Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Traditional health systems serve a key role in protectin...
Novel Internet-based collaborative systems can have an i ...
Mobile Internet usage is growing rapidly worldwide, maki ...
We present a brief summary of some promising mobile appl ...
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There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to

These technologies, BCI and CBI, can be combined to real... non-invasive, computer-mediated brain-to-brain (B2B) com... subjects (hyperinteraction).

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Despite to the vast advances in capacity and capability ... the past two decades, the representation of users, their... and preferences in application software has changed litt... of modern personal computing and personal information ma...
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In response to a threatened protest in its subway system... authorities temporarily shut down mobile phone service i... stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known l...

Police in north London have seized blankets, sleeping ba... donations from rough sleepers in a crackdown on homeless...

The system has a class bias as well as a race bias. An i... Alternet's Zaid Jilani revealed that in the first five m... 95 percent of police killings occurred in neighborhoods ... incomes under $100,000. There were no killings in neighb...
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Polyarchy visualization: visualizing multiple intersect...
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Ponoko is an online marketplace for everyone to click to...
It’s where creators, digital fabricators, materials su ...
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Mission: Encourage life-long learning, promote alternat... environments and equip young people with 21st Century sk... skills for life, not for more school. Vision: Elastic Po... = alternative learning environments 21st century edutain... culture.

Popcorn Maker is a creative tool that makes authoring in... pages as easy as point and click.
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Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s...
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This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ... Adelson of M.I.T. Click here for details on the Professo... also to Andy Grüneberg for bringing this to our attention.
This is simply the best optical illusion we've ever seen ...

poshRDF is an approach (and, as a by-product, an RDF-in-... efficiently extract RDF from (many) microformats and sim...
It's also possible to use the POSH definitions and creat ...
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Poyozo gives you your own data back by downloading the i... currently giving to the web on to your own computer. You... importing your data from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, ... Calendar, any email service, any RSS feed, Flickr, Wesab... Skydeck, Do

Abstract: Two in-place variants of the classical mergeso... analysed in detail. The first, straightforward variant p... log 2 N + O(N ) comparisons and 3N log 2 N + O(N ) moves... elements. The second, more advanced variant requires at ... O(N ) compa

As John Dewey put it, there is no question of theory ver... rather of intelligent practice versus uninformed, stupid...

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help... interact with the world of data -- including a deep look... device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In a... Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthS... possibiliti

Jeff Randall: Here in Britain we’re very good at comin... but not very good at turning them into money-making busi... that?
Martin Knight: I think it’s because we underfund early ...

The Unicode Consortium controls the standards that gover... displayed on the world's computers, which means, of cour... define the world's emoticons. Last month, they released ... of the standard, 6.0. It features this lovely and defini...
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oundary objects 'have different meanings in different so... their structure is common enough to more than one world ... recognizable, a means of translation' (Star and Grieseme...

Prescription for an electronic revolution?
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Patients could be saved millions of trips to their GP un ...
... h expertise in the field of prescribing in primary care.

Analysts ABI Research expect the wearable computer marke... exponentially, predicting there will be 485 million ship... 2018.
A Microsoft executive said recently he expected we would ...

Prince Ruperts Drop: The Curious Properties of a Molten ... in Cold Water science glass
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In certain instances, not everyone views every portion o... online: eventually, someone is going to print parts of i... this is perfectly fine: if you have a print style sheet ...
It’s a simple problem of resolution. Images are always ...
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