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How Much for a Booty Call?! The Danger of Sentimental Purchases

16/03/2016

Beware the dewy-eyed late-night online shopping session. Love trumps budget in sentimental buys....

The Other Kind of Twitterstorm. Using Social Media for Natural Disaster Assessment

14/03/2016

Could social networks used in the assessment of damage caused by natural disasters?...

Genocide By a Thousand Tory Cuts. (Employment and Support Allowance Slashed)

11/03/2016

Make no mistake about it: Persistent Tory cuts to disability benefits are a gradual, unglamorous, and barely reported-upon genocide. Essay...

Do You Feel Lucky? Overconfidence and Intelligence – The Link

09/03/2016

Those who think intelligence is fixed have confidence exceeding their ability...

How Much Did YOU Save for Your Pension This Week? The Precariat Class Goes Europe-Wide

08/03/2016

New report finds Europe-wide shift towards weaker job security and employment support ...

Can You Remember These Effects of Long Term Stress?

06/03/2016

Long-term stress erodes memory. Study in mice places blame on immune system...

Will Driverless Cars Mean More Congestion?

28/02/2016

Driverless cars could increase reliance on roads ...

Subject Matters: Searching for The Perfect Pop Music Lyric

28/02/2016

Man and The Echo’s Gareth Roberts waxes lyrical about the importance of good lyrics in pop music....

Digital Practise Makes Reality Perfect. Yes, motion-controlled video games help you learn.

20/02/2016

Motion-controlled video games may improve real world skills ...

Adios, Sandernistas, Clintons Don’t Take Kindly to Revolution

19/02/2016

Slurs and superdelegates. Now that Sanders has rattled the Clinton camp, the slapdown begins. Essay...

The Timeline of Being a Woman

17/02/2016

Political activist Lisa Muggeridge chronicles the ways culture, politics and society combine to control women's lives....

One of Us? Identity Politics and How Donald Trump Rides Them

13/02/2016

Still trying to understand the appeal of Donald Trump? The slick shortcut of identity politics, explained....

The Celestial Time Capsule is Your Chance to Send a Message into Space

11/02/2016

Artistic space odyssey to broadcast people's messages to the stars ...

Trumped, But Not Out. Identity Politics in America, and the new Other

06/02/2016

An essay on how demographics have changed America, and how this affects the politics of identity....

Edging It, Or Not. The One Small Step that Stops Teens Taking Risks

31/01/2016

Teenagers are notorious risktakers, but new research suggests there is a way to calm them down. Report...

David Bowie, Time Travel and a film called Interstellar

29/01/2016

Reminiscences of Bowie are Proustian moments of total recall, but they can also link generations. A story of memory and hope ...

Psst, Keep this to yourself: How to Expose Massive Conspiracies

28/01/2016

Equation shows that large-scale conspiracies would quickly reveal themselves. But maybe that's just What They Want You To Think! Or not. Perhaps. ...

Early Kinship and Community Displayed at Newly-Examined Spanish Megalithic Tomb

25/01/2016

Neolithic megalithic tomb in Spain comprehensively examined for the first time ...

Real Life or Social Media – How Many Friends is Too Many?

22/01/2016

Are you really my friend? Social media isn't the same as real life, but a new study suggests the same skills apply. How does it all work?...

David Bowie, Cuts, and Why ‘Culture’ is becoming Another Planet

16/01/2016

Bowie's mere presence personified the power and relevance of a cultured society that appreciated and allowed him to emerge and for the rest of us to reach for those rewarding stars as well...

Good goods: Why Small Males Might Be More Attractive

11/01/2016

Small males have more sex appeal, new research shows ...

With a Rictus Grin and Another Pint: Surviving The Totally Democratic Bar

11/01/2016

Should we complain if a lot of very average bands and soloists carry on in the belief that they are special?...

Of the flesh and its many variations (Oliver Jones)

02/01/2016

Photorealistic works underscoring the impact that today’s ceaseless stream of beauty-obsessed media can impart...

Can YOU Tell if You’re Facebook Dependent?

30/12/2015

You might have a Facebook dependency. But that's not necessarily a bad thing...

Heretic! Religion and Politics, Causing Mayhem for 2000 Years

26/12/2015

Scientists find: Religion and politics led to social tension and conflict, then and now ...

Screw You, Confucius! Material Purchases Make You Happy

25/12/2015

A recent study from Social Psychological and Personality Science shows material purchases provide more frequent happiness...

Is There Just Too Much of Everything?

25/12/2015

Our digital world of abundance and choice might be shortening our attention spans...

Caring Canines. Do Dogs Do Christmas Too?

23/12/2015

Dogs truly behave prosocially toward other dogs....

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

21/12/2015

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

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