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Coastal Visits Mend Your Head

20/04/2012

Isn't science wonderful? UK readers will be delighted to know that their education system is responsible for such groundbreaking research as this one. It seems that visiting the coast is...

David Lynch Debuts Record Store Day Exclusive

19/04/2012

Sunday Best Recordings proudly presents limited edition remixed by Moby. SINGLE PRODUCED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE INDEPENDENT RETAIL COMMUNITY TO PROMOTE RECORD STORE DAY ARRIVES SAT 21 APRIL To...

NASA Call For Asteroid-Hunters

19/04/2012

Remember when you were a kid playing video games, and you thought to yourself – 'man, imagine if NASA were watching this and decided to recruit me coz I'm so sharp'? And then you...

Occupy and MoveOn Support civil disobedience training

18/04/2012

The MoveOn.org in association with a number of organisations are launching an initiative to train people in non-violent resistance. The idea is to make 2012 the year for a co-ordinated protest...

Hot Chip: New Single and Album Artwork

18/04/2012

'Night And Day' – the first single from Hot Chip’s forthcoming fifth LP, In Our Heads – is released on June 4th. In Our Heads will be available on 11th June (in the UK) on...

Killed Under Arrest – Some Figures

18/04/2012

Killed whilst under arrest, the figures show an alarming increase. According to researcher Kenneth Jost, writing in the April 6, issue of CQ Researcher, from 2003 to 2009, killings of arrestees by...

Megadeth to play special UK show!

17/04/2012

One of the most recognized and culturally significant names in metal over the last thirty years, MEGADETH, have today announced that they will be playing a very special one-off show at London’s...

The revered experimental alternative-rock supergroup Tomahawk will be releasing a very special and luxurious 3xLP retrospective entitled Eponymous to Anonymous exclusively for Record Store Day 2012....

Lady Starlight announced for Born This Way Ball with Lady Gaga plus Judas Priest shows

16/04/2012

Lady Starlight announced for Born This Way Ball with Lady Gaga plus Judas Priest shows Girls apparently just want to have fun. Fun with benefits and money, and adoration, and more fun. The secret is...

Membranes release special AAA-side

16/04/2012

For record store day, Louder Than War Records will be celebrating the return of the legendary post punk band the Membranes by releasing a triple AAA-side, which marks their first release in 22 years...

Twitter User Faces Jail for Dropping the C-bomb

16/04/2012

Twitter user, and free-speech activist, Olly Cromwell, has been found guilty under Section 127 of the Telecommunications Act 2003 of making a grossly offensive and menacing comment on Twitter....

Car-Mounted Radar in Development

15/04/2012

The worrying part of the Universiy of Navarre's project to develop a pedestrian-avoidance system is that it appears not to exist already. And considering that the state of Nevada approved the...

‘Excessive Worrying’ linked to Intelligence

14/04/2012

It might not be rational or scientific, but there are some of us who just know instinctively that if we don't clutch the armrests with a deathgrip on takeoff, that obviously the wings will fall...

Glimpses of Aurora on Uranus

13/04/2012

WASHINGTON—For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is....

Handel’s Messiah in Dublin

13/04/2012

If the artistic foibles of 21st century musicians and composers ever seem outlandish, it's fair to say they are preceded by a tradition of similar behaviour that stretches back centuries. History...

Electrified Snails as a Power Source for Spycams

12/04/2012

No really, it's true. Snails as a power source. Handy, when you think about it. Just pick it up and stick it where you need it. Ideal for lighting those hard to reach areas. The applications are...

An Ideal Soup: Art Exhibition

11/04/2012

An Ideal Soup: The BAR Gallery – Thursday 12th April – Saturday 5th May ‘An Ideal Soup’ opens this week, bringing together a collection of work from Harlesden Gallery –...

Louder Than War: First Videos

11/04/2012

Musician, journalist, author, presenter and owner of a very silly hairdo – John Robb has long been a vociferous defender of indie music and the leftie sensibilities that are traditionally...

Science and sex: New Research

10/04/2012

Do it for the species girls! Two pieces of scientific research in the last week tell us, mostly, what we already supposed. Sexual reproduction is a good thing, but females can be a bit picky....

Tetra Shed

09/04/2012

Embracing the move to home-office working with more style than anything else we've seen so far, winner of 100% Design's Cool Wall 2011 competition, Tetra Shed won't be available at your...

Did a Bunny lay your Easter Egg, or was it a Dinosaur?

08/04/2012

Research by paleontologists in Spain and the UK suggests that not all Easter eggs come from the same 'parent' species; some could be from dinosaurs, including a new species from the Pyrenees....

Finally, a substitute for whale vomit!

07/04/2012

Scent of a woman? Far more likely that it's actually the stench of whale vomit. Still, at least there's a chance that high-end perfume-makers no longer have to depend upon bulimic sperm...

Black Dice New Album Streamed Here.

06/04/2012

Happy Easter People – the new Black Dice Album 'Mr Impossible' is being streamed here on Trebuchet. Which all in all is quite nice. I'd write more but there is way too much...

Robots Versus Pirates: Scanning for contraband with MMSS

06/04/2012

Robocopters and multi-mode sensor seeking technology goes into trial this summer with the US Navy. The technology makes it simpler for US Navy personnel to identify pirate vessels. Alternatively,...

The Emotional Impact of Unrewarding Work

05/04/2012

Emotionally exhausted? Is that an actual scientific term now? Researchers at Concordia University in Montreal have helpfully attached the phrase to a recent study developing the theory that staying...

Lee Gascoyne and John Ledger exhibition at Heartbeat Gallery

04/04/2012

Lee Gascoyne, John Ledger 18 April — 10 May 2012. Much underrated and under appreciated artists Lee Gascoyne and John Ledger have been brought to together by the heartbeat gallery. Not to be...

Jeremiah Day: Site Gallery

03/04/2012

Jeremiah Day is undoubtedly one of the most talented performance artist’s of his generation. His show at the Site Gallery is simple mixture of small and large photographic prints, slideshows...

Protein announces Daniel Johnston Exhibition

03/04/2012

Daniel Johnston Comes to London. Arch-songwriter and trouble soul Daniel Johnston is playing London. If heart rending poignancy is your thing then this exhibition is the perfect compliment to...