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Why Do We Rebel? Neuroimaging Provides New Insight

16/05/2018

Why do some people resist authority? Neuroimaging research provides new insight into the urge to rebel....

The Ticking Bomb, Torture & the CIA

11/05/2018

Don't be sucked into the false urgency of popular culture illustrations like 24, torture is wrong! ...

Women’s Talk Outed by Florida Psychologist

10/05/2018

Tania Reynolds, Psychology, Florida State University at Tallahassee (FSU Photography Services) Tania Reynolds has written in The Journal of Experimental Psychology about the ways in which women...

Arachnophobes, Rejoice: Kim the Jumping Spider Has Training

09/05/2018

Scientists at the University of Manchester have successfully trained a spider to jump on demand to discover the secrets of animal movement....

Transhuman? Cyborg? Digital Immortal Or Dust in the Wind

08/05/2018

You may be able to live forever, but would you want to?...

Curves versus Angles

03/05/2018

Arne Jacobsen’s St Catherine’s College Oxford, Refectory dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcaphould we prefer soft voluptuous curves or hard aggressive angles? It all...

Solar Flares Can Now Be Studied On Earth

02/05/2018

Swedish physicists have proposed a method for studying solar flares in a laboratory environment....

Drink up and Have Another. Fags all Round

28/04/2018

Dadaists on a visit to the outbuildings of St Julien on 14th April 1921 A number of countries have passed laws which require cigarette manufacturers to show ‘denormalising’ images on their...

Beat Zoderer’s Art Concret at Semiose, Paris

28/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcapwiss concrete artist, Beat Zoderer shows his work ‘Dans quel Mesure,’ at Semiose, Paris. Being Swiss gives this younger...

How Do Marine Mammals Avoid The Bends?

25/04/2018

A new study offers a hypothesis of how marine mammals generally avoid getting the bends and how they can succumb under stressful conditions....

Are The Working Class Kept Away From The Arts?

24/04/2018

Have you ever felt that your less then welcome in the creative industry? Check your accent!...

Luton Upcoming Art Location

20/04/2018

Luton could be the place you keep your creative ambitions alive and bring them to fruition....

Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud

19/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcapoil! said the duchess, and all the courtiers reached. Soil. The journal, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, (volume 63, 2017, issue 5) has...

DaliParis, re-opens with Dali the Sculptor at its centre

19/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;T/dropcaphere are two good reasons for taking a fresh look at the work of Salvador Dalí. The first is that Matthew Collings, in his insightful...

Five Senses Cinema to Open in London West End

18/04/2018

A state-of-the-art cinema that engages all five senses will bring the onscreen action to life for Londoners this week....

The Feminine in the Feminist: Women take their Life-Making skills into Contemporary Art

12/04/2018

Camille and Nikita Kravtsov, UFO Revolution, 2018, (detail), drawing, print and embroidery dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcapt art schools in the sixties and seventies, American...

Why Do We Have Eyebrows? Finally We Have an Evolutionary Explanation

11/04/2018

Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution...

Hot News: The ‘Like Illegal Drugs’ Effects of Chilli Peppers

11/04/2018

Man develops severe 'thunderclap' headaches after eating world's hottest chili pepper ...

Big Eyes, Emojis, and the Sickly, Sweet Smell of Sentimentality

05/04/2018

NOTHING, is as gut-wrenchingly, vomit-inducing, flu-shivery and ‘give-me-a-wrecking-drink-of-anything-strong-enough-to-get-me-drunk-in-one-big-slug,’ intolerable – as a kitten-video...

What the G? Reading & Writing: Use It Or Lose It

04/04/2018

Research has found that people are essentially unaware of the more common version of the lowercase print letter “g”....

Armageddon: two daft leaders may find it difficult to push the button

29/03/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;J/dropcaperemy Corbyn, in a sensible moment, commented that he would not be willing to press the button that would unleash Britain’s nuclear...

Dartmouth Films Presents Lost in Vagueness

28/03/2018

The never-before-told story of the rise and fall of Lost Vagueness at Glastonbury Festival, and its maverick founder, Roy Gurvitz....

Had Enough? Go To Mars! (in the future)

23/03/2018

There is hope after all! we can move to Mars, or rather our great grand children can....

20% of America’s Gassiest Citizens Produce Half Its Diet-Related Gas

22/03/2018

20 percent of Americans are responsible for almost half of US food-related greenhouse gas emissions...

A Whiff of Polonium, Or Smoke and Mirrors?

22/03/2018

US economic and militarist aggression is to blame for Russian military posturing. ...

‘We Can Make You Blind’ The Adventures of Cambridge Analytica

20/03/2018

Do you worry that people never tell you straight and only want to manipulate you? Well you should! Welcome to Cambridge Analytica....

Brexit & the Arts Industry

16/03/2018

Are you interested in art? or in making and showing it? then you may need to think about Brexit, again!...

Have a Wee Drink? Urine Trouble if You Don’t

15/03/2018

Taste test gauges how recycled wastewater performs against bottled and tap water...

Could This Be The End For Testing On Animals?

14/03/2018

MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect possible side effects before the drugs are tested in humans. ...