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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

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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Hotel Room Microbes Like TV Too

18/06/2012

Well at least it shows that people in hotels wash their hands after using the toilet. It comes as something of a surprise that in a study on microbial levels in hotel rooms, that bathroom door...

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Bedwyr Williams bound for Venice Bienniale

17/06/2012

Bedwyr Williams in a project jointly curated by Mostyn and Oriel Davies and supported by the Arts Council of Wales will be the artist to represent Wales at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013 International...

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A Scientific Model to Predict Movie Flops

16/06/2012

A group of Japanese scientists have surprised themselves by being able to predict the success or failure of blockbuster movies at the box office using a set of mathematical models. The researchers...

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Bella Union sign The Flaming Lips

15/06/2012

Perhaps a little bit of shutting the stable doors after the horse has bolted, seeing as the news was all over Twitter a couple of days ago, but indie label Bella Union announce today that they have...

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How Elvis Presley Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

14/06/2012

The non-rational interactions of art upon flesh prompt another study into Elvis Presley's music. Or so goes the headline. Reading through the test results, it seems that heavy metal has as...

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UK art trade campaign to stop royalties for artists

13/06/2012

Anyone polluting the comments thread on this story with anecdotal observations along the lines of : 'I'm a plumber, why don't I get a royalty on work I did ten years ago?' can take...

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Nuclear Fusion is Go

11/06/2012

Nuclear Fusion. A goal that has been with us for decades, but always elusive. If it happens, it will change everything. If it doesn't, at least we learned what a torus looks like. Mechanical,...

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The Science of ‘Cool’

09/06/2012

Do rebelliousness, emotional control, toughness and thrill-seeking still make up the essence of coolness? "When I set out to find what people mean by coolness, I wanted to find corroboration of...

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Supersonic festival 2012 Lineup

07/06/2012

Supersonic festival is the most intensely purifying music event of any year. 2012 brings us a resplendent line-up of discordant wonder that is an absolutely must for any discerning music fan....

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Bloodstock announce mystery headliner

06/06/2012

Bloodstock announce mystery headliner...

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Sex sells. Except to geeks and hicks

06/06/2012

Put a pretty girl on the stage and more people will come to your gig. Sad fact, but it's true.''It takes more explicitness to grab our attention than before" says researcher Tom...

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A glass of wine and a Gauloise: European teens smoke and drink more than Americans

04/06/2012

Cafe culture, the imagined nirvana of British politicians who have based their idea of European quotidian life on their experiences of Provencal mountain retreats and Dordogne riverside bistros. Not...

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Slingshots and Fishtanks to tackle Artillery

03/06/2012

Qualifies as essential news simply because we're Trebuchet, and we're a little bit obsessed with machines that fling things. Hence the name. What do you get when you combine a slingshot, a...

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