Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: all public snips

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence â but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche | The Guardian

2026-04-02T19:03:45Z

A boy and a girl, maybe 10 years old, were fighting. âThatâs AI! Thatâs AI!â the girl was shouting. What she meant was that the boy was indulging a new and particular breed of nonsense: language that sounds meaningful but has no con...

Generative AI without guardrails can harm learning: Evidence from high school mathematics | PNAS

2026-03-11T09:50:17Z

students do not perceive any reduction in their learning or subsequent performance as a consequence of copying solutions

The Guardian view on AI in war: the Iran conflict shows that the paradigm shift has already begun | Editorial | The Guardian

2026-03-07T07:53:26Z

Human control risks becoming an afterthought or a mere formality.

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

2026-02-17T06:54:20Z

âWhen we talk about AI thatâs âgoodâ for the planet, itâs often predictive models, extractive models, or old-school AI models.â

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

2026-02-10T06:54:45Z

This week, the UN secretary general, AntÃ³nio Guterres, called for economies to âmove beyond GDPâ as a measure of progress, warning that the worldâs âexisting accounting systemsâ were driving the planet towards disaster. His remar...

2026-02-03T07:05:31Z

The UK government didnât want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. Iâm not surprised | George Monbiot | The Guardian

2026-01-31T12:14:47Z

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For âdoomsayersâ like us, it is the ultimate vindication

Era of âglobal water bankruptcyâ is here, UN report says | Water | The Guardian

2026-01-21T06:33:10Z

The result was a world in which 75% of people lived in countries classified as water-insecure or critically water-insecure and 2 billion people lived on ground that is sinking as groundwater aquifers collapse. Conflicts over water had risen...

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer | Climate crisis | The Guardian

2026-01-21T06:29:40Z

The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate.

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn | Biodiversity | The Guardian

2026-01-21T06:28:14Z

A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: âNature underpins our security, prosperity, and resilience and understanding the threats we face from biodiversity loss is crucial to meeting them head on.

Trumpâs assault on the Smithsonian: âThe goal is to reframe the entire culture of the USâ | US news | The Guardian

2026-01-09T06:48:33Z

their institution had removed the phrase âsocial justiceâ from a wall text as a way of softening the way a particular artist (a socialist, anti-racist figure) was presented

âSee no evil, hear no evilâ Starmer goes on full sycophant alert | John Crace | The Guardian

2026-01-06T08:46:09Z

International law varies depending on whether we like the country being invaded. Whatâs not to understand?

Just 1 Stock Market Sector Now Makes Up 34% of the S&P 500. Here's What It Means for Your Investment Portfolio. | The Motley Fool

2026-01-04T08:55:38Z

The "Ten Titans," which includes Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Broadcom, Tesla, Oracle, and Netflix, now makes up over 39% of the S&P 500. And the technology sector alone makes up 34% of the index.

When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr | The Guardian

2025-12-24T07:46:01Z

Since the prize in that race is global supremacy, there are few incentives for either side to fret about risks, or sign up to international protocols restricting the uses of AI and mandating transparency in its development. Neither the US n...

George Osborne has a new job in tech, and it doesnât bode well for Britain | Chris Stokel-Walker | The Guardian

2025-12-19T16:05:21Z

OpenAI for Countries, does what it says on the tin. Itâs designed to embed OpenAIâs models and infrastructure inside the machinery of states, becoming an invaluable, indefatigable part of the running of our lives. OpenAI is in talks wi...

UK campaigners condemn âcreepyâ digital billboards that can track viewersâ responses | Privacy | The Guardian

2025-12-09T08:02:53Z

Digital billboards that can film viewersâ responses to adverts have been installed in hundreds of apartment blocks, in a move that civil liberty campaigners called âcreepy as hellâ.

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic | Language | The Guardian

2025-12-08T08:33:30Z

It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost in the mists of time. But the remnants of a language spoken in parts of the UK and Ireland 2,000 years ago are being collected for what is being b...

âItâs going much too fastâ: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

2025-12-01T15:14:15Z

âWith most standard product development jobs, you know exactly what you just built,â said ChatGPTâs Turley âYou know how itâs going to behave. With this job, itâs the first time Iâve worked in a technology where you have to go...

Icelandic is in danger of dying out because of AI and English-language media, says former PM | Iceland | The Guardian

2025-11-16T09:56:48Z

Icelandâs former prime minister, KatrÃn JakobsdÃ³ttir, has said that the Icelandic language could be wiped out in as little as a generation due to the sweeping rise of AI and encroaching English language dominance.

Big content is taking on AI â but itâs far from the David v Goliath tale theyâd have you believe | Alexander Avila | The Guardian

2025-11-16T09:54:03Z

This fact points to a strategy that entertainment executives fear far more than AI, one that would empower artists to challenge the status quo across big content and big tech: organised labour.

Public Map Platform

2025-09-12T06:39:11Z

Our goal is to create a mapping tool that captures and highlights what truly matters to communities, empowering them to use it to influence how their places are planned and developed.

2025-08-28T08:41:38Z

ItÃ¢â¬â¢s true that my fellow students are embracing AI Ã¢â¬â but this is what the critics arenÃ¢â¬â¢t seeing | Elsie McDowell | The Guardian

2025-07-02T06:33:18Z

There are valid concerns about the abuse and overuse of large language models (LLMs) in education. But if you want to understand why so many students are turning to AI, you need to understand what brought us to this point Ã¢â¬â and the educat...

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features | Deepfake | The Guardian

2025-06-27T06:32:05Z

The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice.

2025-06-24T15:14:32Z

How better sidewalks make better communities | by The Medium Newsletter | May, 2025 | The Medium Blog

2025-05-28T11:00:10Z

Another popular idea is Slow Zones, which are areas where car traffic is limited and streets reclaimed by pedestrians. Although some are skeptical of their usefulness, Salazar-MirandaÃ¢â¬â¢s study revealed some data-driven benefits: Ã¢â¬ÅWe used...

South KoreaÃ¢â¬â¢s robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers - Rest of World

2025-05-17T06:41:32Z

Robot chefs are replacing humans at some South Korean highway restaurants. Tech companies say robots can help solve labor shortage in an aging nation. Workers say their roles have been downgraded from chefs to cleaning staff.

Project - OpenWebSearch.eu Ã¢â¬â Promoting EuropeÃ¢â¬Ës Independence in Web Search

2025-05-17T06:38:04Z

The open web search infrastructure will not only contribute to EuropeÃ¢â¬â¢s sovereignty for navigating and searching the web. It will benefit us all as citizens. Based on our own preferences, we will finally have a real choice again when choo...

Carl Sagan: "This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then." Ã¢â¬â Bluesky

2025-05-01T06:08:27Z

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost | John Harris | The Guardian

2025-04-28T05:42:54Z

Ã¢â¬Åpeople with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse spatial memory during self-guided navigationÃ¢â¬Â. Thirteen of their participants were retested three years after the initial research, when they found that Ã¢â¬Ågreater GPS use since in...

Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case | by Cory Doctorow | Apr, 2025 | Medium

2025-04-27T09:12:43Z

Social networks have two stable equilibria: either everyone uses them, or no-one uses them. In contrast, nonsocial apps (e.g. weather apps, exercise apps) can exist [somewhere] along a continuum of adoption. The binary nature of social netw...

Unsure Calculator

2025-04-06T08:11:33Z

Calculate with numbers youÃ¢â¬â¢re not sure about Hi, I'm Filip, and I'd like to introduce to you an early version of an uncertainty calculator. Statistics are scary, but they don't need to be. If you allow me to simplify, the field of statist...

Will you look at that! Why we are delighted by random, beautiful marvels | Australian lifestyle | The Guardian

2025-04-06T07:54:02Z

In turn, I was shaped by the Argonauts, a 20th-century radio club for children, which had us vow: Ã¢â¬ÅBefore the sun and the night and the blue sea, I vow to stand faithfully by all that is brave and beautiful; to seek adventure, and having ...

Drone attacks killing hundreds of civilians across Africa, says report | Global development | The Guardian

2025-03-11T05:22:29Z

Almost 1,000 civilians have been killed and hundreds more injured in military drone attacks across Africa as the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles continues unchecked on the continent, according to a report.

About | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity

2025-03-08T10:55:21Z

The overall research question is: What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental, social and economic limits?Ã¢â¬âWe work with people, policy and business to address this question, developing pragmatic steps towards a shared an...

When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: Ã¢â¬ËWhy, and for whom?Ã¢â¬â¢ | Rowan Williams | The Guardian

2025-03-08T10:54:30Z

Isolate growth from public good and you are simply planning for breakdown. My research shows that a resilient society should be rooted in wellbeing, not wealth

2025-01-30T10:23:49Z

2025-01-27T07:20:07Z

Uncertainties as Generative Resources in Research through Design: Three Dynamics for Moving in a Design Space | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

2025-01-06T06:02:10Z

The strength of practice-based design research, like RtD, lies in its suitability for addressing challenges that cannot be formulated as research hypotheses [RedstrÃÂ¶m, 2020]. It helps designers to ask questions instead of solving problems ...

The Shape of Things Unseen by Adam Zeman review Ã¢â¬â the science of imagination | Science and nature books | The Guardian

2025-01-03T07:48:07Z

In The Shape of Things Unseen, neurologist Adam Zeman attempts toÃÂ explain how and why this is. It is aÃÂ wide-ranging survey Ã¢â¬â too wide, offering a mass of fascinating information about creativity, mental imagery and child development blo...

Wealthy parentsÃ¢â¬â¢ greatest asset is the assets they will pass on | Torsten Bell | The Guardian

2024-12-29T08:36:43Z

Examining the relationship between parental income and that of their offspring in their mid-30s, the study confirms the obvious: richer parents beget richer kids. More interesting is how economic outcomes of those from low-, middle- and top...

Are young peopleÃ¢â¬â¢s attention spans really shrinking? ItÃ¢â¬â¢s more complex than you might think | Marion Thain | The Guardian

2024-12-29T08:21:41Z

Is it possible there are modes of attention that a younger generation is developing that might be difficult for those of us who are older to value, but which bring new types of benefit? What of the rapid, quick-fire, written exchanges of in...

[2411.00986] Taking AI Welfare Seriously

2024-12-25T09:14:39Z

In this report, we argue that there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future.

Average Briton causes 23 times more CO2 on Christmas Day, study reveals | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

2024-12-25T08:11:51Z

Gifts were the biggest contributor to the total, accounting for more than 93% of emissions, according to ClimatePartner, which carried out the analysis on behalf of the Guardian, using market research provided by Finder. It found the averag...

Anthropic has hired an 'AI welfare' researcher

2024-11-27T07:42:08Z

Anthropic has hired its first full-time employee focused on the welfare of artificial intelligence systems, Transformer has learned. ItÃ¢â¬â¢s the clearest sign yet that AI companies are beginning to grapple with questions about whether future...

Report finds Ã¢â¬Ëshocking and dispiritingÃ¢â¬â¢ fall in children reading for pleasure | Books | The Guardian

2024-11-08T16:49:17Z

Reading frequency is also at a historic low, with 20.5% of eight- to 18-year-olds reporting reading daily in their free time, compared with 28% last year. The gender gap in reading enjoyment has widened, with 28.2% of boys aged eight to 18 ...

Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over Ã¢â¬ËexcessiveÃ¢â¬â¢ surveillance in smart devices | Smart homes | The Guardian

2024-11-08T16:48:05Z

Air fryers that gather your personal data and audio speakers Ã¢â¬Åstuffed with trackersÃ¢â¬Â are among examples of smart devices engaged in Ã¢â¬ÅexcessiveÃ¢â¬Â surveillance, according to the consumer group Which?

The chatbot optimisation game: can we trust AI web searches? | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

2024-11-03T14:43:57Z

When Google announced it was integrating AI-generated summaries into its search engine earlier this year, it brandished a bold slogan: Ã¢â¬ÅLet Google do the searching for you.Ã¢â¬Â ItÃ¢â¬â¢s an appealing idea that plays on our fondness for conven...

Runes prove Elfdalian is distinct ancient Nordic language, say researchers | Sweden | The Guardian

2024-11-03T14:42:22Z

It is a distinct language that has survived against the odds for centuries in a tiny pocket of central Sweden, where just 2,500 people speak it today. And yet, despite bearing little resemblance to Swedish, Elfdalian is considered to be onl...

A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why Ãâ¬ÃÂ² Ã¢â°Ë g. | by Gregory Roitman | Medium

2024-11-02T07:23:42Z

A Ã¢â¬Åstandard-freeÃ¢â¬Â definition for the meter was actually proposed back in the 17th century. The Dutch mechanic, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and inventor Christiaan Huygens suggested using a simple pendulum for this purpose. You...

Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters - Election Law Blog

2024-11-02T06:07:43Z

UPDATE: Musk said at his rally that one had to be a petition signer to be eligible for the $1 million prize. (Ã¢â¬ÅSoÃ¢â¬â we really want to try to get as many people as possible to sign this petition. So. I have a surprise for youÃÂ [crowd chee...

Human brain can process certain sentences in Ã¢â¬Ëblink of an eyeÃ¢â¬â¢, says study | Language | The Guardian

2024-10-24T03:01:43Z

Each participant was presented with a three-word starting sentence that flashed up for 300ms, followed by a second sentence that was either identical or differed by one word. Participants were asked to indicate whether the sentences matched...

UK urged to promote speaking of Irish and Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | The Guardian

2024-09-19T06:55:18Z

The UK is being urged by EuropeÃ¢â¬â¢s leading human rights organisation to push ahead with strategies to promote the use of Irish and Ulster Scots languages in Northern Ireland despite continued tensions over the issue. The Council of Europe ...

Global AI fund needed to help developing nations tap tech benefits, UN says | Technology sector | The Guardian

2024-09-19T06:53:38Z

Governments and private companies should contribute to a global artificial intelligence fund that will allow developing nations to benefit from advances in the technology, according to a UN report. The fund would help provide models, comput...

An Overview of Empathy - PMC

2024-09-16T07:45:02Z

Empathy is the feeling relationship in which the physician understands the patientÃ¢â¬â¢s plight as if the physician were the patient. The physician identifies with the patient and at the same time maintains a distance. Empathetic communicatio...

Physicist MV Ramana on the problem with nuclear power | Nuclear power | The Guardian

2024-09-05T07:27:27Z

Nuclear is costly, risky and slow, Ramana says. Why then, he asks in his new book, do governments still champion it?

2024-09-05T06:50:30Z

Can climate stripes change the way we think about air pollution? | Air pollution | The Guardian

2024-08-23T07:20:58Z

Inspired by Ed HawkinsÃ¢â¬â¢ climate stripes, the new air quality stripes show air pollution from 1850 to today. Each year is a separate vertical bar that is coloured according to the amount of particle pollution. Air that meets World Health O...

Google's AI-generated summaries leave publishers concerned

2024-08-20T12:09:36Z

Google's dominance in search, which a federal court recently ruled as an illegal monopoly, has positioned the company as a powerful player in the emerging AI industry. This has led to accusations of unfair competition, especially as the AI ...

Linking two realms: efforts to tap real-life potential of lucid dreams advance | Neuroscience | The Guardian

2024-08-19T06:15:00Z

Scientists show it is possible to control a virtual car and switch on real-world kettle from inside a lucid dream

Top A-level grades are up Ã¢â¬â but worrying regional disparities remain | A-levels | The Guardian

2024-08-15T14:24:58Z

The other striking story from this yearÃ¢â¬â¢s results is the huge and growing popularity of maths, which becomes the first A-level to exceed 100,000 entries, while 17,000 pupils took further maths, making it the subject with the biggest year-...

From Burnout to Balance: AI-Enhanced Work Models for the Future

2024-07-29T15:04:28Z

However, this new technology has not yet fully delivered on this productivity promise: Nearly half (47%) of employees using AI say they have no idea how to achieve the productivity gains their employers expect, and 77% say these tools have ...

IT Essentials: Investors are running out of patience with GenAI

2024-07-29T15:03:31Z

A recent survey of people using GenAI tools at work found that 77% said that AI had added to their workload rather than increased their productivity in the way envisioned by their bosses.ÃÂ ÃÂ

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AI and the American Smile. How AI misrepresents culture through aÃ¢â¬Â¦ | by jenka | Medium

2024-07-09T08:57:07Z

The Ifaluk of Micronesia consider emotions transactions between people. To them, anger is not a feeling of rage, a scowl, a pounding fist, or a loud yelling voice, all within the skin of one person, but a situation in which two people are e...

Microsoft can't guarantee UK data sovereignty

2024-06-24T11:47:46Z

Owen Sayers, who made the FoI request, said, "the statements from Microsoft make clear that they 100% cannot comply with UK data protection law... "They've confirmed for the first time that a guarantee of sovereignty for data at rest (which...

2024-06-23T06:10:21Z

Walking three times a week Ã¢â¬Ënearly halvesÃ¢â¬â¢ recurrence of low back pain | Health | The Guardian

2024-06-20T07:05:12Z

Hancock said people who walked three to five times a week, for an average of 130 minutes a week, remained pain-free for nearly twice as long compared with those who did not receive any treatment. Taking regular steps also improved their qua...

The Ã¢â¬Ëdead internet theoryÃ¢â¬â¢ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

2024-05-20T07:55:01Z

In 2018, a study analysed 14 million tweets over a ten-month period in 2016 and 2017. It found bots on social media were significantly involved in disseminating articles from unreliable sources. Accounts with high numbers of followers were ...

Fewer than one in 10 arts workers in UK have working-class roots | Class issues | The Guardian

2024-05-19T06:43:09Z

And while 23% of the UK workforce is from a working-class background, working-class people are underrepresented in every area of arts and culture. They make up 8.4% of those working in film, TV, radio and photography, while in museums, arch...

Senior Labour figures call for Ã¢â¬Ëlife-transformingÃ¢â¬â¢ Sure Start policy | Early years education | The Guardian

2024-04-09T06:44:35Z

Lord Blunkett, education secretary from 1997 to 2001, added: Ã¢â¬ÅSure Start was always one of those programmes that the public yearned for, but politicians rarely deliver. Namely, a long-term policy without short-term electoral gain, but tra...

Ã¢â¬ËI didnÃ¢â¬â¢t want to hurt that girl. I just felt this pressure building Ã¢â¬Â¦Ã¢â¬â¢ The sociopath who learned to behave Ã¢â¬â and found happiness | Psychology | The Guardian

2024-04-08T09:53:52Z

So Gagne studied for a PhD, and became a therapist. She thinks her detachment was helpful. Ã¢â¬ÅIf you are constantly projecting your own emotions into the session, theyÃ¢â¬â¢re not going to be able to process what theyÃ¢â¬â¢re feeling.Ã¢â¬Â

Ã¢â¬ËThe machine did it coldlyÃ¢â¬â¢: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

2024-04-06T06:46:04Z

Ã¢â¬ÅSo youÃ¢â¬â¢re willing to take the margin of error of using artificial intelligence, risking collateral damage and civilians dying, and risking attacking by mistake, and to live with it,Ã¢â¬Â they added.

Scraping away generations of forgetting: my fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena | St Helena | The Guardian

2024-03-31T09:27:52Z

Between 1840 and 1872, more than 25,000 enslaved Africans were brought on to St Helena from slaving voyages intercepted by the British Navy. About one-third died shortly after and were buried on the island in unmarked graves.

Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer | Well actually | The Guardian

2024-03-22T07:38:07Z

In other fields, thereÃ¢â¬â¢s an understanding of how common it is for our actions not to line up with internal goals. In economics, revealed preference theory says that what we value is better revealed by our behaviors than our judgements. Ã¢â¬...

Workplace AI, robots and trackers are bad for quality of life, study finds | Business | The Guardian

2024-03-13T07:16:06Z

Ã¢â¬ÅWe found that quality of life improved as the frequency of interaction with ICTs increased, whereas quality of life deteriorated as frequency of interaction with newer workplace technologies rose,Ã¢â¬Â the report said.

Shells from Captain CookÃ¢â¬â¢s final voyage saved from skip | Archaeology | The Guardian

2024-03-12T07:12:56Z

An internationally important collection of shells, including specimens from Captain CookÃ¢â¬â¢s final voyage, has been rediscovered 40 years after it was thought to have been thrown into a skip. More than 200 shells have been returned to Engli...

Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them | John Naughton | The Guardian

2024-03-10T08:07:52Z

Last Wednesday was a landmark moment for the tech industry, or at any rate for that part of it that aspires to do business in the EU. It was the day when six of the biggest companies in the world had to start complying with the EUÃ¢â¬â¢s Digit...

AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation Ã¢â¬â report | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

2024-03-07T22:39:17Z

Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, with the technology instead likely cause rising energy use and turbocharge the spread of climate disinformation, a coalition of environmental groups has w...

Drift of Earth's Pole Confirms Groundwater Depletion as a Significant Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise 1993Ã¢â¬â2010 - Seo - 2023 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library

2024-03-04T07:57:05Z

Earth's pole has drifted toward 64.16ÃÂ°E at a speed of 4.36ÃÂ cm/yr during 1993Ã¢â¬â2010 due to groundwater depletion and resulting sea level rise

JSON is incredibly slow: HereÃ¢â¬â¢s WhatÃ¢â¬â¢s Faster! | by Vaishnav Manoj | DataX Journal | Medium

2024-03-01T10:01:57Z

Yes, you heard that right! JSON, the ubiquitous format for data interchange in web development, might be slowing down your applications. In a world where speed and responsiveness are paramount, itÃ¢â¬â¢s crucial to examine the performance impl...

How to improve your sense of direction - BBC Future

2024-02-29T04:27:50Z

Some people can strike off on any journey with no guide except their 'pigeon senses'. How do they do it? And can this ability be learned?

New Study Reveals The Single Most Important Factor for Learning Rate | by Scott H. Young | Feb, 2024 | Medium

2024-02-20T10:25:59Z

the rate of learning among students doesnÃ¢â¬â¢t actually differ all that much. Instead, what differs mostly between students is their prior knowledge.[1]

An astonishing regularity in student learning rate | PNAS

2024-02-20T10:24:14Z

Students are Astonishingly Similar in Learning Rate. Whereas initial knowledge varies substantially across students, we found learning rate to be astonishingly similar across students.

Mappa Mundi: The greatest medieval map in the world - BBC Travel

2024-02-19T20:39:47Z

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world.

Ã¢â¬ËBy preserving the language, you reinforce communitiesÃ¢â¬â¢: a school saving one of LouisianaÃ¢â¬â¢s oldest dialects | Louisiana | The Guardian

2024-02-16T08:19:19Z

Preserving Indian French, as community members call it, has taken on new urgency as climate-related hurricanes and coastal erosion threaten to displace the tribe

Sketch of The Analytical Engine

2024-02-10T13:31:40Z

the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Fighting the smartphone Ã¢â¬ËinvasionÃ¢â¬â¢: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public | France | The Guardian

2024-02-10T07:41:22Z

Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public,

PeakÃ¢â¬âend rule - Wikipedia

2024-02-06T06:52:58Z

The peakÃ¢â¬âend rule is a psychological heuristic in which people judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak (i.e., its most intense point) and at its end, rather than based on the total sum or average of every moment of ...

I have a new favourite wellness guru. And itÃ¢â¬â¢s not who you might think | Food | The Guardian

2024-01-18T18:07:40Z

The first piece of advice was: Ã¢â¬ÅYou should mostly eat food you know is healthy. There is no magic food.Ã¢â¬Â And the second? That was: Ã¢â¬ÅYou should also occasionally let yourself eat delicious food you know isnÃ¢â¬â¢t healthy. Otherwise, what...

2024-01-18T08:24:37Z

Welcome to AirSpace - The Verge

2024-01-17T07:31:14Z

We could call this strange geography created by technology Ã¢â¬ÅAirSpace.Ã¢â¬Â ItÃ¢â¬â¢s the realm of coffee shops, bars, startup offices, and co-live / work spaces that share the same hallmarks everywhere you go:

The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same | | The Guardian

2024-01-17T07:30:26Z

My theory was that all the physical places interconnected by apps had a way of resembling one another. In the case of the cafes, the growth of Instagram gave international cafe owners and baristas a way to follow one another in real time an...

2024-01-05T06:23:47Z

Introducing Golden: Mapping human knowledge

2024-01-02T11:03:01Z

Golden has been designed from the start to encourage a deep, extensive view on knowledge.

Seshat

2023-12-27T07:21:36Z

Seshat: Global History Databank Ã¢Åâ the most current and comprehensive body of knowledge about human history Ã¢Åâ collects what is currently known about the social and political organization of human societies over time Ã¢Åâ offers the means ...

Imran Khan deploys AI clone to campaign from behind bars in Pakistan | Imran Khan | The Guardian

2023-12-18T12:09:49Z

Artificial intelligence allowed PakistanÃ¢â¬â¢s former prim... Khan to campaign from behind bars on Monday, with a voic... opposition leader giving an impassioned speech on his be...

EU agrees Ã¢â¬ËhistoricÃ¢â¬â¢ deal with worldÃ¢â¬â¢s first laws to regulate AI | European Union | The Guardian

2023-12-09T08:56:46Z

The worldÃ¢â¬â¢s first comprehensive laws to regulate artif... have been agreed in a landmark deal after a marathon 37-... between the European Parliament and EU member states.

English High Court Decision: AI Inventions are Patentable, David Knight

2023-12-06T15:28:32Z

the court held that the exclusion was not invoked Ã¢â¬â s... not Ã¢â¬Åa program for a computer Ã¢â¬Â¦ as such.Ã¢â¬Â The UKIP... issued guidance (available here) confirming that: Ã¢â¬ÅPatent examiners should not object to inventions invo ...

Ã¢â¬ËI couldnÃ¢â¬â¢t believe the dataÃ¢â¬â¢: how thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making | Language | The Guardian

2023-09-17T13:45:35Z

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Renewable Energy Is Charging Ahead - Scientific American

2023-05-22T09:07:01Z

Globally, renewables account for about one third of elec... generationÃ¢â¬âand that share is rising.

AI machines arenÃ¢â¬â¢t Ã¢â¬ËhallucinatingÃ¢â¬â¢. But their makers are | Naomi Klein | The Guardian

2023-05-08T09:49:26Z

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US aims to tackle risk of uncontrolled race to develop AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

2023-05-05T07:32:38Z

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Deep Mapping Estate Archives Project | Deep Mapping Estate Archives

2022-12-16T07:43:28Z

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Eucatastrophe: Tolkien's word for the "anti-doomsday" - BBC Future

2022-10-23T06:52:30Z

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Millennials Are Actually Workaholics, According to Research

2022-10-21T07:02:21Z

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2022-10-20T14:42:43Z

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SCHI Lab - OWidgets

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Olfactory interactions and interfaces are extremely rele... of use and application contexts, from entertainment to r... supporting learning experiences to enhancing the creatio... experiences such as in virtual and augmented environments.

An Interactive Introduction to Attractor Landscapes

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2022-09-27T08:01:06Z

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Leaflet - a JavaScript library for interactive maps

2022-09-11T09:02:44Z

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Chinese courts allow AI to make rulings, charge people and carry out punishments | Daily Mail Online

2022-07-17T13:23:23Z

Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of Ã¢â¬Ëdigital amnesiaÃ¢â¬â¢ | Memory | The Guardian

2022-07-04T07:02:29Z

Ã¢â¬ËI canÃ¢â¬â¢t remember anythingÃ¢â¬â¢ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories?

2022-06-17T06:34:20Z

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient | Google | The Guardian

2022-06-13T06:38:34Z

The engineer compiled a transcript of the conversations,... point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of.

