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They Say the Devil’s In the Deep End

28/01/2017

When you meet the devil, the only response is to wake and bake...

Neurocinematic Testing: Will It Make You Scream?

24/01/2017

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...

Alternative Facts and Science Skepticism

23/01/2017

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

How Anonymous is Your Anonymous Browser?

22/01/2017

Your 'anonmyized' web browsing history may not be anonymous ...

Strong, but Itchy. Armourers Update the Hairshirt for 2017

21/01/2017

Strength of hair inspires new materials for body armor ...

Need a Cure for Video Gaming Depression? Try Social Media Depression

15/01/2017

Those who play games more than four hours a day may not develop addiction-like problems if they are socially engaged with others...

To Mow a Meadow (Green Scythe Fair)

12/01/2017

Remember where your food comes from. Remember the hands that toiled for you....

Que Bueno! Bilingualism Saves Brains

10/01/2017

Bilingualism may save brain resources as you age ...

Politics? Environment? In the end, all is transitory.

07/01/2017

The human heart, an inveterate time-traveler, knows its way through the honey-hived portals of time. ...

Documents of the Disturbed. Alva Bernadine, New Photography

31/12/2016

A very suburban sort of smut permeates Bernadine's latest series ...

We Don’t ‘Like’: Social Media and Depression

26/12/2016

Multi-social millennials are more likely to be depressed than their peers...

Have An Imaginative Christmas

25/12/2016

Famine, War, Greed. We can fix this. Just add a more rigorous imagination....

Tastes Like Cabbage: The Deep Origins of Cooked Veggies

23/12/2016

Earliest evidence discovered of plants cooked in ancient pottery ...

Even Scientifically Proven News Can Be Fake News

22/12/2016

Scientific 'facts' could be false ...

Forget the Protestant Work Ethic. Catholics Are More Committed

13/12/2016

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

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

25/11/2016

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

Good Dads Make Happy Kids (and they don’t even need to clean up)

24/11/2016

How new fathers see themselves in child's early years seems to be most influential on kids' later life...

Queasy Democrats – Make Your Wound a Womb

11/11/2016

Only an honest appraisal of the situation will prove of benefit for Democrats yet to come...

Deplorable Lives Matter : Why Sneering at Proles Doesn’t Work Either

05/11/2016

Angry alienated American whites are not a Trump invention, and patronising them won't make them go away...

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

31/10/2016

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

Tastes Like Chicken? Wiggly Meat and the Rise of Edible Insects

28/10/2016

The buzz about edible bugs: Can they replace beef? ...

‘Middle England’ faces lowest psychosis risk

25/10/2016

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcaphite, middle class, older. Psychosis and its attendent conditions are a lower risk for those who fit into the ‘Middle...