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Baby, I’m a One-Hominid Hominid. Early Humans Preferred Monogamy

16/04/2016

Peer pressures and fear of sexually transmitted infections may have turned early humans into monogamists ...

Nothing Happens at All, Part Three: Charity

16/04/2016

If possessions enslave us, and suffering numbs us, what gives us a warm, if impotent, glow? Charity...

Pin it, ‘Gram it, Tweet it. The Social Media Method for Predicting Gentrification

14/04/2016

Social media research methods could predict the influx of affluent newcomers to otherwise deprived areas...

What You Need to Survive Cancer (or at least shift the odds in your favour)

11/04/2016

How marriage, race and ethnicity and birthplace affect cancer survival ...

Debt, Housing, Creative Solutions: Construct the Future at Hoxton Gallery

11/04/2016

Native's Hoxton Gallery show draws attention to the modern debt/housing crisis, but less typically, suggests solutions...

Possessions, Suffering, Charity: Why Nothing Ever Happens (Part Two)

08/04/2016

Far from de-sensitizing us, repeated media imagery of suffering neatly cows us into lucrative obesiance...

Lovecraft Under Will. Liber Al Vel Legis and the Sharp Beak of Horus (H.P. Lovecraft)

07/04/2016

In a century of terror, perhaps Lovecraft's visions make more sense than ever...

Can Email Responses Predict You’re Personality? You Bet.

03/04/2016

Personality influences how one reacts to email errors ...

Smoke, Mirrors, and a Dishonest Lexicon.

02/04/2016

Even the words we use are skewed to obfuscate truth and maintain elites. What we call 'terrorism' could also be termed 'effect'. Essay...

What’s the Point of Men? The Twofold Cost of Sex

01/04/2016

The existence of males is of enormous cost to a species, so why does nature tolerate them?...

Can Your Name Shorten Your Life? Um…Kinda.

27/03/2016

What's in a name? In some cases, longer life ...

The Wince Test. How to Tell if You Suffer From Empathic Pain

26/03/2016

Emotions consist of general components that are also elicited by similar impressions and specific components...

A Computational Tool to Tame Golf’s SCARIEST Drive

21/03/2016

Computer simulations may help golfers tame the sport's 'scariest 155 yards' ...

Caliban’s Rage at the Blank Touchscreen: On Becoming a 21st Century Savage

21/03/2016

The acceleration of technology beyond the layman's ken makes us little more than blissfully ignorant slaves - should we not be noble savages instead? ...

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...

Why the Size of Trump’s Hands Matters: Deconstructing the Randian Superman

05/03/2016

The business superman is Better Than You: examining Ayn Rand's construction of that most pertinent of myths...

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....

Stimulating the Simulcra. Can Humans be Trusted With Artificial Intelligence?

22/02/2016

Can such a flawed race create anything but accelerated evil? Examining free will, AI technology, and addictive stimulus....

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....

I Can’t Do that, Dave. Artificial Intelligence, Dada and the Ethics of Perception

16/02/2016

Are humans worthy to create more powerful beings 'in our own image'? Essay....

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 ...

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