StoryKit: An Object-Based Media Toolkit - BBC R&D

2022-03-23T20:11:08Z

We've taken object-based media to the next level by supp... creators with tools and workflows that enable real-world... responsive object-based experiences

Florin Pop - Pure CSS Tooltip

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Django overview | Django

2022-01-21T08:58:44Z

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2022-01-13T16:18:15Z

GitHub's programming AI may be reusing code without permission | New Scientist

2022-01-09T14:05:05Z

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How medical tests have built-in discrimination against Black people | New Scientist

2022-01-09T14:01:40Z

THE assumption that Black people have a lower level of c... than white people was, until recently, built into a form... National Football League to settle head injury lawsuits.

Israel used world's first AI-guided combat drone swarm in Gaza attacks | New Scientist

2022-01-09T13:56:29Z

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What is consciousness like for other animals and when did it evolve? | New Scientist

2022-01-09T13:53:29Z

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About Ebac | Great British Manufacturing Since 1972

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SQLime / About

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'I'm extremely controversial': the psychologist rethinking human emotion | Science and nature books | The Guardian

2020-09-25T12:18:21Z

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Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control? | Books | The Guardian

2018-06-17T20:29:33Z

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2018-06-02T09:31:24Z

The Self-Attribution Fallacy Ã¢â¬â George Monbiot

2018-03-04T12:41:35Z

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2018-01-25T15:04:10Z

Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis

2018-01-04T08:40:32Z

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Can I Leave This One Out? The Effect of Dropping an Item From the SUSJUS

2017-12-16T18:00:14Z

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Code like a Weaver Ã¢â¬â Code Like A Girl

2017-12-15T08:41:27Z

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Stanford CS department updates introductory courses: Java is Gone | Computing Education Blog

2017-12-11T14:05:24Z

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Ravens Are Able To Plan For The Future As Well As Human Children Can | IFLScience

2017-07-15T09:27:18Z

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Nest Founder: Ã¢â¬ÅI Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?Ã¢â¬Â

2017-07-12T10:23:49Z

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Lima Ã¢â¬â The first Cloud that respects your privacy

2017-06-15T21:32:04Z

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Counting Research Ã¢â¡â Directing Research: The Hazard of Using Simple Metrics to Evaluate Scientific Contributions (An EU Experience)

2017-06-15T21:29:15Z

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The Ig Nobel Prize and Other Efforts to Eradicate Complex Academic Writing - The Atlantic

2017-06-15T21:20:56Z

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Ã¢â¬ÅPolitical Co-AuthorshipsÃ¢â¬Â in Medical Science Journals - Johal - 2017 - Clinical Anatomy - Wiley Online Library

2017-06-15T21:20:09Z

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

Teaching kids philosophy makes them smarter in math and English Ã¢â¬â Quartz

2017-06-15T21:18:07Z

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

Did Media Literacy Backfire? Ã¢â¬â Data & Society: Points

2017-06-15T21:17:17Z

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When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees - The Atlantic

2017-06-15T21:16:00Z

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

Black Lives Matter in Journal of Political Philosophy: Philosophers published a series written entirely by white professors Ã¢â¬â Quartz

2017-05-29T08:38:38Z

This week, the prestigious Journal of Political Philosop... series of articles under the heading Ã¢â¬ÅBlack Lives Matt... All the authors published in the series are white.

ISBNdb - A Unique Book & ISBN Database

2017-05-21T08:13:14Z

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2017-05-21T08:06:32Z

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API Documentation - Outpan Developers

2017-05-21T07:54:34Z

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Nominatim - OpenStreetMap Wiki

2017-05-15T18:49:19Z

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3 Million Instacart Orders, Open Sourced Ã¢â¬â tech-at-instacart

2017-05-14T12:37:51Z

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Greg Mark of Markforged talks about putting metal into the microwave | TechCrunch

2017-05-01T07:31:14Z

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The effects of taxes and benefits on household income - Office for National Statistics

2017-04-20T08:02:39Z

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.

Reality Check: Are lower earners bearing the tax burden? - BBC News

2017-04-20T08:01:08Z

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AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals | Technology | The Guardian

2017-04-15T07:24:44Z

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 ...

Why people prefer unequal societies : Nature Human Behaviour

2017-04-11T17:01:38Z

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

Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset | Reuters

2017-04-11T08:59:53Z

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

Why algorithms aren't working for women

2017-04-10T08:01:48Z

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Inside Your UsersÃ¢â¬â¢ Minds: The Cultural Probe ÃÂ· An A List Apart Article

2017-04-10T07:21:46Z

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The Scottish Scoundrel Who Changed How We See Data - Atlas Obscura

2017-04-03T21:05:14Z

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Measuring Worth - About Us

2017-03-29T23:52:52Z

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Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals

2017-03-23T07:59:41Z

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Robert FrostÃ¢â¬â¢s Ã¢â¬ÅThe Road Not TakenÃ¢â¬Â Is Our Most Misread Poem

2017-03-21T20:19:19Z

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A bad abstract is good enough to be published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | Quick Thoughts

2017-03-17T18:15:08Z

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Brain has more than 100 times higher computational capacity than previously thought, say UCLA scientists | KurzweilAI

2017-03-13T18:47:54Z

Illustration of neuron and dendrites. Dendrites receive ... stimulation (via synapses, not shown here) from neurons ... and propagate that stimulation to the neuron cell body (... sends electrochemical stimulation via an axon to communi... Dendrites h

Inside the Macedonian Fake-News Complex | WIRED

2017-03-01T23:00:24Z

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University attacked by its own vending machines, smart light bulbs & 5,000 IoT devices | Network World

2017-02-14T10:57:46Z

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In referees we trust?: Physics Today: Vol 70, No 2

2017-02-06T08:46:22Z

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MacKay | Serendipity

2017-02-02T15:37:54Z

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2017-02-01T21:38:41Z

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Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms - The Local

2017-01-29T19:50:37Z

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Based on a True True Story? Ã¢â¬â Information is Beautiful

2017-01-26T08:31:13Z

Based on a True True Story? Scene-by-scene breakdown of Hollywood films

WikiCFP : Call For Papers of Conferences, Workshops and Journals

2017-01-24T09:42:15Z

WikiCFP is a semantic wiki for Calls For Papers in scien... fields. There are about 50,000 CFPs on WikiCFP. Over 100... use WikiCFP each month.

Humans arenÃ¢â¬â¢t the only great apes that can Ã¢â¬Ëread mindsÃ¢â¬â¢ | Science | AAAS

2017-01-19T20:05:39Z

For years, only humans were thought to have this key cog... attributing Ã¢â¬Åfalse belief,Ã¢â¬Â which is believed to und... empathy, teaching, and perhaps even language. But three ... apesÃ¢â¬âchimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutansÃ¢â¬âalso know ... a false bel

Impact of Social Sciences Ã¢â¬â 10 Chrome extensions to help manage references, notes, citations and capture information.

2017-01-15T15:33:53Z

From literature searches to collaborative online writing... amount of the research process now takes placeÃÂ online.Ã... TattersallÃÂ provides a list of useful Google Chrome exte... added to the browser to help facilitate the daily academ... Recommendat

Why time management is ruining our lives | Oliver Burkeman | Technology | The Guardian

2017-01-15T10:10:30Z

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Study finds women don't get same credit men do for co-authored papers

2017-01-11T13:03:40Z

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The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain

2017-01-09T21:58:36Z

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Automated book-culling software drives librarians to create fake patrons to "check out" endangered titles / Boing Boing

2017-01-03T15:06:38Z

Two employees at the East Lake County Library created a ... called Chuck Finley -- entering fake driver's license an... into the library system -- and then used the account to ... books over nine months in 2016, in order to trick the sy... that the bo

Mapped: Which country is across the sea from Wales' coast? - BBC News

2016-12-27T19:54:49Z

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BBC - Future - The man who studies the spread of ignorance

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The farmer who built her own broadband - BBC News

2016-12-27T08:59:23Z

"I'm just a farmer's wife," says Christine Conder, modes... members of the rural communities of Lancashire she is al... internet pioneer. Her DIY solution to a neighbour's internet connectivity ... That is 35 times faster than the 28.9 Mbps average UK

From yoga pants to smart shoes: The technology of touch - BBC News

2016-12-25T08:31:14Z

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About - Our World In Data

2016-12-24T08:09:57Z

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About - the Datahub

2016-12-13T11:16:16Z

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CWTS Journal Indicators

2016-12-13T10:06:47Z

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Citation-Based Indices of Scholarly Impact: Databases and Norms Ã¢â¬â Association for Psychological Science

2016-12-13T08:21:57Z

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Prusa i3 3D printer - Prusa Printers

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The Challenge of Consciousness | by Riccardo Manzotti | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

2016-12-09T18:00:51Z

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Giving poor people cash gets them to spend more on good stuff and less on tobacco and alcohol Ã¢â¬â Quartz

2016-12-09T17:45:23Z

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The #Election2016 Micro-Propaganda Machine Ã¢â¬â Medium

2016-12-09T17:34:47Z

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Cut-throat academia leads to 'natural selection of bad science', claims study | Science | The Guardian

2016-12-06T14:36:27Z

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Author discusses new book, 'The Uberfication of the University'

2016-12-06T14:35:42Z

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iVoLVER - Interactive Visual Language for Visualization Extraction and Reconstruction

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Solid

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Symposium on Computational Fabrication

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Impact of Social Sciences Ã¢â¬â Are 90% of academic papers really never cited? Reviewing the literature on academic citations.

2016-12-06T14:28:55Z

It is widely accepted that academic papers are rarely ci... But what kind of data lies behind these assertions? Dahl... look at the academic research on citation practices and ... it is clear citation rates are low, much confusion remai... figures and

Fake News Or Real? How To Self-Check The News And Get The Facts : All Tech Considered : NPR

2016-12-06T14:27:48Z

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Jonathan Safran Foer: technology is diminishing us | Books | The Guardian

2016-12-04T12:42:50Z

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Google's DeepMind AI gives robots the ability to dream - ExtremeTech

2016-12-04T12:39:44Z

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Incredible discovery of 40,000-year-old tools for art and engineering | Ars Technica UK

2016-12-03T12:13:33Z

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This new economic model takes into account the fact you're irrational | World Economic Forum

2016-11-03T12:14:18Z

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A #NoDAPL Map Ã¢â¬â Northlandia

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Human brain is predisposed to negative stereotypes, new study suggests | Science | The Guardian

2016-11-02T10:32:25Z

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A More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Japanese Design Award | Mental Floss UK

2016-11-01T11:04:07Z

Unlike the Mercator projection, the 1569 mapping techniq... you'dÃÂ probably recognize from the world maps you saw in... continents on the AuthaGraphÃÂ arenÃ¢â¬â¢t lined up straight... angled in a way that provides a more accurate representa... distances b

71 Thousand High-Res Historical Maps Available for Free Download | ArchDaily

2016-10-27T12:23:49Z

History and geography lovers rejoice! You can now see an... incredible maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection dat... contains more that 71 thousand maps and imagesÃÂ that spa... 21st century and illustrate everything from the seven co... entire worl

Data Ã¢â¬â Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

2016-10-23T17:00:35Z

Text Samples

2016-10-21T08:07:33Z

Color and contrast Contrast ratios illustrated

Opinion: Big-Data Algorithms Are Manipulating Us All | WIRED

2016-10-20T10:41:18Z

In 1954, Darrell Huff wrote a neat little book called Ho... Statistics, a how-to guide for marketers to mislead and ... into believing just about anything with the right graphi... well-placed stat. Computationally speaking, weÃ¢â¬â¢ve come... 1954, but i

How the Web Became Unreadable

2016-10-20T09:11:33Z

For example: AppleÃ¢â¬â¢s typography guidelines suggest tha... for a 7:1 contrast ratio. But what ratio, you might ask,... to state the guideline? ItÃ¢â¬â¢s 5.5:1. AppleÃ¢â¬â¢s guidelines for developers.

StealJS

2016-10-19T17:19:45Z

Futuristic JavaScript dependency loader and builder. Spe... load times. Works with ES6, CommonJS, AMD, CSS, LESS and... modular workflows.

Foundation launches million-dollar plan to record Australia's songlines - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

2016-10-19T14:39:55Z

One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every yea... estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous langu... by the year 2050

A Walking Tour of New YorkÃ¢â¬â¢s Massive Surveillance Network

2016-10-18T17:19:35Z

In her book, Burrington, a writer and artist, has sketch... the internet that are visible on and above the streets o... explained the business interests and politicking behind ... Her book is designed to make the internet tangible, and ... Burrington

Transparency-controlled physical interfaces | Computer Graphics

2016-10-18T17:16:44Z

Changing the Appearance of Physical Interfaces Through C... David Lindlbauer1, JÃÂ¶rg MÃÂ¼ller2, Marc Alexa1 1 TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2 Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Aar ... ... examples

How the Gig Economy Profits off Desperation

2016-10-18T15:17:18Z

The gig economy has created an employment model that rob... rights theyÃ¢â¬â¢ve earned over more than a century of figh... automation not to make a better world for everyone, but ... doing business on the backs of workers without providing... compensatio

2016-10-17T18:22:16Z

Tax Research UK ÃÂ» The Conservatives have been the biggest borrowers over the last 70 years

2016-10-17T12:41:41Z

the Conservatives are the party of high UK borrowing and... contrary to all popular belief, including that of most r...

Brexit Ã¢â¬â a story in maps Ã¢â¬â Medium

2016-10-17T12:22:21Z

Which areas voted Leave? Did London vote for Remain? The... I wondered, Is it possible to make a map that better reflects the mo ... How much information can we include on oneÃÂ map? Can we see how separated the Home Nations are onÃÂ Brexit?

The End of the Second Act of Civic Tech Ã¢â¬â Medium

2016-10-15T14:39:31Z

The world of civic tech has changed radically in the las... of the old bastions of transparency and civic innovation... crumble, shrinking dramatically in both size and scope. ... the future of civic tech will appear radically different... from under

The Man Who Stood Up To Facebook : All Tech Considered : NPR

2016-10-15T14:18:28Z

So that's what Power built: a dashboard for all your soc... you had a LinkedIn, a Twitter, Facebook and MySpace (rem... You'd put your usernames and passwords for each into the... from there, you could post to any account, grab contacts... so on.

Writing good code: how to reduce the cognitive load of your code Ã¢â¬â Christian M. Mackeprang

2016-10-07T14:06:34Z

I believe itÃ¢â¬â¢s possible to construct a simple mental f... be used with any language or library and which will lead... code by default.

Incentivizing Reproducibility | October 2016 | Communications of the ACM

2016-10-02T08:40:00Z

A scientific result is not truly established until it is... confirmed. This is one of the tenets of experimental sci...

Microsoft's Internet Business Gets a New Kind of Processor | WIRED

2016-09-29T14:52:29Z

ItÃ¢â¬â¢s a typical tangle of tech acronyms. CPUs. GPUs. TP... itÃ¢â¬â¢s the subtext that matters. With cloud computing, c... Microsoft and Google and Amazon are driving so much of t... technology that those alternative chips will drive the w... apps and on

Learning styles: Research and Expert Opinion

2016-09-29T14:44:54Z

You will find many resources promoting learning styles a... element of teaching and learning. For example, they are ... (standard 4) and by ISTE (NETS-T). Review the resources ... set of slides. You can find more. Do not accept learning... because it

Tax Research UK ÃÂ» The Conservatives have been the biggest borrowers over the last 70 years

2016-09-28T21:02:51Z

I was interviewed twice on the radio on Friday evening t... McDonnellÃ¢â¬â¢s new fiscal rule, once on LBC and the other... both cases the interviewers were quite explicit in stati... known that Labour always borrowed more than the Conserva... why the ele

Is This The Most Scary Vacation Home In Australia

2016-09-27T20:39:40Z

You would need a strong head for heights and nerves of s... live in this vacation home built on the side of a cliff ...

The Revolutionary Concept of Standard Sizes Only Dates to the 1920s | Atlas Obscura

2016-09-27T10:23:19Z

Despite their prevalence, building standards really only... the last century. A major turning point in their wild pr... in the 1920s, when the German government made the then-r... standardize the size of office paper. This seemingly bureaucratic move i

Alternative Metrics Initiative - National Information Standards Organization

2016-09-26T14:33:38Z

This project is an important step in the development and... assessment metrics, which include usage-based metrics, s... references, and network behavioral analysis. In addition... explore potential assessment criteria for non-traditiona... such as dat

We learn more about our language by listening to the wolves | Aeon Essays

2016-09-16T20:26:59Z

The question of when and how language first emerged is t... tremendous controversy Ã¢â¬â it has even been called Ã¢â¬Ëth... in scienceÃ¢â¬â¢. My work is on what information can be ext... vocalisations. It is a first step in understanding where... dictates th

Scientists discover dolphins talk to each other in sentences up to five words long | Science! | Geek.com

2016-09-14T18:51:27Z

Researchers at the Karadag Nature Reserve, in Feodosia, ... recorded two Black Sea bottlenose dolphins by the names ... having conversations consisting of sentences up to five ... The team says this shows dolphins have a language not en... fromÃÂ our o

Thousands die after being declared 'fit for work' - no wonder Tories didn't want anyone to know - Terry Christian - Mirror Online

2016-09-14T18:35:45Z

More than 4,000 people died within six weeks of being fo... workÃ¢â¬Â, the Department for Work and Pensions has admitted. The figures cover the period between December 2011 to Fe ... Of the total, 1,360 died after losing an appeal against ...

Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research:ÃÂ ÃÂ A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network

2016-09-14T18:34:52Z

Early warning signals of the coronary heart disease (CHD... (sucrose) emerged in the 1950s. We examined Sugar Resear... internal documents, historical reports, and statements r... debates about the dietary causes of CHD and assembled fi... chronologic

How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat - The New York Times

2016-09-14T18:34:28Z

The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play ... between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fa... instead, newly released historical documents show. The internal sugar industry documents, recently discover ...

Fat Might Not Be Bad for You After All | US News

2016-09-14T18:14:29Z

Nearly 50 years of scientific research on the complicate... between nutrition and heart disease may have been shaped... industry to shift the focus away from sugar and toward s... instead, according to internal industry documents releas... The reason,

What Exactly Is The HAT - HATDeX

2016-09-12T11:57:31Z

The HAT is a private and secure cloud-based information ... and data processing abilities. ItÃ¢â¬â¢s your own microserv... can access your data and manage it from an easy-to-use d... hyperdata browser we call RumpelÃ¢âÂ¢. With Rumpel, you ca... If you are

About - Doarama

2016-09-07T10:56:44Z

DoaramaÃ¢âÂ¢ is a 3D visualization engine for geolocated activities. ...

Frontiers for Young Minds

2016-09-07T09:15:20Z

Frontiers for Young Minds provides a collection of freel... scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are... audiences by the input of their own young peers.

Cognitive bias cheat sheet Ã¢â¬â Better Humans

2016-09-06T13:12:19Z

Every cognitive bias is there for a reasonÃ¢â¬Å Ã¢â¬âÃ¢â¬Å prima... brains time or energy. If you look at them by the proble... to solve, it becomes a lot easier to understand why they... theyÃ¢â¬â¢re useful, and the trade-offs (and resulting ment... they introd

Letter gets there by hand-drawn map - BBC News

2016-09-02T08:55:09Z

Instead of a postal address or a recipient's name, the sender had drawn a map of where they believed the farm to be, together with the following, in English: "Country: Iceland. City: BÃÂºÃÂ°ardalur. Name: A horse farm with an Icelandic/Danish couple and th

2016-08-31T13:41:56Z

2016-08-19T19:17:59Z

An Illustrated Guide to Guy DebordÃ¢â¬â¢s Ã¢â¬ËThe Society of the SpectacleÃ¢â¬â¢

2016-08-17T12:16:15Z

Guy DebordÃ¢â¬â¢s (1931Ã¢â¬â1994) best-known work, La sociÃÂ©t... (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), isÃÂ a polemicalÃÂ and prescientÃÂ indictment of our image-saturated consumer cu... examinesÃÂ the Ã¢â¬ÅSpectacle,Ã¢â¬Â DebordÃ¢â¬â¢s term for the e... manifestatio

2016-08-10T20:26:26Z

The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix | Open Culture

2016-08-04T16:36:27Z

the British Library came out with its own announcement o... We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commo ...

Run SQL directly on CSV files | Text as Data | q

2016-08-04T16:28:50Z

q is a command line tool that allows direct execution of... on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files). q treats ordinary files as database tables, and supports ...

IBM creates worldÃ¢â¬â¢s first artificial phase-change neurons | Ars Technica

2016-08-04T12:25:31Z

IBM Research in Zurich has created the world's first art... stochastic phase-change neurons. IBM has already created... 500 of these artificial neurons and used them to process... brain-like (neuromorphic)ÃÂ way.

2016-08-04T12:02:40Z

NASA's 10 Coding Rules for Writing Safety Critical Program - RankRed

2016-07-29T16:50:46Z

Sometimes codingÃÂ rules are essential to use, especially... may depend onÃÂ itsÃÂ correctnessÃÂ Ã¢â¬âÃÂ code that is used ... airplane that you fly on,ÃÂ spacecraft that carries astro... or the nuclear power plant a few miles from where you li... the NASAÃ¢â¬â¢

2016-07-21T15:12:56Z

2016-06-12T19:59:25Z

The End of Reflection - The New York Times

2016-06-12T19:49:06Z

If the data is any indication, most of us use our phones... think: Participants estimated an average of 37 uses thro... (anything that turns on the screen, from hitting snooze ... Continue reading the main story If you are awake for 16 hours, turning o

2016-06-03T04:21:11Z

Standards revealed for Scottish governmentÃ¢â¬â¢s Ã¢â¬Ëmygov.scotÃ¢â¬â¢ platform ÃÂ» Digital By Default News

2016-05-23T09:16:50Z

A set of standards to drive the Scottish GovernmentÃ¢â¬â¢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

2016-05-21T18:25:51Z

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2016-05-19T21:02:51Z

Maps of Britain and Ireland's ancient tribes, kingdoms and DNA

2016-05-10T06:42:06Z

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.

2016-04-29T11:52:12Z

2016-04-29T09:54:19Z

How politicians poisoned statistics - FT.com

2016-04-22T20:55:34Z

ft.com > life&arts > FT Magazine Subscribe Sign in Home UK World Companies Markets Global Economy Lex Comme ... ... icks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.Ã¢â¬Â

What Your Toilet Paper Preference Says About You

2016-04-22T20:32:43Z

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.

Context Free Art:About - Context Free Art

2016-04-18T12:53:27Z

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.

The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future of Objectifying Women | WIRED

2016-04-18T12:44:36Z

AS ROBOTICS AND 3-D printing technologies become more ac... tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beauti... whoÃ¢â¬â¢s turned on a TV in the past decade shouldnÃ¢â¬â¢t be... that one of the firstÃ¢â¬âand creepiestÃ¢â¬âexamples of this... News broke

Google's Nest closing smart-home company Revolv, bricking devices - Business Insider

2016-04-18T12:43:40Z

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

Here's Richard Feynman's simple technique for sorting science from pseudoscience - ScienceAlert

2016-04-18T07:58:36Z

It turns out, all you need to do when you read or hear s... thatÃÂ 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.

Internet mapping turned a remote farm into a digital hell | Fusion

2016-04-11T07:58:30Z

for the last 14 years, every time MaxMindÃ¢â¬â¢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

How Big Data Harms Poor Communities - The Atlantic

2016-04-10T14:26:03Z

Outside the court system, Ã¢â¬Åinnocent until proven guilt... peopleÃ¢â¬â¢s due-process rights, Kerr says: Ã¢â¬ÅA right to ... to participate in oneÃ¢â¬â¢s hearing, a right to know what ... collected about me, and a right to challenge that inform... opaque data

Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji | GroupLens

2016-04-10T10:37:41Z

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

2016-04-05T14:56:46Z

2016-04-05T06:52:17Z

JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit

2016-04-05T06:50:14Z

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

Chart.js | Documentation

2016-04-04T17:14:41Z

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

History of Bar Charts and Graphs

2016-04-04T17:13:48Z

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

2016-03-31T10:59:42Z

2016-03-24T19:09:15Z

Why One Published Paper Is Causing The Scientific Community To Freak Out | IFLScience

2016-03-22T21:55:08Z

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: Ã¢â¬ÅHand coordination should i ... The wordÃ¢â¬â¢

2016-03-22T21:54:11Z

This painful video shows what it was like to send an email in 1984 - ScienceAlert

2016-03-22T21:50:36Z

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

2016-03-22T21:48:38Z

xkcd: Significant

2016-03-08T17:22:02Z

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Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values : Nature News & Comment

2016-03-08T16:55:15Z

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

Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg : Nature News & Comment

2016-03-08T16:55:01Z

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

2016-03-04T13:43:56Z

Displr - Comunication where it matters

2016-03-02T19:44:57Z

We enable public displays to be used as a powerful mediu... people with the places they care about

BBC iWonder - Why can't I concentrate?

2016-03-01T13:37:33Z

Many experts believe our brains aren't prepared for the ... bundle of digital distractions that we are bombarded wit... feeling sluggish and ultimately less productive. What we... very 21st Century problem.

Global warming: Data centres to consume three times as much energy in next decade, experts warn | Environment | The Independent

2016-02-22T19:14:12Z

416.2 terawatt hours of electricity worldÃ¢â¬â¢s data centr... was far higher than UKÃ¢â¬â¢s total consumption

CrowdSignals.io: A Massive New Mobile Data Collection Campaign

2016-02-11T19:06:13Z

2016-02-07T13:27:06Z

The Benefits of No-Tech Note Taking - The Chronicle of Higher Education

2016-02-02T10:21:01Z

test scores in my visual-communication course have gone ... laptops the boot a year ago. Now I coach students on how... longhand to help those who have not used that muscle muc... convinced that while laptops have a lot of good uses in ... taking is n

Notes on Human Computer Interaction Ã¢â¬â Jorge Cancela

2016-01-17T13:11:40Z

This post is a collection of my notes on Human-Computer ... It is not intended to be a comprehensive guide or a syst... a collection of useful articles, links, videos, books, w... during the last years and that I have been using during ... I think the

2016-01-05T10:11:52Z

2016-01-05T10:08:54Z

The Resurrection of Bookmarklets

2016-01-05T09:57:44Z

The increased implementation of Content Security Policy (CSP) in websites has been heralded as "The End / Death of Bookmarklets". I created a solution in 2015 that resurrects the ability to use (library-based) bookmarklets on CSP and https:// websites usi

2016-01-04T17:21:54Z

Out of the box | The Economist

2016-01-02T12:02:28Z

Perhaps four-fifths of the data that have been released ... particularly useful, reckons Joel Gurin of the Centre fo... Enterprise, a think-tank in Washington. AmericaÃ¢â¬â¢s cach... Searching open-data portals is often an arduous task. Wo ... Gavin Stark

Student puts science fair project behind a paywall, wins first prize

2016-01-02T12:00:33Z

WendellÃ¢â¬â¢s science fair project consists solely of a tr... display board covered by a white sheet that displays cur... options. Patrons can view the display board for 15 minut... $39.95 one-time fee, or they can purchase a subscription... Tommy says

2016-01-01T11:46:29Z

BBC - BBC Arts, The origins of Auld Lang Syne

2015-12-31T13:05:03Z

The origins of Auld Lang Syne Various experts talk about the history of the lyrics for ... Share this page Release date:

Digital sundial blends 3D-printing tech with ancient ingenuity

2015-12-31T12:48:14Z

The digital sundial displays the current time within its... (Credit: Mojoptix) Image Gallery (3 images)

These 20 Educational Gifs Will Teach You More Than A Textbook Can | Architecture & Design

2015-12-31T12:43:58Z

HereÃ¢â¬â¢s how chains are assembled

Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw - Bloomberg Business

2015-12-19T12:54:15Z

The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation thatÃ¢â¬â¢... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ... The glitch? They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...

