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

The Naked and Famous Announce Tour

25/05/2011

THE NAKED AND FAMOUS  “Pop perfection.” – NME “Fervent, infectious and highly hummable, this is a band armed with songs to fall in love with.” – The Fly...

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Sign Petition for a change in Tactics for the ‘War on Drugs’

25/05/2011

Trebuchet supports Avaaz.org petition, Sign up and please share the news item, Trebuchet —————– In days, a group of powerful world leaders will ask the UN to end...

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Feuding helium dwarfs exposed by eclipse

25/05/2011

Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a unique feuding double white dwarf star system where each star appears to have been stripped down to just its helium. We know of just over 50...

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Bonnie Prince Billy To Release Charity Single

25/05/2011

BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY     Bonnie 'Prince' Billy presents "There Is No God" b/w "God Is Love"  June 21, 2011 "There Is No God" b/w...

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Science: To bluff, or not to bluff? That is the question

24/05/2011

Economist Christopher Cotton from the University of Miami (UM), uses game theory to explore two of the most famous military bluffs in history. The findings are published in the current issue of the...

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Villagers win Ivor Novello Award

19/05/2011

    Win Ivor Novello Award   We are thrilled to announce that Conor J O’Brien from Villagers has today won an Ivor Novello Award in the...

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Plans get under way for revolutionary new observatory!

19/05/2011

Plans shape up for a revolutionary new observatory to explore black holes and the big bang. A new era in astronomy will come a step closer when scientists from across Europe present their design...

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Wave-Gotik-Treffen announces final line-up

19/05/2011

Wave-Gotik-Treffen: 20 years of dark-romantic celebrations in Leipzig – Germany. The massively popular German festival is now 20 years old. Attracting people from all over the globe this years...

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Domino Records to run stall on Berwick St, London Saturday

19/05/2011

 THE FOUNDERS OF THE UK’s GREATEST INDEPENDENT LABELS HIT BERWICK STREET TO SELL THEIR FRESH VINYL PRODUCE AT THIS VERY SPECIAL MARKET! http://independentlabelmarket.tumblr.com/ On 21st...

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Motorhead Frontman’s Side Project HEADCAT Release New Album.

18/05/2011

HEADCAT -‘Walk The Walk, Talk The Talk’ Lemmy Kilmister: vocals, bass, harmonica Slim Jim Phantom: drums, percussion Danny B. Harvey: guitar, piano   Hear track ‘American...

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George Mitchell Commits $25 Million to Giant Magellan Telescope

17/05/2011

George P. Mitchell, founder of Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. and The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, has committed an unprecedented $25-million gift to the Giant Magellan Telescope...

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Domino Records Launches Radio Station

17/05/2011

MISSION: In the spirit of such stand-alone broadcasting giants as Radio Caroline, The Peel Show, Rinse FM, The World Service and Woman’s Hour – and dispensing with such orthodoxies as...

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Supersonic Festival Announced! Oct 21-23

17/05/2011

21st – 23rd October 2011 http://www.supersonicfestival.com   Limited number of early bird tickets on sale now via www.theticketsellers.co.uk   Supersonic Festival, now in it's...

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NASA Puts Earth’s Nearest Neighbor, ‘The Moon’, Within Reach

16/05/2011

NASA has created a new interactive web-based tool that incorporates observations from past and current lunar missions creating one of the most comprehensive lunar research websites to date. The Lunar...

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Persuasive speech: The way we, um, talk sways our listeners

16/05/2011

Want to convince someone to do something? A new University of Michigan study has some intriguing insights drawn from how we speak. The study, presented May 14 at the annual meeting of the American...

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UK Astronomy Will Be Hit Hard By Budget Cuts

13/05/2011

Professor Roger Davies, President of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), today backed a report published by MPs on the Science and Technology Select Committee that set out the risks to UK astronomy...

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Status Quo return, with first ever ‘QuoFest’.

13/05/2011

With over 50 years in the music industry, living legend Cliff Richard will head out on the road this October with The Soulicious Tour produced and directed by David Gest. Indisputably Britain's...

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Musical experience offsets some ageing effects

11/05/2011

Older musicians excel in memory and hearing speech in noise compared to non-musicians. EVANSTON, Ill. — A growing body of research finds musical training gives students learning advantages in...

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Motorhead Announce UK Tour

10/05/2011

With support from Anti Nowhere League and UK Subs. Hard Rock legendsMotorhead have today announced that they will be returning to the UK for their annual tour this November. This year the band will...

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Sir Cliff Richard girds himself for the ‘soulicious’ tour.

09/05/2011

London, 9th May 2011; The live tour and album concept conceived by television star and music producer David Gest, Sir Cliff Richard will duet with more than ten soul legends on a brand new album (and...

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Toby Keith Confirms UK Dates

09/05/2011

Locked and Loaded Tour Kicks Off.  Monday 9th May 2011 –  Following the sell-out success of his first ever European shows in 2009, Country Music Superstar,  Billboard...

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50 years on, UK betting shops lure new breed of punters.

08/05/2011

Fifty years after legalisation, the UK's betting shops are attracting a new type of customer....

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Austra present new video for ‘Lose It’ and announce UK dates

07/05/2011

Premiere new video for ‘Lose It’ and announce July UK & Irish live dates Austra have unveiled a video for their next single Lose It, which is released on May 9th. The video was filmed...

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Computers Sing a Beautiful tune

Computers sing to a better tune

07/05/2011

Now, Akio Watanabe and Hitoshi Iba have turned to evolution to help them devise a novel algorithm that compares the frequency curves from real human performances and uses them to home in on a more...

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Tree rings tell a 1,100-year history of El Niño

07/05/2011

El Niño and its partner La Niña, the warm and cold phases in the eastern half of the tropical Pacific, play havoc with climate worldwide.  Predicting El Niño events more...

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Spirituality? More than 20% of atheist scientists are.

06/05/2011

Scientists think spirituality is congruent with scientific discovery, religion is not....

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NASA Selects Investigations For Future Key Planetary Mission

06/05/2011

WASHINGTON — NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial sea on...

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SLASH: Announces UK Headline And Festival Dates

03/05/2011

Gunners star announces UK Headline And Festival Dates Single: “Starlight” Release date: 25th July 2011, taken from the critically acclaimed album “Slash”   Exclusive...

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Kasabian Announce Intimate Warm Up Shows

03/05/2011

London 3rd May 9am 2011 – In what will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of 2011, Kasabian announce an intimate UK warm up Tour in June ahead of festival season. The multi – platinum,...

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The Rewards of Doing ‘Something’

30/04/2011

People don't really care what they're doing—just as long as they are doing something. That's one of the findings summarized in a new review article published in Current Directions...

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