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2018-01-04 08:40:32     Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis

http://www.jasnh.com/

Welcome to the Journal of Articles in Support of the Nul... the past other journals and reviewers have exhibited a b... articles that did not reject the null hypothesis. We see... offering an outlet for experiments that do not reach the... significanc

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2017-12-16 18:00:14     Can I Leave This One Out? The Effect of Dropping an Item From the SUSJUS

http://uxpajournal.org/dropping-item-sus/

There are times when user experience practitioners might... System Usability Scale (SUS), but there is an item that ... in their context of measurement. For example, the first ... I would like to use this system frequently.” If the sy... one that wo

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2017-12-15 08:41:27     Code like a Weaver – Code Like A Girl

https://code.likeagirl.io/code-like-a-weaver-64e699d9a022

My mom’s never written a line of software in her life,... how to program. She taught me arithmetic and fractions t... structures through laundry, and programming and algorith... Does that sound crazy? Let me explain.

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2017-12-11 14:05:24     Stanford CS department updates introductory courses: Java is Gone | Computing Education Blog

https://computinged.wordpress.com/...urses-java-is-gone/?...

Stanford has decided to move away from Java in their int... Surprisingly, they have decided to move to JavaScript. ®.. that most top CS departments are moving to Python.  The... article linked below doesn’t address any other languag...
The SIGCSE-

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2017-07-15 09:27:18     Ravens Are Able To Plan For The Future As Well As Human Children Can | IFLScience

http://www.iflscience.com/...-for-the-future-just-like-apes/

In a new set of experiments published in Science, howeve... found that the raven’s ability to plan ahead goes much... simply catching food.
The first experiment trained the birds to use a tool to ...

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2017-07-12 10:23:49     Nest Founder: “I Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?”

https://www.fastcodesign.com/...at-did-we-bring-to-the-world

“A lot of the designers and coders who were in their 2... creating these things didn’t have kids. Now they have ... “And they see what’s going on, and they say, ‘Wait... they start to rethink their design decisions.”
And it’s not just tha

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2017-06-15 21:32:04     Lima – The first Cloud that respects your privacy

https://meetlima.com/index.php?lang=en

Keep your personal files safe at home. Access them from ... the beauty of the Personal Cloud.

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2017-06-15 21:29:15     Counting Research ⇒ Directing Research: The Hazard of Using Simple Metrics to Evaluate Scientific Contributions (An EU Experience)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0020.102?...

In many EU countries there is a requirement to count res... measure and prove its value. These numbers, often produc... based on the impact of journals, are used to rank univer... determine fund distribution, to evaluate research propos... determine t

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2017-06-15 21:20:56     The Ig Nobel Prize and Other Efforts to Eradicate Complex Academic Writing - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive.../412255/?...

The idea that writing should be clear, concise, and low-... new one—and it isn’t limited to government agencies,... problem of needlessly complex writing—sometimes referr... “opaque writing style”—has been explored in fields... to science.

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2017-06-15 21:20:09     “Political Co-Authorships” in Medical Science Journals - Johal - 2017 - Clinical Anatomy - Wiley Online Library

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ca.22932/abstract

The issue of co-author relationships on medical sciences... publications has become more pronounced as advances in t... enabled collaboration across countries and institutions ... efficiently. These relationships often have underlying p... motivations

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2017-06-15 21:18:07     Teaching kids philosophy makes them smarter in math and English — Quartz

https://qz.com/...akes-them-smarter-in-math-and-english/?...

Nine- and 10-year-old children in England who participat... class once a week over the course of a year significantl... math and literacy skills, with disadvantaged students sh... significant gains

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2017-06-15 21:17:17     Did Media Literacy Backfire? – Data & Society: Points

https://points.datasociety.net/...racy-backfire-7418c084d88d

Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of p... news during this year’s election cycle, many progressi... an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Othe... for solutions that focus on expert fact-checking and lab... these appro

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2017-06-15 21:16:00     When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archiv.../283865/?...

During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we o... steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared b... couple.

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2017-05-29 08:38:38     Black Lives Matter in Journal of Political Philosophy: Philosophers published a series written entirely by white professors — Quartz

https://qz.com/...ries-written-entirely-by-white-professors/

This week, the prestigious Journal of Political Philosop... series of articles under the heading “Black Lives Matt... All the authors published in the series are white.

