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

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

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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(A little) More known about potential asteroid impact

02/06/2012

The work of a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor has helped reveal a rare orbital shift and the density of an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. Josh Emery, assistant professor of...

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Twitter Propaganda Exposed

01/06/2012

'Astroturfing'. You probably already know the term. If you don't, learn it now, and the practice it describes. A centrally-planned and sophisticated campaign deliberately made to look...

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Men’s offices are muckier, it’s official

31/05/2012

Well, it's hardly surprising that men's offices have more bacteria than women's. Using the car keys to clean out earwax isn't something we associate with women, after all. And...

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Tav Falco London in-store

30/05/2012

Post-modern pop classicist TavFalco makes rare appearance in London to promote psychogeographical book. Tav Falco was cool before cool was cool. Or so the internet would have us believe. He is, in...

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Scots Die Younger. Why?

30/05/2012

'Income inequality, welfare policy and unemployment do not occur by accident, but as a product of the politics pursued by the government of the day'. And that statement goes a long way to...

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Solvent Abuse Hits the Uneducated Harder

29/05/2012

Solvent abuse hits the uneducated harder because they lack 'a greater cognitive reserve that acts like a buffer'. So essentially, you can nosebag that tube of contact glue till your face...

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GV Art launch ‘Coming of Age’

29/05/2012

'Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of ageing' – Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication GV Art's cross-curricular investigations into the meeting points of art and...

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Planning Permission comes to the Moon

27/05/2012

You remember those title deeds to a chunk of the moon they used to sell in the back pages of newspapers back in the days when space exploration was the sole preserve of the superpowers? Well, just in...

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Get Ready for Venus Transit of the Sun

26/05/2012

Scientists and amateur astronomers around the world are preparing to observe the rare occurrence of Venus crossing the face of the Sun on 5-6 June, an event that will not be seen again for over a...

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Invisibility Cloaks One Step Nearer

25/05/2012

Advances in cloaking technology have rarely been as exciting as they should be, mostly being based around the unwieldy idea of covering military vehicles with pixellated monitor surfaces much the...

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Hevy Fest lineup already looking amazing – Meshuggah

24/05/2012

Trebuchet had so much fun last year that again we're looking to rock the flock out of commercial punk!  How awesome was it?  Almost too much and this year's line-up is already...

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Henpecking husbands improves their diet – for a while

24/05/2012

A 'landslide of food'. Seems that the henpecked man's act of defiance is not significantly different to the dieting woman's ice-cream pigout. Healthy eating is a fine idea, but when...

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Combichrist on tour

24/05/2012

Combichrist are a selected band of very noisey power electronic chums… devoted to dirty industrial groove and trash.  …and they're on tour!  Of course it would be great if...

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Bob Wayne and the Outlaw Carnies – Competition

23/05/2012

312 shows in a year, 17 different countries. Bob Wayne puts in the miles, and he'll be doing this shit  till the wheels fall off this muthafucker. “I’ve always known I wanted to...

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Violent video games turning gamers into deadly shooters

22/05/2012

Well, duh! But never mind, perhaps the other part of the phenomenon involves gamers being able to heal serious gunshot wounds by walking into floating red cross packages. Violent video games turning...

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Hot Chip: New Video

21/05/2012

Hot Chip continue the build with another new video, this time for 'Night and Day'. Peter Serafinovitz is back behind the cameras on directorial duties, after his initial collaboration with...

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Sports slow your brain

20/05/2012

'students who participated in contact sports scored significantly lower in memory and learning skills than expected' "These results were found shortly after the season and we do not know...

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