Tech Therapy

Directed by Kevin Kerslake, "We're Outta Here" was conceived as an opportunity to document the Ramones final performance - plain and simple. The resulting piece includes live footage interspersed with interviews with famous friends and material spanning the life of the Ramones.

Elegant electronic soul music from Future Beat Alliance on the Eevolute inspired Eevonext Digital imprint. FBA's Matthew Puffett is qualified more than many to produce an album of 90's electronica as his productions since 1996 have consistently explored this style for a number of labels including Delsin and Ferox. For 'Patience & Distance' he provides 14 tracks of acid flecked IDM, heavy on melodic statements like 'Breathe In Your Fear' and the pulsing ambient epic 'Without Words', or Detroit inspiraions like the B12 reminiscent 'Reverse The Negative', or noodly machine workouts on 'Rant'.

Since the beginning of time, humans have been searching for love potions. While looking for a magic brew to help us attract a mate, we've also been experimenting with ways to avoid getting pregnant. In this episode our experts unearth the mysteries behind why certain foods and smells like oysters, chocolate and human sweat are supposed aphrodisiacs. We also take a trip to the only birth control museum in the world to reveal how everything from lemons, chocolate bar wrappers and beaver testicles have been used to try to interrupt the marriage of the egg and the sperm. What do scientists now know about how to increase sexual desire? And sexual function? What is the future of birth control? Does our future fertility lie in the hands of high-tech antibody therapy or in the chemicals hidden in saliva and plants in your backyard? Technology, ingenuity and imagination – keys to attracting a mate without getting pregnant.

This special issue of Aphasiology brings together papers from six countries in three continents on the ways in which computers are being used in the domain.