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Solar Flares Can Now Be Studied On Earth

02/05/2018

Swedish physicists have proposed a method for studying solar flares in a laboratory environment....

Drink up and Have Another. Fags all Round

28/04/2018

Dadaists on a visit to the outbuildings of St Julien on 14th April 1921 A number of countries have passed laws which require cigarette manufacturers to show ‘denormalising’ images on their...

Beat Zoderer’s Art Concret at Semiose, Paris

28/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcapwiss concrete artist, Beat Zoderer shows his work ‘Dans quel Mesure,’ at Semiose, Paris. Being Swiss gives this younger...

How Do Marine Mammals Avoid The Bends?

25/04/2018

A new study offers a hypothesis of how marine mammals generally avoid getting the bends and how they can succumb under stressful conditions....

Are The Working Class Kept Away From The Arts?

24/04/2018

Have you ever felt that your less then welcome in the creative industry? Check your accent!...

Luton Upcoming Art Location

20/04/2018

Luton could be the place you keep your creative ambitions alive and bring them to fruition....

Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud

19/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcapoil! said the duchess, and all the courtiers reached. Soil. The journal, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, (volume 63, 2017, issue 5) has...

DaliParis, re-opens with Dali the Sculptor at its centre

19/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;T/dropcaphere are two good reasons for taking a fresh look at the work of Salvador Dalí. The first is that Matthew Collings, in his insightful...

Five Senses Cinema to Open in London West End

18/04/2018

A state-of-the-art cinema that engages all five senses will bring the onscreen action to life for Londoners this week....

The Feminine in the Feminist: Women take their Life-Making skills into Contemporary Art

12/04/2018

Camille and Nikita Kravtsov, UFO Revolution, 2018, (detail), drawing, print and embroidery dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcapt art schools in the sixties and seventies, American...

Why Do We Have Eyebrows? Finally We Have an Evolutionary Explanation

11/04/2018

Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution...

Hot News: The ‘Like Illegal Drugs’ Effects of Chilli Peppers

11/04/2018

Man develops severe 'thunderclap' headaches after eating world's hottest chili pepper ...

Big Eyes, Emojis, and the Sickly, Sweet Smell of Sentimentality

05/04/2018

NOTHING, is as gut-wrenchingly, vomit-inducing, flu-shivery and ‘give-me-a-wrecking-drink-of-anything-strong-enough-to-get-me-drunk-in-one-big-slug,’ intolerable – as a kitten-video...

What the G? Reading & Writing: Use It Or Lose It

04/04/2018

Research has found that people are essentially unaware of the more common version of the lowercase print letter “g”....

Armageddon: two daft leaders may find it difficult to push the button

29/03/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;J/dropcaperemy Corbyn, in a sensible moment, commented that he would not be willing to press the button that would unleash Britain’s nuclear...

Dartmouth Films Presents Lost in Vagueness

28/03/2018

The never-before-told story of the rise and fall of Lost Vagueness at Glastonbury Festival, and its maverick founder, Roy Gurvitz....

Had Enough? Go To Mars! (in the future)

23/03/2018

There is hope after all! we can move to Mars, or rather our great grand children can....

20% of America’s Gassiest Citizens Produce Half Its Diet-Related Gas

22/03/2018

20 percent of Americans are responsible for almost half of US food-related greenhouse gas emissions...

A Whiff of Polonium, Or Smoke and Mirrors?

22/03/2018

US economic and militarist aggression is to blame for Russian military posturing. ...

‘We Can Make You Blind’ The Adventures of Cambridge Analytica

20/03/2018

Do you worry that people never tell you straight and only want to manipulate you? Well you should! Welcome to Cambridge Analytica....

Brexit & the Arts Industry

16/03/2018

Are you interested in art? or in making and showing it? then you may need to think about Brexit, again!...

Have a Wee Drink? Urine Trouble if You Don’t

15/03/2018

Taste test gauges how recycled wastewater performs against bottled and tap water...

Could This Be The End For Testing On Animals?

14/03/2018

MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect possible side effects before the drugs are tested in humans. ...

What the Dickens! The End of the Social Climber?

09/03/2018

Is it possible to feel a warm glow when we consider the poor and underprivilaged of our own country? Can we still climb the social ladder? ...

As the US Judiciary increasingly clashes with the Trump presidency, what does this mean for the founding fathers' vision?

Donald Trump vs. the US Judiciary

08/03/2018

As federal courts openly clash with the Trump Presidency, what now for the Founding Fathers' vision of a limited judiciary?...

‘Deep Mind’ AI As Advanced as a 4yr old!

02/03/2018

The 'Deep Mind' team have developed an AI that can think 'like a four year old' will this be our making or undoing?...

Plastic pollution doesn't just wash up on the beach - it is a threat to the whole of our environment.

Reinventing the Plastic Bottle

01/03/2018

Plastic pollution is a major crisis, especially in the form of bottles. So, what can we do?...

The Science of Sleep

28/02/2018

Einstein's theory of relativity voted greatest idea ever inspired by sleep....

Do We Understand Modernism? We Better!

27/02/2018

Modernism is in the news because as it turns out not that many people ever really got it! Since we have long since left this epoch behind and since its exerts such an influence maybe we should make...