Trebuchet Issue 4

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Forget Lipstick on the Collar, Viral Tracking Reveals Exactly Where You’ve Been

Your viruses could reveal your travel history, and more ...

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Can Your Name Shorten Your Life? Um…Kinda.

What's in a name? In some cases, longer life ...

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Can the Clean Fuel Movement Ketch Up With Florida’s Tomato Battery?

Creative thinkers in Florida develop an innovative use for waste material - the tomato battery...

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Peeled & Raw in Los Angeles (Dani Dodge)

The clash of global ideologies and armed response infiltrate the sanctity of the domestic living room in Dani Dodge's Peeled & Raw...

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Stoner Riffing from Sunrise to Sundown (Spiritual Beggars)

Hammond organ, heavy riffs and stoner haze - Sunrise to Sundown is what death metallers do to relax...

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How Much Did YOU Save for Your Pension This Week? The Precariat Class Goes Europe-Wide

New report finds Europe-wide shift towards weaker job security and employment support ...

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Your Band is Awesome Live, So Ban the YouTube Fan Footage

Well-meaning YouTubers could be wrecking your band's reputation. Maybe it's time to take control. Essay...

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Hanging Offence: Sophia Contemporary Gallery

Building bridges between Middle Eastern and Western cultures by showing what they have in common rather than what divides them. Sophia Contemporary Gallery interview...

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We Can Teach You That Wholesale – Learning By Transcranial Stimulation

Learn how to fly a plane from expert-pilot brainwave patterns ...

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The Weird Cause of Obesity You NEVER Imagined

Exposure to air pollution increases the risk of obesity ...

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Digital Practise Makes Reality Perfect. Yes, motion-controlled video games help you learn.

Motion-controlled video games may improve real world skills ...

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Fracking Earthquakes are Only the Start – Wait Till You See What it Does to Your Water Supply

Stanford University expert on the health impacts of fossil fuels studies groundwater quality at oil and gas fields...

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If You’d Like Less Brain Volume, Press the Red Button Now.

Neurologists suggest that poor physical fitness in middle age may be linked to a smaller brain size later on....

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Got some spinifex on ya, cock? Bio-Engineering Superthin Condoms

Fibers from the Australian native spinifex grass are being used to improve latex that could be used to make condoms as thin as a human hair without any loss in strength...

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Sure we can, but SHOULD we? Digital Head and the Ethics of Intelligence

Examining the unpredictable and disruptive possibilities contained within new technologies...

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Thwack! Feel the Flow with Pressure-Sensitive Rubber Gloves

More than mere Marigolds, Tokyo University researchers develop pressure-sensitive rubber gloves for medical workers....

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(Turk) (Must) (Do) (Better) A Critical Review of Wittgenstein’s Dream

Can we safely dismiss Freudian psychoanalysis with the lancet of irony? Or does the attempt fail? Gavin Turk at the Freud Museum ...

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Eat Your Way to Better Sleep

Diet-based recommendations might be used to improve sleep in those with poor sleep quality...

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What’s 570 billion times brighter than our sun? The Millisecond Magnetar

Astronomers study what may be the most powerful supernova ever seen...

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When Society Starts to Eat Itself: Dystopia (Megadeth)

Lyrics decrying the state of today's society delivered with a backdrop of technically precise and relentless thrash, Mustaine and his boys prove that there is still life in the Megadeth machine. ...

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Sweat it Out. Cracking Lower Back Pain

Exercise associated with prevention of low back pain ...

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Smug-Shaming, or Why We Love to Hate Hippies

When you don't seek out ethical products, you denigrate those who do...

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Mind of Blue. The Neuroscience of the Minor Key

Study of jazz pianists finds 'happy' and 'sad' music evoke different neural patterns...

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Did You Really Want to do That? Free Will Gets Computer Analysed

Berlin researchers test mechanisms involved in decision-making...

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Machine Intelligence Can Save the Planet. But do we trust it (not to kill us)?

Can human-machine superintelligence can solve the world's direst problems?...

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War, Government, and Surveillance (Killing Joke, live at the Roundhouse)

Timely musings on Killing Joke at the Roundhouse, London. UK. November 6th 2015 ...

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Cloudy Clouds and Cloudier Clouds. Where’s the Powder At?

Scientists discover that salty sea spray affects clouds ...

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Sounds Unfair: The Plight of Britain’s Independent Music Venues

A quiet disaster has been happening in our town and city centres, only now are we doing something about it...

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Lo-Tech Innovation Proves Grate news for the Environment

Small metal grate makes big impact on environment and health ...

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Episodic or Semantic: What’s Your Memory Type?

New research shows that the tendency to remember episodic details versus facts is reflected in intrinsic brain patterns...

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