How can we store more energy from the sun and the wind? - BBC News

2015-12-08T09:38:48Z

Nick Heyward, who manages the UK Power Networks project,... electricity grids need to balance supply and demand at a... "One solution could be to add capacity to the existing g ... Storage systems like SNS offer the ability to export ene ... Mr Heyward

Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep - BBC News

2015-11-27T22:56:13Z

Ten ironic rules for non-statistical reviewers

2015-11-10T11:18:53Z

As an expert reviewer, it is sometimes necessary to ensure a paper is rejected. This can sometimes be achieved by highlighting improper statistical practice. This technical note provides guidance on how to critique the statistical analysis of neuroimaging

Solu - A new breed of computing by Solu Machines Ã¢â¬â Kickstarter

2015-11-08T20:42:32Z

Journal impact factors Ã¢â¬Ëno longer credibleÃ¢â¬â¢ | Times Higher Education

2015-11-08T13:22:57Z

Tech Specs - Glowforge - the 3D Laser Printer

2015-10-30T11:33:50Z

BPS Research Digest: The surprising truth about which personality traits do and don't correlate with computer programming skills

2015-10-29T22:11:07Z

Comment: What would a paid data future look like? | News | Open Data Institute

2015-10-21T22:10:25Z

3D Printing Service i.materialise | Creation corner

2015-10-21T18:25:24Z

Why are placebos getting more effective? - BBC News

2015-10-20T15:46:12Z

When new drugs are put on the market, clinical trials de... they perform better than inactive pills known as "placeb... that over the last 25 years the difference in effectiven... drugs and these fake ones has narrowed - but more in the... Are America

The Fear of Breaking Things

2015-10-19T19:16:38Z

Japanese Woodworking Madness: A Three-Way Wood Joint - Core77

2015-10-16T08:43:06Z

Shinobu Kobayashi is a Japanese woodworker based in Australia, currently studying Scandinavian techniques in Sweden. The three-continent background appears to have done him well; working in concert with a master cabinetmaker from Denmark, Kobayashi manage

PLOS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

2015-10-13T18:35:29Z

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

'Too hot to be an engineer' - women mark Ada Lovelace Day - BBC News

2015-10-13T14:35:13Z

Britons in particular have an attitude problem to address as well. "People easily say, 'I'm terrible at maths,' or 'I'm awful at numbers.' If you said that kind of thing in India people would look at you funny," she said. "It's like saying, 'Oh, I can't

Tufte CSS

2015-10-08T23:07:02Z

3D Printed Sculptures Come Alive When Spun Under A Strobe Light | SF Globe

2015-10-04T07:23:05Z

Gaps in the Map: Why WeÃ¢â¬â¢re Mapping Everything, and Why Not Everything Can, or Should, be Mapped Ã¢â¬â Words in Space

2015-09-20T13:40:09Z

Evernote, the first dead unicorn - Business Insider

2015-09-19T18:30:03Z

The lesson for management teams at other unicorns is cle... Forget worrying about whether you're going to be around ... refocus on making products that people want that will ma...

The women taking on Isis: on the ground with Iraq's female fighters | Art and design | The Guardian

2015-09-12T16:44:08Z

This map helps explain why some European countries reject refugees, and others love them - The Washington Post

2015-09-12T16:41:31Z

The art and science of innovation | Nesta

2015-09-12T11:11:31Z

BBC News - The untold story of the Maidan massacre

2015-09-07T15:38:41Z

Color and cultural design considerations | Webdesigner Depot

2015-09-04T16:12:23Z

Ukraine crisis: what went wrong? | Reuniting Europe

2015-09-03T11:57:17Z

Facebook

2015-09-02T22:19:11Z

A Dream Come True: Huge Lego Bricks for Building Real Stuff | WIRED

2015-08-28T18:45:06Z

Study reveals that a lot of psychology research really is just 'psycho-babble' - Science - News - The Independent

2015-08-28T10:23:35Z

More than half of the findings from 100 different studie... leading, peer-reviewed psychology journals cannot be rep... researchers who followed the same methodological protocol. A study by more than 270 researchers from around the wor ...

Town ditches traffic lights to cut accidents | Reuters

2015-08-27T10:30:12Z

A town council in Germany has decided the best way of im... From September 12, all traffic controls will disappear f ... In an area used by 13,500 cars every day, drivers and pe ... "Traffic will no longer be dominant," he said. The idea of removing sign

Fridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack - CNET

2015-08-26T21:39:58Z

n the first documented attack of its kind, the Internet ... used as part of an attack that sent out over 750,000 spa...

Academic urban legends

2015-08-21T16:33:55Z

Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific... in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these... frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertain... can think of them as academic urban legends. The explana... phenomenon

PLOS ONE: Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies

2015-08-18T22:12:57Z

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

Police Shootings Are About Class as Well as RaceÃÂ |ÃÂ Rev. Jesse Jackson

2015-08-18T21:58:20Z

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... Not surpris

Someone Made A Map Of Every Rude Place Name In The UK

2015-08-18T21:54:49Z

The UK is full of rude place names. The North-West has a... a Pincock, while Yorkshire is arguably worse, boasting a...

Winderful

2015-08-17T19:55:35Z

U.K. National Grid status

2015-08-17T19:54:51Z

Schoolboy revealed as Lego ferry designer - BBC News

2015-08-17T12:27:30Z

14 August 2015 From the section Glasgow & West Scotland The MV Loch Shira set idea needs 10,000 supporters befor ... The mystery designer of a Lego replica of a CalMac ferry ... Luke Ball, who now lives in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, des ...

The Truth Wears Off - The New Yorker

2015-08-17T07:08:16Z

Although many scientific ideas generate conflicting resu... falling effect sizes, they continue to get cited in the ... standard medical practice. Why? Because these ideas seem... make sense. Because we canÃ¢â¬â¢t bear to let them go. And ... decline eff

Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish : Nature News & Comment

2015-08-17T07:07:08Z

The launch of the clinicaltrials.gov registry in 2000 se... striking impact on reported trial results, according to ... that many researchers have been talking about online in ... A 1997 US law mandated the registryÃ¢â¬â¢s creation, requir ...

25 maps that explain the English language - Vox

2015-08-15T20:29:45Z

English is the language of Shakespeare and the language ... spoken in dozens of countries around the world, from the... tiny island named Tristan da Cunha. It reflects the infl... of international exchange, including conquest and coloni... Vikings thr

Llandudno firm creates interactive fossil map of London - BBC News

2015-08-15T14:25:25Z

Fossils found in some of London's most famous landmarks ... to life with the help of a north Wales technology company. Llandudno-based Livetech are behind a website detailing ...

Touchjet - Pond

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Investigation: Police shootings - Washington Post

2015-08-11T19:35:55Z

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Stop calling it the Ã¢â¬ÅSharing Economy.Ã¢â¬Â That isnÃ¢â¬â¢t what it is. | Olivier Blanchard

2015-08-11T10:55:25Z

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How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine SaccoÃ¢â¬â¢s Life - The New York Times

2015-07-30T18:03:29Z

The Woman Finding Tech Jobs for the World's Poorest People | WIRED

2015-07-29T08:53:02Z

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To us, it's an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it's the heist of the century | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

2015-07-27T21:58:01Z

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Ã¢â¬ËPrint this Map. Get off the Internet. Take to the Streets': 5 of the LeftÃ¢â¬â¢s Best Mapping Moments | Novara Wire

2015-07-24T09:44:45Z

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2015-07-23T17:53:06Z

16th Century Book Can Be Read Six Different Ways - My Modern Met

2015-07-21T12:10:18Z

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2015-07-09T15:36:30Z

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Head teachers: using neuroscience for education - The Long and Short Season 4

2015-06-15T12:24:04Z

Archived: Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students

2015-06-13T08:02:56Z

Pens And Paper Are Holding Your Kids Back, Says Microsoft

2015-06-13T08:01:49Z

Modern classrooms arenÃ¢â¬â¢t working for kids, according t... Remu, the director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft ... schools are like jails--brick walls, colorless, not very... exciting,Ã¢â¬Â she tells the Georgia Straight, days before... This grim d

Do Creativity And Schizophrenia Share A Small Genetic Link? Maybe : Shots - Health News : NPR

2015-06-09T07:42:45Z

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I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.

2015-05-28T16:46:14Z

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Facebook 'tracks all visitors, breaching EU law' | Technology | The Guardian

2015-05-26T07:15:50Z

The First Woman to Earn a PhD in Computer Science Was a Nun | Mental Floss UK

2015-05-10T12:21:05Z

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School criticised for publicly ranking GCSE pupils - BBC News

2015-05-07T18:30:14Z

Better than GPS: a history of cartography in 12 amazing maps | David Shariatmadari | Comment is free | The Guardian

2015-05-05T12:51:38Z

Better than GPS: a history of cartography in 12 amazing maps David Shariatmadari David Shariatmadari Smartphones may answer our navigation needs these days, ...

New gold standard established for open and reproducible research | University of Cambridge

2015-05-05T12:38:02Z

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Keep it long: Most science writing advice flops, analysis finds -- ScienceDaily

2015-05-05T12:24:13Z

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How the language you speak changes your view of the world

2015-04-30T07:55:09Z

Bilinguals get all the perks. Better job prospects, a co... even protection against dementia. Now new research shows... view the world in different ways depending on the specif... are operating in.

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2015-04-29T11:47:42Z

Sunday Times Rich List: Britain's richest double their wealth in 10 years | Business | The Guardian

2015-04-26T20:31:33Z

Crisis? What crisis? The 1,000 wealthiest people in the ... ÃÂ£547bn, not counting whatÃ¢â¬â¢s in their bank accounts, a... latest Sunday Times Rich List

Student Course Evaluations Get An 'F' : NPR Ed : NPR

2015-04-23T09:44:09Z

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We Can't Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership | WIRED

2015-04-22T08:26:32Z

In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delus... DeereÃ¢â¬âthe worldÃ¢â¬â¢s largest agricultural machinery mak... Copyright Office that farmers donÃ¢â¬â¢t own their tractors... code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers ... implied lic

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2015-04-21T21:08:55Z

Butler analyzes TV shot length trends in new issue of Cinema Journal | TCF

2015-04-21T15:47:22Z

Movie Shot Lengths and Attention Deficit Disorder? - O'Reilly Radar

2015-04-21T15:47:19Z

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2015-04-21T15:47:17Z

The Longest Average Shot Lengths in Modern Hollywood | Press Play

2015-04-21T15:47:14Z

Cinemetrics - Database

2015-04-21T15:47:00Z

More data on scene rhythms | Just TV

2015-04-21T15:30:30Z

Clockmaker John Harrison vindicated 250 years after Ã¢â¬ËabsurdÃ¢â¬â¢ claims

2015-04-20T12:12:01Z

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2015-04-19T14:45:15Z

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Ocular Reflexes

2015-04-18T12:44:11Z

Renewable energy: Not a toy | The Economist

2015-04-11T12:00:55Z

Why Time Slows Down When WeÃ¢â¬â¢re Afraid, Speeds Up as We Age, and Gets Warped on Vacation | Brain Pickings

2015-04-08T12:45:09Z

Why Time Slows Down When WeÃ¢â¬â¢re Afraid, Speeds Up as We... by Maria Popova Ã¢â¬ÅTime perception matters because it is the experience ... Given my soft spot for famous diaries, it should come as ... ThatÃ¢â¬â¢s precisely what acclaimed BBC broadcaster and ps

Gestalt Principles for Data Visualization: Similarity, Proximity & Enclosure

2015-04-08T12:41:39Z

But let me suggest that gestalt is very much a pragmatic... data visualization, in fact a necessary aspect if you pl... simple bar and line charts (and perhaps even for those s... exploration of three of the most simple gestalt principl... they operat

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2015-04-08T07:22:37Z

The Scottish Society for Northern Studies explores the i... between the Scandinavian, Celtic and Scottish cultures t... historical media and scholarly research. The Society was founded in 1968 and has since provided b ...

Moocall Sensors - SMS notification when a cow is calving

2015-04-07T19:06:03Z

Multitasking Can Damage Your Brain and Career, Studies Say

2015-04-07T19:04:25Z

Tons of data turn into neuron 'Wikipedia' - Futurity

2015-04-07T19:02:45Z

Reverse learning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2015-04-07T17:54:45Z

Facebook use linked to depressive symptoms -- ScienceDaily

2015-04-07T14:39:48Z

The social media site, Facebook, can be an effective too... Related Articles Infectious mononucleosis Double blind ... lished in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

The Horror of AmazonÃ¢â¬â¢s New Dash Button - The New Yorker

2015-04-06T11:54:42Z

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Meet Runcible, a smartphone that looks like a pocket watch - CNET

2015-04-03T15:15:49Z

Could Runcible's circular, wood-backed device be the fut...

V&A museum acquires first 3D-printed gun

2015-04-03T12:02:55Z

London Design Festival 2013: London's V&A Museum has add... first 3D-printed gun to its permanent collection a

Speaking a second language makes you see the world differently | Lancaster University

2015-04-02T15:29:37Z

Speaking two languages literally changes the way we see ... bilingual speakers think differently to those who only u... tongue. The new research by Panos Athanasopoulos, Professor of L ... Bilingual speakers can also switch flexibly between the ...

The American people are clueless: Why income inequality is so much worse than we realize - Salon.com

2015-04-02T13:29:00Z

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2015-04-02T13:22:29Z

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The big hole in HCI research | ACM Interactions

2015-03-23T21:19:33Z

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2015-03-23T11:26:12Z

Matter and Form 3D Scanner

2015-03-23T11:20:47Z

Will.i.am: 'Eventually 3D printing will print people' | Technology | The Guardian

2015-03-23T11:20:03Z

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2015-03-23T11:19:35Z

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2015-03-23T11:18:43Z

Lantern | 3D printing - 2Engineers

2015-03-23T11:17:53Z

da Vinci 1.0 AiO | ABS PLA 3D Printer | Store - XYZprinting

2015-03-23T11:17:23Z

'Overnight, everything I loved was gone': the internet shaming of Lindsey Stone | Technology | The Guardian

2015-03-23T11:11:04Z

When a friend posted a photograph of charity worker Lind... Facebook, she never dreamed she would lose her job and h... years on, could she get her life back?

Network theory suggests consciousness is global in the brain | KurzweilAI

2015-03-23T11:08:15Z

The black dots correspond to the 264 areas of the cerebr... researchers studied; the lines correspond to the increas... functional connections between each of these brain areas... consciously perceive the target. The Ã¢â¬ÅhotterÃ¢â¬Â colors... with strong

Why the modern world is bad for your brain | Science | The Guardian

2015-03-23T10:31:28Z

In an era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter,... required to do several things at once. But this constant... taking its toll. Here neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin ex... addiction to technology is making us less efficient

Why I Am Not a Maker Ã¢â¬â The Atlantic

2015-03-23T10:29:55Z

An identity built around making thingsÃ¢â¬âof being Ã¢â¬Åa m... technology culture. ThereÃ¢â¬â¢s a widespread idea that Ã¢â¬Å... things are simply different [read: better] than those wh...

StanfordÃ¢â¬â¢s first interdisciplinary humanities + CS class met with success | Stanford Daily

2015-03-23T10:29:00Z

StanfordÃ¢â¬â¢s first interdisciplinary computer science an... has left both students and teachers hungry for more.

The strange new world of evidence-free government | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian

2015-03-23T10:26:49Z

When ministersÃ¢â¬â¢ priorities are cost-cutting and short-... research into what actually works falls by the wayside Ã¢... consequences

Moment Timezone | Home

2015-03-14T18:16:14Z

Moment.js | Home

2015-03-14T18:15:55Z

3W 4'x4' Arduino Laser Cutter/Engraver

2015-03-10T16:04:30Z

3D knitting: after 8,000 years a new dimension in weaving and spinning | Technology | The Guardian

2015-03-10T11:29:40Z

In the 20th century mass production revolutionised how w... fabric. Now new technology is taking textiles into new f... architecture and sport

Fridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack - CNET

2015-03-10T11:29:10Z

In the first documented attack of its kind, the Internet... used as part of an attack that sent out over 750,000 spa...

Dryad Digital Repository - Dryad

2015-03-05T18:24:27Z

DataDryad.org is a curated general-purpose repository th... underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely ... citable. Dryad has integrated data submission for a grow... journals; submission of data from other publications is ...

Figshare

2015-03-05T18:23:43Z

figshare helps academic institutions store, share and manage all of their research outputs

Scientists threatened by demands to share data | Al Jazeera America

2015-03-05T18:19:44Z

But as access to the published results of scholarly rese... issues around making the data that is summarized in thos... available are coming to the fore. The White House memora... a certainty. Sharing the results of scientific research ... unveiling a

The ethical blindness of algorithms - Quartz

2015-02-28T08:30:01Z

Can an algorithm be racist? ItÃ¢â¬â¢s a question that shoul... all data-driven organizations.

Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News & Comment

2015-02-27T22:38:37Z

But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies over reproducibility, Motyl and his adviser, Brian Nosek, dec... the study. With extra data, the P value came out as 0.59... to the conventional level of significance, 0.05. The eff... disappeared

Results of the HCI-UX survey 2014

2015-02-27T22:28:47Z

A while back (September 2014) I ran a very short 5-minut... at UX professionals to elicit thoughts on the links betw... that of academic HCI research. The survey was framed in the following way: "This survey ...

Lab In Berkeley Accidentally Discovers Solution To Fix Color Blindness ÃÂ« CBS San Francisco

2015-02-25T12:36:43Z

Ã¢â¬ÅThe glasses work by selectively removing certain wave... red and green cones that allow them to be in essence pus... said Don McPherson, EnChromaÃ¢â¬â¢s VP of products.

Program | Courses | CHI2015

2015-02-24T20:02:01Z

Intermediate Geography in Scotland - Google Fusion Tables

2015-02-24T20:00:39Z

Scholarpedia - Scholarpedia

2015-02-24T19:50:25Z

MonopolyÃ¢â¬â¢s Inventor: The Progressive Who DidnÃ¢â¬â¢t Pass Ã¢â¬ËGoÃ¢â¬â¢ - NYTimes.com

2015-02-21T19:17:48Z

Watch The New Phorm iPad Mini Case Generate Physical Keys Out Of Thin Air | TechCrunch

2015-02-13T08:34:11Z

AppleÃ¢â¬â¢s touch-based devices have changed the way we in... computers entirely, but that hasnÃ¢â¬â¢t stopped users from... thinking wistfully of the days when physical keyboards r... Tactus has taken that desire to heart, and the startupÃ¢â¬... Tactus co-f

Alpha, beta, gamma... a first glance at the UK makerspace open data | Nesta

2015-02-11T13:25:23Z

BBC News - Not in front of the telly: Warning over 'listening' TV

2015-02-09T17:56:20Z

Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal i... of their smart television set.

2015-02-09T17:04:42Z

2015-02-09T17:02:50Z

Smartphones DonÃ¢â¬â¢t Make Us Dumb - NYTimes.com

2015-01-22T18:20:39Z

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CodeMirror

2015-01-12T21:03:14Z

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This City Eliminated Poverty, And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It

2014-12-31T10:54:14Z

Between 1974 and 1979, residents of a small Manitoba cit... be subjects in a project that ensured basic annual incom... And for five years, poverty was completely eliminated. The program was dubbed Ã¢â¬ÅMincomeÃ¢â¬Â -- a neologism of Ã¢ ... The projectÃ¢â¬â¢s o

Future of Work: Why Teaching Everyone to Code Is Delusional | Singularity HUB

2014-12-30T10:29:25Z

You need to teach people to know themselves and how to m... integrity of themselves on all levels, you need to teach... about thinking, how to collect, filter, collate, process... massive knowledge resources that they will have given to... and how to

ItÃ¢â¬â¢s the Gospel truth - so take it or leave it - Telegraph

2014-12-30T09:59:43Z

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Facebook Apologizes For Emotional Pain Caused By "Year In Review" Posts

2014-12-30T09:35:21Z

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The NIPS Experiment | Moody Rd

2014-12-16T11:01:06Z

Shanley Kane of Model View Culture Challenges a Ã¢â¬ÅCorruptÃ¢â¬Â Silicon Valley | MIT Technology Review

2014-12-10T09:45:25Z

The Valley has bought into the idea of itself as a merit... self-starting, bootstrapping geniuses so much better and... anyone else in the world that they deserve wildly dispro... opportunities for wealth and power. The problem is that ... opposite of

Did You Know: Demographics on Technical Women | National Center for Women & Information Technology

2014-12-10T09:42:29Z

Women currently hold more than 51% of all professional o... In 1991, women held 37% of all computing-related occupat ... Women comprise 34% of web developers; 23% of programmers ... Women hold 19% of CIO positions at Fortune 250 companies ... Among the t

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2014-12-06T15:56:08Z

The HAT is the first-ever personal data platform (HATPDP... individualsÃ¢â¬â¢ own data for their personal use. Individu... their own data from internet-connected objects or servic... acquired data is then transformed by the HATPDP to enabl... The HAT is

BBC News - What phantom limbs and mirrors teach us about the brain

2014-11-23T14:53:23Z

In a lab in southern California scientists are curing th... incurable with little more than a mirror, and changing o... the brain in the process. In mid-November the team at the University of California ... That study is in its very early stages, but si

msu.seum: A Location Based Mobile Application for Exploring the Cultural Heritage and Archaeology of Michigan State University | Digital Archaeology

2014-11-23T12:37:15Z

Richest 1% of people own nearly half of global wealth, says report | Business | The Guardian

2014-11-23T12:36:19Z

The 110 Year-Old Light Bulb That's Never Been Turned Off

2014-11-18T19:00:22Z

The 110 Year-Old Light Bulb That's Never Been Turned Off The oldest lightbulb in continuous use was installed bef ...

Automatic Statistician

2014-11-05T11:53:10Z

Making sense of data is one of the great challenges of t... we live in. While it is becoming easier to collect and s... data, from personal medical data, to scientific data, to... commercial data, there are relatively few people trained... and machine

100 African Cities Destroyed By Europeans: WHY there are seldom historical buildings and monuments in sub-Saharian Africa! | SiliconAfrica.com

2014-11-05T10:56:05Z

When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonde... no historical buildings or monuments?Ã¢â¬Â The reason is simple. Europeans have destroyed most of t ...

Lightweight javascript in-memory database: LokiJS

2014-11-04T19:52:01Z

LokiJS is an in-memory database which prioritises perfor... everything * LokiJS supports field indexing for faster document acces ...

Lens Correction / Distortion

2014-11-04T14:45:39Z

About Us - Hive.co.uk

2014-10-30T17:17:40Z

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2014-10-30T08:16:53Z

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Aatish Bhatia on Twitter: "One of the shortest math publications of all time. Two sentences providing a counterexample to a conjecture by Euler. http://t.co/tJsdWD7zYD"

2014-10-22T07:47:01Z

An A to Z of Noah Webster's Finest Forgotten WordsÃÂ |ÃÂ Paul Anthony Jones

2014-10-21T22:40:41Z

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What Role Does Technology Play in Record Levels of Income Inequality? | MIT Technology Review

2014-10-21T20:46:28Z

The disparity between the rich and everyone else is larg... United States and increasing in much of Europe. Why?

The Brand

2014-10-21T16:15:00Z

Use Google Spreadsheets as your CMS | Brace Data

2014-10-21T15:32:07Z

MapStory : Welcome!

2014-10-21T15:29:41Z

Web Services and Marketplaces Create a New Data Science Economy - Machine Learning - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

2014-10-20T18:02:49Z

For the first time, data scientists can monetize their k... creativity just as app developers do. When this happens,... the dynamics of the industry Ã¢â¬â essentially, data scien... Ã¢â¬Åself-publishÃ¢â¬Â their domain expertise as cloud servi... be made acc

Why Experts Reject Creativity - The Atlantic

2014-10-20T10:01:31Z

American culture worships creativity, but mostly in the ... people really don't like new ideas that sound entirely n... the experts that often have to approve them. The trick i... new ideas as old ideasÃ¢â¬âto make your creativity seem, w... creative.

Weird Device Helps Long-Distance Lovers 'Teleport' Smooches

2014-10-08T14:52:06Z

Kissenger Devices These devices, known as "Kissengers," allow long-distanc ... Credit: Hooman Samani View full size image ... of the Kissenger device. [5 Ways Love Affects the Brain]

BBC News - Alien attacks and Fifa 15 chants: The art of video game noise

2014-10-07T11:26:01Z

Sound design is often the unsung hero of video games. Bu... get it right, primal instincts are triggered, helping im... the action. Below, the brains behind the soundscapes of ... biggest releases discuss their art in exclusive intervie...

Where do atheists live? Maps show the 'godless' cities of England and Wales | Cities | The Guardian

2014-10-07T09:50:27Z

DataShine, a new census data visualisation tool from Oli... UCLÃ¢â¬â¢s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, shows Ã¢â¬Ën... hotspots in Brighton, Bristol and Norwich; while Bradfor... clearly split and Liverpool keeps the faith. Dark blue a... least 39.5%

Exclusive: Hundreds Of Devices Hidden Inside New York City Phone Booths

2014-10-07T09:47:09Z

A company that controls thousands of New York CityÃ¢â¬â¢s p... advertising displays has planted tiny radio transmitters... Ã¢â¬ÅbeaconsÃ¢â¬Â Ã¢â¬â devices that can be used to track peop... Ã¢â¬â in hundreds of pay phone booths in Manhattan, BuzzFe... And itÃ¢â¬â¢s

Offline and falling behind: Barriers to Internet adoption | McKinsey & Company

2014-10-03T13:52:16Z

More than 60 percent of the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s population remains... removing crucial deterrents to Internet adoption, little... more than 4 billion people may be left behind.

Longest distance on land - Guy Bruneau Ã¢â¬Â¢ IT/GIS Consulting services

2014-10-03T12:41:14Z

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens - Scientific American

2014-10-02T05:21:39Z

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Science Has Great News for People Who Read Actual Books - Mic

2014-10-02T05:20:25Z

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BBC News - Inverness girl Hayley Fraser gets 3D-printed hand

2014-10-01T15:07:29Z

1 October 2014 Last updated at 11:53 Share this page Email Print ... have a prosthetic hand made with 3D printing technology.

The Price of Bread: Poverty, Purchasing Power, and The Victorian Laborer's Standard of Living

2014-09-29T14:53:43Z

UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Only Way to Feed the World

2014-09-29T13:51:07Z

How to build a fairer city | Cities | theguardian.com

2014-09-28T20:43:02Z

Why Academics' Writing Stinks - The Chronicle of Higher Education

2014-09-28T13:00:49Z

CEOs Get Paid Too Much, According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World - Gretchen Gavett - Harvard Business Review

2014-09-27T18:13:27Z

Automate your Dropbox

2014-09-26T15:17:21Z

How to build your own sustainable house | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional

2014-09-25T07:56:51Z

WikiHouse

2014-09-25T07:56:19Z

Deluxe Kit

2014-09-08T09:04:16Z

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2014-08-16T11:11:52Z

Home - TimeMapper - Make Timelines and TimeMaps fast! - from the Open Knowledge Foundation Labs

2014-07-17T11:22:02Z

VIDEO: The future of wearable technologies

2014-07-16T19:59:22Z

Wearable technologies currently exist in two spaces Ã¢â¬â ... pieces by artists and designers, and as engineering-driv... products that are taken to market. But, as Danielle Wild... future for wearable technologies lies in creating produc... aesthetic q

Crypto weakness in smart LED lightbulbs exposes Wi-Fi passwords | Ars Technica

2014-07-15T21:13:07Z

In the latest cautionary tale involving the so-called In... white-hat hackers have devised an attack against network... lightbulbs that exposes Wi-Fi passwords to anyone in pro... the LED devices. The attack works against LIFX smart lightbulbs, which c

A 3D Printed Cast That Can Heal Your Bones 40-80% Faster | TechCrunch

2014-07-12T07:04:12Z

It looks like something from the Borg (read, cool), but ... The Osteoid, created by Turkish student Deniz Karasahin, ... The idea of ultrasonic healing vibrations to heal bones ... Take a look at the pic below and youÃ¢â¬â¢ll see the Osteoi ... ... wonÃ¢â¬â¢

SAGE Publications busts Ã¢â¬Åpeer review and citation ring,Ã¢â¬Â 60 papers retracted | Retraction Watch

2014-07-11T08:15:58Z

SAGE Publishers is retracting 60 articles from the Journ... Control after an investigation revealed a Ã¢â¬Åpeer review... ringÃ¢â¬Â involving a professor in Taiwan.

Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes Ã¢â¬Ëpeer review ringÃ¢â¬â¢ - The Washington Post

2014-07-11T08:15:41Z

Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an artic... errors or outright fraud. In academic circles, and somet... retraction is a big deal. Now comes word of a journal retracting 60 articles at once.

Coastal access: Isle of Wight - Consultations - GOV.UK

2014-07-10T12:11:58Z

The rise of the evolutionary psychology douchebag

2014-07-09T09:54:22Z

They believe that certain groups of people are inherentl... others. They write books about how rape is a natural par... evolution. And now, with another scandal rocking the wor... psychology, we can officially welcome a new breed of mad... Evolutionar

Mode raises $2M and opens Ã¢â¬ËGitHub for dataÃ¢â¬â¢ to the public Ã¢â¬â Tech News and Analysis

2014-07-08T13:23:35Z

Mode is trying to do for data scientists and analysts wh... developers by giving them a place where they can find, c... on data.

Bret Victor, beast of burden

2014-07-07T14:30:35Z

Because my work was cited as an inspiration for the Khan... Programming is a way of thinking, not a rote skill. ... People understand what they can see. If a programmer ... Thus, the goals of a programming system should be: ... turn it into som

Inglehart-Welzel Culture Map - Business Insider

2014-07-05T11:52:19Z

Political scientists Ronald Inglehart of the University ... The latest chart, published several years ago, includes ... Check it out: Inglehart World Values Map ... ow much things like language and religion shape culture.

How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheet | Open Culture

2014-07-02T16:05:20Z

How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn ... in Books, Writing | July 1st, 2014 Leave a Comment JK-Rowlings-Phoenix-Plot-Outline At the height of the Harry Potter novelsÃ¢â¬â¢ popularity, ...

These heat maps reveal where we feel love, anger, shame & sadness on our bodies | VentureBeat | Science | by Rebecca Grant

2014-07-02T16:02:27Z

These heat maps reveal where we feel love, anger, shame ... Image Credit: Pnas.org December 31, 2013 7:57 AM Rebecca Grant ... what we feel and the physical sensation of that feeling.

BBC News - Microsoft working on a smart bra to measure mood

2014-06-28T17:02:41Z

Microsoft researchers have designed a smart bra that can... The prototype contains removable sensors that monitor he ...

2014-06-28T09:14:40Z

2014-06-26T09:46:06Z

ANSI/NISO Z39.88-2004 (R2010) The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services - National Information Standards Organization

2014-06-25T15:09:23Z

The Good Country Index

2014-06-24T18:26:16Z

The idea of the Good Country Index is pretty simple: to ... country on earth contributes to the common good of human... takes away. Using a wide range of data from the U.N. and... international organisations, weÃ¢â¬â¢ve given each country ... show at a g

Vol 8 (2014)

2014-06-24T09:17:39Z

Special Sections Big Data| Critiquing Big Data: Politics, Ethics, Epistem ... Kate Crawford, Mary L. Gray, Kate Miltner 10 pgs. Big Data, Big Questions| The Big Data Divide ABSTRACT PDF ... Geoffrey C. Bowker 5 pgs.

BBC News - Mairi Hedderwick: I am Katie Morag

2014-06-23T13:16:51Z

Mairi Hedderwick andCherry Campbell Mairi Hedderwick say... in her books is based on her childhood dreams of island life Mairi Hedderwick did not grow up on a Scottish island, s ...

About - Institute of Making

2014-06-23T13:16:14Z

The Institute of Making is a multidisciplinary research ... interested in the made world: from makers of molecules t... buildings, synthetic skin to spacecraft, soup to diamond... Annual membership of the institute is available to all U... students.

Welcome - Makers Now

2014-06-23T13:16:02Z

All Makers Now? is a two-day conference exploring craft ... century production at Falmouth UniversityÃ¢â¬â¢s Penryn Cam... 10-11th July 2014. The digital crafters in the Autonomatic Research Group a ...

Sharp's 'Free-Form Displays' with Ultra-Thin Bezels Make New Display Shapes Possible - Mac Rumors

2014-06-20T13:42:24Z

Sharp today announced its upcoming "Free-Form Display" t... allow the company to nearly eliminate the traditional be... LCD displays. As a result, Sharp will be able to build L... any shape to conform to the display area of the intended... sharp_free_

XOX - Emotional Technologies

2014-06-20T13:15:55Z

XOX is a new emotional technology platform that enables ... to track usersÃ¢â¬â¢ emotional states, collect data and tai... experiences for both individuals and large audiences. The XOX platform comprises of a number of products and s ...

The Science of Problem Solving

2014-06-20T08:37:04Z

A review of the state of our knowledge regarding problem... it work? What is insight? How can we boost our creativit... problem solving performance?

Open Culture (openculture) on Twitter

2014-06-17T07:39:16Z

Intimacy Ã¢â¬â V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media

2014-06-17T07:37:05Z

Bookshops of the Future: Where Physical and Digital Co-exist.

2014-06-17T07:36:14Z

BBC Nature - Rats shown to feel regret over bad decisions

2014-06-15T10:10:56Z

Rats experience regret when their actions make them miss... options, a study has found. It is the first time regret has been identified in mamma ...

Universities in the United Kingdom - Times Higher Education

2014-06-14T12:34:04Z

Sale of postcodes data was a 'mistake' say Committee - News from Parliament - UK Parliament

2014-06-12T12:36:15Z

Valuable data should be published and used as a public g... economy and society.

Hip Gadgets For The Developing World Won't Solve Global Poverty: Stop Making Them | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

2014-06-12T12:34:11Z

Many entrepreneurs (incorrectly) think the biggest chall... making the product. They are so pleased they have invent... more efficient or lower cost or fancier than the other w... market. Since there are 1 bazillion people whose life wo... Wrong! Actu

The coming digital anarchy - Telegraph

2014-06-10T11:45:34Z

Bitcoin is giving banks a run for their money. Now the s... threatens to eradicate social networks, stock markets, e... governments. Are we heading towards an anarchic future w... power of any kind will dissolve?

About Us - | Open Culture

2014-06-09T20:12:39Z

Turing Test breakthrough as super-computer becomes first to convince us it's human - Gadgets and Tech - Life & Style - The Independent

2014-06-09T13:08:49Z

A programme that convinced humans that it was a 13-year-... the first computer ever to pass the Turing Test. The tes... requires that computers are indistinguishable from human... a landmark in the development of artificial intelligence... have warned

Antoine Bruy's 'Scrublands' : The New Yorker

2014-05-27T23:48:35Z

Microsoft Cortana EULA contains the Greatest Disclaimer of ALL TIME Ã¢â¬Â¢ The Register

2014-05-27T21:19:54Z

"Like a real-world personal assistant, sometimes Cortana... inaccurate conclusion about what is important to you, (i... information that accurately reflects you but that you ar... sharing with others, or (iii) remember some information ... no longer t

The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World

2014-05-27T13:11:38Z

BBC News - Victorian strangeness: The man killed by an automaton

2014-05-24T14:39:36Z

There was no need for Sherlock. The killer didn't flee t... his ground over the lifeless body of his victim, his han... the bloody weapon, his face betraying no emotion. At the feet of the mechanised figure of a person - which ...

Climate Change Is Harming Economy, Report Says - WSJ.com

2014-05-18T09:11:30Z

Climate change is creating problems for American citizen... and costing the economy billions of dollars, as extreme ... flooding, droughts and other disasters to every region o... federal advisory panel concluded in a report released Tu... The congres

Why Teens Are Innovators Of A New Public Form Of Privacy | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

2014-05-18T08:27:50Z

It may seem like teens are always over-sharing without a... world where opting out of online culture is hardly an op... far more sophisticated view of privacy than adults give ...

BBC News - UK becoming 'more local and global'

2014-05-18T08:25:07Z

Many people in the UK feel a growing connection with oth... neighbourhood and the wider world, but shrinking ties wi... The figures come from a survey for the BBC's Who Do We T ... Graphic on connectedness More people said neighbourhood ties and links w

Phineas Gage neuroscience case: True story of famous frontal lobe patient is better than textbook accounts.

2014-05-08T23:43:11Z

On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life. Other victims in the annals of medicine are a

This Makeup Printer Could Destroy The Cosmetics Industry

2014-05-08T21:18:13Z

Grace Choi, a Harvard Business School grad (and our new ... earth) debuted her new 3-D printer that not only PRINTS ... in any color you could possibly want. Simply by grabbing... from a photo and hooking the small device up to your com... endless sup

Analysis of the CHI research communityÃ¢â¬â¢s knowledge map - Community Imaging Group

2014-05-03T19:02:40Z

Based on the results, we argued that: As it stands, the only tradition in HCI is that of h ... The accumulated knowledge in HCI is almost exclusive ... By nature, HCI research is like nomads chasing water ... Therefore, current HCI researc

Amazing 2D RubensÃ¢â¬â¢ Tube Visualizes Sound With a Plane of Fire | I Fucking Love Science

2014-04-24T15:04:12Z

How Humans Evolved to Cope with City Crowds

2014-04-22T07:47:22Z

For over a hundred thousand years, humans evolved in sma... a few dozen people. But then, about ten thousand years a... living in cities that were far bigger than any tribe or ... to change to cope with the population overload.

NLS Historic Maps API - Map images - National Library of Scotland

2014-04-18T10:17:06Z

NLS Historic Maps API: Historical Maps of Great Britain ... This seamless historic map can be: embedded in your own website used for research purposes ... rdnance Survey maps, dating from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Mind Games - NYTimes.com

2014-04-15T13:40:51Z

Dr. PinkerÃ¢â¬â¢s teaching is similarly accessible. Just lo... questions here, culled from one of his Harvard courses, ... Science.

Flashback Friday: Probably the most horrifying scientific lecture ever. - Seriously, Science? | DiscoverMagazine.com

2014-04-15T10:27:28Z

At a urology conference in Las Vegas in 1983, Dr. Giles ... very memorable lecture.

Ramesh Patel: Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise?

2014-04-14T09:03:21Z

As a Conservative I have no pleasure in exposing David C... claims. However, as long as the party continues to talk ... via the blame game, confidence will not be given an oppo... For it is an undeniable and inescapable economic fact: w... Below are t

A World Of Open Source Sex Toys, Built By Three Georgia Tech Students Ã¢Å¡â¢ Co.Labs Ã¢Å¡â¢ code + community

2014-04-12T07:39:18Z

The Stitchfest hackathon at UPenn didnÃ¢â¬â¢t know what was... Quitmeyer and Firaz Peer built an Arduino-powered genita... DIY hacking contest. This was no stunt: Quitmeyer intend... toy to be one of an open source suite when he opens Comi... August--wha

MIT Unveils The Shapeshifting Furniture Of The Future | Co.Design | business + design

2014-04-12T07:35:28Z

As part of the Lexus Design Amazing exhibition in Milan,... table made up of more than 1,000 squares arranged in a t... attached to a motor beneath the surface. The Transform c... depending upon how users interact with it and can also m... itself to i

OpenBTS open-source project

2014-04-08T12:10:04Z

Get ready to roll your own cell network! OpenBTS is now ... robust and feature-filled, offers significant improvemen... capacity and system management features. OpenBTS 4.0 fur... of RAN infrastructure to low cost, standard computer har... source soft

Why UK universities shouldn't be hostile to alternative economic models | Maeve Cohen and Catriona Watson | Comment is free | theguardian.com

2014-04-08T11:45:32Z

What follows may just seem to be a story about one cours... university, but it has important ramifications, not only... national debate about economics education, but for econo... politics itself. We, the Post-Crash Economics Society at... Manchester,

Global warming reveals Viking tunic

2014-03-30T09:18:10Z

Extra Food Banks Aren't Needed Because Restaurants Are Busy, Says Tory Councillor

2014-03-27T08:12:37Z

A local Conservative councillor has said the fact he str... table in restaurants at the weekends proves there is no ... Crawley councillor Liam Marshall-Ascough made the commen ...

Technology and Learning | Visual.ly

2014-03-27T07:30:16Z

Technology has a plethora of uses and has long been a u... students of today are adept at using technology so utili... education is beneficial. This infographic examines how t... useful tool and can be a useful aid in the learning process.

Pop Up Learning Space | Visual.ly

2014-03-27T07:29:41Z

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.

Illuminating cities with sustainable smart lighting systems | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional

2014-03-17T16:13:28Z

Illuminating cities with sustainable smart lighting systems Lights that switch off automatically when streets are em ... Share 501 2 ... a city-lighting system that's both sustainable and fun.

AmazonÃ¢â¬â¢s $23,698,655.93 book about flies

2014-03-16T18:27:34Z

A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon ... extra copy of Peter LawrenceÃ¢â¬â¢s The Making of a Fly Ã¢â¬â... developmental biology that we Ã¢â¬â and most other Drosoph... biologists Ã¢â¬â consult regularly. The book, published in... print. But

About ÃÂ« The Restart Project

2014-03-11T20:49:14Z

The Restart Project is a London-based social enterprise ... empowers people to use their electronics longer, by lear... repair and maintenance skills. Through community and workplace events we create engagin ... Electronic waste is one of the fastest gr

20 Jokes That Only Intellectuals Will Understand. Number 5 Took Me A Minute.

2014-03-11T09:20:35Z

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Local Daylight Time - About

2014-03-10T16:13:28Z

c is for colossus

2014-03-08T23:43:43Z

Dark thoughts: why mental illness is on the rise in academia | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional

2014-03-08T14:05:07Z

But while anecdotal accounts multiply, mental health iss... little-researched and hard data is thin on the ground. However, a study published in 2013 by the University and ...

The perovskite lightbulb moment for solar power | Technology | The Observer

2014-03-08T12:40:04Z

If perovskites mean nothing to you read on, as they may ... impact on your future fuel bill. If we could capture approximately 1% of the sunlight fal ...

Exist ÃÂ· Understand your life.

2014-03-07T10:28:53Z

We all create data about ourselves every day. From task ... trackers to the tweets we share, our data is everywhere. Even if you're actively tracking your life, you're only ... We help you find the hidden connections in your data and ...

Essay on why faculty members work so much | Inside Higher Ed

2014-03-06T07:34:03Z

Why do academics work so much?

ArtMaps | Tate

2014-03-06T07:33:06Z

Tate holds over 70,000 items in its collection. Help us locate them around the world.

Ruin Lust | Tate

2014-03-06T07:31:44Z

Ruin Lust, an exhibition at Tate Britain from 4 March 20... to the mournful, thrilling, comic and perverse uses of r... the seventeenth century to the present day. The exhibiti... widest-ranging on the subject to date and includes over ... artists suc

There is a culture of acceptance around mental health issues in academia | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional

2014-03-06T07:30:43Z

I've seen PhD students with depression, sleep issues, ea... thoughts of suicide. Mental health in academia is an iss... addressed

BBC News - The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

2014-03-04T10:39:51Z

Jugaad is an Indian word that means ingenious improvisat... scarce resources - or necessity is the mother of inventi... more grassroots innovations:

Scottish Screen Archive - Full record for 'ROUND 'THE MULL''

2014-02-27T14:43:55Z

A trip on the 'Loch Carron', travelling up the Firth of ... of Kintyre, Oban, Tiree and the Outer Hebrides. The film-maker believed this service provided by the 'Lo ...

UW Interactive Data Lab

2014-02-26T10:43:16Z

Lyra is an interactive environment that enables custom v... without writing any code. Graphical Ã¢â¬ÅmarksÃ¢â¬Â can be b... using property drop zones; dynamically positioned using ... directly moved, rotated, and resized using handles. Lyra... data pipeli

Map Kibera | Map Kibera

2014-02-26T10:42:11Z

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map un... when young Kiberans created the first free and open digi... own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete ... community information project.

How much is time wrong around the world? | The poor man's math blog

2014-02-22T07:53:00Z

A few years ago I went to Spain for the first time, and ... surprised by how late is dinner. The first night I dined... Solar time vs. standard time Solar time vs. standard time At the time IÃ¢â¬â¢m writing, near the winter solstice, Mad ...

Analysis of the CHI research communityÃ¢â¬â¢s knowledge map - Community Imaging Group

2014-02-19T07:51:20Z

The GeoJSON Format Specification

2014-02-18T18:38:57Z

GeoJSON is a format for encoding a variety of geographic... GeoJSON object may represent a geometry, a feature, or a... features. GeoJSON supports the following geometry types:... Polygon, MultiPoint, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon, and ... Features in

BBC News - Honeycomb book hive celebrates library's 400th anniversary

2014-02-18T16:48:47Z

The Book Hive The honeycomb installation interacts with ... past triggering sensors to make the books rustle

Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News & Comment

2014-02-18T16:48:02Z

Data from a study of nearly 2,000 people seemed to show ... moderates saw shades of grey more accurately than did ei... right-wing extremists. Ã¢â¬ÅThe hypothesis was sexy,Ã¢â¬Â he... But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies ... It turned o

Scientific Utopia

2014-02-18T16:47:22Z

An academic scientistÃ¢â¬â¢s professional success depends o... Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As s... incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting dec... positive results and ignore negative results. Prior repo... these incen

UK picks Open Document Format for all government files Ã¢â¬Â¢ The Register

2014-02-18T16:45:20Z

The UK Government has decided that Open Document Format, the OpenOffice-derived file format, is the best choice for a... documents. The Cabinet Office's Standards Hub explained its thinkin ... Ã¢â¬ÅWhen dealing with citizens, information should be ...

The Great Green Wall Initiative | Global Environment Facility

2014-02-18T16:41:27Z

Debunking the myth of Kitty Genovese | New York Post

2014-02-17T22:50:16Z

Despite the attempts of various neighbors to help, Mosel... wounds proved fatal, and Farrar did her best to comfort ... The murder of Kitty Genovese shifted from crime to legen ... The Times piece was followed by a story in Life magazine ... New York be

xkcd: Frequency

2014-02-17T17:32:51Z

Frequency |< < Prev Random ... Frequency Frequency Frequency Frequency Frequency

U. of the People earns accreditation, challenging view that agencies stifle innovation | Inside Higher Ed

2014-02-17T10:13:36Z

But last week brought word of a very different kind of a... outcome, one that arguably challenges parts of that meme... Education and Training Council gave its stamp of approva... the People, a five-year-old global, online institution t... The univers

Just thinking you had a good night's sleep can improve cognitive skills - Science - News - The Independent

2014-02-17T10:03:12Z

Researchers at Colorado College found students who were ... good nightÃ¢â¬â¢s sleep, even if they did not, performed be... and memory skill tests than those who had been informed ... badly.

Boris Johnson: a pound spent in Croydon more value than a pound spent in Strathclyde

2014-02-15T11:08:56Z

Current Mayor and Tory candidate Boris Johnson told us: "We're making the case now to central government for more funding. I'm making the argument to the Treasury that a pound spent in Croydon is far more of value to the country than a pound spent in Stra

What's that sucking sound? It's all the public money and private wealth being swallowed up by London | Aditya Chakrabortty | Comment is free | The Guardian

2014-02-15T09:28:23Z

At the end of 2011, the IPPR North thinktank totted up a... spending on transport projects up till 2015. Londoners e... investment of ÃÂ£2,731 per head, far outstripping any oth... north-east received a measly ÃÂ£5 per head.

Flood Maps

2014-02-03T22:44:46Z

British Isles in 2100 by JaySimons on deviantART

2014-02-02T21:35:43Z

British Isles in 2100 by JaySimons :iconjaysimons: British Isles in 2100by JaySimons Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / OtherÃÂ©2012-2014 Ja ... ... Belfast have become new capitals of Britain and Ireland.

Exercise in pregnancy boosts baby brain development - health - 14 November 2013 - New Scientist

2014-01-26T09:41:05Z

Power at their Fingertips: Open Data and Indigo in the New Scientist | Indigo Trust

2014-01-26T09:38:19Z

How open data empowers citizens of poorer nations - tech - 13 November 2013 - New Scientist

2014-01-26T09:37:56Z

Made in USA: MOHOP Infinitely Interchangeable Shoes by Annie Mohaupt Ã¢â¬â Kickstarter

2014-01-24T06:49:49Z

Mohop shoes allow nearly infinite design options with ju... soles. Simply lace any ribbon in our comfy footbed to cr... one-of-a-kind, custom-fit pair!

Utah is Ending Homelessness by Giving People Homes | NationofChange

2014-01-23T21:21:40Z

This trend makes UtahÃ¢â¬â¢s accomplishment even more notew... years, Utah has quietly reduced homelessness by 78 perce... to end homelessness by 2015. How did Utah accomplish this? Simple. Utah solved homele ...

Britain is scared to face the real issue Ã¢â¬â it's all about inequality | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer

2014-01-20T10:46:03Z

It's inequality, stupid. It's inequality that is behind ... and the growth of the welfare bill. It's inequality prop... escalating demand for credit. It's inequality that has c... banking system and its still feral proclivities. It's in... provoked th

Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as half of the world's population | Business | theguardian.com

2014-01-20T10:39:52Z

The extent to which so much global wealth has become cor... handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a ... Oxfam on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people ... Working for the Few - Oxfam report Source: F. Alvaredo, ... The wealth

Randall Rosenthal Carves an Illusion Out of Wood - Old Money

2014-01-19T09:53:14Z

The effect was incredible. The effect was incredible.

1 | Chopsticks Get A Makeover | Co.Design | business + design

2014-01-15T14:41:11Z

The lost history of Carville in San Francisco | www.ktvu.com

2014-01-15T14:35:18Z

SF Public Library Carville was an impromptu neighborhood in what is now th ...

A Makeover for Maps - NYTimes.com

2014-01-15T12:33:18Z

Climate CentralÃ¢â¬â¢s Surging Seas project highlights land... Facebook Twitter Google+ ... e is, in short, trying to rethink how data is presented.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh | Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation

2014-01-14T21:36:47Z

Here be 3D printed dragons | News @ CSIRO

2014-01-13T18:31:06Z

Earlier this week we posted about a letter we received f... letter SophieÃ¢â¬â¢s very polite letter. Ã¢â¬ÅOur work has never ventured into dragons of the mythi ... ... erospace parts. So they thought a dragon was achievable.

What Intel's Edison Means: One Card To Smarten Up Dumb Gadgets And Connect Them All Ã¢â¬â ReadWrite

2014-01-12T13:45:30Z

IntelÃ¢â¬â¢s just-announced Edison computerÃ¢â¬âthe one the s... cardÃ¢â¬âillustrates the corollary to MooreÃ¢â¬â¢s Law. If yo... more circuits on a piece of silicon, you can also make c... smaller and smaller. And this heralds a whole new way of... computing,

Desmond Tutu Quotes (Author of No Future Without Forgiveness)

2014-01-11T11:35:00Z

"Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes." Desmond Tutu

After seeing this graph, youÃ¢â¬â¢ll never look at your refrigerator the same way again

2014-01-10T18:33:43Z

Electricity consumption - Todd Moss Todd Moss, vice president and senior fellow at the Cente ... "I know I live an energy-intensive lifestyle," he writes ...

Free Permaculture Design Course - Regenerative Leadership Institute

2014-01-10T16:50:30Z

Natural building construction Pattern observation and site analysis Renewable energy and appropriate technology Reading the land and natural cycles ... ...and much, much more!

The Coming Ã¢â¬ËInstant Planetary EmergencyÃ¢â¬â¢ | The Nation

2014-01-10T16:50:04Z

William Greider: Will It Matter That Janet Yelle... Dave Zirin: Chris Kluwe, Aaron Rodgers and LGBT ... John Nichols: Five Reforms to Make Democratic Po ... A Look Back at the Year in Crazy, Part Two ... entists predict i

After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought - NYTimes.com

2014-01-10T16:48:48Z

Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 studen... globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence... widely viewed as a revolution in higher education, early... large-scale courses are disappointing, forcing a rethink... instruction

Pencil | FiftyThree

2014-01-10T16:48:21Z

WARNING: New Facebook App requires users agree to be monitored by microphone at any time without their permission... | RedFlagNews.com

2014-01-10T16:46:59Z

Cellphone users who attempt to install the Facebook Mess... to agree to terms of service that allow the social netwo... the microphone on their device to record audio at any ti... permission.

Localism is the cornerstone of environmentalism in the 21st century | Sarah Newton | Environment | theguardian.com

2014-01-10T16:45:56Z

For me such localism is the cornerstone of what environm... about in the 21st century. Not the top-down imposition o... agenda, but the nurturing of people working as a communi... concerned by local environmental impoverishment come tog... and enhance

The ocean is broken | Newcastle Herald

2014-01-10T16:43:54Z

IT was the silence that made this voyage different from ... See your ad here Not the absence of sound, exactly. The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rig ... ... The birds were missing because the fish were missing.

Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness - Crime - UK - The Independent

2014-01-10T16:42:35Z

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

Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society

2014-01-10T16:41:44Z

Some of that research went back a generation. It was in ... instance, that researchers discovered that aspects of vi... Muller Lyer Illusion Comparison 3 Researchers found that Americans perceive the line with ... More recently psychologists had challe

Case-control study of the association between malignant brain tumours diagnosed between 2007 and 2009 and mobile and cordless phone use

2014-01-10T16:40:23Z

This study confirmed previous results of an association ... cordless phone use and malignant brain tumours. These fi... support for the hypothesis that RF-EMFs play a role both... and promotion stages of carcinogenesis.

Ã¢âÂ¶ the Landfill Harmonic Orchestra - YouTube

2014-01-10T16:38:32Z

the Landfill Harmonic Orchestra

Who's Afraid of Peer Review?

2014-01-10T16:36:41Z

A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no ... open-access journals. On 4 July, good news arrived in the inbox of Ocorrafoo C ... In fact, it should have been promptly rejected. Any revi ...

LibraryBox

2014-01-10T16:35:39Z

LibraryBox is an open source, portable digital file dist... on inexpensive hardware that enables delivery of educati... and other vital information to individuals off the grid.

Windbelt, Cheap Generator Alternative, Set to Power Third World - Popular Mechanics

2014-01-10T16:32:10Z

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Anyone can use these machines to "start a local recycling centre"

2014-01-10T16:26:31Z

Precious Plastic local recycling centre by Dave Hakkens Hakkens' Precious Plastic project is a set of simple mac ...

A 7 Year Old And His Mom Try A Wild Experiment In The Freezing Cold. They Never Expected ThisÃ¢â¬Â¦ | Distractify

2014-01-09T23:06:03Z

When the temperature dropped to 16 degrees in Washington... a strange idea. bubble1 She and her seven-year-old son mixed up some homemade so ...

Benefits Street: a toxic caricature of BritainÃ¢â¬â¢s poor | new economics foundation

2014-01-09T07:05:04Z

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2014-01-09T07:03:06Z

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Modern Abstract City Maps | Colossal

2014-01-09T06:58:52Z

Modern Abstract City Maps Paris New York Milan maps London IÃ¢â¬â¢m really enjoying these abstract city maps by Jazzbe ...

