Trebuchet Issue 4

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Nature’s Fairylight : How Fireflies Glow

How fireflies glow. The study is the first to ever show the firefly's lantern in such detail. ...

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11 Months Old and Jailed By Israel

With its brutalization of children, Israel is sowing the seeds for a bloody and hate filled future....

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Carrot or Stick, Which Works?

A "first carrot, then stick" policy can drive cooperation toward a specific goal...

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Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall

A rich document of a remarkable period in the life of the city....

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Stuart Semple : Anxiety Generation

The emotive focus within Semple’s work then is desire and its role in creating anxiety, largely within the intersections of sex, power, or violence. ...

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Fingernails for Stem Cells

Nails: the right signals or environmental cues could induce nail stem cells to generate additional types of tissue. Report...

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All Speed, No Control. Daft Beetles

To take the sprinting gold from the tiger beetle, a person would have to hit 480 miles per hour....

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The BBC Is Snooping on You

The BBC regularly uses spying powers granted under The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, intended for the interception of communications by terrorists....

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Population Growth and Sustainability. Compatible?

Efforts towards sustainability would be directed more productively towards reducing our impact as much as possible through technological and social innovation...

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Richard Dawkins to Guest on Heavy Metal Song

Band reveals the famed evolutionary biologist and atheist writer/leader Richard Dawkins as a guest on their eighth studio album....

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Women and the Fat Brain

male and female brains respond in remarkably different ways to high-fat meals...

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Viagra for Heart Disease

Viagra could be used as a safe treatment for heart disease...

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Niggas, Wiggas, Niggers, Wiggers. Language and the right to self-identify

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcap ow long you niggas ball? All day, nigga. How much time you spent at the mall? All day, nigga. – Kanye West In response to an...

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Hanging Offence : Ronchini Gallery

For me, a controversial work is unconventional, contradicts traditional methods of interpretation and provokes a reaction....

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Francis Dunnery [Interview]

I think it is a dreadful mistake to base your decisions on what an audience might like. Audiences are as fickle as a donkey's tail....

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IntO the mOOn : Passing Clouds [Live]

A self-possessed alternative gypsy rock band whose lyrics resound with those who want to say something but don’t quite know how to say it....

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Stop Snakeoil Sports Sponsorship

For sponsors, event endorsement conveys the message that their products are integral to sporting engagement and achievement. ...

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When The TUC Abandoned Unions

The power of labour to challenge capital is to be absorbed into the benefits system. Trade unions are no longer necessary....

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Rich Robinson [Black Crowes] : Interview

'it’s the imperfection that makes you stand out. Neil Young can sing like Bruno Mars but no one can sing like Neil Young, and a million people can sing like Bruno Mars.' ...

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Looking for Johnny Thunders [Film]

Screening and director Q&A of Looking for Johnny Thunders. Details...

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RIP Colin McQuillan [Photos]

Irreverent and raucous, Runnin' Riot brought a touch of humour and attitude to Northern Ireland's punk scene...

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Busdriver : Perfect Hair

We are understandably fazed when approached by new aspects of music genres that are pushing the dimensions of their own genre to another space and alien neighbourhood. The fazing affect of finding a...

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Dr John : Ske-Dat-De-Dat

This is not offensively bad, or indeed really bad at all, but it feels like an awful waste of potential. ...

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Blame it on Sleep Drunkenness

Sleep drunkenness disorder involves confusion or inappropriate behavior...

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Fretful Smartphone Loss Trauma IS REAL!

The loss of one's smart phone not only represents an immediate disconnection from one's online contacts but is also a potential privacy and security risk...

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NASA Finds Interstellar Stardust

If confirmed, these particles would be the first samples of contemporary interstellar dust....

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Caffeine Reduces TInnitus

Incidence of reported tinnitus was 15 percent lower among those women who consumed 450 to 599 mg/day of caffeine....

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Tolkien, Art & Metal: Paul R. Gregory Interview

This year Bloodstock is summoning visions of the dark lord through an onsite exhibition by Bloodstock festival founder and painter Paul Raymond Gregory....

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Educated and Elitist : Tea Party Thinking

The political polarization that we witness today is linked to the way in which Americans live in segregated worlds...

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Singapore’s Library Board Pulps Books

Should the library be allowed to impose a moralistic "pro-family" (anti-LGBTQ) policy over its public access collections and withdraw those books which do not reflect those so-called "community...

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