The last time I saw Tom Jenkinson, a.k.a techno-jazz originator Squarepusher, it was at The Glade at Glastonbury 2004. At the time, one of the most highly-regarded platforms for electronic music worldwide, at one of the most influential festivals on earth.
And it was awful.
15 April 2015
The Monitors
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
Nature News
Don Harron was fully and truly a feminist, in the most joyful sense of the word.
6 February 2015
The Globe & Mail
Professor David Nutt has developed two new drugs that could do away with liver damage and alcohol-induced shame
22 January 2015
The Telegraph
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
Wired
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
National Post
A slew of new music-listening devices for the deaf are on offer.
30 November 2014
Wired
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
The Monitors
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
The Monitors
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
Wired
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
The Monitors
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
The Globe And Mail
Why do famous young women risk taking nude photos? Scientist Zoe Cormier explains the new exhibitionism
4 September 2014
The Times
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
The Guardian
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
New Scientist
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 Guardian
Study of 35 million users of brain-training software finds alcohol and sleep linked to cognitive performance.
21 June 2013
Nature News
Epigenetic changes affect neurotransmitters that lead to pair-bond formation.
2 June 2013
Nature News
You can tell when a starfish is too hot – it loses an arm.
29 May 2013
New Scientist
Comparison between hominins suggests modern middle-ear bones evolved early.
13 May 2013
Nature News
Technique could be extended to human viruses and help with eradication of polio.
28 March 2013
Nature News
Plants may be spiking their nectar with addictive drugs to lure insects into spreading their pollen.
8 March 2013
New Scientist
Boys may be energetically more demanding to breastfeed.
27 February 2013
Nature News
Amphibian's unique proteins cast doubt on existence of latent potential for regeneration.
21 February 2013
Nature News
Studies in mice show therapy is effective even in hard-to-treat brain tumours.
7 February 2013
Nature News
But most of the country's 90 million ash trees are likely to be wiped out.
9 November 2012
Nature News
Rodents' cells commit mass suicide when overcrowded, preventing uncontrollable proliferation.
5 November 2012
Nature News
Rodents are first mammals observed regenerating tissue.
26 September 2012
Nature News
Guerilla Science staged a safari featuring quarks, electrons and bosons to help demystify particle physics
27 July 2012
The Guardian
Older workers use chemical reaction to increase toxicity of 'explosive backpacks'.
26 July 2012
Nature
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