Elaborate New Portraits Drawn on Vintage Maps by Ed Fairburn | Colossal

2014-01-09T06:58:36Z

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2014-01-09T06:57:49Z

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People, Not Data | Code for America

2014-01-08T08:05:33Z

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BBC News - RAF jets fly with 3D printed parts

2014-01-05T23:38:42Z

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2014-01-05T08:49:05Z

From cash machines to courgettes, the poor will pay more | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | theguardian.com

2014-01-04T18:55:59Z

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A dictionary compiled in tyre shop in 30 years | ePaper | DAWN.COM

2014-01-04T18:14:14Z

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Lyndsey Scott, A Model And Coder - Business Insider

2014-01-04T18:06:46Z

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2014-01-04T16:26:22Z

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101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home | Glamumous!

2014-01-04T11:33:55Z

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Body Atlas Reveals Where We Feel Happiness and Shame - D-brief | DiscoverMagazine.com

2014-01-02T14:48:08Z

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Heat maps reveal where you feel emotions in your body

2014-01-02T14:46:24Z

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Memex #001

2013-12-31T16:12:03Z

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BBC News - Maria Leijerstam is first person to cycle to South Pole

2013-12-28T22:41:43Z

Facebook 'dead and buried' as teens switch to Snapchat and Whatsapp - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent

2013-12-28T18:55:58Z

Teenagers are turning their back on Facebook Ã¢â¬Ëin their... switching to simpler social networks and messaging apps,... found.

The Ã¢â¬Ëpenny-drop momentÃ¢â¬â¢: building political leadership for radical emission reduction | green alliance blog

2013-12-28T12:09:50Z

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BBC News - Norway's 'Slow TV' attracts viewers

2013-12-28T12:06:02Z

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Ramesh Patel: Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise?

2013-12-23T23:54:43Z

Real World Examples of Quadratic Equations

2013-12-23T10:41:37Z

An example of a Quadratic Equation: Quadratic Equation Quadratic equations pop up in many real world situations!

Smarty Ring

2013-12-23T10:40:07Z

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This Is How A Woman's Offensive Tweet Became The World's Top Story

2013-12-23T10:39:49Z

The anatomy of the twitter-storm that cost media PR pro ... job.

2013-12-22T21:55:59Z

JavaScript Promises: There and back again - HTML5 Rocks

2013-12-21T11:55:16Z

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Subtleties of Color (Part 1 of 6) : Elegant Figures : Blogs

2013-12-21T11:53:40Z

Hand-colored image of Mars from Mariner 4. Encoding quantitative data with color is (sometimes lite ...

The university professor who stood up against dumbing down of degrees - Telegraph

2013-12-20T19:23:55Z

Paul Buckland refused to pass students who didn't unders... archaeology - and he's just one of many academics under ... the marks of undeserving students. So will Buckland's le... the destruction of standards in some universities, asks ...

MediaMonkey ÃÂ» Information ÃÂ» Gold

2013-12-19T15:22:09Z

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Arduino Video Game for the Neighbourhood / by @NeuroProd

2013-12-18T16:01:05Z

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Is There an Ecological Unconscious? - NYTimes.com

2013-12-18T14:29:42Z

In AlbrechtÃ¢â¬â¢s view, the residents of the Upper Hunter ... just from the strain of living in difficult conditions b... something more fundamental: a hitherto unrecognized psyc... condition. In a 2004 essay, he coined a term to describe it: Ã¢â¬Åsolastal

An Homage to Douglas Engelbart and a Critique of the State of Tech - NYTimes.com

2013-12-18T10:56:11Z

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The Mission to De-Centralize the Internet : The New Yorker

2013-12-17T15:16:17Z

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JSON-RPC 2.0 Specification

2013-12-15T14:11:50Z

JSON-RPC is a stateless, light-weight remote procedure c... Primarily this specification defines several data struct... around their processing. It is transport agnostic in tha... be used within the same process, over sockets, over http... various mes

U.K. National Grid status

2013-12-14T10:27:58Z

The faster-than-fast Fourier transform - MIT News Office

2013-12-14T10:27:03Z

For a large range of practically useful cases, MIT resea... to increase the speed of one of the most important algor... information sciences.

Collections List - Forces War Records

2013-12-13T22:51:01Z

Nominatim - OpenStreetMap Wiki

2013-12-13T19:15:00Z

What Happens When Everyone Makes Maps? - Laura C. Mallonee - The Atlantic

2013-12-13T19:09:57Z

Optical illusion: Shades of gray.

2013-12-13T18:54:16Z

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Optical illusion: The blue and the green.

2013-12-13T18:54:01Z

Blue green spiral illusion You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orang ...

Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram : Nature News & Comment

2013-12-13T12:31:16Z

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Success rates for EPSRC proposals | James Keirstead

2013-12-13T11:47:20Z

Art Maps and the museum as platform | Tate

2013-12-12T16:53:54Z

At the heart of the Art Maps project is an exploration o... the future museum. Throughout the project we have been c... kinds of ideas and meanings Ã¢â¬â both personal and art hi... audiences might generate around artworks and geographica... Furthermore

visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

2013-12-10T21:30:15Z

Naace: ICT in Education is important!

2013-12-10T15:03:28Z

Children to be taught to use internet at school - Telegraph

2013-12-10T15:02:37Z

UK School Children Will Soon Learn Coding and Use 3D Printers

2013-12-10T15:01:25Z

2013-12-09T19:36:27Z

Messenger Wars: How Facebook lost its lead

2013-12-08T20:04:46Z

New study: Striking brain differences explain some gender stereotypes

2013-12-06T11:02:01Z

A new research paper published today in the Proceedings ... of Sciences demonstrates that men and women's brains con... different which, according to the authors, gives a "pote... The studyÃ¢â¬âone the largest of its kind with 949 individ ... Using the d

BBC News - 'Memories' pass between generations

2013-12-03T17:18:50Z

Behaviour can be affected by events in previous generati... Experiments showed that a traumatic event could affect t ... A Nature Neuroscience study shows mice trained to avoid ... Experts said the results were important for phobia and a ... ... system

End of Moore's Law: It's not just about physics | Business Tech - CNET News

2013-12-03T08:12:13Z

A DARPA director argues that the end of the Moore's Law ... essentially why you now have a tablet in your hand -- co... because of insurmountable economic challenges.

Stress-buster: Microsoft bra battles emotional overeating | Crave - CNET

2013-12-03T08:10:00Z

A prototype bra from Microsoft researchers uses sensors ... wearer's mood with a goal of helping prevent stress-rela...

Announcement Details

2013-12-03T07:57:08Z

New LinkedIn application: Ã¢â¬ËINTROÃ¢â¬â¢ This application must not under any circumstances be use ... How does INTRO work? INTRO will divert all email sent and received from the e ... ... y email account could lead to these breaches of the Act:

What No One Told You About Z-Index Ã¢â¬â Philip Walton

2013-12-03T07:52:30Z

Groups of elements with a common parent that move forwar... Every stacking context has a single HTML element as its ... New stacking contexts can be formed on an element in one ... When an element is the root element of a document (the < ... ... never

Technology didn't kill middle class jobs, public policy did | Dean Baker | Comment is free | theguardian.com

2013-11-29T18:53:29Z

A widely held view in elite circles is that the rapid ri... the United States over the last three decades is an unfo... These were jobs where people with limited education used ... This story is comforting to elites, because it means tha ... That's a ni

Is Sony's 'smart wig' even more absurd than Google Glass? | Technology | The Guardian

2013-11-29T18:43:15Z

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Top Things Women Invented! - Likes

2013-11-29T09:37:58Z

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British Airways Billboard Tracks Airplanes as They Fly Overhead

2013-11-29T09:28:02Z

British Airways launched a new campaign called "Look Up,... want to take that advice to get the full experience. A video ad in London's Piccadilly Circus features a youn ...

The contenteditable attribute | HTML5 Doctor

2013-11-27T23:03:14Z

For some time now, weÃ¢â¬â¢ve been using various technologi... store text within a web browser. Now with the contentedi... things have got a whole lot easier. In this article, IÃ¢â¬... this attribute is for, how it works, and how we can take...

VIOLENT video games make KIDS SMARTER Ã¢â¬â more violent the BETTER Ã¢â¬Â¢ The Register

2013-11-27T13:59:02Z

A meta-study carried out by the American Psychological A... claimed that playing computer games has many positive ef... and, in some cases, the more violent the game the more b... effect. The research, published in the latest issue of American ...

Couple in Colorado Decide to Build Their Own Tiny Dream Home Together

2013-11-26T21:59:22Z

So, it was easy to live together in such a small space. So, it was easy to live together in such a small space. dailymail.co.uk This couple proves that bigger isnÃ¢â¬â¢t necessarily better.

One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

2013-11-26T12:08:15Z

I felt like Will Smith in "Enemy of the State." I was be... harassed and stalked by criminals with technological exp... thrust into an unexpected war. I felt exposed, vulnerabl... front line. I had awoken a hideous network of villains a... were in pur

What will we learn from the fall of Facebook? | UCL Social Networking Sites & Social Science Research Project UCL UCL Social Networking Sites & Social Science Research Project

2013-11-25T08:15:05Z

kids computer Photo by LucÃÂ©lia Ribeiro (Creative Commons) The Ã¢â¬ËFall of FacebookÃ¢â¬â¢ seems an odd title given this ...

Prince RupertÃ¢â¬â¢s Drop: The Curious Properties of a Molten Glass Blob Dropped in Cold Water | Colossal

2013-11-13T20:55:13Z

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Secret Fore-Edge Paintings Revealed in Early 19th Century Books at the University of Iowa | Colossal

2013-11-13T11:28:31Z

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Ã¢âÂ¶ Vinay Gupta shares his vision of a rural future - YouTube

2013-10-29T13:46:49Z

Holiday at Dolbelydr, Trefnant, Denbighshire

2013-10-28T08:56:34Z

Take Two 'Normal' People, Add Money To Just One Of Them, And Watch What Happens Next

2013-10-23T21:53:31Z

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The Nobel Prize in Economics 2013: of the madness and the wisdom of crowds | OECD Insights Blog

2013-10-22T15:22:46Z

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ScatterplotEval.pdf

2013-10-22T14:24:11Z

To verify cluster separation in high-dimensional data, a... technique, and then visualize it with 2D Scatterplots, i ... of providing guidance between these visual encoding choi ... manually inspected a broad set of 816 scatterplots deriv ... ... guidanc

Create a new fiddle - JSFiddle

2013-10-20T19:06:53Z

Turbo Pascal

2013-10-20T08:44:29Z

These two young artists quit their jobs to build this glass house for $500 | Spaces - Yahoo Homes

2013-10-18T20:04:17Z

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HtmlUnit - Welcome to HtmlUnit

2013-10-18T19:11:09Z

Asda supermarket launches 3D printing service

2013-10-16T16:51:48Z

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A Numbers Man | West Space Journal

2013-10-16T15:18:17Z

Chris Dancy records nearly every detail of his life. So ... magazine has dubbed him Ã¢â¬Åthe Quantified ManÃ¢â¬Â. Using ... sensors, mobile devices and Ã¢â¬Ëlow frictionÃ¢â¬â¢ tracking ... seamlessly building a digital archive of his entire bein... Dancy consi

Welcome to OSGeo-Live 7.0 Ã¢â¬â OSGeo-Live 7.0 Documentation

2013-10-16T13:01:33Z

Vinay Venkatraman: Technology crafts for the digitally underserved | Video on TED.com

2013-10-12T17:22:31Z

Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the lates... local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech us... Vinay Venkatraman explains his work in "technology craft... mobile phone, a lunchbox and a flashlight can become a d... Vinay Venka

BBC News - Imagine a world without shops or factories

2013-10-12T11:46:11Z

Continue reading the main story "The 20th Century was about dozens of markets of million ... Joe Kraus, dotcom pioneer

Remembering to forget | UTS News Room

2013-10-08T09:46:58Z

Van den Hoven believes we need to delete more. Ã¢â¬ÅA lot ... think forgetting is a bad thing, that itÃ¢â¬â¢s a bug of hu... not. Forgetting is a side-product of a successful memory.Ã¢â¬Â And that, she says, is one of the projectÃ¢â¬â¢s aims. Ã¢â¬ÅW ...

ItÃ¢â¬â¢s time to design the next Calendar App: Design lessons on building Mynd | Alessio Malizia

2013-10-07T10:26:28Z

Mynd is a competeley new kind of Calendar App developed ... seed-funded team who had previously worked together at M... article, they shared a few of the design lessons that we... I must admit that with some of my co-authors we develope ... IFeelLuckyD

The strange world of urban exploration | Books | The Guardian

2013-10-04T06:23:14Z

The strange world of urban exploration Urban explorers scale skyscrapers, jump fences, lift man ...

Six Stages of Debugging // plasmasturm.org

2013-10-02T14:33:33Z

That canÃ¢â¬â¢t happen. That doesnÃ¢â¬â¢t happen on my machine. That shouldnÃ¢â¬â¢t happen. Why does that happen? ... How did that ever work?

Peripheral vision is whacked. - Imgur

2013-09-20T17:56:00Z

Peripheral vision is whacked.

Fairphone | A seriously cool smartphone. Putting social values first.

2013-09-17T20:03:46Z

Fairphone is a social enterprise. We started in 2010 as ... society, Action Aid and Schrijf-Schrijf, aimed at raisin... conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the s... minerals is fueling in the DR Congo. The campaign and re... complex sup

BBC News - Online shopping: The pensioner who started a home shopping revolution

2013-09-16T13:23:17Z

Curiosities: Maps That Will Change the Way You See the World

2013-09-16T07:48:46Z

These are an interesting collection of maps that may hav... our planet in a completely different way!

A 1,476-foot tower equipped with its very own cloaking device

2013-09-15T21:52:49Z

The South Korean government has granted approval to begi... what will be the world's first "invisible" tower. Called... Tower, it will be equipped with an LED facade system and... give it a reflective skin Ã¢â¬â and a striking translucent...

Critiquing Maps II | Words in Space

2013-09-07T16:04:18Z

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2013-09-07T14:41:54Z

F.T.C. Says WebcamÃ¢â¬â¢s Flaw Put UsersÃ¢â¬â¢ Lives on Display - NYTimes.com

2013-09-05T14:53:52Z

According to the F.T.C., the company, TRENDnet, told cus... products were Ã¢â¬Åsecure,Ã¢â¬Â marketing its cameras for ho... baby monitoring. In fact, the devices were compromised. ... a hacker in January 2012 exploited a security flaw and p... live feeds,

Nike+ FuelBand and Google Glass: what next for the 'quantified self'? | Technology | theguardian.com

2013-09-05T11:43:40Z

We're only just at the beginning of the 'quantified self... tracks movement, diet and other issues using gadgets

WeÃ¢â¬â¢re not Ã¢â¬Ëappy. Not Ã¢â¬Ëappy at all. | Government Digital Service

2013-09-05T11:42:44Z

WeÃ¢â¬â¢re in the middle of a significant change in how peo... services. Use of mobile devices such as smartphones and ... exploding. People should be able to use digital services wherever t ... HereÃ¢â¬â¢s how government services have been responding to ...

Putting the Person Back Into Personalization | Elizabeth F. Churchill

2013-09-05T11:33:27Z

Personalization is a multidimensional concept, and it is... unpack it. If we are really talking about personalizatio... simply co-opting a word to make the technically feasible... and socially sophisticated, we need to think more deeply.

What Is Nostalgia Good For? Quite a Bit, Research Shows - NYTimes.com

2013-09-05T11:31:07Z

Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, bored... makes people more generous to strangers and more toleran... Couples feel closer and look happier when theyÃ¢â¬â¢re shar... memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nos... feel warmer

Mademethink: Leap Motion a flawed and isolated advance

2013-09-05T11:28:46Z

I was one of the people who funded Leap otion on Kicksta... wowed by the potential of the product. I put my money do... eager anticipation. I loved the idea of an almost magica... interacting. I dreamt of the way it might, might, help m... I have been

Teaching Programming the Way It Works Outside the Classroom | August 2013 | Communications of the ACM

2013-09-05T11:27:31Z

Regardless of setting, here are the typical steps my col... Forage: Find existing snippets of code to build my p ... Tinker: Play with these pieces of existing code to a ... Weld: Try to attach ("weld") pieces of existing code ... ... repeat

BBC News - Abraham Maslow and the pyramid that beguiled business

2013-09-01T21:04:56Z

Abraham Maslow and some examples of pyramids inspired by... Continue reading the main story Health Check Herrings - good to eat, not to inhale ... s satisfied, the desire to fulfil the next set kicks in.

About Us - OpenSignal

2013-09-01T15:10:36Z

With your help, we're creating a comprehensive database ... towers, cell phone signal strength readings, and Wi-Fi a... the world. Our goal is to become the global authority on...

What justifies intervening if Syria uses chemical weapons? - CNN.com

2013-08-31T16:56:39Z

BBC News - Virtual reality: Lessons from the past for Oculus Rift

2013-08-30T08:38:40Z

with excitement building for the release of a new VR hel... Rift - it is worth asking what went wrong the first time... lessons be learned?

How To Get Started with Programmable RGB LED Strip Lighting - Tested

2013-04-16T11:56:34Z

RTÃâ° to employ semantic web and big data to preserve IrelandÃ¢â¬â¢s memories - Ireland's cloud news service - Siliconrepublic.com

2013-04-10T08:26:39Z

IrelandÃ¢â¬â¢s State broadcaster RTÃâ°, as part of its strat... memories of a nation in digital form, is to collaborate ... recently announced mega CSET the Insight Centre to emplo... semantic web to make hundreds of thousands of hours of a... content ava

Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet - Apr. 8, 2013

2013-04-09T18:59:58Z

Unlike Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), which crawls the Web ... websites, Shodan navigates the Internet's back channels.... Shodan runs 24/7 and collects information on about 500 m ... It's stunning what can be found with a simple search on ... Shodan sear

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Husband claimed homestead in 1884

2013-03-31T14:02:58Z

Before Almanzo Wilder married Laura Ingalls, the author ... In this Ã¢â¬ÅHomestead Proof,Ã¢â¬Â one A.J. Sheldon, a fello ... The clerk of the Homestead office certified that Sheldon ... Having claimed his land, Wilder married Laura in 1885. L ... Almanzo Wil

About the Makers Guild

2013-03-30T17:08:40Z

Established in 1984 as a maker co-operative, the Makers ... formed to bring together and promote the best of Welsh c... grown and developed into a strong and vigorous organisat... international reputation for craft and applied art. The ... committed t

About the Heritage Crafts Association

2013-03-30T17:08:18Z

The Heritage Crafts Association is the advocacy body for... heritage crafts. Working in partnership with Government ... it provides a focus for craftspeople, groups, societies ... as individuals who care about the loss of traditional cr... works towar

Can Technology End Poverty? - Susan Davis - Harvard Business Review

2013-03-29T21:28:15Z

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us ... Advances have indeed made a huge difference in the lives... The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going t ... But I'm hardly a naysayer when it comes to tech. I agree ... The trick i

Lovebird is ready for beta testing | Not The User's Fault

2013-03-28T18:56:25Z

I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted Ã¢â¬â one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia.

About Bitbeam - Bitbeam

2013-03-28T11:28:48Z

Perspicaciously, Bitbeam is just holes in poles. The marketing tagline would be something like this: "Bit ...

what_is_grid_beam [The Gridbeam Wiki]

2013-03-28T11:28:29Z

BBC News - The pleasures and perils of the open-plan office

2013-03-28T11:25:50Z

They can be noisy and distracting or depressingly quiet,... In the spring of 1962, a fourth-year British architectur ... In the course of his research, Frank Duffy stumbled acro ... "The arrangement of the desks was somehow organic," Duff ... ... The pla

ScienceDirect.com - Acta Psychologica - Motor expertise modulates movement processing in working memory

2013-03-26T23:10:10Z

A substantial amount of literature has demonstrated indi... to code verbally a series of movements for subsequent re... mechanisms underlying movement encoding remain unclear. ... argue that sensorimotor expertise influences the involve... processes t

ACM SIGMOD Blog ÃÂ» Stop publishing so much already!

2013-03-24T17:56:58Z

How Kickstarter will kill Open Source | London Python developer/AWS devop engineer

2013-03-24T14:03:40Z

The question of what happens to the surplus is really ir... is one specific project. The idea is interesting. If thi... different software projects, I think we might find more ... the part of developers to implement certain large pieces... Alternative

Utilities: Google's Google problem | The Economist

2013-03-24T08:54:52Z

What Google has actually done is create a powerful infra... shape of that infrastructure influences everything that ... influences the allocation of mental resources of everyon... That's a lot of power to put in the hands of a company t ... But in the

Priivacy Problems Over An Online Eye | Stuff.co.nz

2013-03-24T07:26:41Z

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 ...

BBC News - A Point of View: Chess and 18th Century artificial intelligence

2013-03-24T07:15:23Z

The Turk, engraving from 1789 Continue reading the main story Crowd-sourcing comets (LJ) Mary queen of maths (Lisa Jardine) ... rate hoax had its own sense of genius, says Adam Gopnik.

Jay Parkinson, The Doctor Is In (Well, Logged In) - NYTimes.com

2013-03-23T15:24:53Z

Dr. ParkinsonÃ¢â¬â¢s start-up isnÃ¢â¬â¢t a new app or social n... founder of Sherpaa, a Web site that operates like a virt... office, examining patients by e-mail and text message. Ã¢â¬ÅWeÃ¢â¬â¢re using the Internet to reinvent health care,Ã¢â¬ ... Have a mysterious

Konekta

2013-03-19T21:48:32Z

Konekta is an open development initiative focused on the... community web services that meet social needs. The proje... Development Goals and the objectives of Primary Health C... The Konekta project is rooted in experience gained from ... We're inter

Majority of British children will soon be growing up in families struggling 'below the breadline', Government warned - UK Politics - UK - The Independent

2013-03-14T08:12:03Z

The majority of British children will soon be growing up... are struggling Ã¢â¬Åbelow the breadlineÃ¢â¬Â because of welf... and wage freezes, the Government is warned today. Within two years, almost 7.1m of the nationÃ¢â¬â¢s 13m youn ...

#Climatefairness: the triple injustice facing low-income households | Joseph Rowntree Foundation

2013-03-14T07:25:44Z

In a new report, Simon Roberts outlines why poor househo... The poorest fifth of the population have already signifi ... So why is it they are carrying more of the burden of cut ... Based on detailed analysis of the Government's own figur ... So lower in

Wanna Play? Computer Gamers Help Push Frontier Of Brain Research : NPR

2013-03-14T07:07:59Z

Enlarge image Daniel Berger, a researcher at MIT, traced these neurons ... EyeWire People can get pretty addicted to computer games. By som ... Right now I'm at the novice level of a game called EyeWi ...

BBC News - 'Pirate Bay' for 3D printing launched

2013-03-13T10:14:27Z

The company that developed 3D printed gun parts has anno... launch a new firm, dedicated to copyright-free blueprint... Defcad, as the firm will be known, has already been dubb ... The site will become a "search engine for 3D printing," ... But its flo

Can Wind, Water and Sunlight Power New York by 2050? - NYTimes.com

2013-03-13T09:41:13Z

A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a... New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fo... nuclear power Ã¢â¬â including for transportation Ã¢â¬â by 20... charts the contributions played by improved efficiency a... renewable e

BBC News - Neanderthal large eyes 'caused their demise'

2013-03-13T09:37:26Z

Neanderthals are a closely related species of human that... from around 250,000 years ago. They coexisted and intera... our species until they went extinct about 28,000 years a... The research team explored the idea that the ancestor of ... The humans

Microsoft brings solar Wi-Fi to rural Kenya - tech - 13 February 2013 - New Scientist

2013-03-11T09:58:50Z

GAKAWA Senior Secondary School is located in Kenya's wes... Province, about 10 kilometres from Nanyuki town. It is n... live. There are no cash crops, no electricity, no phone ... "For internet access we had to travel the 10 kilometres ... Not for muc

Robot & Frank: vision of the future? | Film | The Guardian

2013-03-11T09:57:19Z

Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which e... Frank Langella on Robot & Frank: 'I'd rather make love i ... Share 14 inShare1 ... Robot & Frank

World University Rankings 2012-2013

2013-03-11T08:56:05Z

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 201... Thomson Reuters are the only global university performan... world class universities across all of their core missio... research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. ... universitie

Crowdsourced 'Maker Map' Charts Nearby Hackerspaces and Hardware Shops | Wired Design | Wired.com

2013-03-11T08:55:19Z

Screenshot via The Maker Map WeÃ¢â¬â¢ve long been fascinated with makerspaces, the DIY e ... San Francisco is one such locale, with such a robust com ...

Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

2013-03-11T08:30:15Z

Why use a task runner? In one word: automation. The less work you have to do wh ...

Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy? | Technology | The Guardian

2013-03-10T14:21:38Z

The tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now bei... volunteers, meaning you might already have been surrepti... uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you be?

Public libraries: 150 years of advance is being destroyed | That's How The Light Gets In

2013-03-10T12:29:27Z

BBC News - Web-based 'brain' for robots goes live

2013-03-10T07:21:05Z

Continue reading the main story Related Stories Robots to get their own internet Arm lifts BigDog robot to new level ... f standardising the way robots perceive the human world.

The 10 Most Overlooked Women in Architecture History (PHOTOS)

2013-03-09T21:01:18Z

Lina Bo Bardi Having completed the vast majority of her work in post-w ...

Thermoelectric Generator by TEG Power

2013-03-09T20:26:53Z

TEG is an acronym for Ã¢â¬Ëthermoelectric generatorÃ¢â¬â¢. A ... When heat is applied to the hot side of a TEG, electrici ... Can you really generate that much electricity from waste ... You may be surprised just how much you can! Here is a sm ... ... solar h

BBC News - EU Commission launches 'grand coalition' to tackle IT shortage

2013-03-09T16:47:04Z

The European Commission has launched a "grand coalition"... region's IT skills shortages.

BBC News - Star Trek 'holodeck' in the living room?

2013-03-09T16:44:50Z

With "immersive media" taking content well beyond the TV... technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards... closer to real life. Whether it be a cave, an igloo or a theatre, virtual rea ... Full 360-degree screens are now capable of taking a

Which software is responsible for this? - Junk Charts

2013-03-08T08:45:31Z

@guitarzan wants us to see this chart from north of the ... the comments. Please hold your nose first. Cbc-drinking-graph Here's one insightful comment: "I think it's insane to d ... Reminds me of signs that say this elevator holds 13 peop ...

kamens/jQuery-menu-aim ÃÂ· GitHub

2013-03-06T14:36:45Z

menu-aim is a jQuery plugin for dropdown menus that can ... between a user trying hover over a dropdown item vs tryi... a submenu's contents. menu-aim assumes that you are using a menu with submenus ...

Breaking down AmazonÃ¢â¬â¢s mega dropdown - Ben Kamens

2013-03-06T14:35:19Z

How did Amazon get away without using a delay? ItÃ¢â¬â¢s easy to move the cursor from AmazonÃ¢â¬â¢s main drop ... image If the cursor moves into the blue triangle the currently ... ... switch the submenu, giving it a really responsive feel.

