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- The Con Of The '60s : A Look At The Reality Behind The Decade Synonymous With Peace And Love
Nov 19, 2008
Today the 1960s are viewed with the warming sparkle of nostalgia: Hendrix, The Beatles, peace, love, drugs, flowers and freedoms. However, with the...
Category: History
- Worst Case Scenarios : Zombie Outbreak
Nov 16, 2008
A tongue in cheek guide to surviving a zombie outbreak this Halloween. All you'll ever need to know to escape the shambling undead hordes should...
Category: Humor
- Gossip or Gospel: Are Women the Real Victims of the Celebrity Culture?
Nov 13, 2008
Following Kerry Katona's disastrous interview on This Morning last week, a group of British academics claim that the harsh backlash she received...
Category: Society and Culture
- Brand New Second Hand: How Big Brands Help A Flailing Music Industry
Oct 14, 2008
With UK album sales on the decline, musicians are constantly striving to find the next best way of marketing their music. Enter the big named...
Category: Branding
- BANNED ADS: A Look At Some Of The Most Risque Ad Campaigns Ever
Oct 10, 2008
With the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling to outlaw the 'Cactus Kid' Oasis commercials this week, we look at some of the most famous...
Category: Television
- LIFTING THE BAN: Celebrating 40 Years Since The End Of Theatre Censorship
Oct 2, 2008
Theatre censorship was abolished 40 years ago this month. Here's a look back at the playwrights and the people that overturned centuries of...
Category: Society and Culture
- The History Of Halloween: The Facts Behind The Fiction
Sep 22, 2008
A brief history of Halloween, from the folk beliefs of Europe to the commercial candy-bonanza of the modern holiday. This article explores the...
Category: Society and Culture
- Les Enfants Magnifique: A Look At Some Of The Most Influential Young Artists Of Recent Times
Sep 22, 2008
Often culture seems to be driven by the youngest and most dynamic artists in the field. Proof, it may be argued, that 'experience is often just the...
Category: Music
- Special Brew Supernova And Marvellous Musical Marketing
Sep 18, 2008
You can't just release an album today without employing some clever marketing strategy. Radiohead released their latest work of art through the...
Category: Music
- Real Monsters: Five Of The Scariest Creatures Of All Time
Sep 15, 2008
A list of the five most terrifying creatures to have ever walked/crawled/swam the earth.
Category: Science
- RFID - More Interesting Than You Realised
Sep 12, 2008
Radio Frequency Identification technology has been around for years but now it is starting to be used in new and exciting ways. RFID could soon...
Category: Hardware
- The Large Hadron Collider: Making Physics (Almost) Interesting
Sep 12, 2008
The end of the world, black holes, and anti-matter: it's all exciting stuff but how much of it is actually true and how much should be consigned to...
Category: Science
- From Stanford To Chrome: Ten Years Of Google
Sep 10, 2008
After ten years of search engine supremacy, Google has entered the realm of web browsing with the release of Google Chrome. Take a brief look back...
Category: Internet
- Illegal Music Downloads And The Law
Aug 15, 2008
The law is changing regarding illegal music downloads, but nobody is really sure what's going to happen. From Napster to Gnarles Berkley, this...
Category: Music
- The Dragon And The Bird's Nest: The Clash Of Sport And Politics At The Olympics
Aug 15, 2008
Though the Olympic Games kicked off in considerable splendour last week, the 29th games has been shrouded in a thick cloud of controversy ever...
Category: Society and Culture
- From Decadence to Dissonance: The Aesthetics That Shaped The Late Victorian Era
Aug 12, 2008
The 19th Century's penchant for aesthetics helped define one of the most vibrant and vital periods in modern history. But the highly eroticised...
Category: Society and Culture
- England 'Til We Die: The Future Of English Football Management
Aug 10, 2008
First we had the "Iceman" that was Sven, then the nonentity that was McClaren now we've got an Italian who might not be here after 2010. Can we as...
Category: Football
- Foetal Alcohol Syndrome: The Dangers of Drinking During Pregnancy
Aug 10, 2008
You can't smoke, you can't drink, you shouldn't do too much heavy exercise and yet you shouldn't sit around doing nothing all day long. Oh, the...
Category: Health
- Assisted Performance: The Who, What, Why, When And How
Aug 9, 2008
Assisted performance is a means by which blind or partially sighted people can attend the theatre, the cinema and sporting events independently....
Category: Arts and Entertainment
- Reforming At The Mouth: The Rise Of The Lost Bands
Jul 25, 2008
We are currently witnessing a number of comebacks from bands we all thought were dead and buried. From Take That to Rage Against the Machine, it...
Category: Music
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