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2017-05-21 08:13:14     ISBNdb - A Unique Book & ISBN Database

http://isbndb.com/api/v2/docs

The API gives you access to 6 different collections of d...
Books (two endpoints, /book and /books)
Authors (two endpoints, /author and /authors)
Publishers (two endpoints, /publisher and /publishers)
... Prices (single endpoint, /prices)

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2017-05-21 08:06:32     Develop

http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop.en.html

Find the essential details you need to use our web servi... eligibility to authentication patterns and technical doc... build enhanced services and solutions to everyday problems.

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2017-05-21 07:54:34     API Documentation - Outpan Developers

https://outpan.mixnode.com/developers.php

Legacy API
Get Product Information
GET https://api.outpan.com/v2/products/[GTIN]?apikey=[YO ...

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/Channels/techie/open data

2017-05-15 18:49:19     Nominatim - OpenStreetMap Wiki

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

Nominatim (from the Latin, 'by name') is a tool to searc... and address and to generate synthetic addresses of OSM p... geocoding). It can be found at nominatim.openstreetmap.org.

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2017-05-14 12:37:51     3 Million Instacart Orders, Open Sourced – tech-at-instacart

https://tech.instacart.com/...ders-open-sourced-d40d29ead6f2

Curious about the food Americans eat? Look no further.
Instacart is excited to announce our first public datase ...

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2017-05-01 07:31:14     Greg Mark of Markforged talks about putting metal into the microwave | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/...ting-metal-into-the-microwave/?...

“So that’s it. Humans have been pouring metal in mol... Fuck molds. The digital age transformed every other indu... – music, photography, writing, telecom, email, the int... makes cars largely the same way they did in the 50’s. ...
In short he

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2017-04-20 08:02:39     The effects of taxes and benefits on household income - Office for National Statistics

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopu.../financialyearending2015

The redistribution effects on households of direct and i... and benefits received in cash or kind analysed by househ... changing levels of income inequality over time.

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2017-04-20 08:01:08     Reality Check: Are lower earners bearing the tax burden? - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39641222

The claim: Low and middle earners are bearing the burden...
Reality Check verdict: The government is very reliant on ...

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2017-04-15 07:24:44     AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals | Technology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...t-biases-research-reveals?...

An artificial intelligence tool that has revolutionised ... computers to interpret everyday language has been shown ... gender and racial biases.
The findings raise the spectre of existing social inequa ...

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2017-04-11 17:01:38     Why people prefer unequal societies : Nature Human Behaviour

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0082

There is immense concern about economic inequality, both... scholarly community and in the general public, and many ... equality is an important social goal. However, when peop... the ideal distribution of wealth in their country, they ... unequal soc

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2017-04-11 08:59:53     Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset | Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/a.../us-usa-banks-cobol-idUSKBN17C0D8

Bill Hinshaw is not a typical 75-year-old. He divides hi... family – he has 32 grandchildren and great-grandchildr... U.S. companies avert crippling computer meltdowns.
Hinshaw, who got into programming in the 1960s when comp ...

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2017-04-10 08:01:48     Why algorithms aren't working for women

http://www.feministcurrent.com/...ithms-arent-working-women/

Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

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2017-04-10 07:21:46     Inside Your Users’ Minds: The Cultural Probe · An A List Apart Article

https://alistapart.com/article/culturalprobe

By analyzing the results of your cultural probe, you can... of how users behave: what they love and hate, what motiv... what they do and why. Solutions based on this knowledge ... give users what they need, rather than what they say the... also help i

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2017-04-03 21:05:14     The Scottish Scoundrel Who Changed How We See Data - Atlas Obscura

http://www.atlasobscura.com/...o-changed-how-we-see-data?...

When he wasn’t blackmailing lords and being sued for l... Playfair invented the pie chart, the bar graph, and the ...

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2017-03-29 23:52:52     Measuring Worth - About Us

https://www.measuringworth.com/aboutus.php

There are two missions of this site. The first is to mak... public the highest quality and most reliable historical ... economic aggregates, with particular emphasis on nominal... measures, as well as real (constant-price) measures. The... here on the

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2017-03-23 07:59:41     Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/

But does peer review `work' at all? A systematic review ... available evidence on peer review concluded that `the pr... review is based on faith in its effects, rather than on ... answer to the question on whether peer review works depe... `What is pe

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