Can humour make students love statistics? - Vol. 22, Part 3 ( March 2009)

2013-03-06T00:42:37Z

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

MYO - Wearable Gesture Control from Thalmic Labs - YouTube

2013-03-05T17:13:39Z

MYO - Wearable Gesture Control from Thalmic Labs

MIT wants future US Army uniforms to contain 'functional fibres' (Wired UK)

2013-03-05T09:43:35Z

The gold fibres in the uniform, the product of years of ... actually do that communications work yet. Currently, the... a uniform," Joannopoulos tells Wired.com: They're about ... diameter, and Joannopoulos wants to scale down to 100 mi... The fibres

10 amazing scientific facts about lists | Dean Burnett | Science | guardian.co.uk

2013-03-05T09:40:23Z

People like lists of things. They're everywhere on the i... any subject matter you can think of, odds are there's a ... Nowhere is safe. Even here, on the Guardian Science sect... most popular articles in recent months is a list. But wh... popular? We

RIPS | Free Security & Utilities software downloads at SourceForge.net

2013-03-05T09:34:28Z

RIPS is a static source code analyser for vulnerabilitie... webapplications. It was released during the Month of PHP... (www.php-security.org).

Standing Room Only: The Vignelli Subway Map | Dwell

2013-03-04T09:02:43Z

Photo A talk about the history of VignelilÃ¢â¬â¢s subway map, app ... In a panel led by the MTAÃ¢â¬â¢s Director of Marketing & Co ...

ALICE Virtual Receptionist | Virtual Office Assistant

2013-03-04T08:39:47Z

Let ALICE manage your building lobby by greeting vis... Click here to see and learn more about how ALICE can ... ALICE presents visitors with a touch screen list of ... Click here for a full list of features and benefits. ... ick here to

Dictionary + algorithm + PoD t-shirt printer + lucrative meme = rape t-shirts on Amazon | I Am Pete Ashton

2013-03-03T08:58:46Z

The world around us is increasingly governed by these al... annoyingly dumb and some freakishly intelligent. Because... generally mimic decisions that used to be made directly ... tendency to humanise the results and can easily be horri... Douglass Ru

National Public Toilet Map - About

2013-02-24T09:21:43Z

The National Public Toilet Map (the Toilet Map) shows th... than 16,000 public and private public toilet facilities ... Details of toilet facilities can also be found along maj... and for shorter journeys as well. Useful information is ... toilet, suc

Out Of Eden Walk - Dispatches from the Field from Paul Salopek

2013-02-22T08:32:33Z

Map of Salopek's route About 60,000 years ago, our ancestors took the first ste ...

the many problems facing our fragile, remote community .. | Land Matters

2013-02-20T07:41:07Z

I am delighted to host a guest blog by Julia Campbell fr... works for the Coigach Community Development Company but ... expresses here are her personal views. They were submitt... the Land Reform Review Group.

Ancient rights thrown out of the window | CampaignerKate

2013-02-20T07:40:57Z

Designer turns negative client comments into funny posters : theCHIVE

2013-02-19T07:46:54Z

Mark Shanley, an Irish graphic designer, turned his favo... feedback commentsÃ¢â¬Â into hilarious posters. Now thatÃ¢â¬â¢... criticism.

Arctic Death Spiral Bombshell: CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice Volume Has Collapsed | ThinkProgress

2013-02-19T07:45:23Z

The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched b... but equally sharp, drop in sea ice thickness. The combin... a collapse in total sea ice volume Ã¢â¬â to one fifth of i... Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via ...

I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora. - Scott Hanselman

2013-02-14T12:33:33Z

The introduction of iOS 6 also introduced "smart app ban... let users know that your site has an associated app. The... adds a META tag and mobile safari handles the rest.

Who controls the world? More resources for understanding

2013-02-14T07:28:58Z

Occupy Wall StreetÃ¢â¬â¢s slogan Ã¢â¬ÅWe are the 99%Ã¢â¬Â had b... the United States and the world for just over a month wh... Glattfelder and his co-authors released the study Ã¢â¬ÅThe... Corporate ControlÃ¢â¬Â in October 2011. The study was a sc... our global

BBC News - Black Hornet spycam is a 'lifesaver' for British troops.

2013-02-13T23:44:03Z

About The times dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914 - Chronicling America (The Library of Congress)

2013-02-12T16:57:05Z

BBC News - 'Every new car' connected to web by 2014

2013-02-12T11:10:27Z

What this means is app-culture infiltrating the dashboar... space finder to a way to get coupons for local restauran... that can pop up on the windscreen. It all relies on the car being connected to the internet ... The connected car is already the thir

Don't scare students off philosophy | Education | guardian.co.uk

2013-02-12T08:47:55Z

Welcome to the real legacy of the coalition's fee rises:... mere consumers of an educational product, paying to rece... in a subject that the government is gambling on to provi... our job market will demand in years to come. Meanwhile u... into soulle

Amazon unpacked - FT.com

2013-02-11T23:38:59Z

he online giant is creating thousands of UK jobs, so why... less than happy?

BBC News - Less is more: Simple living in small spaces

2013-02-11T20:41:11Z

Museums Galleries Scotland

2013-02-10T15:06:24Z

Ramesh Patel: Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise?

2013-02-10T14:39:17Z

The Project | Flowing City

2013-02-10T06:39:40Z

The Flowing city is a collection of projects that I foun... for information visualization projects about cities and ... of my thesis which you can download here. Some of these projects visualize community generated dat ... Other projects visualize Real

'Academia is a very well kept secret' | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional

2013-02-10T06:37:43Z

Very early in my doctoral journey, I was fortunate to ex... moment when you know the decision you have made was the ... with the realisation that I was being paid, not very muc... nonetheless funded, to sit down every day, to read, thin... My future c

An academic press sues a librarian, raising issues of academic freedom | Inside Higher Ed

2013-02-09T14:02:46Z

Librarian questions quality of a publishing house. Libra... criticizes said press on his personal blog. Two years la... current employer get sued for libel and damages in exces...

Welfare fraud is a drop in the ocean compared to tax avoidance | James Ball | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

2013-02-09T13:58:56Z

The British public believe benefit fraud is a big proble... The reality is very different. Last year, 0.7% of total ... Indeed, welfare fraud is smaller than accidental overpay ... In other words, if we wiped out benefit fraud tomorrow Ã¢ ... ... people

Making the wearable tech revolution a reality - Fortune Tech

2013-02-09T13:56:57Z

FORTUNE -- The key tech battle of the current decade wil... we wear. Technology is crawling out of our bags and pock... bodies in the form of wearables. An increasing number of... finding their homes on our wrists, necks, ears and eyes.... and the sma

The Decision to Leave Academia: A Dialogue with Chris Humphrey of Jobs on Toast | The Professor Is In

2013-02-09T13:56:19Z

A few weeks ago I discontinued (temporarily, I hope) my ... consultations, particularly those related to the fraught... whether or not to leave academia. I discontinued these ... dealing with a health issue that, while thankfully not s... In any case

MPs call for Government to consider ending use of Cloud amid concerns that US authorities can access information - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent

2013-02-09T13:53:44Z

The Government should consider stopping sharing intellig... the US and end the use of Cloud computing due to concern... personal information about British citizens can be spied... The warning comes during a Whitehall drive for governmen ... US law allo

About | Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

2013-02-09T09:27:30Z

DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us...

Linked Data Publication & Consumption Tool Library

2013-02-09T09:24:23Z

In order to support data set owners to publish their dat... Data on the Web, as well as to support data consumers to... integrate Linked Data from the Web, the LATC project has... of open source toolkits that cover all stages of the Lin... publication

Outlawed by Amazon DRM ÃÂ« Martin Bekkelund

2013-02-09T09:23:16Z

A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail,... frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her... notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at itÃ¢â¬â¢s worst. Linn travels a lot and therefore has, or should I say ha ...

Amazon makes UK publishers pay 20% VAT on ebook sales | Books | The Guardian

2013-02-09T09:22:28Z

Amazon is forcing British publishers to cover the cost o... on ebook sales Ã¢â¬â even though the true VAT cost to the ... only a fraction of that amount under its generous Luxemb... regime. The firm is able to wield such power over publishers bec ...

Low Commerce And Web Usage On Android - Business Insider

2013-02-08T13:19:32Z

For the last couple of years, sales of Android-based sma... Android phones now account for nearly 75% of the global ... In the U.S., Android is clubbing iPhone 53% to 34%. Given such a disparity in phone sales and usage, you wou ... ... Android devices,

UK most unequal country in the West - News - The Independent

2013-02-08T13:07:14Z

Britain is now the most unequal country in the Western w... authoritative new United Nations report reveals. The gap... poor is as great as in Nigeria. Detailed statistics in the Human Development Report publ ...

Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are - YouTube

2013-02-07T16:34:21Z

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also... ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "powe... standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't ... can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain... have an imp

BBC News - Postgraduate courses 'social mobility barrier'

2013-02-07T09:18:14Z

Brand new microformats 2 parser Ã¢â¬â Glenn Jones

2013-02-06T17:18:57Z

The microformats community has revisited itÃ¢â¬â¢s standard... Ã¢â¬Åmicroformats version 2Ã¢â¬Â. At first, I thought why! I... The authoring patterns have been simplified even mor ... microformats 2 addresses one of the biggest problems ... Like mi

BBC News - 'Bionic man' surprises roboticists

2013-02-06T11:40:59Z

The Internal Memo That Allowed IBM's Female Employees to Get Married - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic

2013-02-05T12:24:12Z

So were you able to keep your job when you got married? I did get married on the sly. And then in 1951 they ... The "law" Kolchin refers to is not so much a law but a c ... ibm1-784x1024.jpg

Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution | The Verge

2013-02-02T09:24:22Z

Cards are like a digital equivalent to the traditional a... concept of marrying form and function Ã¢â¬â so that the wa... inseparable from what the thing is. "These are objects,"... feel, not necessarily real, but they feel virtual. TheyÃ¢... be fake thi

Memory, navigation and theta rhythm in the hippocampal-entorhinal system : Nature Neuroscience : Nature Publishing Group

2013-01-31T13:37:39Z

U.S. researchers map emotional intelligence of the brain

2013-01-31T09:30:25Z

We tend to think of reason and emotion as being two diff... it turns out that there may not be a choice between the ... Relationships between general and emotional intelligence CT scan showing overlaps of different general and em ... Differe

Inexpensive home-brewed prostheses created using 3D printers

2013-01-31T09:28:38Z

According to the International Society of Prosthetics an... there are some 32 million amputees in the world today, a... Eric Ronning's ReHand, made mostly out of parts fabr ... Eric Ronning's ReHand won US$10,000 at UW-Madison's ... Liam ou

The Quest to Create A Bionic Eye Gets Clearer - WSJ.com

2013-01-30T13:00:51Z

Researchers have been pursuing the development of such a... decades, in some cases spending hundreds of millions of ... engineering challenges. One device designed to help peop... condition is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval. It is kn... Second Sigh

How to Build Wind Turbine Blades Using Duct Tape : TreeHugger

2013-01-30T12:58:42Z

From a wind turbine built from scrap to a vertical axis ... drew derision and praise in equal measure, we are not sh... homemade clean energy projects. This videoÃ¢â¬âcreated by YouTube user supergokue1Ã¢â¬âdemon ... Of course the rotor itself is the easy p

BBC News - Computer science part of English Baccalaureate

2013-01-30T12:52:39Z

Computer science is going to become part of the English ... of the measures used in school league tables in England. It will be included as one of the science options that c ...

Share a secret - One Time

2013-01-30T08:09:08Z

When you send people passwords and private links via ema... are copies of that information stored in many places. If... link instead, the information persists for a single view... can't be read by someone else later. This allows you to ... information

Web Monitoring with Stella - Is your site fast?

2013-01-30T08:08:50Z

Powerful API Incorporate our world class monitoring technology into y ...

Public Transportation ... for Your Car? - Commute - The Atlantic Cities

2013-01-29T07:49:58Z

The Rapid Commute system, as he calls it, would enable l... commuters to hop aboard a train instead Ã¢â¬â while still ... personal vehicles with them. Drivers already similarly u... waterways. So why not deploy the same concept, Farooq fi... A diagram o

Friday, 1 February, 2-3pm | Centre for GeoInformatics

2013-01-28T17:39:08Z

The democratizing technologies of the web have brought t... raw-materials required to make a map to a wider audience... This proliferation of mapping has redefined modern Carto... general practice of Ã¢â¬Åmaking mapsÃ¢â¬ÂÃÂ to the purposefu... Purposeful

Internet access declared a basic right in Germany | Sci-Tech | DW.DE | 27.01.2013

2013-01-28T10:15:47Z

A top German court has ruled that people can sue their I... for damages if connection is lost. The court has ruled t... Internet represents a basic need in modern society.

BBC News - 'Quantum smell' idea gains ground

2013-01-28T10:15:08Z

A controversial theory that the way we smell involves a ... effect has received a boost, following experiments with ... It challenges the notion that our sense of smell depends ... Instead, it suggests that the molecules' vibrations are ...

BBC News - Quantum biology: Do weird physics effects abound in nature?

2013-01-28T10:14:56Z

Disappearing in one place and reappearing in another. Be... at once. Communicating information seemingly faster than... This kind of weird behaviour is commonplace in dark, sti ... Welcome to the frontier of what is called quantum biology. It is still a

Bootstrap Tour, easy product tours with Bootstrap from Twitter

2013-01-26T16:21:01Z

Quick and easy way to build your product tours with Twit... Popovers.

Skepticism About Tenure, MOOCs and the Presidency: A Survey of Provosts | Inside Higher Ed

2013-01-23T08:56:24Z

Today's provosts are a skeptical lot. That may come with... they must constantly prioritize some ideas (and some peo... others -- tasks that are never easy and have been made m... the economic downturn. But the 2013 Inside Higher Ed Survey of College a

More Joys of Electronic Medical Records | WhiteCoat's Call Room

2013-01-23T08:40:01Z

So I tried something that sounded easy when I thought of... technically quite difficult when I tried to actually do ... the number of times I clicked on different check boxes a... different screens I had to navigate in order to document... This is eas

'Smart-Tattoos': How They Could End Up Saving Your Life

2013-01-23T08:02:13Z

So theyÃ¢â¬â¢re not exactly cute, but if you came of age du... chances are you have at least regrettable tattoo anyway.... if that same tattoo is in the shape of a butterfly!) B... temporary tattoos do much more than serve as a symbol of... they can re

Nokia Patents Vibrating Smart Tattoos | PCWorld

2013-01-23T08:01:51Z

Our bodies may some day become extensions for smartphone... devices, if a new Nokia patent is any indication. Nokia has patented magnetic material that would alert we ...

What is the difference between The Hobbit and the news? Not as much as there should be | Charlie Brooker

2013-01-21T09:35:19Z

And oddly, this coincides with reports that an audience ... reacted badly to test footage from Peter Jackson's forth... movie. The Hobbit is shot at 48 frames per second Ã¢â¬â tw... as standard films. The studio claims this gives it an un... fluidity. T

Metamaterial camera needs no lens, could herald cheaper imaging tech

2013-01-21T09:31:15Z

Metamaterials are proving to be quite useful for toying ... electromagnetic spectrum, whether for technology previou... the stuff of science fiction, or for boring real-world a... Engineers at Duke University have come up something that... the latter

iBeam.it Ã¢â¬â FAQ

2013-01-21T08:59:25Z

About Us ÃÂ· Zapier

2013-01-19T18:29:19Z

Syncing data on the web has always been a pain. Either y... or you buckled down and built it yourself with an API. I... technical you had few places to turn for help. That's why we built Zapier. Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better .

BBC News - Has chip and pin had its day?

2013-01-19T09:48:33Z

Ross Anderson, an academic in the Computer Laboratory at... "It's a complete non-starter," he told the BBC. "You can't just change all the systems because you come ... He does however agree that there are "significant risks" ... "I personally won't use

Manchester honours the woman behind the pioneering music of Doctor Who | UK news | guardian.co.uk

2013-01-11T10:34:20Z

The godmother of British electronic music who helped to ... most recognisable TV theme tunes of all time and pioneer... through her work in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is to b... an inaugural one-day celebration of her work in Manchester. Delia Derbys

Disney's new augmented reality toys are promising, but frustrating | The Verge

2013-01-11T10:33:13Z

Disney is launching augmented reality toys with a line o... in October; from there, it'll expand into other characte... then, it's keeping a tight wrap on images of what it's d... weren't allowed to take shots or video. We did learn tha... to Disney I

Camlistore

2013-01-11T09:33:24Z

a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content a work in progress Open Source (Apache licensed) an acronym for "Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed ... ... neither "Cloud" nor "Local". happily both.

Is It Time London Had A New Tube Map? | LBC

2013-01-11T09:29:40Z

f.lux: software to make your life better

2013-01-10T21:24:43Z

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie ... Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and ... During the day, computer screens look goodÃ¢â¬âthey're des ... f.lux ... use it just because it makes your computer look better.

Tethercell: Control battery-operated devices from your smartphone or tablet | Indiegogo

2013-01-10T18:44:48Z

StickNFind- Bluetooth Powered ultra small Location Stickers | Indiegogo

2013-01-10T18:33:21Z

The Story of the PING Program

2013-01-09T10:47:59Z

Yes, it's true! I'm the author of ping for UNIX. Ping is... thousand-line hack that I wrote in an evening which prac... seems to know about. :-)

Twitter Engineering: Improving Twitter search with real-time human computation

2013-01-09T06:10:52Z

Before we delve into the details, here's an overview of ... First, we monitor for which search queries are curre ... Behind the scenes: we run a Storm topology that trac ... For example, the query [Big Bird] may suddenly see a ... ... ckobama

Tongue and Tech: The Many Emotions for Which English Has No Words - Megan Garber - The Atlantic

2013-01-09T06:01:31Z

There are many, many more conditions out there that Engl... Here, selected from the blog So Bad So Good, are some of ... Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for ... ... g of a cleve

JSON-LD - JSON for Linking Data

2013-01-08T19:23:40Z

JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linking Data) is... A simple example of a JSON object expressing Linked Data: { "@context": "http://json-ld.org/contexts/person.jsonld", ... ta-aware processors on how to interpret the JSON object.

TwitLonger Ã¢â¬â When you talk too much for Twitter

2013-01-08T18:33:57Z

Twitlonger is a way to let you post to Twitter when 140 ... isn't enough. With Twitlonger, you can write what you need and a link ...

zSpace - revolutionary virtual-holographic computing

2013-01-07T19:20:22Z

zSpace is a revolutionary, immersive, interactive 3D env... computing, creating, communication and entertainment.

crackpots who were right ÃÂ« viXra log

2013-01-07T17:07:43Z

Data-driven science is a failure of imagination | R you cereal?

2013-01-06T13:37:43Z

But most importantly, data-driven science is less intell... then hypothesis-driven science. Data mining is sweet, an... Plotting multivariate data, maps, Ã¢â¬ÅrelationshipsÃ¢â¬Â an... visualizations is hip and catchy, everybody can understa... thinking ab

The Empire Lobbies Back: How Big Cable Killed Competition in North Carolina | Institute for Local Self-Reliance

2013-01-05T16:42:50Z

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A Passenger Airplane Basically Flew Upside Down Because of a Dumb Pilot (Updated)

2013-01-04T17:14:22Z

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2013-01-03T12:04:31Z

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Google's Lost Social Network

2013-01-01T12:02:19Z

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2012-12-30T21:00:05Z

API Guide | restify

2012-12-30T13:18:21Z

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Being Somewhere - Low Impact Living

2012-12-26T22:30:55Z

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The Real Rationale for the 2nd Amendment, That Right-Wingers Are Totally Ignorant About | Alternet

2012-12-26T08:26:44Z

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3D Printed Record on Vimeo

2012-12-22T19:09:31Z

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Hexaflexagon poem: "No one names a black cat ginger" | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

2012-12-19T18:50:30Z

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Inspired by design - ILLUMINATING SPACE SINCE 2001

2012-12-19T11:11:00Z

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2012-12-19T10:19:56Z

Robot Dragonfly - Gaming & Photography | Indiegogo

2012-12-19T08:58:45Z

BBC News - Twitter could be used to take 999-style emergencies, fire brigade says

2012-12-18T10:25:52Z

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InsertScript: PHP Non Alpha Numeric 7/6 Chars

2012-12-17T20:43:50Z

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The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love Story | Blog | Sencha

2012-12-17T18:16:58Z

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THE END OF SMARTPHONES: Here's A Computer Screen On A Contact Lens - Business Insider

2012-12-17T17:50:37Z

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2012-12-17T11:48:41Z

TimeViz Browser

2012-12-17T11:46:35Z

Oxygen Icons ÃÂ» About

2012-12-17T11:43:58Z

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p.yusukekamiyamane - Free stock icons + pixel fonts

2012-12-17T11:42:17Z

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D3.js - Data-Driven Documents

2012-12-16T21:03:57Z

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2012-12-14T16:26:49Z

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N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91 - NYTimes.com

2012-12-14T09:28:04Z

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Census 2011 interactive: find out the truth about where you live | UK news | guardian.co.uk

2012-12-13T13:49:25Z

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Kenshiro robot has muscle and bones, is ready to stretch its way into your nightmares

2012-12-13T11:27:56Z

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Frog-in-bucket-of-milk folklore leads to potential new antibiotics

2012-12-12T19:59:59Z

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Maps and Moralities, Blanks and Beasties | Elizabeth F. Churchill

2012-12-12T11:23:09Z

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UCLA doctors remove man's heart, replace it with total artificial heart / UCLA Newsroom

2012-12-11T06:50:21Z

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Official Google Africa Blog: Understanding barriers to mobile Internet adoption in Kenya and Ghana

2012-12-10T20:08:27Z

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Netherlands Highways Will Glow in the Dark Starting Mid-2013 | Autopia | Wired.com

2012-12-09T23:41:41Z

A smart-road design that features glow-in-the-dark tarma... weather indicators will be installed in the Netherlands ...

Temporary Tattoo Attaches Health Sensor to Your Body

2012-12-09T13:42:05Z

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Your Next Tattoo May Vibrate When You Get a Phone Call [VIDEO]

2012-12-09T13:39:27Z

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2012 Corruption Perceptions Index -- Results

2012-12-08T10:09:54Z

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Twitter Blackbird Pie | Themergency

2012-12-07T19:49:43Z

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Save Our Inboxes! Adopt the Email Charter!

2012-12-07T08:24:04Z

24 ways: Flashless Animation

2012-12-06T17:46:55Z

Sadly, animating with JavaScript was limiting and resour... initial foray into an infinitely looping background did ... in my CPU than amaze my friends (although it still looks... Things are different now. CSS3 transitions and animation ... In this pro

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2012-12-05T13:53:44Z

Real-Time Rendering ÃÂ· Graphics Codex version 1.7 Released

2012-12-04T12:57:09Z

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Emptyage Ã¢â¬â Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

2012-12-04T08:44:56Z

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Here comes the first real alternative to iPhone and Android - Quartz

2012-12-03T08:15:05Z

If you talk to enough people at the Finnish mobile start... point it occurs to you that the company it most resemble... Sailfish, Jolla insists, will become a legitimate altern ... Ã¢â¬ÅChinaÃ¢â¬Â¦ is the most dynamic smartphone marketÃ¢â¬âitÃ¢â¬ ... Jolla canno

buechley - projects - sewing circuits

2012-12-01T17:49:59Z

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Leah Buechley: How to Ã¢â¬ÅsketchÃ¢â¬Â with electronics | Video on TED.com

2012-12-01T17:46:20Z

Designing electronics is generally cumbersome and expens... until Leah Buechley and her team at MIT developed tools ... electronics just like paper and pen. In this talk from T... Buechley shows some of her charming designs, like a pape... Leah Buechl

English words of Celtic origin - Everything2.com

2012-12-01T17:44:30Z

When the Germanic tribes known as the Anglo-Saxons and t... From Irish (Gaelic): banshee - bean sÃÂth, "woman of the fairy mound" bard - bard, a high rank of poet ... gull - gullan, "bird"

Misfit Shine: an elegant, wireless activity tracker | Indiegogo

2012-11-28T08:19:44Z

Mining enthusiast creates his own replica in his garden (From The Northern Echo)

2012-11-27T10:20:53Z

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Brain-like chip outstrips normal computers - tech - 22 November 2012 - New Scientist

2012-11-26T18:40:13Z

Attempts to simulate the brain usually involve programmi... behave like groups of neurons. A new "neuromorphic" desi... recreate the brain's hardware, using analogue components... The Spikey chip contains 400 "neurons", or printed circu ... Spikey also

Designing Interactions

2012-11-23T20:41:07Z

xkcd: Heatmap

2012-11-23T09:52:03Z

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They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside | Danger Room | Wired.com

2012-11-18T07:52:08Z

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Liberator: the untold story of the first British laptop part one Ã¢â¬Â¢ The Register

2012-11-17T08:08:54Z

First pressure-sensitive, self-healing material developed

2012-11-15T23:41:10Z

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Sometimes mob rule works | Article | The Punch

2012-11-15T08:06:41Z

Can we just stop for a second and appreciate that in gro... people want to be good, and moral and right? For a shini... moment, the internet was at its moral best.

Informatics Europe - Reports

2012-11-09T17:33:39Z

'Pinch' connects multiple smartphones and tablets together to make a display | The Verge

2012-11-07T09:17:44Z

Not content with synchronizing your phones to make one g... Researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology have d... an interface that lets you connect multiple devices toge... giant disjointed display. Although the technology behind... remains a m

Welsh Government | Wales first in the world to legislate for play

2012-11-07T09:17:16Z

The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... childrenÃ¢â¬â¢s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas.

Cardboard in the Wild Ã¢â¬â Marty Morales ÃÂ« Otherlab's MENTOR News

2012-11-07T09:10:06Z

I was on the subway and a man sat down beside me. He ope... took out something shocking. It was this: Ã¢â¬Â¦a cardboard spine. Lately at Otherlab, we have been thinking a lot about ca ...

Disney Research

2012-11-07T09:08:01Z

Printed Optics is a new approach to creating custom opti... interactive devices using 3D printing. Printed Optics en... display, and illumination elements to be directly embedd... an interactive device. Using these elements, unique disp... Printed Opt

Oculus VR | Oculus Rift - The Virtual Reality Gaming Headset

2012-11-07T09:07:26Z

The Oculus Rift headset is the cutting edge of virtual r... games. Be part of history by getting your own Oculus Rif...

[1210.8144] Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific

2012-11-06T18:44:27Z

(84) Bluetooth Gloves - buy at Firebox.com

2012-11-02T13:42:45Z

New! Bluetooth Gloves Bluetooth Gloves Talk to the Hand

Summly

2012-11-02T11:47:27Z

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About What We Do | People United

2012-11-01T08:16:01Z

Gorgeous Cave Paintings and Sculptures from Tens of Thousands of Years Ago - Slate Magazine

2012-10-31T20:03:00Z

BBC News - Europe's oldest prehistoric town unearthed in Bulgaria

2012-10-31T19:31:46Z

A photo provided by the Bulgarian National Institute of ... Continue reading the main story Related Stories Ancient sites spotted from space ... 00 years before the start of ancient Greek civilisation.

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2012-10-31T19:28:30Z

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Portfolio Mohit Yadav | Student of Design

2012-10-31T07:15:39Z

Crows don't plan intelligence (Science Alert)

2012-10-30T14:08:53Z

In certain situations animals can spontaneously solve pr... Animals rarely solve problems spontaneously, yet certain ... The University of Auckland research shows that such prob ... Ã¢â¬ÅCrows and parrots have long been known to solve the s ... ... ings of

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2012-10-30T07:35:08Z

playSMS is a flexible Web-based Mobile Portal System tha... fit to various services such as an SMS gateway, bulk SMS... messaging systems, corporate and group communication tools.

