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Skirmish of Ideas?

15/12/2012

IoI has its own clear agendas but the festival definitely has a positive function in bringing hidden or repressed debates to the surface and airing them to a much wider public than they might...

Smoking may worsen hangover after heavy drinking

14/12/2012

WARNING: People who like to smoke when they drink may be at greater risk of suffering a hangover the next morning. ...

Touched by Sir Jimmy

12/12/2012

I looked nostalgically at the picture of Jimmy’s face and noticed he’d even put a little smiley on there for me. Yes, Jimmy Savile touched me back in ’93...

Grief is not a disease, but cancer is — what about erectile dysfunction?

08/12/2012

People are unanimous that wrinkles, grief and homosexuality are not diseases. What about drug addiction or absence of sexual desire? Or erectile dysfunction, infertility or obesity?...

Are Social Media Values Human Values?

04/12/2012

None of the values promoted by a social-media-dominated world are helpful with depth-oriented, long-term thinking...

Invisibility: Somebody Else’s Problem

28/11/2012

A new UCLA psychology study shows that people often do not recall things they have seen — or at least walked by — hundreds of times....

Dancing Swedish Girls are Happier

25/11/2012

Young girls can dance their way to better mental health. Symptoms like depression, stress, fatigue, and headaches are alleviated with regular dancing....

Mayan Prophesy Fail

15/11/2012

'soil loss could eventually have undercut the Maya's ability to grow food'. Ancient Mayans may have foretold our civilisation's doom, but they failed to foresee their own....

Crunching Genital Injury Stats

12/11/2012

Women saw a five-fold increase in genital injuries between 2002 and 2008, and show no signs of slowing....

Dream Trippin’

11/11/2012

What you dream reveals what you are. ...

A Brave New World of Sugar and Caffeine

08/11/2012

Sugar mouthwash makes you more motivated, caffeine improves your cognitive function, and fermented-sugar ethanol will convert the schoolrun into an environmentally friendly activity, wafting the...

Timbre! Another Sense Falls to the Machines

02/11/2012

Timbre is a hard-to-quantify concept loosely defined as everything in music that isn't duration, loudness or pitch. Now machines can detect it....

Beyond Space and Time: New Physics

29/10/2012

"Our result gives weight to the idea that quantum correlations somehow arise from outside spacetime, in the sense that no story in space and time can describe them,"...

Robots as Careworkers

27/10/2012

Adults said they are willing to use a robot for reminders to take medicine, but they are more comfortable if a person helps them decide which medication to take. ...

Size Doesn’t Matter (Shape Does)

26/10/2012

'the sexual organs change most rapidly of all morphological features during evolution', the wonders of science bring us new research on the sexual organs of beetles. Hooray!...

Gaga in Green: Scientists name fern genus after the singer

24/10/2012

'At one stage of its life, the new genus Gaga has somewhat fluid definitions of gender and bears a striking resemblance to one of Gaga's famous costumes.' So they named the fern GAGA...

Fontanelle: Vitamin F

22/10/2012

For a devout cadre of vinyl record owning, real ale drinking, herbal cigarette smoking losers Jazz fusion is the pinnacle of music. ...

Spinning the crowd: Adamski, 3 / 4 and Neo Waltz.

19/10/2012

"indecent whirling-dance of the Germans and engaged in a familiarity that broke all the bounds of good breeding—then my silent misery turned into burning rage." ...

Graphene iPad Possible

13/10/2012

a 'Graphene Roadmap' which for the first time sets out what the world's thinnest, strongest and most conductive material can truly achieve...

Diamond Planet Discovered

12/10/2012

The study estimates that at least a third of the planet's mass — the equivalent of about three Earth masses — could be diamond....

Sweet ‘n’ Sour Science

09/10/2012

Newly-published research claims 'The way foods make our mouths feel has a great deal to do with what foods we choose to eat'. Still no cure for cancer....

Microbial Music, Biomechanical Bebop

01/10/2012

Microbes make music. And it's not bad either....

Nettle Cloth reveals Bronze-Age Trade Routes

30/09/2012

Strontium analysis of ancient nettle fibres reveal bronze age trade routes ...

Prison inmates overuse Ointment. Study asks why.

29/09/2012

The first study to report on the widespread misuse of topical antibiotics found that 59 percent of male and 40 percent of female maximum-security prison inmates are using over-the-counter ointments,...

Rare Grooves: The Dropa Discs

15/09/2012

‘The stone disks you have mentioned do not exist; but, being extraneous objects in this museum, they were relocated.’ The discovery of a mass grave containing dwarfish skeletons with abnormally...

Hot as Hell, But Where’s the Hottest?

14/09/2012

"This investigation demonstrates that, because of continued improvements in meteorology and climatology, researchers can now reanalyze past weather records in much more detail and with greater...

Apple iPod Touch and Adult Autism

04/09/2012

Amsterdam, NL, September 3, 2012 – Only 15% of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States have some form of paid work. Difficulties related to cognition, behavior,...

Hangover? Might Be Better Than You Think

19/02/2012

Alcoholic drinks aren't generally put into the category of health food, but in some cases they might be just the cure for nasty parasites. That's according to a study published online on February 16...

The sound of us not dismissing anyone’s ideas (Islet)

11/02/2012

Islet's stunning debut album, on which 'Guitar figures drone in and drown out vocal lines, cymbal-heavy rhythms pile in and utterly demolish all that is in the rest of the sound-picture, discordant...

Introducing Ronin (ITA)

23/01/2012

This band is awesome. Big bio… BIG bio. See em tonight for elements of Leyland Kirby, Fennesz and Godspeed. /   £6 in advance / £8 on the door  The Vortex 11 Gillett Square, London...

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