Tag: politics

Words, Phrases and Sentences: The Connective Tissue of Humanity

Poets strive to map the beauty and terror of existence. You have never been alone....

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Neurocinematic Testing: Will It Make You Scream?

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcap t is always hard to predict the response of a massed audience, and almost impossible to objectively assess creative works. In the...

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Alternative Facts and Science Skepticism

Facts, beliefs, and identity: The seeds of science skepticism ...

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Donald Trump Moth Discovered… On the Mexican Border

New species of moth named in honor of Donald Trump ahead of his swearing-in as president ...

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Winter’s Purity: New Model Army, Kentish Town Forum

Protest, Politics, Purity. New Model Army at the Kentish Town Forum...

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Loitered Lens: New Model Army

A welcome return to protest politics and riot rock at Kentish Town Forum. Photos...

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Forget the Protestant Work Ethic. Catholics Are More Committed

Baylor University research suggests Catholics are most committed to their work...

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A Wedding Without a Bagpipe is Like a Funeral

Bagpiping provides a route straight to the heart of another culture....

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Greening the Battlefields (but destroying the planet?) with Transgenic Grass

New grasses neutralize toxic pollution from bombs, explosives, and munitions ...

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Are YOU Nature’s Roundest Thing?

Max Planck Institute scholars answer the question: what is the roundest thing in the universe?...

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Happy Hallowe’en From NASA, With a Bunch of Pumpkin Stars

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcapopical news from NASA couldn’t be more timely on this Hallowe’en day. They’ve found a bunch of stars that look...

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I wanted to actually capture some of the sky. (Interview: Nicola Anthony)

'As a species we adapt. Many suffering, and others denying. This is a classic reaction to trauma.' ...

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Loud and Proud: The (Political) Benefits of Bragging

What boasting buys, and costs, a candidate ...

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It’s A Start: Being Bipolar, Accepting I’m Ill (Mental Health)

The first step to better mental health is accepting there's a problem. ...

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Manifesto for a Future Sonic Programme: Mugako (J.C. )

J.C. delivers abstract and ominous techno soundscapes with a political edge...

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Be As Vile as You Want to Be (Man and the Echo, Lexington)

Trebuchet reports on Man and the Echo at the Lexinton, and finds no need to be vile...

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Abuse, Song, and MS: Laughing at The Doug Anthony All Stars

Brutally funny, irreverent and extremely politically incorrect....

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Loitered Lens: Man and the Echo

Photos of political popsters Man and the Echo at the Lexington, London...

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Just Not the Damned Archers – An Ode to Radio Four

A grown-up relationship that lasts - the erudite but soothing appeal of Radio Four...

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We Can Think That For You Wholesale: Do Think Tanks Work?

Do think-tanks matter? A UBC professor says 'think again' ...

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You Can’t Handle the Truth? The New Censorship

New techniques used to stop journalists covering the news ...

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Boredom Breeds Swivel-Eyed Loons? Existential Ennui and Extremism

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”B/dropcaporedom, it seems, is a contributing cause to political extremism. Evidently, the smartphone age has had its usual inflationary...

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Deeper Into the Hepatitis Bathtub

A booksigning followed by dinner should be simple. In newly-cleansed Manhattan, it's anything but...

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In New York City with the Hepatitis Bathtub

En route to NYC for a NOFX book signing, Scott Laudati takes the Red Sox and racism trail...

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More NHS Weekend Staff Won’t Change Mortality Rates, says The Lancet

Link between weekend hospital staffing and patient deaths represents 'major oversimplification', say two new studies ...

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When All is Dark, Have Faith in Night

By a poetic descent into the underworld, one is confronted with truths that only can be revealed in darkness....

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Heretic! Religion and Politics, Causing Mayhem for 2000 Years

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

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The Other One Percent. What Refugees Really Cost

The fiscal impact of refugees in Sweden ...

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Republic of London? Cities Outperform Countries

The economic significance of cities increases while that of countries falls ...

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No bad religions, only bad apples: Echoes (Henry Naylor)

One very socially relevant idea prevails: religion not as the cause of evil, but as the facilitator for evil people to do evil things....

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