Kannel: Open Source WAP and SMS Gateway

2012-10-30T07:34:30Z

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Gammu

2012-10-30T07:26:12Z

Gammu command line utility provides access to wide range... Call listing, initiating and handling SMS retrieval, backup and sending MMS retrieval ... rage devices and those are not accessible through Gammu)

Cabin Porn

2012-10-30T07:13:21Z

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Formlabs - High Resolution Desktop 3D Printer

2012-10-29T08:55:12Z

The Precision of Stereolithography. Right on Your Desktop. The Form 1 marries high-end stereolithography (SL) techn ...

How to define a datatype in RDF | drobilla.net

2012-10-27T08:07:54Z

RDF datatypes are based on XSD datatypes, which are ofte... Unfortunately, most implementations simply have the XSD ... do not support or validate new datatype descriptions (th... sord_validate can). Regardless, it is sometimes necessar... datatype wi

Twitter / wunderkamercast: Most terrifying cause of death ...

2012-10-24T06:55:39Z

Light by MooreÃ¢â¬â¢sCloud Ã¢â¬â Kickstarter

2012-10-23T07:41:11Z

Bubble Ball Unicode (Characters Map)

2012-10-22T21:29:18Z

Bubble Ball Text - Unicode Character Map This table shows the conversions (mapping) used to gener ...

Upside Down Unicode (Characters Map)

2012-10-22T21:28:51Z

Upside Down Text - Unicode Character Map This table shows the conversions (mapping) used to gener ...

ScienceDirect.com - Discrete Applied Mathematics - On the FrameÃ¢â¬âStewart algorithm for the multi-peg Tower of Hanoi problem

2012-10-20T07:26:52Z

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

2012-10-12T15:09:56Z

Like many media nerds, I love Chartbeat. It lets you kno... The second I saw this measure, my heart actually leapt ( ... On the first day I saw it, this is how big of an impact ... darksocial_atlantic.jpg Just look at that graph. On the one hand, you ha

BBC News - OpenDyslexic font gains ground with help of Instapaper

2012-10-08T15:48:32Z

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Vision of Britain | About this site

2012-10-08T12:26:04Z

Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software

2012-10-05T13:50:55Z

The Open Graph Viz Platform Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration pl ...

Stephen Wolfram Blog : Kids, Arduinos and Quadricopters

2012-10-05T07:26:38Z

I donÃ¢â¬â¢t think my talk was particularly good. But then ... onto the stage, and soon was typing raw Mathematica code... everyoneÃ¢â¬âwith me now safely off on the side (where I s... picture): Christopher Wolfram on stage at Maker Faire

WorldÃ¢â¬â¢s first REAL commercial open data curation project! | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

2012-10-04T17:55:11Z

Can you think of an open data curation project where the... In the mid 1990s, as open source code began to boom, the ... For years IÃ¢â¬â¢ve asked, where are the equivalent project ... Nada. ... and how it was finally opened up in an incomplete form.

Future Perfect ÃÂ» Thoughts on Rural Research

2012-10-02T10:32:22Z

This article summarises the issues in conducting corpora... research in rural locations covering logistics to resear... communities are far from homongenous.

Doodling in Math Class: Connecting Dots - YouTube

2012-10-02T09:24:56Z

Anti-parabola propoganda, plus musing on math class, car... dots, envelopes of lines, even a bit of origami.

Vi Hart - Behind the Scenes and Interview - YouTube

2012-10-02T09:15:51Z

How to Motivate Your Employees [infographic] - Salesforce Blog

2012-09-30T13:09:11Z

Motivating employees isnÃ¢â¬â¢t as simple as paying them mo... complex and lots of different factors contribute to thei... job satisfaction, and what motivates people to do their ... Happiness, career aspirations, challenges, money, stress... that contri

Scrollbars Through the History - Imgur

2012-09-28T19:04:30Z

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New Statesman - Tax avoidance isn't a left or right issue, it's a cancer eating our democracy

2012-09-28T10:13:13Z

Topshop pays 140 times as much tax as Google, despite be... less profitable business.

BBC News - Missing children messages go on 404 error pages

2012-09-28T10:04:29Z

NotFound page The project changes 404 pages to display i... Continue reading the main story Related Stories Trafficked young 'missing in UK' ... missing children on the well-known 404 Not Found pages.

BBC News - Chinese families' worldly goods in Huang Qingjun's pictures

2012-09-25T08:10:48Z

Amid China's tumultuous dash to become rich, one man's p... Huang Qingjun has spent nearly a decade travelling to re ... The results offer glimpses of the utilitarian lives of m ... But seen more closely, they also show the enormous socia ... Elderly Chi

Adopt a Kiosk | BT.com

2012-09-24T09:35:09Z

Taking the phonebook to a whole new level Villagers in Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset got togethe ... Community book exchange The iconic and much loved village phonebox was offered t ...

BookLending.com - FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - BookLending.com - Book Lending - Borrow and Lend Kindle Books for Free.

2012-09-24T09:32:52Z

BookLending.com is a website that matches lenders and bo... ebooks.

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2012-09-24T09:19:53Z

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In Sweden, A School With No Classrooms | Blog on Academic Earth

2012-09-21T08:09:18Z

Vittra, the Swedish Free School Organization, has opened... school -- one without classrooms. The school's designers... open environment that encourages exploration and intelle... allowing students to learn in themed learning environmen... Digital med

Facebook Is Badware (and Why Google Should Warn Its Users)

2012-09-21T08:04:52Z

Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden int... its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest ... evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace ... technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that... gaslighting

LIFX: The Light Bulb Reinvented by Phil Bosua Ã¢â¬â Kickstarter

2012-09-18T22:03:03Z

LIFX is the smartest light bulb you've ever experienced.... wifi-enabled, energy efficient, multi-colored bulb that ... your iPhone or Android. LIFX gives you unprecedented con... lights, reduces your energy costs, lasts up to 25 years ... amazing ran

Ten... phones for seniors Ã¢â¬Â¢ Reg Hardware

2012-09-18T20:18:23Z

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CCTV used in more than 200 school toilets - Home News - UK - The Independent

2012-09-12T22:55:04Z

More than 200 schools are using CCTV cameras in toilets ... figures showed today. A total of 825 cameras were located in the toilets or ch ...

World Wide Web Foundation | The Web Index

2012-09-06T11:04:28Z

Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, ... the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web... utility and impact on people and nations. It covers 61 d... developing countries, incorporating indicators that asse... economic an

BBC News - Denmark pioneers hi-tech graveyard memorials with QR code

2012-09-06T10:55:41Z

Carrying a posy of bright flowers, Dorthe Frydenlund str... Mrs Frydenlund is among those pioneering a novel way to ... Nestling amongst the colourful plants and vases is a sto ... Mrs Frydenlund's 14-year-old son Nikolai has a smartphon ... ... ph of h

Sight on Vimeo

2012-09-04T06:51:51Z

UW CSE News ÃÂ» Ã¢â¬ÅWireless Charging Technology Ã¢â¬â One Step Closer to RealityÃ¢â¬Â

2012-08-31T00:58:46Z

Intel today announced its intention to actively commerci... Charging Technology (WCT), which lets you charge your sm... from your notebook PC. WCT was pioneered by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith ...

Ross Selkirk Taylor (DriverRoss) on Twitter

2012-08-30T07:00:42Z

JS/UIX - Terminal

2012-08-24T10:33:20Z

JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises ... tual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-manage ... and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-ma ...

Amid plagiarism reports, Coursera adds honor code reminders Ã¢â¬â Tech News and Analysis

2012-08-23T11:43:10Z

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Are Some Fonts More Believable Than Others? | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

2012-08-20T21:27:06Z

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Hear, All Ye People; Hearken, O Earth (Part One) - NYTimes.com

2012-08-20T21:26:02Z

Are there certain typefaces that compel a belief that th... are written in are true?

Move Over Harvard And MIT, Stanford Has The Real Ã¢â¬ÅRevolution In EducationÃ¢â¬Â | TechCrunch

2012-08-19T21:29:25Z

Lectures are often the least educational aspect of colle... taught college seniors and witnessed how little students... four years in higher education. So, while itÃ¢â¬â¢s noble t... are opening their otherwise exclusive lecture content to... A revolutio

Battle for the lounge room

2012-08-19T21:22:36Z

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Rise of the elder care robot

2012-08-19T19:00:09Z

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Make an iPhone App, Create iPhone App, Create Android Apps

2012-08-17T11:46:40Z

Most social networks out there brag about the hundreds o... friends they have online. But, who wants to spend their ... updates from hundreds of millions of "online friends"? Y... That's where Infinite Monkeys comes in. Our self-service ... Now, you ca

A 3D Printed House? You Bet

2012-08-16T07:16:36Z

Imagine 3D printing on such a large scale, using a concr... that could Ã¢â¬ÅprintÃ¢â¬Â a house in as little as 20 hours.... material can withstand over three times the PSI force of... walls. There can even be larger versions, with multiple ... for use in

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Video on TED.com

2012-08-16T07:15:29Z

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

Beautiful short film shows a frightening future filled with Google Glass-like devices | VentureBeat

2012-08-16T07:15:14Z

HereÃ¢â¬â¢s an amazing eight-minute-long short film we came... art school grads Daniel Lazo and Eran May-raz as a final... the short shows a not-too-unrealistic future wherein we ... with contact lens-like devices that connect us to the cl... from games

elearnspace Ã¢â¬Âº MOOCs are really a platform

2012-08-16T07:14:29Z

Our MOOC model emphasizes creation, creativity, autonomy... networked learning. The Coursera model emphasizes a more... learning approach through video presentations and short ... testing. Put another way, cMOOCs focus on knowledge crea... whereas xMO

BBC News - Women and tech: Why don't girls want to be geeks?

2012-08-16T07:13:45Z

This image problem starts at school, according to one te... "Girls don't see IT as creative. It is that image of the ... Gender differences become apparent during IT lessons, ev ...

WREX, 3D Printed "Magic Arms" and the Future of Pediatric Prosthetics - Core77

2012-08-16T07:10:44Z

wrex_2.png Rahman and Sample found that, with the use of 3D printer ...

IÃ¢â¬â¢ve been in this really good MOOC for the past 20 years, it called Ã¢â¬ÅThe Internet.Ã¢â¬Â ÃÂ« CIOh-no

2012-08-16T07:07:57Z

IÃ¢â¬â¢d like to suggest a great MOOC that has been around ... Ã¢â¬ÅmassiveÃ¢â¬Â (nearly a half million members), it is ope... (anyone can join without cost), it is openÃ¢â¬âas in share... copyright: all content by all contributors is in the pub... online (www

Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education | Video on TED.com

2012-08-16T07:07:17Z

Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their ... courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as... how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, pe... discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unpreced... on how know

Wired Aperture for 20 July: Incredible raindrops on spiders - Stunning photography from Wired.co.uk (Wired UK)

2012-08-16T07:06:06Z

In focus: Incredible raindrops on spiders By Nate Lanxon 20 July 12 Play Slideshow Next

Blank Ways - Tom Loois

2012-08-16T06:58:36Z

NAVIGATE TO THERE WHERE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN Design your personal definition of silence, was the assi ...

A 3D Printed House? You Bet

2012-08-12T17:12:00Z

printer While 3D printing might be all the tech geek rage right ... Imagine 3D printing on such a large scale, using a concr ...

Tim Harford Ã¢â¬â Article Ã¢â¬â DonÃ¢â¬â¢t judge a book by its cover price

2012-08-11T18:14:01Z

Last spring, a young biologist tried to buy a copy of a ... out-of-print reference work, Peter LawrenceÃ¢â¬â¢s The Maki... offered 15 used copies at reasonable prices Ã¢â¬â and two ... cheapest of which was $1,730,045.91, plus $3.99 shipping. Michael Eisen,

Twitter / Zen_Moments: Education is what survives ...

2012-08-10T11:42:33Z

Education is what survives when what has been learned ha... B. F. Skinner

Every Third Thursday-iShred-snowboard-iBoard-iPad-by-signal-snowboards - YouTube

2012-08-10T06:13:36Z

Sam B. MD - Visual Prozac: The Unexpected Beauty of Abandoned Psychiatric Wards

2012-08-09T19:19:35Z

Visual Prozac: The Unexpected Beauty of Abandoned Psychi... Sometimes the most beautiful things come from unexpected ...

iPhone Prototypes - Business Insider

2012-08-07T14:08:08Z

The iPhone that was introduced in 2007 looked nothing li... prototypes designed behind the scenes at Apple HQ. In fact, we were straight-up shocked by some of the desi ... All these designs have entered the public domain because ...

Whipsaw Inc. - San Jose, California - Industrial Design, Engineering, Branding

2012-08-07T11:53:32Z

zSpace is a remarkable new 3D visualization tool that en... engineers, and film makers to build, manipulate, and vie... Unlike 3d TV, zSpace objects are created and displayed i... real time high definition. Your creations float magicall... as you imag

Com-Me Ã¢â¬â Community Media Toolkit

2012-08-06T11:59:52Z

A collection of hardware and software components providi... The components of the toolkit include: Com-Phone a multimedia narrative application for a m ... Com-Tablet a tablet-based media repository and Com-C ... ... loads where applicable, are a

3D printers can crank out working assault rifle parts now (Updated) | DVICE

2012-08-06T11:59:19Z

HaveBlue didn't just print 3D rifle components, he also ... whether 3D sharing sites like MakerBot's Thingiverse wou... posting his weapon designs online for all to download. N... said it was frowned upon, but didn't disallow HaveBlue f... So, is it o

Should Computer Scientists Change How They Publish? | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM

2012-08-06T11:58:26Z

One of the most popular panels at the 2012 edition of Sn... "Publication Models in Computing Research: Is a Change N... for a Change?" A lively audience of more than 100 comput... occupied the medium-size ballroom in which the four-pers... and the aud

BBC News - Programmers sought for tropical hackathon

2012-08-06T11:57:54Z

Wanted: 12 programmers to live on a remote tropical isla... to do nothing but write code.

Your Visual Identity: Tim Draper-Backed Vizify Launches An About.me On Steroids | TechCrunch

2012-08-06T11:56:18Z

Screen shot 2012-07-26 at 7.57.18 AM Today, our personal data is scattered across a growing n ...

SocialLearn | Learning Through Social Connection

2012-08-06T11:53:48Z

SocialLearn is an experimental online learning space on ... The latest evolution in virtual learning, SocialLearn co... networking, Open University and wider web resources and ... Developed in response to feedback about the need for inf ... The platfor

Google opens code for building interactive experiences in physical spaces | Ars Technica

2012-08-06T11:53:30Z

Google has released a new software framework that aims t... the ability to create interactive experiences in physica... potentially be used to build interactive art installatio... involve physical interaction.

USC students building a working Holodeck | Crave - CNET

2012-08-06T11:52:35Z

"Welcome to Project Holodeck, would you like to make my ... (Credit: Project Holodeck) Infiltrating the Borg or having dinner with Deanna Troi ... Project Holodeck is exactly what it sounds like -- a ver ...

Overblown-Claims-of-Failure Watch: How Not to Gauge the Success of Online Courses - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic

2012-08-06T11:51:46Z

Online courses are experiencing sky-high dropout rates, ... a good thing.

Khan/khan-exercises

2012-08-06T11:45:20Z

Khan Academy has created a generic framework for buildin... framework, together with the exercises themselves, can b... The framework exists in two components: An HTML markup for specifying exercises. A jQuery plugin for generating a usable, int

Test-driving the 'World's Cheapest Computer' | NDTV.com

2012-08-04T18:29:48Z

Test-driving the 'World's Cheapest Computer' India's 'Aakash' project, a tablet billed as the cheapes ... Euphoria over a cheap tablet with a 'Made in India' labe ...

BBC News - Olympics 'dominated by privately educated'

2012-08-04T12:15:57Z

Too many of Britain's top sportsmen and women were educa... country's Olympic chief has said. Lord Moynihan said it was wholly unacceptable that more ... He described it as one of the "worst statistics in Briti ... He said it meant half of Great Britain

What Information Overload Does To Your Brain - Business Insider

2012-08-04T12:15:07Z

Hedge fund manager James Altucher recently wrote about h... kill you. Neuroscience shows that our brains simply were... Yet many people continue to live hyper-connected lives, ... creating 24/7 workweeks Ã¢â¬â no matter how unhealthy it is. This excellen

Facts & Formulae leaflets | mathstore.ac.uk

2012-08-03T12:32:19Z

BBC News - Universities contribute ÃÂ£3.3bn to UK economy

2012-08-02T22:23:55Z

Universities contributed ÃÂ£3.3bn to the UK economy in th... And analysis by England's higher education funding body ... This is less than half the ÃÂ£56m US price-tag for simila ... The report added that the value of UK knowledge exchange ... Analysis by

What can athletes with ADHD teach us about the condition? | Society | The Guardian

2012-08-02T12:57:22Z

What can athletes with ADHD teach us about the condition? Michael Phelps, hailed as the greatest Olympian ever, ha ... Share 134 Email ... cs offer a positive legacy for people suffering from it?

your.flowingdata / About

2012-08-02T12:55:29Z

We make tiny choices every day. Those choices become hab... habits develop into behaviors. your.flowingdata helps yo... choices. Use your.flowingdata (YFD) to collect data about yoursel ...

New GPS museum app launching in Victoria promises to reshape gallery-going experience | Arts | National Post

2012-08-02T07:44:41Z

Finding your way around a museum Ã¢â¬â or a mall or airpor... Ã¢â¬â is about to be as simple as using the GPS on your phone. As of Aug. 1, the Royal BC Museum in Victoria will becom ...

Placebooks: A New Mobile App & Web Service Launched at Royal Geographic Society

2012-08-01T14:17:09Z

Going beyond the standard media sharing and mapping solutions currently available, Placebooks aims to provide communities with richer ways to tell the story of the places they live in or visit. The toolkit is being made available for open, free distributi

Inkling Debuts Version 3.0, Bringing Its Interactive E-Books To The iPhone | TechCrunch

2012-07-31T15:21:10Z

Video Comment 0 inShare3 ... h of its e-book titles to the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

We're Muddying the Message on Study Abroad - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education

2012-07-31T08:19:29Z

Am I a cyborg now? Ã¢â¬â Idea of the day

2012-07-30T14:31:00Z

Having a sixth sense sounds exciting, but implanting a p... your body is quite invasive. Even ignoring such details ... surgeon willing to perform the operation, the prospects ... magnet corrosion and not being able to get an MRI scan a... Deciding th

Troy Hunt: Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco

2012-07-30T14:29:41Z

Let me set the scene for this post by sharing a simple t... night: Twitter: @troyhunt Passwords are stored in a secure way. ... Ok then, thatÃ¢â¬â¢s about as many security misdemeanours a ...

Piano Staircase | The Fun Theory

2012-07-30T10:44:50Z

Ã¢â¬ÂTake the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator ... is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers.... actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to t... the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here

5 Guys, 1 Piano - Goodnet

2012-07-30T07:40:55Z

Memo to higher ed: get ready for remote learning to rock your world Ã¢â¬â Tech News and Analysis

2012-07-29T17:15:29Z

Like it or loathe it, web-enabled remote learning is inc... its way into colleges and universities around the world.... a survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project... In a report released today, Pew and Elon University said ... The researc

45 Ways to Communicate Two Quantities | Visual.ly Blog

2012-07-27T21:34:40Z

letÃ¢â¬â¢s try to find all possible ways to visualize a ludicrously small data set of two numbers. Afterwords, letÃ¢â¬â¢s try to pick the best visualization.

iRobot introduces telepresence doctor

2012-07-27T16:34:38Z

In a medical emergency, seconds count. But if the doctor... another part of the hospital or even another part of tow... seconds can stretch dangerously. If only the doctor coul... at once, then countless lives could be saved. This is on... The idea of

Latest eco-friendly fuel for cars: aluminum and water | DVICE

2012-07-27T16:33:42Z

I'll bet you didn't know that aluminum (the same stuff t... The alchemists at a company called Alchemy Research are ... alydro-formula-528x165.png To get this to work, you need water to be superheated in ... ... hout all the nasty side-effects that come

Dickens London Trails iPhone app: money, marketing and mobile ÃÂ« The Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture

2012-07-27T16:28:49Z

Dickens London Trails is an iPhone app that enables user... London as characters from DickensÃ¢â¬â¢ fiction would have.... through the streets of London on a series of unexpected ... encounters. You also discover more about DickensÃ¢â¬â¢ even... Your guides

SerenA | chance encounters in the space of ideas

2012-07-27T10:08:19Z

In a recent blog post, Ikka warns that it is all too eac... Ã¢â¬ËtrappedÃ¢â¬â¢ in mindsets and personal routines that shu... potential serendipitous experiences. I think weÃ¢â¬â¢ve all... traps at some point in our lives; being too busy to be a... In this blo

What It's Like to Teach a MOOC (and What the Heck's a MOOC?) - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic

2012-07-26T18:12:30Z

But because MOOCs are so new, and so limited before yest... first-hand discussion of what it's like to teach one has... current MOOC moment began less than a year ago, when Sta... free, chunked artificial intelligence course online, and... signed up.

BBC News - Top US universities put their reputations online

2012-07-26T18:11:18Z

This autumn more than a million students are going to ta... experiment that could re-invent the landscape of higher ... Some of the biggest powerhouses in US higher education a ... Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ha ... Sounding li

How to Finish a PhD | profserious

2012-07-26T18:08:16Z

There are many surprises in doing a PhD. That, for examp... easier to have a idea than to show that is any good. Tha... your supervisor does not possess 'the answer'. Perhaps h... greatest surprise is that it is so much easier to start ... finish it.

Review of the Coursera Human Computer Interaction Course | Reflections

2012-07-26T18:07:23Z

IÃ¢â¬â¢ve now finished the Coursera Human Computer Interact... await my final grade, I reflect on my experience, on the... student numbers, and on how the platform can develop. ItÃ¢â¬â¢s been a wonderfully wide-ranging course, spanning ...

University memes

2012-07-26T18:06:46Z

Innovating Pedagogy | Open University Innovations Report #1

2012-07-26T09:34:52Z

Innovating Pedagogy Posted on June 22, 2012 by admin The series of reports explores new forms of teaching, le ... The first report proposes ten innovations that are alrea ...

Cats have nine lives and 72-hour days - Junk Charts

2012-07-26T09:34:20Z

Cats have nine lives and 72-hour days So says this infographic (link). Reader John G. sent in ... *** Johng

No such thing as a free MOOC : JISC

2012-07-25T10:18:58Z

In his recent JISC blog, David Kernohan asks: Ã¢â¬ËWhy bot... fees to attend university? Ã¢â¬Â¦What if you could get it a... online?Ã¢â¬â¢ Of course, it is tongue in cheek, because as ... suggests, you donÃ¢â¬â¢t get something for nothing. And that brings me to o

On Leaving Academia ÃÂ« Ars Experientia

2012-07-25T10:15:41Z

As almost everybody knows at this point, I have resigned... University of New Mexico. Effective this July, I am wor... their Cambridge (MA) offices. Countless people, from my friends to my (former) dean ha ... Honestly, the reasons are myriad and compl

I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. - Kyle Wiens - Harvard Business Review

2012-07-25T09:51:51Z

In the same vein, programmers who pay attention to how t... written language also tend to pay a lot more attention t... You see, at its core, code is prose. Great programmers a... code monkeys; according to Stanford programming legend D... And just li

Is Queen Mary University of London trying to commit scientific suicide?

2012-07-23T11:45:06Z

Academic staff are going to be fired at Queen Mary Unive... (QMUL). ItÃ¢â¬â¢s possible that universities may have to co... hard times, so whatÃ¢â¬â¢s wrong? WhatÃ¢â¬â¢s wrong is that the victims are being selected in ...

Using Twitter To Identify Psychopaths - Forbes

2012-07-23T11:31:20Z

PeopleÃ¢â¬â¢s nasty traits have a way of revealing themselv... networks: in writing. Or rather in how they write. That ... of how someone tweets could reveal whether he or she is ... Machiavellian, or psychopathic, according to researchers... present the

KISSENGER: KISS Messenger Robot

2012-07-23T11:29:09Z

Interactive Multimedia Technology: Musings about NUI, Perceptive Pixel and Microsoft, Rapid Creative Prototyping (Lots of video and links) Revised

2012-07-22T21:27:23Z

It just might be the right time for everyone to brush up... tech skills. iPads and touch-phones are ubiquitous. Touc... interactive whiteboards and displays are in schools and ... Microsoft's Windows 8 and the news that the company rece... Han's compa

CELINELATULIPE.COM

2012-07-22T21:26:35Z

BBC - Earth News - Curious crows use tools to explore dangerous objects

2012-07-21T13:00:39Z

New Design Practices for Touch-free Interactions | UX Magazine

2012-07-20T22:00:43Z

Touch interaction has become practically ubiquitous in d... and that has changed users' expectations and the way UX ... about humanÃ¢â¬âcomputer interaction (HCI). Now, touch-fre... Natural Language Interaction (NLI) are bleeding into the... mainstream

Our Frugal Future: Lessons from IndiaÃ¢â¬â¢s Innovation system - Nesta

2012-07-19T14:53:10Z

Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with ... policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report e... policies, institutions and industries that are driving r... innovation. It measures how India's research strengths a... Innovation

3D-printed Ã¢â¬ÅBiomimicry shoeÃ¢â¬Â by Dutch fashion designer Marieka Ratsma and American architect Kostika Spaho ÃÂ« 3d printing event

2012-07-19T11:28:53Z

Cognitive walk-through - British Airways Business Life. Business advice and inspiration, insider tips from the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s top CEOs, analysts and entrepreneurs.

2012-07-19T11:23:16Z

Problems of human-computer interaction become crucial wh... question is a potential purchaser trying to engage with ... an internet shopping site. These days customer interface... Walk-through first referred to a physical tour of a faci ... Its key asp

Laser transforms ordinary paper into 3D objects ÃÂ« 3d printing event

2012-07-19T10:30:22Z

Empowering Technology: Mobile Phone Access Reaches Three Quarters Of PlanetÃ¢â¬â¢s Population

2012-07-18T18:13:16Z

The World Bank and infoDev released a study yesterday ti... Ã¢â¬ÅAround three-quarters of the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s inhabitants no ... HereÃ¢â¬â¢s an excerpt from the Executive Summary: Ã¢â¬ÅWith some 6 billion mobile subscriptions in use world ... The developing world is

Higher Education's Monopoly on Credibility Is Ending | Business | TIME.com

2012-07-17T17:54:14Z

BBC News - UK university joins US online partnership

2012-07-17T17:48:53Z

Edinburgh University is to be the first UK institution t... influential US-based online university project. Edinburgh is part of a major expansion in the Coursera p ... The online platform was set up this year with content fr ...

Put the human back into engineering | Aging In Place Technology Watch

2012-07-16T11:48:06Z

The product user interface of today can madden the senio... am looking at the console of a Volvo right now. Mulling ... SOURCE/Push Scan knob -- turn it to switch from FM to AM... the channels, PUSH again to stop scanning. This is an e... Why must we

Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

2012-07-16T09:10:10Z

BBC News - Smartphone to help blind people goes on sale

2012-07-13T22:17:45Z

A smartphone designed for blind people has been launched. Georgie, as the device is known, has a voice-assisted to ... The phone was designed by blind husband-and-wife team Ro ... It was named after Mrs Wilson-Hinds' first guide dog.

