Tag: research

Why Do We Have Eyebrows? Finally We Have an Evolutionary Explanation

Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution...

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Anxiety, Depression, Sleep: A Lethal Cocktail if the Proportions are Wrong

People who sleep less than 8 hours a night more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety ...

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Lose Weight Without Exercise? Enter the Fat Conversion Patch

New patch aims to turn energy-storing fats into energy-burning fats ...

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Staggering Scenes: The Fine Art of Neurocinematic Studies

On the treadmill, no-one can hide. New techniques of pre-testing audience response...

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High Times, Blue Rinses. Drug Abuse and the Elderly

Many elderly people are receiving and using prescription medications inappropriately ...

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Loitered Lens : Arena

Arena’s brand of heavy neo-prog is as cheesy as hell. But they do the whole thing so well it just doesn’t matter...

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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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The Archive : Obsession, Festivals and Time

There are so many regulations. I think the way the UK is policed these days it would be very difficult to do free festivals...

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Mystic Chemist: The LSD Biography of Albert Hofmann

' a chemist who does not get mystic looking at the wonders of creation that he's researching is not a real chemist' - Albert Hofmann...

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What Money Can’t Buy – The Moral Limits of Markets [Review]

Like all manifestations of human agency, the market is just a tool, a means of negotiating and managing resources. If the markets can corrupt or wreck havoc, it is because we let them. ...

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Mrs T’s Southern Stuffed Ham

I will be thinking of Maggie when I next have a big ol’ lick...

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The most surreal science article ever.

transposable elements, or jumping genes, which are largely idle in mammals...

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The Benefits Cap: Four Things We Have Learned

The Conservatives’ only hope is an improvement in economic growth, and as their actions have cut rather than encouraged consumer spending, this grows ever more unlikely....

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English Grads: Less Useless Than You Thought

'is there any research on how unemployable an English graduate is? As it happens, yes.' ...

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Foreign Invaders Cost Taxpayer £1.7bn

An acceptable price to pay?...

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