Trebuchet Issue 4

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If You’d Like Less Brain Volume, Press the Red Button Now.

Neurologists suggest that poor physical fitness in middle age may be linked to a smaller brain size later on....

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Got some spinifex on ya, cock? Bio-Engineering Superthin Condoms

Fibers from the Australian native spinifex grass are being used to improve latex that could be used to make condoms as thin as a human hair without any loss in strength...

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Thwack! Feel the Flow with Pressure-Sensitive Rubber Gloves

More than mere Marigolds, Tokyo University researchers develop pressure-sensitive rubber gloves for medical workers....

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(Turk) (Must) (Do) (Better) A Critical Review of Wittgenstein’s Dream

Can we safely dismiss Freudian psychoanalysis with the lancet of irony? Or does the attempt fail? Gavin Turk at the Freud Museum ...

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Eat Your Way to Better Sleep

Diet-based recommendations might be used to improve sleep in those with poor sleep quality...

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What’s 570 billion times brighter than our sun? The Millisecond Magnetar

Astronomers study what may be the most powerful supernova ever seen...

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When Society Starts to Eat Itself: Dystopia (Megadeth)

Lyrics decrying the state of today's society delivered with a backdrop of technically precise and relentless thrash, Mustaine and his boys prove that there is still life in the Megadeth machine. ...

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Sweat it Out. Cracking Lower Back Pain

Exercise associated with prevention of low back pain ...

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Smug-Shaming, or Why We Love to Hate Hippies

When you don't seek out ethical products, you denigrate those who do...

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Mind of Blue. The Neuroscience of the Minor Key

Study of jazz pianists finds 'happy' and 'sad' music evoke different neural patterns...

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Did You Really Want to do That? Free Will Gets Computer Analysed

Berlin researchers test mechanisms involved in decision-making...

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Machine Intelligence Can Save the Planet. But do we trust it (not to kill us)?

Can human-machine superintelligence can solve the world's direst problems?...

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War, Government, and Surveillance (Killing Joke, live at the Roundhouse)

Timely musings on Killing Joke at the Roundhouse, London. UK. November 6th 2015 ...

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Cloudy Clouds and Cloudier Clouds. Where’s the Powder At?

Scientists discover that salty sea spray affects clouds ...

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Sounds Unfair: The Plight of Britain’s Independent Music Venues

A quiet disaster has been happening in our town and city centres, only now are we doing something about it...

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Lo-Tech Innovation Proves Grate news for the Environment

Small metal grate makes big impact on environment and health ...

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Episodic or Semantic: What’s Your Memory Type?

New research shows that the tendency to remember episodic details versus facts is reflected in intrinsic brain patterns...

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Will Work For Pies: Providing Food Makes Better Workers

Breaking bread with colleagues boosts productivity. The benefits of providing food at work...

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Heads Up! Ways to Recognise Phonebies and Digital Deadwalkers

Distracted Walking: a Serious Issue for You, not Me...

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Not Painless. Stuart Semple’s ‘My Sonic Youth’ Addresses Male Suicide

If you're male and under 45, suicide is your most likely cause of death. Stuart Semple's recent project My Sonic Youth addresses the issue....

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The Other Dave: The Tory Leader We Could Have Had

The man Cameron beat to the Tory leadership proves how different things could’ve been...

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Still Not Like Everybody Else: Q&A with Dave Davies (The Kinks)

Originator of the power riff, Dave Davies answers five questions for Trebuchet...

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A Human Instinct for War? Sociologist Hugh Gusterson Explains

Terrorism is a tactic. You usually fight war against a constituent. It’s hard to fight a war against a tactic. - Interview with Hugh Gusterson, sociologist ...

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The Death Ray Goes Underground (Comix, S Clay Wilson, Robert Crumb)

Underground comix gave space to bold and innovative talents who thrived in the ‘anything goes’ atmosphere following the summer of love....

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But does it WORK? The Power of Magical Thinking

Even smart, educated, emotionally stable adults believe in superstitions that they recognize are unreasonable....

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Can We Talk About JOHN? (DV8 Physical Theatre)

Provocative, poignant and unashamedly full-frontal, DV8's John is a rough diamond of confrontational theatre...

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White Light, Infinity and a Love of Life (Swans Remasters)

Swans continue their remastered reissues series on Mute / Young God Records...

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How do Physicists Play Quantum Billiards?

How to tune a laser to make atoms attract or repel each other in an exotic state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate...

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Self-Propelling Healing Powder Stops Internal Bleeding

First self-propelled particles capable of delivering coagulants against the flow of blood to treat severe bleeding...

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Stretching Your Spacelegs for a Landing on Mars: NASA’s Workout

Assault courses on Mars? NASA studies physical performance after spaceflight...

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