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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

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Win your band a chance to open for Evile

15/07/2012

Win your band a chance to open for Evile...

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Period Drama: How Hollywood Misrepresents Menstruation

13/07/2012

And if the word 'menstruation' makes you go 'Eeeewwwwww!', maybe the reasearcher has a valid point. An Australian study has criticized Hollywood's portrayal of menstruation,...

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Period Drama: How Hollywood Misrepresents Menstruation

13/07/2012

And if the word 'menstruation' makes you go 'Eeeewwwwww!', maybe the reasearcher has a valid point. An Australian study has criticized Hollywood's portrayal of menstruation,...

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Hubble telescope sights fifth Pluto moon

12/07/2012

Five moons, and STILL not considered a real planet. It's enough to make a person suspect that there is some Plutonian committee based on that distant rock trying to reclaim the status it held for...

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Salute: A Tribute to Human RIghts Olympians

11/07/2012

Wednesday 11 July, London – Gold medallists Tessa Sanderson, Denise Lewis, Dame Tanni Grey Thompson and other medal winning Olympians such as Jamie Baulch and Mark Foster will join...

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Saddlesore? Or too numb to even know?

10/07/2012

Topical news for the day that Bradley Wiggins struts along the streets of Southern France, resplendent in the Maillot Jaune of the world’s greatest cycling race. Six hours and more perched upon...

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Wine Intolerance: The Signs

08/07/2012

Stumbling, hugging your best mate, vowing to 'get those bashtids' or developing a bluey-black tongue do not count as valid symptoms of a wine allergy. Around seven percent of adults suffer...

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Most accurate walking robot yet

07/07/2012

Well, accurate it may be, but it depends upon who you're copying. Not exatly jello on springs, is it? A group of US researchers has produced a robotic set of legs which they believe is the first...

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Marxism 2012 – Kicks Off!

06/07/2012

This years Maxism festival is a packed with speakers and events for the more politically ideologic of Trebuchet readers.  This years topics will obviously centre around the arab spring and the...

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King of the Swingers: Orang Utans Efficiency Examined

06/07/2012

Next, scientists examine the best method for lobbing a turd at gawpers. Urban athletes show that for orangutans, it pays to sway Swaying trees is the way to go, if you are a primate crossing the...

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Website finds horny women via their reading matter

05/07/2012

Pity those of us too superannuated to be young, free and single in the age of the app. Back in the day, discovering whether a potential female partner was in the mood for frolicsome fun was a...

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The Shadow of an Atom: Photographed

04/07/2012

Makes the zoom feature on your iPhone seem a little feeble by comparison. In an international scientific breakthrough, a Griffith University research team has been able to photograph the shadow of a...

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Trojan Records, Clarks Originals and Toddla T Collaboration

03/07/2012

Whether Trojan records teamong up with shoe-makers Clarks originals counts as a masterstroke of brand identitification, or an inducement of harrowing post-traumatic flashbacks, really depends upon...

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Blur – latest tracks – “The Puritan” & “Under The Westway” available for consideration

02/07/2012

BLUR – “The Puritan” & “Under The Westway”  In case you missed it…  This evening, from the rooftop of their west London studio, Blur performed...

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Brompton Dock – Virgin Trains supports Bike Hire Scheme

02/07/2012

Finally a UK bike scheme that supports UK manufacturers.  Press Release:  Bromptondock folding cycle hire scheme launches in Stoke-on-Trent Second dock for Virgin Trains installed at the...

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Spiritualized: New Video

02/07/2012

On the same day as the Pet Shop Boys release a (very dull) video, the manic visual energy of a life spent conducting unofficial pharmaceutical research on oneself makes itself apparent in the...

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Pet Shop Boys: New Single

02/07/2012

Sounds like Pachabel's Canon is getting (yet) another runthrough. This time by those purveyors of dance music (for people who don't dance), Pet Shop Boys. Not the most frenetic of videos...

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“A Progress” enters crowd-sourced preproduction.

02/07/2012

Local theatre group and Trebuchet Alumni 'Beggars Belief' are you asking you to take a look at their proposal 'A Progress' and if so inclined support them. On the basis the it...

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Fastest Pulsar Ever Found?

01/07/2012

Researchers using three different telescopes — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton in space, and the Parkes radio telescope in Australia — may have found the...

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Poo Power – Energy from Excrement

28/06/2012

Energy from excrement: Scientists have invented a new toilet system that will turn human waste into electricity...

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Shimi, the musical robot

27/06/2012

Sex, drugs? Bet it doesn't even ask for an advance on royalties. Wedding DJs everywhere should be worried about job security now that a new robot is on the scene. Shimi, a musical companion...

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Mikhael Paskalev’s ‘Jive Babe’

27/06/2012

Contributing to the buzz-mongering, hype-aggregating, SEO-chasing churnalism that passes for music writing in the era of revenue-by-pageview web publishing makes irritating little tics spasm under...

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The Other Shades of Grey

26/06/2012

Oh come on, let the old folks get it on if they want to. Institutionalised infantalisation blights the provision of care for the old, and for all that we may quip smugly to ourselves about friction...

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Declining Testosterone is Not Natural

25/06/2012

'"Also, regular sexual activity tends to increase testosterone," he explained.' An interesting interpretation of the realities of marriage there from Gary Wittert MD (professor of...

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Work starts on fossil fuel free cargo ship

24/06/2012

Arr Harr! Swab the decks you lazy lubbers! Hoist the mainbrace, keelhaul the yardarm and pack the bilges with legal-under-maritime-law Filipino crewmen working for slave wages. Working sail is coming...

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Good parenting more beneficial than money

23/06/2012

The relief that this news piece prompts in a sizeable number of male readers will be tangible from the moon. Sons of fathers with high incomes tend to end up with higher than average incomes...

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Sex and Love: The Brain Knows the Difference

21/06/2012

It seems sad but significant, that the research methodology involved used erotic pictures to stimulate sexual desire, but a picture of the subject's 'significant other' to provoke...

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Pirate Bay Evades BT Blocks within Minutes

20/06/2012

The obligation to block access to the Pirate Bay was volubly resisted by BT and many of the communications group's UK competitors....

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Methane Levels Threaten Florida

19/06/2012

Florida's going to drown, and although the study that suggests it is focussed on melting icecaps, it's pretty obvious that all those noxious methane cowfarts have something to do with it. Is...

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FOUNDation builds houses from skips

18/06/2012

'Dumpsterhouses', a concept developed by Utrecht-based radical recyclers Foundation take the instantly recognisable structure of the refuse skip, and uses it as the basis to create small...

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