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Why Computers Can’t Tell Jokes

Unlike digital computers, which are designed to follow rules, the computations performed by the neural networks that make up our brain are inherently context dependent...

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What’s That Smell? Gaming and Ignored Body Signals

What's that smell? Immersive video games can numb you to realizing important body signals in real life....

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Clean Hands Cause Unfounded Optimism

Test subjects who washed their hands after a task were more optimistic than those who did not wash their hands, but it hampered their future performance in the same task domain...

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Peter Van Hoesen : Life Performance

This was a very spirited performance. It has the sound quality of a studio recording but the energy and sudden shifts of a live set...

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Israeli Scientist Finds Un-Gay Insects

Tel Aviv University researchers insist that their same-sex mating insects are NOT gay. No sir. No gay bugs here in Israel....

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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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Hanging Offence : Arebyte Gallery

'We intend to make Arebyte a space dedicated to research and the practice of New Media and Performance arts.' Nimrod Vardi talks to Trebuchet...

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These Hidden Hands [Album]

Here the nostalgia isn't simplistically or naively wistful, but darker and tenser....

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Druids, Magic Mushrooms and Cultural Memory

Iron Age Druids might have known about and used magic mushrooms even if there's no way of testing it....

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The Beat Instrumental

Without sung text the listener was invited to create an entire narrative based on only the title and the music itself. You had to do a little (imaginative) work. ...

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Hanging Offence : Vitrine, Bermondsey Street

There is nothing better than entering an artist’s studio and just knowing that by collaborating with this person something amazing can be created...

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Pierre Deutschmann : Betroit

It would have been all too easy to attempt this kind of fusion cynically or unimaginatively, but Berliner Pierre Deutschmann manouevres around these traps with great skill....

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Monocentric Lens for Pin-Sharp Surveillance

'Next year, we'll build an 85-megapixel imager with a 120-degree field of view, more than a dozen sensors, and an F/2 lens – all in a volume 'roughly the size of a walnut'...

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De-Strat-Shun : Victoria and Albert Museum

Destroying a Fender Stratocaster and the resultant noise, David Austin performs De-Strat-Shun at the Victoria and Albert Museum...

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Let your fingers do the talking

When the communicator's finger slightly rubs an everyday object, the physical interaction creates an ad hoc speaker that makes it possible to hear the recorded sounds....

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Douglas Dare : Seven Hours [EP]

Devoid of histrionics, of 'emotional' treatments, and of cloying sentimentality. Dare's presentation of the songs is instead factual, crisp and resigned....

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Ker-Schnick! Carbon Nanotube Saw Developed

Science comes one step closer to sci-fi with the development of the carbon-nanotube saw....

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Two-way Killer. Guns Cause Lung Malfunction

Ironic. Fumes from military arms are causing a decline in lung function shortly after firing practice. ...

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What’s in your pee?

Urine analysis using colour, taste and smell (called uroscopy) was one of the primary methods early physicians used to diagnose disease. Even today, millions of chemically based urine tests are...

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Do Pauses in Texting Mean Lies?

We are starting to identify signs given off by individuals that aren't easily tracked by humans...

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The Sorry Tale Of Universal Credit

Any attempt at reforming social security based on the nonsensical myth that unemployed people are responsible for unemployment is bound to end in disaster. ...

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Important podcasts to Improve Your Life.

In podcasts alternative media has become truly democratised: anyone with a point of view can reach an audience (and by repeating the process achieve fame) with little technical knowledge and less...

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Round 2 : The Gagging Law fight.

The latest update and links to more information as well as how you can get involved in the fight against the latest gagging law legislation....

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New Element Discovery Confirmed

Lund University researchers discover new, super-heavy element. As yet un-named, expect to see it prefixing the word 'Metal' in record reviews sometime soon....

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Mice on Cocaine

For mice, "learning about the drug" can mean seeking it out to the exclusion of meeting other needs...

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Video Games (Don’t) Cause Violence Shocker

General forms of youth violence were linked with aggressiveness and stress rather than with video game violence...

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Words and Pictures. Which is Which?

Hearing the word for the object that was being suppressed boosted that object into their vision...

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Somaticae : Catharsis

A totally distinctive set of odd atmospheres, abrupt gear shifts and unique combinations that sticks in the mind...

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The Trouble With Harry

If, by purposeful default, the authorities allow the streets to become a cesspit, don’t be surprised if the people secretly long for the protection of a Police State...

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Simon Fowler : Interview

Using a style reminiscent of Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, Fowler's labour intensive work has complemented the avant garde work of Dub and Bass group The Bug, doom sonicists Sun O))), Jap-rock...

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