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Achy Breaky Heart? Not surprised. It’s rubbish for your ears AND your chances of survival.

06/11/2011

Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation. We all hope never to need it, or to have to apply it. However, in an emergency situation, just which song would you play on your iPod before leaning in and doing mouth...

ET forgets to turn off the lights

05/11/2011

Don't you just love scientists? It's a nice idea – to look for the lights of alien cities, but citing Galileo seems a touch grandiose for such a piece of schoolboy logic. And aren't...

GWAR Guitarist Found Dead

04/11/2011

Cory Smoot, aka Flattus Maximus of GWAR has been found dead, aged 34. A member of GWAR since 2002, Smoot was found dead this morning as the band prepared to travel to their next tour date. No cause...

Artists: what are we worth?

04/11/2011

The economic crisis has meant an economic armageddon for artists. What are we worth? was a panel discussion led by DACS and Artquest that considered how artists can create income in support of their...

Controversy over reopening the ‘Sistine Chapel’ of Stone Age art

03/11/2011

A perennial topic in Spain – whether or not to allow the public access to fragile areas, which are nonetheless looked upon as part of the country's public patrimony. Plus there's the...

Celestial Pac-Man Grows Teeth

02/11/2011

Honestly, astrophysicists. They're a dry lot. Pac-Man, really? Theyr'e obviously blinded by familiarity with the true beauty of the cosmos. Clearly, it's actually a recumbent yellow...

Orcas Need Holidays Too

01/11/2011

Winter's homing in, the nights are getting longer, and if you were a whale, a really clever whale, you'd be thinking about swimming up to the tropics right now. Well, maybe not right now,...

I Can Resist Anything But Temptation….

31/10/2011

Resisting temptation? Trying to give something up? Trick is not to think about it. There you are, we obviously needed scientists to tell us that thinking about a cold beer on a hot day just makes it...

Mozart Ideal For Rectal Probing

30/10/2011

See, no-one mentions anything about how the patients felt about it. Personally, I'd be yelling out exactly where Wolfgang Ammadeus could stick his Magic Flute. Physicians who listen to Mozart...

Mobilizing Society, Quickly

29/10/2011

MIT researchers demonstrate ways to mobilize society quickly. Hint: they paid them. Last December UK students marched on Westminster to protest against a dramatic increase in tuition fees. Despite...

Organic matter found in Space

28/10/2011

It's not quite extraterrestrial life, but it's certainly a step towards finding something of that ilk. Stars, it appears, can create complex organic compounds. Complex compounds such as?...

Open Letter to Simon Cowell Gathers Pace

27/10/2011

Happy Ending Update! ITV Producers have announced that X-Factor band "Rhythmix" will change their name. Hooray! Original news piece follows Simon Cowell and childrens' charity Rhythmix....

From Shiny Things to Silliness – Frieze Overview

27/10/2011

Frieze was a fantastic opportunity to see a so many of the world’s top artists and galleries in one place. With a multitude of styles and genres on show from over 170 galleries from...

Metahub – Nuit Blanche, Amiens 2011

27/10/2011

Digital Arts: Flash in the pan, light at the end of the tunnel or oncoming train wreck. Amiens, France 15th October This year saw a conjunction between digital artists in the UK and...

Catch 22 writer, Joseph Heller, enjoyed WW2

26/10/2011

Continuing with the Trebuchet-News inadvertent sub-theme in which we look at interesting letters which just happen to be for sale in prominent auction houses, today's news story concerns Joseph...

The Beatles – take them off your hands for less than a tenner

25/10/2011

The Beatles first manager dropped the band….for £9 Those poor old Beatles fellas. On November 15th Christies will auction a letter penned by Paul McCartney in 1960, hoping to find a...

Mars landing vehicle digs deep

24/10/2011

As previously reported here in Trebuchet, NASA plans to land a car-sized exploration vehicle on the Gale crater on Mars next August. In a follow-up to the original press statement, NASA have made...

Sex and booze and Rock ‘n’ Roll

23/10/2011

The average US adolescent is heavily exposed to alcohol brand references in popular music. An appropriate story for Sunday morning, as the overpriced alcohol many of you slurped last night works its...

Fabrics Remix Competition

22/10/2011

The remix competition, it's been around as a concept for quite a while now. Occasionally resulting in some significant new directions for dance. The remix competition, it's been around...

Takako Shimizu – Piecemaker Exhibition 2011

22/10/2011

Mosaic sculptor Takako Shimizu explores the other facets of Glass. It’s clear that while glass heats to a liquid state and cools to become a solid, something of its liquid nature always...

Essential oils not so cuddly

21/10/2011

It's been obvious for a long time that sniffing hippies can be dangerous to your health. The stink of patchouli in the morning has long been associated with horrible student accommodation,...

Glasvegas to Play special one-off KOKO show

21/10/2011

Scottish rock melodicists Glasvegas are to play KOKO on Monday October 24th. Tickets here: website Trebuchet MagazineThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but...

Amon Tobin brings ISAM back to London

20/10/2011

Be very quick, this will sell out in the next few hours! Amon Tobin returns to the UK with the astounding live show for his 'Isam' album. HMV FORUM, London. 23rd Nov w/ Slugabed, DJ Set...

How hemp got high

20/10/2011

A team of researchers led by Drs Jon Page and Tim Hughes from Canada sequenced DNA from the potent Purple Kush (PK) marijuana strain Taiwanese pottery shards dating from the Tapenkeng culture...

NASA to land car-sized rover on Mars

19/10/2011

Gale crater, just below the equator of Mars, is set to receive its first significant activity in three and a half billion years. Scheduled for August 2012, a capsule will break its fall by popping a...

Ideageneration present album art by Storm Thorgerson

19/10/2011

Far from being a dead art, the album cover as a statement has developed and adapted to its newest, most challenging form – the tiny square on the display of an iPod. In spaces so small, only...

David Lynch to curate Club Silencio, Paris

18/10/2011

Not a bad idea here from Club Silencio, having David Lynch add his very personal touch to proceedings at their Paris club. Not that Lynch would ever be so predictable as to raid his own oeuvre so...

Head Cat – Live London 2011

17/10/2011

Rock and Roll; graceless music for rebel outcasts, Head Cat called the sabbath crowd to disorder. Lemmy (Motorhead), Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) and Danny B Harvey (Lonesome Spurs)...

Sledding causes injuries. Ouch.

17/10/2011

Ow. Child meets tree, at speed. Never the most auspicious of circumstances. Although Newtonian physics tell us that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, it always seemed to me that the...

First track of Paul Catten’s new album

16/10/2011

As a follow-up to Trebuchet's review of the intriguing album Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics, it's nothing but a pleasure to direct you all to the exclusive stream of the...

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