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Will Work For Pies: Providing Food Makes Better Workers

Breaking bread with colleagues boosts productivity. The benefits of providing food at work...

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Heads Up! Ways to Recognise Phonebies and Digital Deadwalkers

Distracted Walking: a Serious Issue for You, not Me...

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Not Painless. Stuart Semple’s ‘My Sonic Youth’ Addresses Male Suicide

If you're male and under 45, suicide is your most likely cause of death. Stuart Semple's recent project My Sonic Youth addresses the issue....

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The Other Dave: The Tory Leader We Could Have Had

The man Cameron beat to the Tory leadership proves how different things could’ve been...

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Still Not Like Everybody Else: Q&A with Dave Davies (The Kinks)

Originator of the power riff, Dave Davies answers five questions for Trebuchet...

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A Human Instinct for War? Sociologist Hugh Gusterson Explains

Terrorism is a tactic. You usually fight war against a constituent. It’s hard to fight a war against a tactic. - Interview with Hugh Gusterson, sociologist ...

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The Death Ray Goes Underground (Comix, S Clay Wilson, Robert Crumb)

Underground comix gave space to bold and innovative talents who thrived in the ‘anything goes’ atmosphere following the summer of love....

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But does it WORK? The Power of Magical Thinking

Even smart, educated, emotionally stable adults believe in superstitions that they recognize are unreasonable....

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Can We Talk About JOHN? (DV8 Physical Theatre)

Provocative, poignant and unashamedly full-frontal, DV8's John is a rough diamond of confrontational theatre...

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White Light, Infinity and a Love of Life (Swans Remasters)

Swans continue their remastered reissues series on Mute / Young God Records...

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How do Physicists Play Quantum Billiards?

How to tune a laser to make atoms attract or repel each other in an exotic state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate...

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Self-Propelling Healing Powder Stops Internal Bleeding

First self-propelled particles capable of delivering coagulants against the flow of blood to treat severe bleeding...

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Stretching Your Spacelegs for a Landing on Mars: NASA’s Workout

Assault courses on Mars? NASA studies physical performance after spaceflight...

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Grovel and Go. Why Volkswagen Hope You’ll Forgive and Forget

Study: Companies like Volkswagen often apologize, silence stakeholders, forget the scandal ...

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Can You Tell Your Toes Apart? Try this Toe Test

Research from Oxford University suggests we may have a problem telling our toes apart...

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I didn’t forget your Birthday, I just have Delayed Remembering

Kids can remember tomorrow what they forgot today ...

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Love being dirty. Loving sounding dirty (Mother’s Cake)

Austria's hardest rockers talk to Trebuchet after their clamorous European support slot with Limp Bizkit...

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I want to party hard, but you won’t let me (Best Friends. Sebright Arms)

Where is the quirky charming genius of 'Surf Bitches', 'Nosebleeds', 'Happy Anniversary'? I want to party hard tonight but you won’t let me. Best friends...

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More Cash, Less Ash. Raising pay can reduce smoking rates

Raising pay can reduce smoking rates ...

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UK Culture is Becoming a Dead Parrot. What do you want? Cash?

The Warwick report offers sensible guidelines for the future of UK Culture. But will anyone in power heed it?...

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They’re still here, but have they still got it? (Motörhead)

Motörhead : With their 22nd album Bad Magic, have the legends still got it?...

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Legends of music congregate for the faithful (Ramblin’ Man Fair 2015)

It was a weekend to wear your denim (double or triple) and not to care too deeply about musical fashions, time, or even bad behaviour. ...

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No Passion for Your Job? Don’t Worry, We Can Supply That.

People who have not found their perfect fit in a career can take heart: There is more than one way to attain passion for work....

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A Hypocrite’s Guide to the Internet (Part two)

Drew Michael walks us through more examples of our own miserable double-think....

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Does Having Racially Diverse Friends Boost Your Career? Oh Yes

Employees with a racially diverse group of friends outside of work may actually perform better at their jobs, a new study suggests....

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The decadent and defiant paintings of Nick Brown

The drips that flow from Brown’s landscapes don’t just enhance the unceasing presence of movement that circulates through his work, but they exude a ghostly aura that brings to mind the passing...

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Crank Thy Humbuckers – Ratatat Release Magnifique

Mahoosive dynamics, the customary duelling guitar chops, and surf drums pulling everything together. Air guitar and dancefloor screwface, in one handy pack. Cribbens!...

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Seeking (and finding) the Soft-Bodied Jumping Robot

By seamlessly blending soft and rigid body parts -- a structural innovation used by animals and insects -- a team of Harvard scientists has created a new kind of durable, soft-bodied jumping robot...

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Moving glass, Bending Light. Linda Sue Price (Interview)

Experience neon in a new way — not as a sign — rather as fluidly moving glass ...

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Smartphone App Says ‘Go Home, You’re Drunk’

The Alcohol Tracker smartphone app enables users to log the number of beers/shots/glasses of wine they have knocked back on a given day which it then tots up for them in units...

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