Category: News

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! – Anne Frank

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Girl With No Name

29/06/2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the crusading socialist who just shocked American politics....

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Escaping Fear: You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat

27/06/2018

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science have discovered a circuit in the brain that is necessary for unlearning fear....

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Want To Learn Faster? Get Chomping Happy Pills

27/06/2018

A new computational model reveals that serotonin, one of the most widespread chemicals in the brain, can speed up learning. ...

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Six Limited Edition Banners From Ai Wei Wei

26/06/2018

The refugee crisis is again an inspiration for the artist Ai Wei Wei, who is determined to remind us of the suffering of desperate peoples. ...

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Blaze at the Glasgow School of Art

22/06/2018

The second fire to wreak the Scottish art school in four years, will they fix it again?...

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Time Lapse: Iranian Film in Photography

20/06/2018

CAMA Gallery of Iranian art presents Time Lapse, an exhibition of photographs by seven prestigious Iranian film directors. ...

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St Albans Museum + Gallery, Opens

19/06/2018

A new centre for arts and culture has opened in St Albans City....

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Images in the Head

14/06/2018

The Beano, ‘Numskulls’ (c.1960) dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcap famous philosopher told his infant daughter that the crocodile she had dreamt was in her head....

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He’ll Be Back: Skynet One Step Closer to Reality…

13/06/2018

X–ray vision has long seemed like a far-fetched sci-fi fantasy, but an MIT team has gotten us closer to seeing through walls. ...

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Looking for the Next Generation

09/06/2018

It is the time of the season. The young ones are putting their artwork on show at the outset of what they hope will be a long and successful vocation as artists....

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Sci-Fi Politicism Meets Erudite Poetry

08/06/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;I/dropcapmagine another world in which extra-terrestrials roam or slide with their cyborg affiliates. Imagine their futuristic habitats, their disasters...

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An Explosion in the Hayward

07/06/2018

We are creatures. We flourish as bits of nature. However, it has been claimed that we survive our natural life to live in the spirit world, or something like it. There is something uncanny about the...

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A Damn Fine Cup of Coffee Helps Teams Work Together

06/06/2018

A new study has found that people give more positive reviews for their group's performance if they drink caffeinated coffee beforehand. ...

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Stealing Stanley Spencer

05/06/2018

Stanley Spencer is an important British artist and any excuse to pay tribute to him is worth while, following the recovery of a stolen painting he is in the news. ...

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Depictive seeing, Pictures, and Imagination

04/06/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;R/dropcapichard Wollheim, some-time Grote Professor of Mind and Logic at University College London, regards our looking at pictures as a special kind of...

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Snuggle or Die: Sociable Monkeys More Likely to Survive Winter

30/05/2018

A new study is the first to show that social huddling may be a mechanism that connects social bonding to higher fitness....

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Madame Moustache

24/05/2018

Mistress of Beautiful Intoxicating Street Art...

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Are pain tolerance levels similar among groups of friends?

23/05/2018

A new study is the first to apply social network analysis to pain tolerance, contributing to understanding the effect of social factors on pain....

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How did Michael Jackson challenge our understanding of spine biomechanics?

23/05/2018

New forms of dancing inspired by Michael Jackson have begun to challenge our understanding of the modes and mechanisms of spinal injury. ...

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You’re Not Living You’re Just Killing Time

22/05/2018

There are so many ways we can abdicate our personal responsibility but for many in western civilisation stupefaction is simply a choice, what have you done lately to improve yourself!...

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No More Casual Sex for Tinder Users!

21/05/2018

Using Tinder doesn't result in more casual sex ...

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Simone de Beauvoir and Research Impact

17/05/2018

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir In 1946, Sartre suggested that Simone de Beauvoir write a piece on the contemporary condition of women for the journal, Les Temps Moderne. She thought it would...

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The Beautiful Game

17/05/2018

Arsenal Invincibles 2003-4, English Premier League dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;I/dropcaps it at all possible that football, at its highest level, is an art form – a game of...

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Good Boy: Fido Comes to the Rescue

16/05/2018

ETH Zurich scientists have developed the smallest ever equipment for detecting people by smell, which could be used to create electronic rescue dogs....

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Why Do We Rebel? Neuroimaging Provides New Insight

16/05/2018

Why do some people resist authority? Neuroimaging research provides new insight into the urge to rebel....

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The Ticking Bomb, Torture & the CIA

11/05/2018

Don't be sucked into the false urgency of popular culture illustrations like 24, torture is wrong! ...

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Women’s Talk Outed by Florida Psychologist

10/05/2018

Tania Reynolds, Psychology, Florida State University at Tallahassee (FSU Photography Services) Tania Reynolds has written in The Journal of Experimental Psychology about the ways in which women...

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Arachnophobes, Rejoice: Kim the Jumping Spider Has Training

09/05/2018

Scientists at the University of Manchester have successfully trained a spider to jump on demand to discover the secrets of animal movement....

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Transhuman? Cyborg? Digital Immortal Or Dust in the Wind

08/05/2018

You may be able to live forever, but would you want to?...

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Curves versus Angles

03/05/2018

Arne Jacobsen’s St Catherine’s College Oxford, Refectory dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcaphould we prefer soft voluptuous curves or hard aggressive angles? It all...

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