Category: News

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! – Anne Frank

Healthy Sperm? It’s all in the nuts

16/08/2012

Some studies have suggested that human semen quality has declined in industrialized nations, possibly due to pollution, poor lifestyle habits, and/or an increasingly Western-style diet....

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Listener: Mini Interview

15/08/2012

we’re open to pretty much everything. We’re comfortable here – necessity makes heavy music and a lot of hardcore is about being honest and genuine to yourself...

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Nina Stewart Artist Residency

14/08/2012

Rent-free accommodation in the South London Gallery’s Outset Artists’ Flat. A rent-free studio in SPACE’s studio complex on Haymerle Road, SE15. A bursary of £5,000 towards living expenses...

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Neurosis Announce New Album No.10

13/08/2012

‘In December 2010 I witnessed rock and roll’s nadir, the point where you look upon a crowd of stupid fucks and wish that each and every one of them would fucking die. My disgust cannot know...

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Extra Terrestrial Life, on Earth?

10/08/2012

Results from an expedition to far eastern Russia that set out to find the origin of naturally occurring quasicrystals have provided convincing evidence that they arrived on Earth from outer space....

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Pig Destroyer Announce Album and Tour

09/08/2012

Grindcore misanthropists Pig Destroyer bring back the gnarly. With a new album on Relapse just cut, bearing the title: Book Burner, the band are back after a five-year gap. A huge world tour follows...

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Stressed Men Prefer Heavier Women

09/08/2012

People idealize mature morphological traits like heavier body size when they experience an environmental threat such as stress....

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Zebra Katz unveils video for ‘Ima Read’

08/08/2012

The song depends upon a shock impact that was spent twenty-odd years ago with The Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up', the video has less visual impact than Spoek Mathambo's 'She's Lost Control' (which was...

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Twilight of the Bins: indie record stores?

07/08/2012

What reason does the humble record shop now stand when people can find a wider selection of music online, when recommendations come in the form of toplists by musical heroes, and you never have to...

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Steve Vai announces Tour/Album

06/08/2012

Virtuoso guitarist and visionary composer Steve Vai is set to release a new solo album of original material, on September 11th (in the UK) called ‘The Story Of Light’. the album does feature...

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Playmates: How playfulness attracts partners

06/08/2012

playfulness may serve an evolutionary role in human mating preferences by signaling positive qualities to potential long-term mates. Just as birds display bright plumage or coloration, men may...

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Crime and the City Solution tour!!

31/07/2012

One of key moments in anyone’s life has to be the moment they discover the amazing shimmering walls of noise that is a crime and the city solution album. or even THAT scene from Wings of Desire...

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Two Fingers (Amon Tobin) announces new album

31/07/2012

Amon Tobin, the most uncompromising artist on an uncompromising record label, demands a dedicated listener. Brittle, beautiful, but always disappearing just out of easy cognition, Tobin’s music...

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Tickets on Sale for Cambridge Folk Festival 2013

30/07/2012

The eternal wheel just keeps turning. For some that may mean the hopes of transcendence to a higher plane of existence once they have parted this brief life. For others less hopeful, it is the grim...

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Sleep Deprivation Makes Complex Tasks More Difficult

29/07/2012

Lack of sleep makes you slower and a bit useless at complex tasks? Doh! Anyone with a newborn can tell you that. The phenomenon is not universally accepted though, at least not amongst those whose...

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An Olympic Damper: How Rubbish Humans Really Are at Sports

28/07/2012

Slower, Lower, Weaker. Well, we can’t use the proper Olympics motto in a Trebuchet news item, lest we get lynched by a team of predatory lawyers hellbent on protecting the copyright phrases and...

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Writing with only your eyes

27/07/2012

“One can also imagine that, on the long term, eye movements can routinely be used in man-machine interactions”, and doubtless, Jean Lorenceau’s research into ways to improve the...

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Energy drinks/alcohol in casual sex shocker

26/07/2012

'drinking Red Bull/vodka or Jagerbombs doesn't necessarily lead people to get drunk and become intimate with strangers, but it does increase the odds of doing so' There are times when the prim,...

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Stopping binge-eating with food colouring

25/07/2012

Take some students, give them a tube of Pringles, put them in front of a tv screen. Apparently, they’ll eat less of the (actually brand-unspecified) potato chips if, at a regular interval,...

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Velvet Underground and Nico Reissues

24/07/2012

One for the completists. Universal Records will be releasing a 45th Anniversary Edition of the seminal Velvet Underground & Nico, across 6 discs, on October 1st. A chance to revisit, or discover,...

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SeaFox: The Underwater Drone

23/07/2012

Rooftop-mounted misslile emplacements and high-altitude military drones have made UK headlines recently, and with good reason. Suspecting the ever-growing security presence surrounding the Olympic...

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Menomena announce album and tour

22/07/2012

Menomena announce album and tour. Barsuk Records is excited to announce that Menomena will release their new album, Moms, on September 18, 2012 in the US and on October 8 in the UK. Now a duo,...

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Awesome! How Awe Expands Time

21/07/2012

'Time expands in the tube'. So said 1970s pro-surfer Wayne Lynch, referring to the delicate art of tuberiding. It's since become a maxim, a cliche, a canard – used by clothing...

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Ready-Marinated Fish. Scientists find elevated caffeine levels off coastal Oregon

20/07/2012

Now it becomes clear why anglers like to fish at night. Turns out that their piscine prey can't sleep either. In the fishy food chain, it pays to be alert. Caffeine levels in coastal waters off...

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Sexual Fantasies Don’t Vary from Men to Women

19/07/2012

You remember that old joke about 99% of men admit to masturbating, 1% admit to being liars? Seems that the respondents of a Spanish study into sexual fantasy haven't heard it. Fantasizing about...

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Thurston Moore returns to Cafe OTO

18/07/2012

The need for speed. Usually we try to write a little bit of blurb to go with events listings, before pasting in the relevant information from the venue. Not even going to attempt that on this one...

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The Fouth Height and Urs Bigler bring The Crown to London

17/07/2012

Erarta Galleries London with The Fourth Height + Urs Bigler bring The Crown to Diamond Jubilee London. The photographic exhibition is “the multicultural trash- dreaming” vision of The...

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We Are Scientists Cancel UK Shows

16/07/2012

We Are Scientists come out with the most endearing apology of the year, involving the spectre of the ever-revolting French contribution to the planet's ghastliest foodstuffs. Due to problems with...

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Final Womad Lineup – released!

16/07/2012

With the folk and ethnic scene becoming a greater and greater presence in UK music this year's WOMAD is looking to rule the roost with some serious heavy hitters in Hugh Maskela and Jimmy Cliff...

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Cambridge Folk Festival sets sights high!

16/07/2012

Eclectic and expansive, as the Cambridge Folk Festival should be, the list of acts is now immense. Among the ones to look out for ar June Tabor and the Oyster Band, especially if they play that Joy...

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