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F5 Festival: NYC, April 17 2015
Bath Literary Festival
No link found between psychedelics and psychosis
In large US survey, users of LSD and similar drugs were no more likely to have mental-health conditions than other respondents.
4 March 2015
Brighton Science Festival
The Social: Toronto, February 20 2015
My Hero
I Remember: Don Harron
Don Harron was fully and truly a feminist, in the most joyful sense of the word.
6 February 2015
Get drunk without a hangover on synthetic booze
Professor David Nutt has developed two new drugs that could do away with liver damage and alcohol-induced shame
22 January 2015
How to see your music
Why settle for your standard music visualiser on your computer when you can create a three-dimensional one simply by filling an old speaker with baking soda?
14 January 2015
Start The Week: BBC Radio 4, December 22 2014
SDRR: The Soundtrack
Keeping my ear to the ground: On getting music lessons at a ‘deaf rave’
It has been spectacularly enlightening to discover that I could learn more about the nature of sound from those who cannot hear than from anyone else.
12 December 2014
The good vibrations helping the deaf experience music
A slew of new music-listening devices for the deaf are on offer.
30 November 2014
Salon LXX: Acid House
Rough Trade: Number Seven
Last Tuesday Society
Hats off to Chapelier Fou – the violinist taking us through the looking glass…
Every once in a while a musician comes along who reminds you of the redemptive power of music. Why sonic combinations make life worth living.
13 November 2014
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard @ The Shacklewell Arms
If you manage to get a mosh pit going – complete with crowd surfers grabbing the projector cables from the ceiling, hanging off the rafters and falling head-first onto the concrete floor – from 45 seconds into the first song, then you must be doing something right.
12 November 2014
Wired Editorial, October 28 2014
Why brain scientists crave illegal drugs
Drugs are dangerous, but they are double-edged swords, and when used in the right time in the right way, scientists can use them as unparalleled tools to probe the mechanics of the mind.
28 October 2014
Lichfield Literature Festival
Liam Finn & Friends @ The Lexington
Liam Finn and his Kiwi all stars may come from the bottom of the earth, but we didn’t hear one bum note all night.
6 October 2014
“Pop your cherry”: Wigtown, September 29 2014
Wigtown Book Festival
A better British referendum: A vote on the royals
Undoubtedly a referendum on the monarchy would fail – most here are indisputably romantically attached to the institution. But tabling the idea would at least force people to question the concept at all.
12 September 2014
Naked selfies? I’ve taken them too (and all in the name of science)
Why do famous young women risk taking nude photos? Scientist Zoe Cormier explains the new exhibitionism
4 September 2014