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2016-05-23 09:16:50     Standards revealed for Scottish government’s ‘mygov.scot’ platform » Digital By Default News

http://www.digitalbydefaultnews.co.uk/...ygov-scot-platform/

A set of standards to drive the Scottish Government’s ... online platform has been released.
The document runs through the minimum standards required ...
It outlines 21 criteria that should be attained in creat ...
Other standards include a requirement

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2016-05-21 18:25:51    

https://www.theguardian.com/...lar-evolution-creationism?...

Child psychology studies have identified a natural human bias toward the theory of intelligent design, and pose a solution: teach evolution earlier

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2016-05-21 17:58:21    

https://www.theguardian.com/...re-organised-neuroscience?...

Using brain imaging, scientists have built a map displaying how words and their meanings are represented across different regions of the brain

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2016-05-19 21:02:51    

https://aeon.co/...cess-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

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2016-05-10 06:42:06     Maps of Britain and Ireland's ancient tribes, kingdoms and DNA

http://www.abroadintheyard.com/...cient-tribes-kingdoms-dna/

For map fans, some new maps showing Celt, Roman, Anglo-S... territories in the British Isles. Also, the remarkable ... how modern Britons still live in the same tribal kingdom... ancestors in 600 AD.

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2016-04-29 11:52:12    

https://www.newscientist.com/...es-our-feelings-about-words/

But keyboards may have an impact on the emotional associations we have with words as well. It has been found that words consisting of a higher proportion of letters from the right-hand side of a QWERTY keyboard – those from “y”, “h⮮.

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2016-04-29 09:54:19    

https://theintercept.com/...ekness-fear-and-self-censorship/

A newly published study from Oxford’s Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Report...

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2016-04-22 20:55:34     How politicians poisoned statistics - FT.com

http://www.ft.com/...e8-01c7-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e62.html#...

ft.com > life&arts >
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Home UK World Companies Markets Global Economy Lex Comme ...
... icks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”

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2016-04-22 20:32:43     What Your Toilet Paper Preference Says About You

http://www.attn.com/...oilet-paper-preference-says-about-you

If you assumed that hanging a toilet paper roll one way ... arbitrary decision, you'd be wrong. Your toilet paper pr... actually be correlated to your demographic and political... shows.

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2016-04-18 12:53:27     Context Free Art:About - Context Free Art

http://www.contextfreeart.org/medi.../Context_Free_Art:About

Chris Coyne created a small language for design grammars... grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules to produce ... are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars.

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/Channels/techie/programming

2016-04-18 12:44:36     The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future of Objectifying Women | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/...s-some-icky-things-about-our-future/

AS ROBOTICS AND 3-D printing technologies become more ac... tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beauti... who’s turned on a TV in the past decade shouldn’t be... that one of the first—and creepiest—examples of this...
News broke

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2016-04-18 12:43:40     Google's Nest closing smart-home company Revolv, bricking devices - Business Insider

http://uk.businessinsider.com/...olv-bricking-devices-2016-4

Nest, a smart-home company owned by Google's holding com... dropping support for a line of products — and will mak... existing devices completely useless.
It's a move that has infuriated some customers, and rais ...

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2016-04-18 07:58:36     Here's Richard Feynman's simple technique for sorting science from pseudoscience - ScienceAlert

http://www.sciencealert.com/...ng-science-from-pseudoscience

It turns out, all you need to do when you read or hear s... that sounds smart, is try to translate it back into ord... better yet, have the person explain it for you - without... scientific jargon or terms, and see if it still makes sense.

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2016-04-11 07:58:30     Internet mapping turned a remote farm into a digital hell | Fusion

http://fusion.net/st.../internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/

for the last 14 years, every time MaxMind’s database h... about the location of an IP address in the United States... identify, it has spit out the default location of a spot... from the geographic center of the country. This happens ...
Which happe

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2016-04-10 14:26:03     How Big Data Harms Poor Communities - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive.../477423/?...

Outside the court system, “innocent until proven guilt... people’s due-process rights, Kerr says: “A right to ... to participate in one’s hearing, a right to know what ... collected about me, and a right to challenge that inform... opaque data

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2016-04-10 10:37:41     Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji | GroupLens

http://grouplens.org/...or-miscommunication-using-emoji/?...

Hey emoji users: Did you know that when you send your fr... Nexus, they might see  on their iPhone? And it’s not... of thing can happen for all emoji (yes, even ). In a pa... will be officially published at AAAI ICWSM in May, we sh... problem can

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/Channels/HCI stuff/emotion and fun

2016-04-05 14:56:46    

https://medium.com/...een-remixing-learning-c1df54c302df#...

With more than 10 million users, the Scratch online community is the largest online community where kids learn to program. Since it was created, a central goal of the community has been to promote “remixing” — the reworking and re...

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/Channels/HCI stuff/appropriation
/Channels/techie/programming

2016-04-05 06:52:17    

https://github.com/prefuse/Prefuse

Prefuse is a set of software tools for creating rich interactive data visualizations in the Java programming language. Prefuse supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction.

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2016-04-05 06:50:14     JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit

http://philogb.github.io/jit/

The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web.

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2016-04-04 17:14:41     Chart.js | Documentation

http://www.chartjs.org/docs/#notes

Everything you need to know to build great looking chart...

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2016-04-04 17:13:48     History of Bar Charts and Graphs

http://www.jpowered.com/graphs-and-.../bar-chart-history.htm

Today bar charts and graphs are used everywhere and ther... and variations, but where invented them and where did th...

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2016-03-31 10:59:42    

https://lareviewofbooks.org/...l-matter-in-the-age-of-google

If anything, the reference system provided by a good citation style has come to matter even more in the age of the internet, rather than being rendered obsolete by the seemingly infinite networking and searchability of texts and other cultu...

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2016-03-24 19:09:15    

http://fivethirtyeight.com/...s-can-easily-explain-p-values/

But after writing about p-values again and again, and recently issuing a correction on a nearly year-old story over some erroneous information regarding a study’s p-value (which I’d taken from the scientists themselves and their report)...

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2016-03-22 21:55:08     Why One Published Paper Is Causing The Scientific Community To Freak Out | IFLScience

http://www.iflscience.com/...designed-creator-causes-outrage

A group of Chinese scientists published their research i... peer-reviewed, open-source journal on January 5. The stu... paper that looked at the biomechanics of the human hand....
One of the sentences read: “Hand coordination should i ...
The word’

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2016-03-22 21:54:11    

https://aeon.co/...t-flips-elections-and-alters-our-thoughts

The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do

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2016-03-22 21:50:36     This painful video shows what it was like to send an email in 1984 - ScienceAlert

http://www.sciencealert.com/...like-to-send-an-email-in-1984

For those of you who remember life before the Internet, ... from the early to mid '90s, access made serious leaps fr... government and research facilities to the home. By 1996,... million people around the world were using the Internet,... million of

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2016-03-22 21:48:38    

https://eagereyes.org/blog/2015/ye-olde-pie-chart-debate

You may think that the debate over pie charts was a new one, but it has raged on for at least 100 years. Brinton started it in 1914, and great drama unfolded in the pages of the Journal of the American Statistical Association in the 1920s.

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2016-03-08 17:22:02     xkcd: Significant

http://xkcd.com/882/

Significant

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2016-03-08 16:55:15     Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/...over-misuse-of-p-values-1.19503?...

Policy statement aims to halt missteps in the quest for ...

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2016-03-08 16:55:01     Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/...just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-1.17412

Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scruti... not merely the last one

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