Sunday, 30 June 2013
Saturday, 29 June 2013
♪♫ Oh/Ex/Oh - Broadcast #6: Geography Tripping Level 2 Merit
A second mix for http://thegeographytrip.com this time for their show on Chorlton FM. Expect slumber / tension / euphoria in almost equal measures. June 2013
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Friday, 28 June 2013
Don't let the news worry you
Researchers in the 1970s ran dozens of human experiments to discover what influenced people's estimation of risk. They noticed that after a natural disaster people took out more insurance, then with time took out less, because the risk is more salient immediately after a disaster, and people think about it. They called these habits of mind the availability heuristic.
It was found that tornadoes were seen as more frequent killers than asthma, although the latter caused 20 times more deaths. Thus vivid events are recalled not merely more vividly but in the belief there are more of them. In contrast, problems that are common are not surprising and are less likely to qualify as news. Another smoking death? And?
Although we'd be justified in describing this as a reporting bias, the media have no trouble justifying it on the grounds that people want to know about what's unusual and new. There is no way they could report risk proportionately and still be in business. It would mean thousands of times more articles on smoking than on death from measles. But it is a bias nevertheless. The unusual is, by the nature of news, disproportionately in your face, so you might think there's a lot of it about.
One effect is that it's easy to forget how radically reduced many fatal accidents are – the death of child pedestrians for example. In 2008 in England and Wales there were 1,471,100 girls aged between five and nine. The Office for National Statistics says 137 of them died from all causes. One was a pedestrian in a traffic accident. In 2010, there were no pedestrian deaths in this category.
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REMEMBER THAT 'FEAR' EQUALS 'FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL'
- Pierre Borghi'It's utterly frustrating to play cards with a guy that could put a bullet in your head at any moment, especially when he is cheating'
Download a Free EP From Laurel Halo, Gavin Russom and Brenmar
When we decided to devote our summer issue to underground electronic music, one creative partner came to mind: Moog Music, the all-analog-everything architects that still make their iconic synths by hand in Asheville, North Carolina. Rather than simply coordinate a sponsorship deal between the company and a few of our favorite New York producers—Laurel Halo, Gavin Russom and Brenmar—we gave each of them a card from Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies” deck as a source of inspiration for an exclusive song.
What we got back far exceeded our expectations and reflected the range of electronic music in our issue perfectly, from Brenmar’s hip-hop ballistics and Russom’s 11-minute “holistic workout” to Halo’s nocturnal emissions.
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This is the full Black Flag documentary called "Reality 86'd". This film
has been taken down several times by Greg Ginn. This is your chance to
watch it in its entirety before it is inevitably deleted.
Story here: http://larecord.com/staff-blog/2011/0...
Story here: http://larecord.com/staff-blog/2011/0...
Radiohead Live at Tramps June 1, 1995 (Free Download)
Over the course of this performance, Radiohead leans heavily on songs from The Bends, performing the album nearly in its entirety, including all five singles, with five additional numbers, all from the band's debut album Pablo Honey (including "Creep"). Despite the emotional weight of the material, the band often find high and exalted moments, typified by the final encore performance of "Street Spirit." Here Yorke ruminates about his own feelings of insignificance over Jonny Greenwood's ringing guitar arpeggios, bringing the performance to an ecstatic close with the final lyric, "...immerse your soul in love."
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Thursday, 27 June 2013
...Rudd had never had an army of supporters in caucus. Nor did those who worked closely with him in his early years have much to say in his favour. As a diplomat, public servant and shadow minister, Rudd had an unhappy knack of making colleagues loathe him
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
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