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Grey Monday (More Blue Rinse than Blue Skies): Womadelaide

Kids waving flags, fruitbats cackling and an improvisational spin at Womadelaide...

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Look On My Works, Ye Mighty. And Grind.

Buried hubris and follies of personality along southern France's Atlantikwall...

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In Car Cow Avoidance Systems GO!

Automated cow avoidance for cars on Indian roads...

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Moroccan Pop: Hassan Hajjaj

Moroccan Roll: Hassan Hajjaj blends US, Arabic and London imagery in a pop art approach that is all his own...

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Sore Feet and Shambolic Frontmen at Womadelaide

The scale and extent of Womadelaide can be punishing. Happily, the entertainment is worth the pain....

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Womadelaide Walkies: Saturday Footmash

Can an old fella still handle festivals? Fruitbats and foot care at Womadelaide...

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The Slippy Search for Longer Lasting Sunscreen

A beach lover's dream: A step toward long-lasting sunscreen ...

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Womadelaide Walkabout (Part Three)

Clashes, odd formatting and muscle twinges get put aside for Oumou Sangare at Womadelaide...

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The Anthropocene Era: Setting it in Stone

Rocks that tell our industrial history ...

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Womadelaide Walkabout: Friday Flashbacks

Starting hot, WOMADelaide got hotter still with the activist politics of Ana Tijoux and the Slavic blues of Warsaw Village Band...

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WOMADelaide Walkabout, Part One.

A quarter century in, does WOMADelaide still deliver?...

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The Ranavirus: How Do You Give Antibiotics to a Toad?

A virus lethal to amphibians is spreading across Portugal ...

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What Makes Big Ben Bong? Acoustic Researchers Vibe Westminster

Engineers reveal why Big Ben produces distinct tone...

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Going Anywhere for your Hols? Basking Sharks like Winter Sun too.

Winter habits of Britain's basking sharks revealed ...

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New Tongues for Old. Learning, and losing a second language

CUNY linguist measures brain dynamics in second language users....

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

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

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Seven Stages of Sunny Fun: WOMADelaide

Meet you under the Morton Bay figtrees. Womadelaide preview...

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They Say the Devil’s In the Deep End

When you meet the devil, the only response is to wake and bake...

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The Itch and the Burn. New Jersey Karma

Anything that could dig a hole had crawled underground. The poolboys feel the burn....

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Pristine Pools, Watery Bowels and the Septic American Dream

There are biological consequences to keeping an open sewer of stagnant water in your garden. Even if you call it a pool....

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Que Bueno! Bilingualism Saves Brains

Bilingualism may save brain resources as you age ...

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About Vitamin D and Respiratory Ills (or: Why All those Oldies go to Florida)

High monthly vitamin D reduces respiratory infections...

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Love in a Time of Algae: Play the Devil (Extract)

Like the ancients before us, let’s drink the wine. Smoke the stash. Paint the caves....

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Sunlight: Yes it burns, but it also boosts your immune system

Sunlight offers a surprise benefit - it energizes infection fighting T cells ...

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The Mental Health Trick You’ll Really Like: Saunas Against Dementia

Frequent sauna bathing protects men against dementia ...

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Between Noise and Silence: A Retrospective (Steven M. Miller)

A master of creating sonic tableaux as resonant as a painter's colours and forms ...

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Ham – A Touch TOO Heston?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging to predict the salt content of Iberian ham ...

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Loitered Lens: Sharks @ King’s Cross Station

Scenes from King's Cross as Sharks bring the Ya Ya Pop to London...

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The Myth of the Mediterranean Diet is Fact. Almost

Mediterranean diet associated with lower risk of death in cardiovascular disease patients ...

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Heads Up For a Load of Hieronymous Bosch

Sneaky September Madrid getaway? Add Bosch at the Prado for some cultural heft...

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