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Are pain tolerance levels similar among groups of friends?

23/05/2018

A new study is the first to apply social network analysis to pain tolerance, contributing to understanding the effect of social factors on pain....

How did Michael Jackson challenge our understanding of spine biomechanics?

23/05/2018

New forms of dancing inspired by Michael Jackson have begun to challenge our understanding of the modes and mechanisms of spinal injury. ...

You’re Not Living You’re Just Killing Time

22/05/2018

There are so many ways we can abdicate our personal responsibility but for many in western civilisation stupefaction is simply a choice, what have you done lately to improve yourself!...

No More Casual Sex for Tinder Users!

21/05/2018

Using Tinder doesn't result in more casual sex ...

Simone de Beauvoir and Research Impact

17/05/2018

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir In 1946, Sartre suggested that Simone de Beauvoir write a piece on the contemporary condition of women for the journal, Les Temps Moderne. She thought it would...

The Beautiful Game

17/05/2018

Arsenal Invincibles 2003-4, English Premier League dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;I/dropcaps it at all possible that football, at its highest level, is an art form – a game of...

Good Boy: Fido Comes to the Rescue

16/05/2018

ETH Zurich scientists have developed the smallest ever equipment for detecting people by smell, which could be used to create electronic rescue dogs....

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...