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Killer Australian Beaches. Not in a Good Way.

29/11/2013

Rip currents claim more lives in Australia on average each year than bushfires, floods, cyclones and sharks combined. But probably fewer than funnelwebs, crocs, snakes r disgruntled 'Bra Boys....

A picture of surfers walking on a beach in the sunset. By Sean Keenan

Ride the Wild Surf

27/11/2013

California is quite simply projecting the dreams of a dying Sun God into the ether...

A screengrab of Detroit from Google Maps

Detroit : Just how bad is it really?

25/11/2013

How did Detroit go from industrial behemoth to Mad Max-inspired wasteland? Does it really play host to a secret race of mole-people? Just how bad is it really?...

Gonzo Bikery in Huntington Beach

14/11/2013

To be truthful we built the bike as an inside joke. A thumb in the air to every motorcycle cool guy trope we've ever come across. ...

Peru Maravilloso [Album]

08/11/2013

If the material is jaunty and lacking in nose-flutes it is because this is a reflection of Peruvian popular music in the 60s/70s, not some anthropological/musicological quest for an imposed...

The People on the Bus

01/10/2013

She didn't want to talk to anyone, in case they tried to sell her into slavery. I assured her that if she wanted to speak to me, that I would get the best price I could...

Cashed Out, Classed Out: Harare Edition

23/08/2013

Every once in a while, with a little luck, and no shame, you can have a killer night for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

The Endless Inferno Under Centralia

02/07/2013

Centralia, less than three hours from Times Square, stands empty. The emissions break through the ground like fists of mustard gas....

Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld

01/07/2013

Courtauld literally lived with his collections and so it was the physical composition of the work (such as Gauguin) itself wherein his main interests lay ...

Protect the Precious

10/06/2013

Coordinate Gear: use the discount code 'Trebuchet' and get 10% off the checkout price of outdoor level camera bags (offer ends 17th June)....

People Organize Daily Travel Efficiently

16/05/2013

Study shows that people organise their daily travel efficiently - so why not sleep in a bit more. ...

Democracy and Dubai Shopping Trips ; An Academic in Africa

26/02/2013

I would suggest that the fear of violent reprisal, or the knowledge that casting your vote made no difference because the seat had already been bought would lead some to conclude that they were not...

GPS improved by 90%

17/02/2013

Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have developed a new system which improves the ability of a GPS to determine a vehicle's position as compared to that of conventional GPS devices by up...

GM Tobacco Plants Treat Rabies

10/02/2013

Smoking tobacco might be bad for your health, but a genetically altered version of the plant might provide a relatively inexpensive cure for the deadly rabies virus....

Nick Cave / MBV at Primavera Sound

06/02/2013

Optimus Primavera Sound reveals the line up of its second edition that will take place from the 30th May to the 1st June in the Parque da Ciudade in Porto....

Perps and Papers: An Academic in Africa

17/01/2013

A lot of unhappy rumbling, and us standing around trying to look as serious and threatening as we possibly could. ...

Nick Cave News: New Album, Intimate Tour.

15/01/2013

Ahead of the latest 2013 release 'Push the Sky Away' Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will perform in very atmospheric venues in London, Paris, Berlin and LA....

You’re Kidding! Portuguese Goat Stew [Recipe]

11/01/2013

Just taste it. A warming hug of a stew, but with all of the ornery attitude, cunning, fastidiousness and bravado of the animal that went into it....

Moustaches and Marking: An Academic in Africa

08/01/2013

Saharan dust that turns the air a shade of orange and covers everything (including the inside of your lungs) in a thick layer of grit. And the sunsets are amazing. ...

James Herbert: Ash [Audiobook]

07/01/2013

Suddenly, what should have been a relaxing holiday in an area of stark natural beauty became a torturous experience, as if we were trapped in an overlong horror novel with too much description and...

New Galaxy Found! and it glows green…

13/12/2012

Many galaxies have a giant black hole at their centre that causes the gas around it to glow. However, in the case of green bean galaxies, the entire galaxy is glowing, not just the centre....

Singapore’s Affordable Art

26/11/2012

I’ve been slowly unraveling the mazes of subtle complexities in the art world here, and one of the first events to land on Singaporean soil as I did was the Affordable Art Fair....

Into the Appalachians [Tour Diary]

20/11/2012

'A single lane road etched through this land that’s not the north, or south, that's forgotten by the east but far from the west. If you pointed a rifle at the vast nothing that encompasses the...

Great Walls of Fire! Psychobilly goes Chinese

15/10/2012

Hot dang if these Asian dudes aren't slamming out some of that much talked about psychobilly music....

Festival de Musique Emergente, Quebec

19/09/2012

Held in Rouyn – Noranda and now in its tenth year Festival de Musique Emergente, otherwise known as Emerging Music Festival, itself emerged as an elegant solution to a local problem. Generous,...

Emma Sywyj: China [Photography]

16/09/2012

Sywyj's China series is as colourful and eclectic as one would expect of the location, but dispenses with the more obvious depictions of new-urban environments, ancient aesthetics and displaced...

Childishness and Cockroaches: An Academic in Africa

28/08/2012

Just as we were about to start, Andrew appeared on the other side of the fence, waxing wroth. Why had we broken into his field, who did we think we were, we had no permission to play there etc.,...

The Island President: [DVD]

18/08/2012

The Maldives are known to the rest of the world as an idyllic holiday spot, whereas the everyday reality is growing deadly, and director Jon Shenk does a wonderful job of capturing the islands'...

Stereotypes and Swiss Interns: An Academic in Africa

22/07/2012

You move to a country like Nigeria, and you instantly don’t want to conform to, or believe any of the stereotypes that your pinko-lefty-post-colonial-post-modern-feminist-queory-post-structuralist...

King Mob Rock Cruise

10/06/2012

When my band King Mob was invited to play on a ‘rock cruise’ I had no idea what to expect. We were collected from Stockholm airport at 4pm local time and bussed to the White Ship, a great...

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