Trebuchet Issue 4

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50 Years of Social Progress. Reversed.

People born in the 1960’s and 70’s will retire poorer than their parents...

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How to Castrate a Hippo

The procedure is notoriously difficult due to problems with anaesthesia and difficulties in locating the testes....

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Suicide Stigma Still Survives

Explaining why suicide is stigmatized and often considered a taboo topic of conversation...

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Spooks in the Machine : The NSA and Gaming

While the leaks continue to prove the extent to which American spy agencies are willing to circumvent and undercut civil liberties, what is more shocking is just how paranoid and out of touch spy...

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A Christmas Consumer Guide to Ethical Food

Talking Turkey: A Christmas Consumer Guide to Ethical Food...

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Fighting Festive Flab

A daily bout of exercise generates vast physiological benefits even when you consume thousands of calories more than you are burning...

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David Lynch : Remixes

Sitting alongside brand new tracks and previously unreleased instrumental versions are a slew of stunning remixes from the varied likes of Bastille, Hot Since 82, Venetian Snares and Bjorn Yttling...

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Facebook Makes Girls Feel Fat

"Appearance exposure" on the Internet has been linked to body image disturbance among adolescent girls....

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Sexual Frustration = Early Death

'Expecting sex without any sexual reward was detrimental to their health and cut their lives short.' At least they don't get into fights....

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Marriage? Trust Your Gut (Not Tinder)

"If they can sense that their gut is telling them that there is a problem, then they might benefit from exploring that, maybe even with a professional marriage counselor."...

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Engage! Analytics for Musicians and Creatives

Smart use of analytics can help music companies justify every penny and cent invested in marketing campaigns by identifying who their fans are...

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TJ Clark : Picasso and Truth

Clark interprets Picasso’s output in the 1920s as a time marking the end of intimacy and proximity – the end of ‘close-ups’ to things one knows in daily life. ...

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One (Injured) Man and his Nail Gun

Young males in the work environment are at greatest risk of sustaining a nail gun injury to their non-dominant hand...

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A False Sense of Security

Two years ago, I left the US for Europe and Africa. Upon my return, I found a nation that had traded away vaunted ideals for a false sense of security....

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Gonzo Bikery in Huntington Beach

To be truthful we built the bike as an inside joke. A thumb in the air to every motorcycle cool guy trope we've ever come across. ...

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Dear Media, Where Were You?

A few days ago on 5th November, hacktivist group Anonymous succeeded in mobilising hundreds of thousands of people in 477 locations in over 150 countries around the world. ...

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Peru Maravilloso [Album]

If the material is jaunty and lacking in nose-flutes it is because this is a reflection of Peruvian popular music in the 60s/70s, not some anthropological/musicological quest for an imposed...

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The Savage Nomads : Reunited Lovers [Interview]

It is quite shocking how much people take for granted these days; how easy it is record songs by yourself so quickly. Embrace it!...

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We’re masochists (Imperial Teen)

'We're not in a gay band, we're just in a band. On the other hand we're not NOT in a gay band, I just think 'who cares?'' Imperial Teen interview....

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Lux Lives – Long Live Lux Interior

We raise a large glass in honour of Lux coming into this world and into our lives. Long live Lux Interior. One very important message from the scriptures of Interior is to love life, live with a...

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Liu Xiaodong at Lisson Gallery

There is a modesty and complexity in the self-aware theatricality of his approach that eschews any defined categories or cultural heritage...

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Thatcher: I’m Glad She’s Dead

On Thatcher's birthday weekend, we look back on her demise...

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Puke-Perfumed Lampreys Looking for Love

Sea lampreys and silver lampreys were drawn upstream by the smell of bile salts. Only the sea lampreys, though, swam in looking for love...

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Art of Peace : Artraker Award Winners

In conflict, art and creativity can counter some of the media’s shortcomings in communicating the horrors of war and oppression, and remind us of the need to turn our attention, instead, to peace....

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NHS Gagging Order Fight Intensifies

An incredible 8,222 38 Degrees members, from all across the UK, have donated to help turn up the heat on key MPs about the gagging law. The campaigners are near their target but they need your help....

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Mythbusting: Large Immigrant Families and Poverty

The number of children in immigrant families is not the primary reason more children are living in poverty, a Rutgers study has found....

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What’s Behind The Mask?

Trebuchet's debate about banning full-face veils rears its partially obscured head again...

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Breaking Bad: The Aesthetics of Aspirational Evil

Vince Gilligan has said in interviews that Breaking Bad started as an idea of creating show in which a sympathetic protagonist became a terrifying antagonist. Revisiting the show, this becomes clear....

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The Songs of Lovecraft’s Children

Gary Hill won’t make a fortune from The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft, or be interviewed on breakfast TV about it, but it had to be written....

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The Meat Puppets [Live]

Trippy and meandering as the hastily recorded studio version of themselves, live, the Meat Puppets just about delivered the goods musically. ...

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