Trebuchet Issue 4

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Marriage Makes You Fat (or College Keeps You Thin?)

People who get married before they earn a degree from a four-year college are about 65 percent more likely to later become obese than people who get married after college...

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Spectral Awakenings: Kazuki Takamatsu

Spectral and monochromatic, the post-tsunami art of Kazuki Takamatsu is a more mature form of manga...

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Sub Saharan Sexual Satisfaction Shocker

Sub-Saharan Africans satisfied with their sex lives; 18 percent rate them a perfect 10 ...

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Monette Loza: Sculptures Monumentales, Hossegor (France)

Freed from the confines of the gallery, sculpture trails offer an artist some room for manoeuvre...

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Appropriate Culture (Présence Autochtone 2016)

Cultural appropriation, contemporary Canucks, positive vibes. Montreal celebrates the First Nation...

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What We Just Learned About the Greenland Shark

The unexpected title holder for the world's longest-living vertebrate...

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Should You Trust Your Gut Instinct? What Do Psychologists Say?

Systematic reasoning appears to beat intuition for recognizing emotions in others, study says...

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Preaching to the Choir (The Rubens, Tufnell Park Dome)

Aussie rockers The Rubens bring some antipodean glamour to the Tufnell Park Dome...

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You Can’t Handle the Truth? The New Censorship

New techniques used to stop journalists covering the news ...

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Can Japanese Knotweed Land You In Jail? Exeter University Advises Extreme Wariness

Be wary of knotweed advice on the web, researchers warn. ...

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Sugar, Spice and Shrapnel. How Female Terrorists Control Extreme Networks

Study reveals that although women remain under the radar in terrorist organizations, they hold the networks together...

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The Predictably Easy Method of Transporting Illegal Drugs

Black, Hispanic drivers stopped most often, white drivers most likely to have contraband ...

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Apres Release Avant-Hard (Swans and SikTh)

Unheralded gems from the underworld of avant-garde rock that you should have heard already...

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Dirty Desk, Stinky Mind: The Skinny on How Workplace Affects Brain

Your workplace could affect brain function ...

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Excessive betting adverts and collaborations: the bane of sports?

Is the gambling industry killing the sports it sponsors?...

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And then there was just Madame Hillary. Hold the Champagne.

Hillary Clinton may have taken the Democratic nomination, but that leaves little to celebrate...

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Two (Unfortunately Limited) Keys to Minimizing Your Risk of Anxiety Attacks

Women and people under the age of 35 at greatest risk of anxiety ...

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Vinyl Rarities, No Cratedigging. Scandi Gems on Round Two Records

Firebeats Inc., Undertakers' Circus and Kare and the Cavemen signal an untapped wealth of Norwegian rock...

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What Does a Two Kilo TNT Explosion REALLY Look Like? (US Army Photos)

US Army camera captures explosives in fine detail ...

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Upwardly immobile? Top Income Earners Don’t Move About Much

Study dispels myth about millionaire migration in the US ...

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All Wrong: the misguided adventures of an art world hero (Grayson Perry)

The roving potter lines up his newest quaint exhibits: the northern working classes...

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Absolut-ly Shocking. Children, and the Impact of Alcohol Advertising

Middle-school kids see several alcohol ads a day ...

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The incomprehensible and the incomparable. (The Fall)

A review of The Fall, Monday 25th April 2016 at The Garage, Islington...

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More NHS Weekend Staff Won’t Change Mortality Rates, says The Lancet

Link between weekend hospital staffing and patient deaths represents 'major oversimplification', say two new studies ...

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Be Nice to Ex-Employees, You’ll meet them again on your long trek back to the middle….

Bosses should maintain goodwill when saying goodbye to ex-employees ...

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Born that Way? What Science Actually Knows about Sexual Orientation

Association for Psychological Science shares what scientists know -- and don't know -- about sexual orientation ...

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Plants Eat Carbon Dioxide – So Could More CO2 Fix Climate Change?

Is climate change a self-healing wound? Choosing crops for carbon dioxide reduction...

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Nothing Happens at All, Part Three: Charity

If possessions enslave us, and suffering numbs us, what gives us a warm, if impotent, glow? Charity...

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Debt, Housing, Creative Solutions: Construct the Future at Hoxton Gallery

Native's Hoxton Gallery show draws attention to the modern debt/housing crisis, but less typically, suggests solutions...

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