Author: Trebuchet Magazine

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

Beacons Festival

04/08/2012

The impressive line-up of music at Beacons will be joined by an equally innovative range of attractions. Guerilla theatrics, superior cuisine, real ale, leftfield party spaces and roaming...

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Spiritualized – London.

02/08/2012

“The thread that runs through all Spiritualized albums is that I am obsessed with music and the way we put it together. And if I have learned one thing in all the time I have been making music, it...

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Crime and the City Solution tour!!

31/07/2012

One of key moments in anyone’s life has to be the moment they discover the amazing shimmering walls of noise that is a crime and the city solution album. or even THAT scene from Wings of Desire...

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Two Fingers (Amon Tobin) announces new album

31/07/2012

Amon Tobin, the most uncompromising artist on an uncompromising record label, demands a dedicated listener. Brittle, beautiful, but always disappearing just out of easy cognition, Tobin’s music...

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Tickets on Sale for Cambridge Folk Festival 2013

30/07/2012

The eternal wheel just keeps turning. For some that may mean the hopes of transcendence to a higher plane of existence once they have parted this brief life. For others less hopeful, it is the grim...

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Sleep Deprivation Makes Complex Tasks More Difficult

29/07/2012

Lack of sleep makes you slower and a bit useless at complex tasks? Doh! Anyone with a newborn can tell you that. The phenomenon is not universally accepted though, at least not amongst those whose...

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An Olympic Damper: How Rubbish Humans Really Are at Sports

28/07/2012

Slower, Lower, Weaker. Well, we can’t use the proper Olympics motto in a Trebuchet news item, lest we get lynched by a team of predatory lawyers hellbent on protecting the copyright phrases and...

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Writing with only your eyes

27/07/2012

“One can also imagine that, on the long term, eye movements can routinely be used in man-machine interactions”, and doubtless, Jean Lorenceau’s research into ways to improve the...

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Energy drinks/alcohol in casual sex shocker

26/07/2012

'drinking Red Bull/vodka or Jagerbombs doesn't necessarily lead people to get drunk and become intimate with strangers, but it does increase the odds of doing so' There are times when the prim,...

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Bing Drinker

Stopping binge-eating with food colouring

25/07/2012

Take some students, give them a tube of Pringles, put them in front of a tv screen. Apparently, they’ll eat less of the (actually brand-unspecified) potato chips if, at a regular interval,...

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Velvet Underground and Nico Reissues

24/07/2012

One for the completists. Universal Records will be releasing a 45th Anniversary Edition of the seminal Velvet Underground & Nico, across 6 discs, on October 1st. A chance to revisit, or discover,...

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SeaFox: The Underwater Drone

23/07/2012

Rooftop-mounted misslile emplacements and high-altitude military drones have made UK headlines recently, and with good reason. Suspecting the ever-growing security presence surrounding the Olympic...

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Menomena announce album and tour

22/07/2012

Menomena announce album and tour. Barsuk Records is excited to announce that Menomena will release their new album, Moms, on September 18, 2012 in the US and on October 8 in the UK. Now a duo,...

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Awesome! How Awe Expands Time

21/07/2012

'Time expands in the tube'. So said 1970s pro-surfer Wayne Lynch, referring to the delicate art of tuberiding. It's since become a maxim, a cliche, a canard – used by clothing...

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Ready-Marinated Fish. Scientists find elevated caffeine levels off coastal Oregon

20/07/2012

Now it becomes clear why anglers like to fish at night. Turns out that their piscine prey can't sleep either. In the fishy food chain, it pays to be alert. Caffeine levels in coastal waters off...

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About Trebuchet

20/07/2012

Honest and Unmerciful. What do you want to think? What you read makes you what you are. Sounds a bit strident we know, but we believe it....

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Sexual Fantasies Don’t Vary from Men to Women

19/07/2012

You remember that old joke about 99% of men admit to masturbating, 1% admit to being liars? Seems that the respondents of a Spanish study into sexual fantasy haven't heard it. Fantasizing about...

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Thurston Moore returns to Cafe OTO

18/07/2012

The need for speed. Usually we try to write a little bit of blurb to go with events listings, before pasting in the relevant information from the venue. Not even going to attempt that on this one...

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The Fouth Height and Urs Bigler bring The Crown to London

17/07/2012

Erarta Galleries London with The Fourth Height + Urs Bigler bring The Crown to Diamond Jubilee London. The photographic exhibition is “the multicultural trash- dreaming” vision of The...

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We Are Scientists Cancel UK Shows

16/07/2012

We Are Scientists come out with the most endearing apology of the year, involving the spectre of the ever-revolting French contribution to the planet's ghastliest foodstuffs. Due to problems with...

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Final Womad Lineup – released!

16/07/2012

With the folk and ethnic scene becoming a greater and greater presence in UK music this year's WOMAD is looking to rule the roost with some serious heavy hitters in Hugh Maskela and Jimmy Cliff...

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Cambridge Folk Festival sets sights high!

16/07/2012

Eclectic and expansive, as the Cambridge Folk Festival should be, the list of acts is now immense. Among the ones to look out for ar June Tabor and the Oyster Band, especially if they play that Joy...

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Bloodstock

Win your band a chance to open for Evile

15/07/2012

Win your band a chance to open for Evile...

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Period Drama: How Hollywood Misrepresents Menstruation

13/07/2012

And if the word 'menstruation' makes you go 'Eeeewwwwww!', maybe the reasearcher has a valid point. An Australian study has criticized Hollywood's portrayal of menstruation,...

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Period Drama: How Hollywood Misrepresents Menstruation

13/07/2012

And if the word 'menstruation' makes you go 'Eeeewwwwww!', maybe the reasearcher has a valid point. An Australian study has criticized Hollywood's portrayal of menstruation,...

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Hubble telescope sights fifth Pluto moon

12/07/2012

Five moons, and STILL not considered a real planet. It's enough to make a person suspect that there is some Plutonian committee based on that distant rock trying to reclaim the status it held for...

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Salute: A Tribute to Human RIghts Olympians

11/07/2012

Wednesday 11 July, London – Gold medallists Tessa Sanderson, Denise Lewis, Dame Tanni Grey Thompson and other medal winning Olympians such as Jamie Baulch and Mark Foster will join...

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Saddlesore? Or too numb to even know?

10/07/2012

Topical news for the day that Bradley Wiggins struts along the streets of Southern France, resplendent in the Maillot Jaune of the world’s greatest cycling race. Six hours and more perched upon...

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Wine Intolerance: The Signs

08/07/2012

Stumbling, hugging your best mate, vowing to 'get those bashtids' or developing a bluey-black tongue do not count as valid symptoms of a wine allergy. Around seven percent of adults suffer...

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Most accurate walking robot yet

07/07/2012

Well, accurate it may be, but it depends upon who you're copying. Not exatly jello on springs, is it? A group of US researchers has produced a robotic set of legs which they believe is the first...

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