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At Last: August 7 2014
SGP: July 28 2014
Secret Garden Party
Science of Hedonism: Latitude, July 17 2014
Science Impressario: New Scientist, July 14 2014
Heavenly Nipples celebrates sexual diversity at the Glastonbury Festival
At this year's festival, Guerilla Science used latex nipples, merkins and the Great Wall of Vagina to confront the pervasive discomfort humans have with our sexual diversity
9 July 2014
How magic mushrooms induce a dream-like state
Anyone who has enjoyed a magical mystery tour thanks to the psychedelic powers of magic mushrooms knows the experience is surreally dreamlike. Now neuroscientists have uncovered a reason why: the active ingredient, psilocybin, induces changes in the brain that are eerily akin to what goes on when we're off in the land of nod.
4 July 2014
Going Down Under: The Guardian Australia, June 18 2014
Heavenly Nipples: Glastonbury, June 2014
Salon LV: Cool Hunting
Salon North
Sin Academy
Edinburgh Science Festival
Urban Myths: Can a coin dropped from a skyscraper kill you?
As Britain unveils a new pound coin, we put to rest once and for all the question of whether falling change can, in fact, be lethal
20 March 2014
The Brain Banquet
The Bleachers
Wilderness Festival
Secret Garden Party
Lab Rats
Online games offer trove of brain data
Study of 35 million users of brain-training software finds alcohol and sleep linked to cognitive performance.
21 June 2013
The Curtains of Love
Secret Cinema: Brazil
Gene switches make prairie voles fall in love
Epigenetic changes affect neurotransmitters that lead to pair-bond formation.
2 June 2013
Starfish sacrifice arms to beat the heat
You can tell when a starfish is too hot – it loses an arm.
29 May 2013
Hearing changes could be ancient in the human line
Comparison between hominins suggests modern middle-ear bones evolved early.
13 May 2013
Patternity
Synthetic vaccine could prevent future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease
Technique could be extended to human viruses and help with eradication of polio.
28 March 2013
Plants lace their nectar with drugs to make bees return
Plants may be spiking their nectar with addictive drugs to lure insects into spreading their pollen.
8 March 2013