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

Lizard spit helps you lose weight

14/05/2012

Could this be the germ of truth in the frog-kissing myth? Those princesses always look delightfully slim after all. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have uncovered a, seemingly obvious,...

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US Army to compost surplus explosives

13/05/2012

But are your exploding vegetables organic? University of Arizona researchers are studying the environmental effects of insensitive munitions compounds, or IMCs, which are new, more stable explosives...

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Smartphones and human interaction

12/05/2012

Just remember the music industry maxim: 'nobody with a smartphone has the authority to write you a cheque'. With endless applications, high-speed wireless Internet access, and free messaging...

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Crime & the City Solution Gearing Up for Tour

11/05/2012

Crime and the City Solution and planning a tour. Oh great spirit this rarest of events has flashed the cloud crossed heavens with elation.  Crime and the city solution NEVER tour… ever....

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Art. A mirror to reflect society, or a hammer to shape it?

11/05/2012

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?               But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,...

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Restricting wi-fi access can’t curb territorial customers

10/05/2012

Oh yeah, you know it. And they haven't even mentioned the wars that take place for control of the plug socket…. CHESTNUT HILL, MA (May 8, 2012) – Increasingly "plugged-in"...

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Viagra: Heartwarming alternative use

09/05/2012

A lovely story. Firstly because it gives us the opportunity to come up with gleeful screamer headlines about giving kids Viagra. Not going to deny it, that's a gift. More importantly though,...

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Maximo Park: New Single/Video

08/05/2012

If you enjoyed This is England, you'll recognize Thomas Turgoose in this. Maximo Park's “Hips and Lips” single and “The National Health” LP out June 11 on V2/...

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A different kind of gas giant.

08/05/2012

What's that smell? Sauropod dinosaurs could have produced enough of the greenhouse gas methane to warm the climate many millions of years ago, at a time when the Earth was warm and wet....

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The Pork Gene

08/05/2012

Pork chops, bacon, sausages, stew. Your mouth may be watering just from reading their names. Or perhaps it's gone bone-dry and you're trying desperately to rid your mind of the images....

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Too Many Batgirls

06/05/2012

Shameful use of the word'batgirl' in the title, we'll admit. But it worked…. Early spring means more bat girls There must be something in the warm breeze. A study on bats by a...

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What’s your dog really thinking about?

05/05/2012

Do you really want to know what your dog is thinking? What if it's really cynical, fully aware that it can gull you into free food and shelter in return for some silly rolling around with its...

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Beastie Boy – Adam Yauch 1964-2012 RIP

04/05/2012

It has been reported that Beastie Boy Adam Yauch lost his fight with cancer today. It's a sad day for partying, tibetan freedom and intelligent hip hop.  Rest in peace.1964 – 2012 BBC...

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City Lights Concert Series: Chips, Blossom and Hopscotch

04/05/2012

City Lights Concert Series: Chips, Blossom and Hopscotch. News work by challenging the edge of music. …  Cathy Lane – Tweed Cathy Lane – Hidden Lives Viv Corringham –...

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Remote Flying Spycams make Sci-Fi a Reality

04/05/2012

Flying robot cameras, once the preserve of sci-fi, enter final development stages. A recent viral YouTube video showed formation-flying quadrocopters with anti-collision technology and...

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Vive le Punk’n’Roll: The Grits & Gypsy Hotel

03/05/2012

Vive Le Rock Magazine in association with Gypsy Hotel Proudly Presents: VIVE LE PUNK’N’ROLL! STARRING: THE GRIT – London’s premier Punk’N’Fuck”N”Roll...

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Head-exploding zombie ants

03/05/2012

Let's get this straight. There is a fungus. It attacks the brain of ants. OK. The fungus causes ants to march off to a mass ant grave. Cripes. Then the fungus spores explode out of the ants'...

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Dopamine impacts your willingness to work

02/05/2012

If you're reading this on one of those slick, white pieces of computer technology that are designed by a company who take great pleasure in marketing themselves as the counterculture, ex-hippy,...

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Supersonic festival Celebrates 10 years

01/05/2012

Supersonic is one of Trebuchet's favourite festivals of the year.  It's so good that normally people are blown away by the music… there is just too much unmissable greatness. ...

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Big girls Don’t Cry: Adolescent women resist negative body image

01/05/2012

So linked are the concepts of body-image and self-esteem in our minds that the premise of this news article prompts a double-take. In fact, there is no reason to assume that the two should be linked...

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UK ISPs Ordered to Block Pirate Bay

30/04/2012

UK internet service providers must block access to The Pirate Bay, a High Court ruling has pronounced today. Destined to be a very unpopular move with internet users, the ruling will nevertheless be...

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A berry-rich diet key to retaining memory skills

30/04/2012

A new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital found that certain berries may delay memory decline in older women. A new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) finds that a...

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Black Sabbath announce intimate Birmingham show

30/04/2012

Trebuchet loves the Sabbath. So Much.  This is going to be very cool.  Read what our writers have had to say about Sabbath in the past.  Birmingham's loudest sons Black Sabbath...

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Acclaimed poet Brendan Cleary in cult magazine relaunch!

30/04/2012

Like the lust of my midnight phoenix bad poetry seems to die and be reborn every three years.    There'll be some event, movie, appointment that brings it into the public eye and...

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Tackling Weight Problems with Hormonal Stimulants

29/04/2012

A drug that can make you skinny? Didn't we already have that one? Ask Iggy Pop…. New drug to tackle fat problems Medical researchers at the University of Sheffield have defined the...

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Drop the big weights. Lower resistance leads to better muscle growth.

27/04/2012

Lifting less weight, more often, leads to better muscle growth. It's hardly the established approach, nor does it lend itself as well to the post-workout bragging sessions about how many kilos...

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Roadrunner Records to Close Europe Office?

26/04/2012

Industry sources say that seminal metal label Roadrunner is to close its Europe Offices.  Speaking to Trebuchet earlier today it was revealed that Roadrunner records is to close it's Europe...

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Location/existence of the g-spot scientifically confirmed

26/04/2012

It's a glacial process, for women, having the realities of their sexual health determined and documented. The mere existence of clitoris or orgasm have only been annotated by western physicians...

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Musicians from Isis and Deftones form new band – Palms

26/04/2012

Musicians from Isis and Deftones form new band - Palms...

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Chocolate Beats Heart Disease

25/04/2012

Sweeeet! San Diego, CA— Chocolate, considered by some to be the "food of the gods," has been part of the human diet for at least 4,000 years; its origin thought to be in the region...

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