Author: Trebuchet News

Some of the news that we find inspiring, diverting, wrong or so very right.

So Buff. Hypermasculinity and Sports Mags

'Male athletes are rarely, if ever, depicted in sexualized, submissive, objectifying or non-athletic positions in sports magazines.' Until now....

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Mediterranean Diet also Prevents Strokes

Already known for preventing heart disease, the Mediterranean diet is now shown to prevent strokes....

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Fifty Shades of Domestic Abuse

The main characters' relationship in the best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey, for example, helps perpetuate the problem of intimate partner violence against women...

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Johnny No-Friends is Mr Niceguy

Children who overestimate their popularity are less likely to be bullies than those who underestimate or hold more accurate assessments of their social standing...

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Avoiding Brain-Damaged Cheerleaders

neurocognitive assessment could be a useful tool to evaluate when cheerleaders with concussion have returned to normalized baseline measures...

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How to Achieve a Well-Balanced Gut

Healthy bio-flow. Or how to have good poos. In the absence of kale-shakes, Trebuchet news reports....

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Sexy Shrooms : Psychoactive Evolutions

Shrooms need family too. New research into the DNA structure and evolution of psychoactive mushrooms....

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Why Bullies Become Businessmen

Greed is good. Research shows anti-social tendencies exist throughout the lives of successful entrepreneurs....

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Isolating the Pain of Sunburn

Isolating the Pain of Sunburn. Now a scientific possibility. Question is, should we?...

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Practise Makes Perfect

Scientists find out exactly why practise makes perfect...

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Shopaholics are Sad

Shopaholics are displaying deeper issues of self-esteem and depression, according to San Francisco scientists...

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Out of Body Robotic Stroking

Neuroscientists reveal a multisensory technique that convinces the patient they're inhabiting another person's body....

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Grizzly Bear Berry Bonanza

'The percentage of fruit in grizzly bear scat in recent years has almost doubled'...

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Mosaic Syria Exhibition

Some of the exhibited work has been smuggled out of Syria and will be exhibited abroad for the first time. Mosaic Syria at the P21 Gallery...

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Natural Particle Accelerator Found

Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space...

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Food Tastes Better with Rituals

Experiments to investigate how ritualistic behaviors might influence our perception and consumption of various foods...

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Sebadoh : Album and UK Gigs

After a 14 year break, Sebadoh are back with an album and two UK dates....

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Polar Bear London Gig

On October 4 Polar Bear will play a headline show at Bishopsgate Institute, their only London date of 2013. The band will be performing entirely new material....

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Love Drug’s a Dud

Oxytocin appears to be the reason stressful social situations reverberate long past the event...

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So Much For Antioxidants

So, it's a choice between exercise and vegetables then? Bring the pies....

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Rebuilding Ears with Mutant Mouse Research

New research, based on the study of mutant mice, leads to breakthrough in human hearing rehabilitation...

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Break a habit – Live Longer

People who eat during times of stress typically seek the foods they eat out of habit – regardless of how healthy or unhealthy that food is....

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Stop the Voices! Internal Monologues and Health

internal speech makes use of a system that is primarily involved in processing external speech...

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Dogs learn human behaviour

dogs are able to reproduce familiar actions and novel actions after different delays ̶ familiar actions after intervals as long as ten minutes; novel tasks after a delay of one minute...

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Erased Tapes Anniversary Boxset

Erased Tapes celebrate five years with a stylish boxset of 7 inch vinyl....

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Looking whiter no self-esteem boost

Looking whiter embodying racism: Race, rhinoplasty, and self-esteem in Venezuela...

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Hot Sex for Lampreys

Some like it hot: The role of heat in sea lampreys' sex lives... cold lover's with hot hot mouths....

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Bioeconomy for Forestry

Bioeconomy as a solution for South Australia's declining forest industry...

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Breakthrough in internet bandwidth

New breakthrough in internet bandwidth and fiber optic technology could ease Internet congestion, video streaming....

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Bloodstock Has A Winner!

Cry, laugh, scream? We just don't know. We're lost, confused, torn between a dichotomy of conflicting emotions. Which is pretty apt....

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