If this is the World Science Festival then I want to be a scientist.

Maybe I'm not made of the right stuff..  x

Enjoy

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Here's what our very first EP Holy Yell looks like! Marvellous, I think. We have a bunch of copies ready for you to grab off us at the next gig of ours you can get to...

They Already Know DEMO by Bright Spark Destroyer

This and four other tracks are on the thing we call Holy Yell, which we are super happy with. With any luck we'll have copies of it at all of our upcoming shows, including our first of the year, at Bush Hall tomorrow night (supporting A Genuine Freakshow). We're on at 8.30pm sharp!

Also, keep watching the various Spark spaces for more streams of new songs...

If people were more heavily armed in the UK, the stats in that article might read differently, with a high percentage of Angels-themed deaths perhaps?

I don't really 'do' karaoke nights; I know some friends of mine were at one last night so I deleted all their phone numbers, but if I hadn't done that I might ask them what the zeitgeist is throwing up these days. Poker Face? Sex On Fire?

Safety in numbers: Large groups often make the second verse before being gunned down like dogs.

It seems strange that people's lives end over things like this, but in a way it's almost like a revenge killing: you murder this song; I murder you.

Nice to see another individual's artistic creativity connected to our band.

Today I have begun to listen to the rewards of a collaborative project between the five of us which started over a year ago now and I'm pretty HAPPY with it!

To celebrate this stepping stone, the best way we could think to do this was by starting a collaborative project with even more people!

With the use of this nifty dropbox from SOUNDCLOUD:

Send me your track

Just add an audio/song of your own and we are going to try and create a re-mix/song from all our powers combined. Remember to make the track downloadable for us!

Stay tuned for the results....

Facts About Projection from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.

It's very sad that proper film seems to be endangered now, and with it the craft of projection...

Tem has made a bunch of other films as well as tunes and fine illustrated books, all marvellous, so have a poke around.

Researchers find a way to precisely date the Dead Sea Scrolls.

After a decade of intense laboratory tests, a Danish archaeochemist has found a way to enable scientists to precisely date the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ownership of which is currently a bone of contention between Israel and Jordan, according to videnskab.dk.

The Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient documents were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in caves near the Qumran Wadi northwest of the Dead Sea.

Treatment of the rolls has included them being spread out using plant oil, which in turn made precise carbon dating of the scrolls almost impossible.

A Danish archaeochemist and an international team of researchers, have, however now found a chemical method to remove the oil without harming the parchment of the scrolls, and thus allowing precise carbon dating.

“For more than a decade we’ve been saying that there was no point in dating the scrolls before we found a method to remove the oil. Now we have found just such a method,” Associate Professor and Archaeochemist Kaare Lund Rasmussen of the University of Southern Denmark tells videnskab.dk.

Carbon dating tests of the scrolls were carried out in the 1990s by the Zurich Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona, but precise dating has remained controversial.

It is not yet clear when a new set of carbon dating tests will be carried out.

Edited by Julian Isherwood

Ripped off by Ian Butterworth

The question that scuppered our chances of doing better was a mammoth-6-pointer: name all Guns N' Roses' LPs. Between six people we could collectively name two of their records. I think we were all secretly proud of this fact.

Is this from an album? I honestly don't know.

Quiz team names are a difficult art to master, we opted for the 'bad pun' option and attempted to get the right balance for a truly tenuous pop culture reference. Having decided that Quizzy Rascal and Quiz This It were too obvious, we opted for the clumsy beauty of 'Limp Quiz Kit'. 

The best name of the night was undoubtedly 'Hate Music Love Racism'.  We're going to have to be less PC next week to keep up with that kind of effort.