it does have a symmetrical allure to it that is...

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Attractive Robotic Fish Developed

03/03/2012

This one is just screaming out for the 'fish 'n' chips' headline. Robotic fish, developed by researchers at NYU-Poly, prove successful at inducing natural fish to follow them. In the...

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Guns and Roses UK Tour

02/03/2012

'where the grass is green and the girls are pretty' You KNOW Axl Rose was singing about Nottingham. Well now he's finally made it. Gigs in Nottingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow,...

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Cafe OTO Launch Record Label

29/02/2012

Cafe OTO, Keiko and Hamish's Dalston emporium of Japanese snackery curates consistently-brilliant live music concerts, and pops up in Trebuchet's gig listings more often than just about any...

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Transition Gallery’s ‘First Thursdays’

29/02/2012

As we approach the end of February, the galleries of East London start buzzing in anticipation for the First Thursday of the month – the day it all happens. I talk to the Director of Transition...

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