Trebuchet Issue 4

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Bricks and Mortar has good news in store

When brick-and-mortar stores were added, consumers made more frequent purchases overall....

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Megatron or Optimus Prime : Which Leader Are You?

The Transformers' characters and the stories told in the cartoon are a modern example of traditional folklore as a means of educating individuals about leadership....

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10x the Speed! Boosting Wifi with Photodiodes

The system can potentially send data at up to 100 megabits per second....

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That serotonin high is a gut feeling

It is estimated that 90 percent of the body's serotonin is made in the digestive tract....

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Fish brings Misplaced Childhood back on tour

It was not only a breakthrough album for the band but also for me as an artist because I was finally discovering my own individual style as a lyricist and singer....

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Too scared to sleep? Nightmares and insomnia – the link

Depression and insomnia are strongest risk factors for frequent nightmares ...

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Giving Drones Morphable Wings

This finding will greatly help make flapping winged drones much more robust....

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Defining ‘Natural’. Why ALL food additives need standards.

After decades of debate there remains no generally accepted definition of a "natural" food product....

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Despair, evil, murder and suicide. Monthly Metal Medley

This is like rolling a natural 20 in a particularly bleak game of D&D. You’ve lucked out, and the Gods do smile upon thee, which is certainly a step up from most weeks when it’s more like an...

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Wigger, Wigga, Once Again

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”F/dropcapurther musings on whether we were racist to use the term ‘wigga’ in a Trebuchet article…. Wigga. The word...

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All about that Vertebral Wedging

Men prefer women who exhibit specific angles of spinal curvature over buttock mass...

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Cannibalisation: recycling of recyclings of recyclings [Asmus Tietchens : Fahl]

Does the strategy of infinite recycling accrue a new aesthetic or degrade the existing one?...

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Turbulent times : The Physics of Clouds

Being based in London, Trebuchet gets quite a lot of practise with clouds. Next up: The physics of black nose-crust/Tube bogies? In 1941, Russian physicist Andrey Kolmogorov developed a theory of...

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I Want it NOW! How Rarity Affects Desire

Psychologists have long known that you can make a consumer good more desirable by making it appear rare. ...

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Maximum Social Network = Minimum Disaster Impact

Having more extensive social networks is sort of a backup strategy for people....

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Meditating For Eternal Youth

UCLA researchers found that meditation appeared to help preserve the brain's gray matter, the tissue that contains neurons....

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Zakk Wylde [Black Label Society] : Interview

I always tell kids that you gotta have passion for whatever it is you're playing. It's easier said than done....

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Ramblin’ Man Fair [25-26 July]

Blues, Classic rock, country, prog, gourmet food, a beer festival, spoken word stage, music cinema, luxury camping and accommodation. Hoo YAH!...

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Privatising Child Protection

Protection of vulnerable children is not possible if those delivering the services are not obliged to follow established rules....

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The Male Gaze is a Fact (but there’s a catch)

Women were viewed more frequently and for longer periods of time - even when their photos were blended in groups of both genders ...

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On Working at Barnes and Noble

“You want to be a writer,” Kelly said. “Why don’t you work at Barnes & Noble?” “I wear clothes, too. Maybe I should get a job in a sweatshop.”...

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Walking Wins for Health and Happiness

Walkers experienced improvements in lung power, overall physical functioning, and general fitness, and were less depressed....

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Arboretum : Royal West of England Academy

Fittingly, many of the paintings also included in this show are left raw and unframed, exposed to the elements – and artistic scrutiny....

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Nuanced Chuckles with Charlie Hebdo : Free Speech and the Freedom to Complain

You can make your case and express your view, but riling up the worst elements and trolling isn’t free speech; it’s just being an antisocial jerk....

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Optimistic People Have Healthier Hearts

Individuals' total health scores increased in tandem with their levels of optimism....

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Loitered Lens : Aynsley Lister

Following the fine tradition of the post-Christmas photo issue, photographs of rock guitarist Aynsley Lister live at Farnham Maltings...

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Biofuel Gets Better

Using a systems approach to identify protein-DNA interactions, scientists home in on more efficient biofuel sources....

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Cancer : Do You Feel Lucky?

You can add to your risk of getting cancers by smoking or other poor lifestyle factors. However, many forms of cancer are due largely to... bad luck. report...

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Nick Lord : Realising The Truth [Interview]

When I first started to draw, I was massively influenced by the expressionists. Egon Schiele in particular. From them I learned the importance of breaking away from tradition...

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Zeitkratzer : WHITEHOUSE

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapithin the institutionalised avant-garde, overt but actually often inert rule-breaking is the norm. There are numerous hidden codes...

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