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What Makes Big Ben Bong? Acoustic Researchers Vibe Westminster

06/03/2017

Engineers reveal why Big Ben produces distinct tone...

Happy Now? Trans and Gender-Fluid Teens Face Three Times the Bullying

04/03/2017

Gender fluid teens face up to 3 times more abuse at school and at home than their gender-conforming peers...

Not Such Bad Hombres: Crime is Lower Where Immigration is Higher

13/02/2017

Four decades of evidence finds no link between immigration and increased crime ...

Words, Phrases and Sentences: The Connective Tissue of Humanity

04/02/2017

Poets strive to map the beauty and terror of existence. You have never been alone....

Neurocinematic Testing: Will It Make You Scream?

24/01/2017

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcap t is always hard to predict the response of a massed audience, and almost impossible to objectively assess creative works. In the...

Alternative Facts and Science Skepticism

23/01/2017

Facts, beliefs, and identity: The seeds of science skepticism ...

Donald Trump Moth Discovered… On the Mexican Border

18/01/2017

New species of moth named in honor of Donald Trump ahead of his swearing-in as president ...

Winter’s Purity: New Model Army, Kentish Town Forum

17/01/2017

Protest, Politics, Purity. New Model Army at the Kentish Town Forum...

Loitered Lens: New Model Army

10/01/2017

A welcome return to protest politics and riot rock at Kentish Town Forum. Photos...

President Trump, Napoleon and The Eclipse of Dignity

29/12/2016

Does history, art or philosophy offer any survival tips for the incoming US presidency?...

Escaping the Vortex: Would Wyndham Lewis Have Approved?

23/12/2016

Vorticism's urge to cut away the fat of modern life remains valid today...

Blasting Out of the Vortex: Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism

17/12/2016

From catastrophe comes creativity - Sail into the Vortex....

Forget the Protestant Work Ethic. Catholics Are More Committed

13/12/2016

Baylor University research suggests Catholics are most committed to their work...

Science & Modern Man, the right (and wrong) way to take Wyndham Lewis.

12/12/2016

Lewis looked upon his contemporaries with a measure of scorn, but at least attempted to engage them positively...

A Wedding Without a Bagpipe is Like a Funeral

10/12/2016

Bagpiping provides a route straight to the heart of another culture....

Blasted Feminism: Group X, Wyndham Lewis, and Women

07/12/2016

Not one to court populist acclaim, Wyndham Lewis looked upon feminism with a mixture of admiration and scorn...

And When the Sleeper Wakes? (H.G.Wells, Wyndham Lewis and Nietzche)

28/11/2016

Flirting with Fascism is a dangerous game, particularly when misinterpreting Nietzche...

Greening the Battlefields (but destroying the planet?) with Transgenic Grass

25/11/2016

New grasses neutralize toxic pollution from bombs, explosives, and munitions ...

Friends as Enemies and Enemies as Friends…. (Wyndham Lewis)

21/11/2016

Despite popular myth, Wyndham Lewis (through sheer stubbornness and inflated ego) actually avoided association with Fascism....

Are YOU Nature’s Roundest Thing?

18/11/2016

Max Planck Institute scholars answer the question: what is the roundest thing in the universe?...

Wyndham Lewis, Grayson Perry, David Baddiel and Masculinity

14/11/2016

With power comes reponsibility, as Wyndham Lewis (and Spiderman) knew well. Art is power, not voyeurism....

Happy Hallowe’en From NASA, With a Bunch of Pumpkin Stars

31/10/2016

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcapopical news from NASA couldn’t be more timely on this Hallowe’en day. They’ve found a bunch of stars that look...