Trebuchet Issue 4

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Privatising Child Protection

Protection of vulnerable children is not possible if those delivering the services are not obliged to follow established rules....

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The Male Gaze is a Fact (but there’s a catch)

Women were viewed more frequently and for longer periods of time - even when their photos were blended in groups of both genders ...

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On Working at Barnes and Noble

“You want to be a writer,” Kelly said. “Why don’t you work at Barnes & Noble?” “I wear clothes, too. Maybe I should get a job in a sweatshop.”...

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Walking Wins for Health and Happiness

Walkers experienced improvements in lung power, overall physical functioning, and general fitness, and were less depressed....

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Arboretum : Royal West of England Academy

Fittingly, many of the paintings also included in this show are left raw and unframed, exposed to the elements – and artistic scrutiny....

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Nuanced Chuckles with Charlie Hebdo : Free Speech and the Freedom to Complain

You can make your case and express your view, but riling up the worst elements and trolling isn’t free speech; it’s just being an antisocial jerk....

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Optimistic People Have Healthier Hearts

Individuals' total health scores increased in tandem with their levels of optimism....

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Loitered Lens : Aynsley Lister

Following the fine tradition of the post-Christmas photo issue, photographs of rock guitarist Aynsley Lister live at Farnham Maltings...

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Biofuel Gets Better

Using a systems approach to identify protein-DNA interactions, scientists home in on more efficient biofuel sources....

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Cancer : Do You Feel Lucky?

You can add to your risk of getting cancers by smoking or other poor lifestyle factors. However, many forms of cancer are due largely to... bad luck. report...

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Nick Lord : Realising The Truth [Interview]

When I first started to draw, I was massively influenced by the expressionists. Egon Schiele in particular. From them I learned the importance of breaking away from tradition...

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Zeitkratzer : WHITEHOUSE

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapithin the institutionalised avant-garde, overt but actually often inert rule-breaking is the norm. There are numerous hidden codes...

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Nature’s Fairylight : How Fireflies Glow

How fireflies glow. The study is the first to ever show the firefly's lantern in such detail. ...

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11 Months Old and Jailed By Israel

With its brutalization of children, Israel is sowing the seeds for a bloody and hate filled future....

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Carrot or Stick, Which Works?

A "first carrot, then stick" policy can drive cooperation toward a specific goal...

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Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall

A rich document of a remarkable period in the life of the city....

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Stuart Semple : Anxiety Generation

The emotive focus within Semple’s work then is desire and its role in creating anxiety, largely within the intersections of sex, power, or violence. ...

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Fingernails for Stem Cells

Nails: the right signals or environmental cues could induce nail stem cells to generate additional types of tissue. Report...

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All Speed, No Control. Daft Beetles

To take the sprinting gold from the tiger beetle, a person would have to hit 480 miles per hour....

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The BBC Is Snooping on You

The BBC regularly uses spying powers granted under The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, intended for the interception of communications by terrorists....

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Population Growth and Sustainability. Compatible?

Efforts towards sustainability would be directed more productively towards reducing our impact as much as possible through technological and social innovation...

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Richard Dawkins to Guest on Heavy Metal Song

Band reveals the famed evolutionary biologist and atheist writer/leader Richard Dawkins as a guest on their eighth studio album....

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Women and the Fat Brain

male and female brains respond in remarkably different ways to high-fat meals...

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Viagra for Heart Disease

Viagra could be used as a safe treatment for heart disease...

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Niggas, Wiggas, Niggers, Wiggers. Language and the right to self-identify

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcap ow long you niggas ball? All day, nigga. How much time you spent at the mall? All day, nigga. – Kanye West In response to an...

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Hanging Offence : Ronchini Gallery

For me, a controversial work is unconventional, contradicts traditional methods of interpretation and provokes a reaction....

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Francis Dunnery [Interview]

I think it is a dreadful mistake to base your decisions on what an audience might like. Audiences are as fickle as a donkey's tail....

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IntO the mOOn : Passing Clouds [Live]

A self-possessed alternative gypsy rock band whose lyrics resound with those who want to say something but don’t quite know how to say it....

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Stop Snakeoil Sports Sponsorship

For sponsors, event endorsement conveys the message that their products are integral to sporting engagement and achievement. ...

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When The TUC Abandoned Unions

The power of labour to challenge capital is to be absorbed into the benefits system. Trade unions are no longer necessary....

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