BBC News - The second brain in our stomachs

2012-07-12T20:12:46Z

Its first stop was my stomach, whose complex work is und... what's sometimes called "the little brain", a network of... your stomach and your gut. Surprisingly, there are over 100 million of these cells ... The little brain does not do a lot of complex

M-Pesa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2012-07-12T14:56:06Z

M-Pesa (M for mobile, pesa is Swahili for money) is a mo... money transfer service for Safaricom, Kenya's largest mo... operator.[1] Currently the most developed mobile payment... developing world, M-Pesa allows users to deposit, withdr... money easil

MIT Researchers Produce Micro-Light that Outputs More Energy Than It Takes In - Core77

2012-07-12T12:49:23Z

Materials scientists know that things behave differently... The MIT team, comprised of Parthiban Santhanam, Dodd Jos ... How the heck is that possible? The long answer looks lik ... The researchers chose a light-emitting diode with a ... The gist of

The Power of Bad Ideas - Core77

2012-07-12T12:47:08Z

Creative activities often follow a double-hump model. At... all the obvious ideas. These aren't a waste of time; som... There's a drop in energy between humps One and Two, as w ... Bad ideas are not boring, meh proposals. Bad is not the ... portigal_sk

Wrap Your Head Around These Gears - Core77

2012-07-12T12:45:36Z

0geardiff.jpg Whether I listen to my brain, or my heart, I still don't understand how these damn things work When I told my Graphic Design professor that I wanted to ... That was years ago, and orthographics, of course, are no ...

CAD versus Sketching, Why Ask? by James Self - Core77

2012-07-12T12:40:25Z

nike_1.jpgImage Courtesy of Michael DiTullo A continuing issue in industrial design education is whe ... Instead of setting constraints or limitations to dictate ...

MAKE | iPhone Papercraft Passive Amplifier

2012-07-11T11:26:46Z

Passive amplifiers have been doing their acoustic trick ... Victrola was cutting edge. ItÃ¢â¬â¢s pretty simple, reallyÃ¢... noise on the working end of a horn and youÃ¢â¬â¢re likely t... bit easier in the direction itÃ¢â¬â¢s pointed in. The conce... This eco-am

State of the LOD Cloud

2012-06-28T09:19:50Z

This document provides statistics about the structure an... LOD cloud. It also analyzes the extend to which LOD data... nine best practices that are either recommended W3C or h... the LOD community.

Apple and HTC in race to put light field cameras in your smartphone | Stuff magazine

2012-06-28T09:19:00Z

Light field cameras Ã¢â¬â which let you adjust the focus o... According to DigiTimes, Taiwan's Industrial Technology R ... Apple is also investigating light field camera technolog ... But there's a way to go before Lytro tech finds its way ... Still, ther

BBC News - Geek chic: When fashion meets technology

2012-06-12T07:49:45Z

MAKE | Lego Star Wars Relativity

2012-06-10T20:21:00Z

Paul VermeeschÃ¢â¬â¢s Star Wars Relativity model is a 1-foo... scenes from classic Star Wars settings. Six months in the making, I present my largest creat ...

In Math You Have to Remember...

2012-06-08T16:47:16Z

Over a four-year period, Boaler followed the progress of... students through their high school careers at three high... the three was "Railside High". Not its real name, this s... urban setting, close by a railway line. She first visite... A number of

Revolutionary Paper Scanner Folds Flat, Costs $15 on Kickstarter

2012-06-08T14:32:18Z

Autodesk Wants to Bring 3D Printing to Everyone With an iPad

2012-06-08T14:31:38Z

Mobile tactile tech gets physical | TG Daily

2012-06-06T14:26:15Z

Tactus Technology is showcasing its next-gen mobile tact... Ã¢â¬Â¨Ã¢â¬Â¨Essentially, Tactus has created a Tactile Layer co ... Mobile tactile tech gets physicalA Tactus spokesperson t ... Well, Tactus uses microfluidic technology to create phys ... ... , ebook

This keyboard is a wireless projection | TG Daily

2012-06-06T14:25:41Z

Elecom has debuted a wireless projection keyboard that c... mobile device via Bluetooth. The slick futuristic device could be the perfect choice ... This keyboard is a wireless projectionStill, if you're a ...

Logitech Touch Mouse M600 has no buttons | TG Daily

2012-06-06T14:19:31Z

Logitech has unveiled a new mouse which operates on the ... "People are growing accustomed to using fingertip gestur ... Logitch Touch Mouse M600 has no buttons"In fact, for man ... Indeed, the mouse is controlled using gestures that can ... Meaning, yo

Researcher reveals how Ã¢â¬ÅComputer GeeksÃ¢â¬Â replaced Ã¢â¬ÅComputer GirlsÃ¢â¬Â | The Clayman Institute for Gender Research

2012-06-05T19:53:05Z

Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us descr... computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male. We... largely noctural creature, passing sleepless nights writ... According to workplace researchers, this stereotype of t... It may be s

Mathematics Education: Being Outwitted by Stupidity | Education News

2012-06-05T19:31:12Z

Number of Homeschoolers Growing Nationwide | Education News

2012-06-05T19:27:45Z

DailyDOOH ÃÂ» Blog Archive ÃÂ» LocaModa Takes Wiffiti To The Classroom

2012-06-03T13:34:01Z

Twitter Engineering: Improving performance on twitter.com

2012-05-30T08:44:26Z

When we shipped #NewTwitter in September 2010, we built ... application architecture that pushed all of the UI rende... JavaScript running on our usersÃ¢â¬â¢ browsers and consumed... API directly, in a similar way to our mobile clients. Th... To improve

A DRAMATIC SURPRISE ON A QUIET SQUARE - YouTube

2012-05-30T08:42:27Z

MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone by Jay Silver Ã¢â¬â Kickstarter

2012-05-29T23:39:12Z

Computer Science Unplugged |

2012-05-29T18:43:42Z

Course | Apps for Good

2012-05-29T17:09:04Z

Apps for Good Host Facebook 'Show and Tell' Event

2012-05-29T17:09:00Z

Arduino Blog ÃÂ» Blog Archive ÃÂ» Ref: Arduino based wearable pet

2012-05-29T14:58:39Z

xkcd: Tic-Tac-Toe

2012-05-29T14:24:26Z

The Scale of the Universe 2

2012-05-19T10:42:43Z

BBC - Newsbeat - Bouncers 'checking Facebook on phones' as identification

2012-05-18T11:34:00Z

Some bouncers have been demanding people hand over their... they can check Facebook accounts, Newsbeat has been told. It's claimed that it is to make sure the person is who t ...

BBC News - Subways 'share universal structure', research suggests

2012-05-17T13:11:21Z

A study of the world's largest subway networks has revea... remarkably mathematically similar. The layouts seem to converge over time to a similar stru ... The study, in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface ... It found common distributions of stat

BBC News - Nvidia chip aims to power fastest supercomputer

2012-05-17T11:49:28Z

"A machine like Titan has a budget of around 10 megawatts, and that costs roughly $10m per year just for the electricity, so people are concerned about the electrical bills," said Mr Scott. "They are also concerned about how much power they can provide

BBC News - Perfume-puffing robot sniffs out social media mentions

2012-05-15T09:40:04Z

BBC News - The robot that reads your mind to train itself

2012-05-15T09:35:39Z

BBC News - Playing pop music via paper posters with conductive ink

2012-05-15T09:34:05Z

BBC Nature - Dinosaur gases 'warmed the Earth'

2012-05-12T10:44:33Z

Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their ... researchers. British scientists have calculated the methane output of ... By scaling up the digestive wind of horses, they estimat ... They suggest the gas could have been a key factor in the ..

ZeroN system holds a ball wherever you place it, in mid-air

2012-05-10T12:04:00Z

The ZeroN system was created by Jinha Lee, a Media Lab r... Above its open-air anti-gravity space sits an electromag... moved vertically and horizontally via a three-axis motor... As the user reaches into the space with the ZeroN ball i ... Along with

VSD: home

2012-05-09T18:47:05Z

Value Sensitive Design refers to an approach to the desi... that accounts for human values in a principled and syste... throughout the design process. Value-Sensitive Design is primarily concerned with value ...

reaDIYmate

2012-05-07T13:20:11Z

reaDIYmates are fun wi-fi objects that move and play sou... what's happening in your digital life. Assemble them easily in 10 minutes, then decide what you ...

Heartbeat Mobile Phone Concept Is Mostly Heart, Still Needs More Brains - Technabob

2012-05-06T13:31:20Z

The Ã¢â¬Ëholy grailÃ¢â¬â¢ of hacks - The Tech

2012-05-04T19:52:15Z

153 windows, 153 pixels. Two weekends ago, the front of ... lit up in a colorful display of the popular puzzler Tetr... screen spanned over 80 by 250 feet Ã¢â¬â making it the sec... in the nation. Appearing mysteriously on Friday night, t... the culmina

Sweet Infographics

2012-05-03T16:38:50Z

19 Things You Didn't know about Star Wars 19 Things You Didn't know about Star Wars 9gag.com Is Tech Bad for Teenagers? ... Online Marketing in 2012

Is Too Much Tech Bad for the Modern Teenager? [INFOGRAPHIC]

2012-05-03T16:38:04Z

Is tech saturation good or bad for the modern teenager? Arguments can be made either way, but thereÃ¢â¬â¢s no debat ... People aged 18-34 have an average of 319 online connecti ... Pew also recently reported that 63% of teenagers text me ... ... to help or

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

2012-05-03T12:58:32Z

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal [ A letter to the editor of Datamation, volume 29 number ... The story of Mel is a related article. ] Back in the good old days-- the "Golden Era" of computer ...

Dropbox and Safe Harbor

2012-05-03T09:06:32Z

9. Safe HarborContacting Us Dropbox has received TRUSTe's Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy statement and our practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's program requirements including transparency, accountability and choi

Mapping Science - Places & Spaces: Mapping Science

2012-05-02T06:56:30Z

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Vision of future: experts close to turning bionic eye dream into reality

2012-05-02T06:55:13Z

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The Crisis of Money and Its Metamorphosis | X.commerce

2012-05-02T06:52:46Z

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2012-05-01T12:01:32Z

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Wind Map

2012-04-29T15:21:17Z

Data Journalism Handbook

2012-04-29T13:57:45Z

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2012-04-28T21:42:21Z

QR Code Usage In Japan ÃÂ« Blog

2012-04-28T21:39:27Z

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iPavement embeds WiFi hotspots in the street

2012-04-28T15:40:58Z

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Solidoodle 2 Ã¢â¬â the sub-$500 3D printer

2012-04-28T15:31:16Z

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HTC talks smartphone design: from inception to final product -- Engadget

2012-04-23T18:41:36Z

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The Flight From Conversation - NYTimes.com

2012-04-23T06:48:59Z

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Aesthetic appeal may have neurological link to contemplation and self-assessment

2012-04-20T19:43:38Z

A network of brain regions which is activated during int... experience overlaps with the brain network associated wi... contemplation and self-assessment, New York University r... found. Their study sheds new light on the nature of the ... experience,

Monitor: More than just digital quilting | The Economist

2012-04-20T17:23:52Z

Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

2012-04-20T14:04:54Z

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Ofcom | A nation addicted to smartphones

2012-04-20T14:01:20Z

New Ofcom research reveals the extent to which the UK ha... to smartphones, with people confessing to using them eve... dining table to the bathroom and bedroom. Over a quarter of adults (27 per cent) and almost half o ... Most (59 per cent) have acquir

Why the Mobile experience shouldn't equal desktop-lite - raymosley's posterous

2012-04-20T13:57:05Z

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Managing Distraction: How and Why to Ignore Your Inbox - Forbes

2012-04-20T11:56:01Z

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A Texas University's Mind-Boggling Database Of Teens' Daily Text Messages, Emails, and IMs Over Four Years - Forbes

2012-04-20T11:55:29Z

Marion Underwood calls her academic study, Ã¢â¬ÅThe Blackb... title that would work equally well is Ã¢â¬ÅPanopticon, Jr.... four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental... professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens, ... text messag

Palettes of Famous Painters | Retronaut

2012-04-19T09:33:00Z

Gustave Moreau

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2012-04-19T09:29:06Z

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How To: Take a Screenshot With the iPhone | iMore

2012-04-16T21:25:07Z

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About ÃÂ« PhoneGap

2012-04-15T21:00:53Z

Mobile development is a mess. Building applications for each device--iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and more--requir... frameworks and languages. One day, the big players in mo... work together and unify third-party app development proc... PhoneGap is

BBC News - Dual-focus contact lens prototypes ordered by Pentagon

2012-04-15T17:45:27Z

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if:book: Back to the Future -- In honor of Encyclopedia Britannica giving up its print edition

2012-04-15T17:42:14Z

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In the Future, We'll All Program Our Own Robots | Innovationnewsdaily.com

2012-04-13T23:45:04Z

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Netflix Never Used its $1m Algorithm. Here's Why.

2012-04-13T23:41:59Z

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Designers DonÃ¢â¬â¢t Like UCD - Hidden Gems

2012-04-11T14:46:27Z

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APIDocumentation - llikes - Listing of Bibliographic API Documentation - recommendations for academic resources - Google Project Hosting

2012-04-11T11:17:41Z

Profile Fields | LinkedIn Developer Network

2012-04-11T11:16:10Z

Mendeley API Documentation

2012-04-11T10:38:43Z

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rjerome / citeproc-php / overview Ã¢â¬â Bitbucket

2012-04-11T10:37:04Z

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citation-style-language/styles ÃÂ· GitHub

2012-04-11T09:59:00Z

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Cache Manifest Validator

2012-04-10T21:46:34Z

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Britain's economy will thrive if computing becomes child's play | Eric Schmidt | Comment is free | The Observer

2012-04-10T11:26:45Z

Undergrad Computer Science Enrollments Rise for Fourth Straight Year Ã¢â¬â CRA Taulbee Report

2012-04-10T11:16:12Z

You DonÃ¢â¬â¢t Publish a Book, You Give Birth To It | Fuel Your Writing

2012-04-09T04:33:16Z

Dalek toy turned into roving surveillance bot - Boing Boing

2012-04-08T10:09:19Z

EXTERMIKNIT! Dalek knitting pattern

2012-04-08T10:09:10Z

DalekCity

2012-04-08T10:09:02Z

HOWTO Make a Dalek Egg - Boing Boing

2012-04-08T10:06:41Z

Letters of Note: C. S. Lewis on Writing

2012-04-06T17:25:10Z

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Re-spin Your Desktop Application Into A Java Web Start Application | Java Technology Tips on Blip

2012-04-06T10:55:30Z

Java Web Start Developer Guide

2012-04-06T10:55:08Z

MicrosoftÃ¢â¬â¢s SemanticMap: After Project Glass, Another Take On How To Make The World More User-Specific | TechCrunch

2012-04-05T18:52:50Z

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4 Problems Google Glasses Have To Solve Before Becoming A Hit | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

2012-04-05T18:51:50Z

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Functional Javascript

2012-04-05T13:52:11Z

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How one word change lets Amazon pays less tax on its UK activities | Technology | The Guardian

2012-04-04T21:52:30Z

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2012-04-04T21:48:23Z

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2012-04-04T13:48:28Z

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2012-04-04T10:43:03Z

TimeMaps - What are TimeMaps?

2012-04-04T10:32:33Z

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Shahram Izadi - Microsoft Next 2012 on MSN Video

2012-04-04T08:33:01Z

Using interactive 3D technologies with Kinect Fusion to incorporate the physical world into the digital.

Moving The Bar

2012-04-04T08:29:02Z

Who says science is boring? Watch the world's most extraordinary 'kinetic sculpture' - video | Science | guardian.co.uk

2012-04-03T11:54:15Z

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Art Mapping | Tate

2012-04-03T11:43:49Z

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LukeW | An Event Apart: Content First

2012-04-03T11:42:08Z

In his opening keynote at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA ... Zeldman talked about the need to keep content front and ... and the Web design process. Here's my notes from his tal... Content is really a design problem. Yet the sites we ...

Citation Style Language 1.0

2012-04-02T21:30:28Z

face.com developers site ÃÂ» Documentation

2012-04-02T16:41:19Z

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2012-04-01T20:52:44Z

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How To Cite A Tweet In Academic Papers | Edudemic

2012-04-01T16:54:46Z

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The Raspberry Pi can help schools get with the program | Technology | The Observer

2012-04-01T14:25:19Z

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Young coders: ideas for change | Education | The Observer

2012-04-01T14:21:24Z

Young coders: ideas for change Seven teenagers talk about how they got into coding and ...

Scimago Journal & Country Rank

2012-03-30T16:40:55Z

Future Interactions - The Concept

2012-03-30T13:54:29Z

The room interface of the future | DesignBrother

2012-03-30T13:53:58Z

Paper by FiftyThree on Vimeo

2012-03-30T09:18:41Z

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World's First Virtual Store Opens in Korea | Amusing Planet

2012-03-30T09:12:45Z

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Reality POD

2012-03-30T09:07:59Z

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How cutting edge geolocation can change everything | Geek Gestalt - CNET News

2012-03-27T08:40:11Z

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Woolly Thoughts

2012-03-26T15:12:19Z

The Kuramoto Model (1000 Fireflies)

2012-03-23T07:37:18Z

1,000 synchronized Ã¢â¬ÅsparksÃ¢â¬Â inspired by fireflies ÃÂ« Northern Spark 2012

2012-03-23T07:35:57Z

Blacksmith Fundamentals

2012-03-17T10:37:57Z

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BBC News - Sony unveils 'floating interface' touchless display

2012-03-15T10:21:04Z

A smartphone that allows users to browse the web by hove... links they would normally touch has been unveiled by the... electronics giant Sony. The firm describes the technology as a "floating touch" ...

Power of maths helping to create electricity grid of the future

2012-03-14T12:39:15Z

The world's deepest bin - Thefuntheory.com - Rolighetsteorin.se - YouTube

2012-03-14T10:35:19Z

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Pi Land

2012-03-14T08:05:17Z

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Mayhem: MicrosoftÃ¢â¬â¢s open-source app for controlling just about anything - GeekWire

2012-03-13T23:47:09Z

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OCaml for the Masses - ACM Queue

2012-03-13T19:50:57Z

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IKEA "BERÃâRA" - YouTube

2012-03-13T13:09:42Z

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Workshop: Farmbot - How I built a Sheep Herding Robot (workshop) : 3Dcamp

2012-03-13T11:34:34Z

In this workshop Niall Dempsey will host a Q&A session a... built for his Roscrea farm. FarmBot (the sheep herding r... inspired when Niall needed some assistance with herding ... Farmbot is a small (2 ft x 3 ft x 2 ft high approx.), fo ... Currently i

Popcorn Maker | Mozilla Popcorn

2012-03-12T18:50:16Z

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BBC News - Can you build a human body?

2012-03-06T19:24:29Z

bandwidth (tecznotes)

2012-03-06T19:21:47Z

jQuery Impromptu

2012-03-03T21:01:49Z

jQuery plugin: Ã¢â¬ËautoResizeÃ¢â¬â¢ Ã¢â¬â James Padolsey

2012-03-03T07:32:05Z

callimachus - A framework for data-driven applications based on Linked Data. - Google Project Hosting

2012-03-02T19:20:20Z

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Free Publisher Tools Ã¢â¬â Readability

2012-03-01T12:44:03Z

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Learn more about the Public Suffix List

2012-03-01T08:46:06Z

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Help/imprint - Unicode/UTF8-character table

2012-03-01T08:45:04Z

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New evidence of end of Neanderthals seen - UPI.com

2012-02-28T07:48:13Z

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Nature Editorial: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source

2012-02-27T07:20:15Z

Modern scientific and engineering research relies heavil... programs, which analyze experimental data and run simula... would be hard-pressed to find a scientific paper (outsid... Reproducibility refers to the ability to repeat some wor ... Reproducibi

STOPPED CLOCK ILLUSION - YouTube

2012-02-26T06:20:49Z

STOPPED CLOCK ILLUSION

Public Data Sets : Amazon Web Services

2012-02-24T21:44:19Z

Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repositor... sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-ba... AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the... like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute an... for their o

Plan UK's interactive street advert sends different message to men and women | UK Fundraising

2012-02-23T17:05:31Z

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Tiny Elaborate Bonsai Treehouses | Jeannie Huang

2012-02-23T10:18:54Z

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Snapshots - websnapr - Website Thumbnails For Your Website

2012-02-21T19:57:12Z

websnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any we... visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clic... traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.

Open Applications Group

2012-02-20T09:18:42Z

The Open Applications Group is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profi... development organization (SDO). Our community is focused... process-based business standards for eCommerce, Cloud Co... Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, and Enterpris... Our Open Ap

Mastodon C

2012-02-17T13:12:58Z

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2012-02-16T08:29:47Z

Makego

2012-02-15T16:16:20Z

Clear is a Simple List App With Big Potential for Multitouch

2012-02-15T08:21:41Z

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Booklet - jQuery Plugin

2012-02-14T12:18:40Z

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The great escape of bath toys in the Pacific | Environment | The Observer

2012-02-13T09:53:59Z

When 28,800 bath toys fell off a cargo ship in the Pacif... they began an incredible journey. While some washed up i... and Hawaii, countless others circumnavigated the globe. ... from his new book, Donovan Hohn follows the fantastic voyage

Study: We Love Facebook Because It Tricks Us Into Thinking We're Doing Something Important

2012-02-12T14:44:39Z

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Confessions of a Publisher: Ã¢â¬ÅWeÃ¢â¬â¢re in AmazonÃ¢â¬â¢s Sights and TheyÃ¢â¬â¢re Going to Kill UsÃ¢â¬Â | PandoDaily

2012-02-12T14:41:13Z

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New W3C Validation Service with RDFa 1.1 and microdata | Semantic Web Activity News

2012-02-08T17:25:02Z

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Docracy - Learn More

2012-02-08T10:53:53Z

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An unexpected skeumorphic vestige - Adam Lindsay

2012-02-08T09:34:52Z

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Microsoft's App Was Made For Walking Ã¢â¬â But Is It Racist? : NPR

2012-02-08T09:32:23Z

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The Pirate Bay torrents printable 3D objects Ã¢â¬Â¢ The Register

2012-02-08T09:31:33Z

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Out of the box on Vimeo

2012-02-07T17:32:19Z

Euphemisms: Making murder respectable | The Economist

2012-02-07T14:27:51Z

PLoS Medicine: Participatory Epidemiology: Use of Mobile Phones for Community-Based Health Reporting

2012-02-04T10:23:46Z

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 ... These early

One Simple Rule: Why Teens Are Fleeing Facebook - Forbes

2012-02-03T18:16:59Z

Facebook is losing users in the U.S., Britain and Canada... investors, advertisers and media companies all scratchin... A closer look at FacebookÃ¢â¬â¢s global usage shows that it ... In Pictures: Keeping Kids Safe On Facebook That said, there is one simpl

Let's be honest, Facebook is a badly overpriced photo-sharing and gaming site | TechRepublic

2012-02-03T18:16:01Z

10 reasons FacebookÃ¢â¬â¢s future is uncertain Its own users have very little trust in the company The siteÃ¢â¬â¢s ease-of-use is among the worst on the web The user experience doesnÃ¢â¬â¢t translate well to smar ... ... atural cycle of social networks

Bookshelf Porn, About

2012-01-31T13:54:07Z

Bookshelf Porn is a photoblog showcasing only the best p... bookshelves.

Canvas Visualizations of Sorting Algorithms - Nihilogic

2012-01-31T13:32:38Z

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SelfControlÃÂ |ÃÂ Steve Lambert

2012-01-29T19:05:31Z

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Toronto News: Toronto teens send Lego man on an a balloon odyssey 24 kilometres high - thestar.com

2012-01-27T09:18:28Z

Toronto teens send Lego man on an a balloon odyssey 24 k... Published On Wed Jan 25 2012 Email Print ... the typical cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft.

One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

2012-01-27T09:17:52Z

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Program... 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruc ... 1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is ham ... 1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language th ... 1936 - Alon

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The world's browsing prehistory: The first home page Amazon's 1994 home page, TheFacebook and Google! show how much things have changed | Mail Online

2012-01-19T13:56:58Z

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2012-01-18T23:11:10Z

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Embedly | Creating a Facebook-like URL submission tool with Embedly

2012-01-14T15:31:07Z

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Computing at School :: About Us

2012-01-12T14:16:02Z

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2012-01-12T13:55:40Z

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Report: Foxconn Employees Forced to Sign 'No Suicide' Pledge | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

2012-01-11T10:46:35Z

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Backbone.js

2012-01-10T21:12:00Z

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2012-01-09T18:30:30Z

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2012-01-09T16:06:10Z

BBC News - HTML 5 new target for cybercriminals

2012-01-07T10:20:05Z

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How Do You Make A Robot That People Will Talk To? Make It As Cute As Wall-E | Co.Design

2012-01-04T18:09:07Z

Boxie, a robot created at MIT Media Lab, relies on adora... artificial intelligence to meet its goals. Cuteness is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It ...

Handy Elephant - Instant Productivity for Relationship Management | About us

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Digital Desk by Pierre Wellner

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2012-01-04T12:05:05Z

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2011-12-22T22:34:29Z

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2011-12-21T14:05:02Z

Silk isnÃ¢â¬â¢t just another browser. We sought from the s... the power and capabilities of the AWS infrastructure to ... limitations of typical mobile browsers. Instead of a de... software application, Amazon Silk deploys a split-archit... browser sub

Scientists to study psychological benefits of birdsong | Environment | guardian.co.uk

2011-12-21T13:09:30Z

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Vortex Activ USB

2011-12-19T21:33:21Z

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Young Rewired State - Young people coding a better country

2011-12-19T16:19:35Z

A First Look at the Canvas for iOS Mobile App | Inside Higher Ed

2011-12-19T16:18:55Z

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USF-AWB objectives

2011-12-19T16:07:30Z

Google Currents - Yet another contribution to the UI-fragmentation of Android - MIN MING

2011-12-14T10:03:00Z

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BBC News - 3D voyage from cinema screen to cereal box

2011-12-14T09:54:26Z

3D voyage from cinema screen to cereal box Katia Moskvitch By Katia Moskvitch Science and technolog ... 3D Nestle Rio campaign A 3D bird from the film Rio comes ... Still not very used to having a full-size car jump out a ... ... s of a jewellery firm De

SensegÃ¢â¬â¢s E-sense Technology Creates Texture on Touchscreens, Aims for Availability in 2012 | TalkAndroid.com

2011-12-11T20:06:53Z

Bacteria, Not Electricity, Powers This Light Bulb - Earth911.com

2011-12-11T18:10:30Z

Bacteria, Not Electricity, Powers This Light Bulb by Mary Mazzoni Published on December 5th, 2011 4 Comments ... More articles by Mary

Blueseed Project To Overcome Immigration Bureaucracy By Building Startup Incubator In the Ocean | Singularity Hub

2011-12-10T14:09:31Z

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Programming should take pride of place in our schools | Technology | The Observer

2011-12-04T13:51:29Z

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MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D Printer Kit - MakerBot Industries

2011-12-04T13:42:46Z

Kathryn Schulz: Don't regret regret - YouTube

2011-12-04T05:57:06Z

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BBC News - US senator calls for answers on phone 'snooping'

2011-12-04T05:37:41Z

The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a sn... called to account by a US Senator. Senator Al Franken has written to Carrier IQ asking it t ... Mr Eckhart claimed Carrier IQ software could log everyth ... Carrier IQ said its software helped d

TeaDipMOV - YouTube

2011-12-02T11:03:16Z

How content delivery networks (CDNs) work | NCZOnline

2011-12-02T10:40:52Z

Content delivery networks (CDNs) are an important part o... infrastructure that are frequently used without a full u... whatÃ¢â¬â¢s happening behind the scenes. YouÃ¢â¬â¢ll hear peop... we put that on the CDNÃ¢â¬Â or Ã¢â¬Åmake sure static assets ... when they h

The importance of a preservation strategy for your digital memories

2011-11-30T23:10:38Z

In October 2006, I was away on a business trip when a fr... event destroyed the contents of my familyÃ¢â¬â¢s rural home... oncoming five-foot wall of water, my wife had little tim... possessions. For all the things we lost that day, I stil... IÃ¢â¬â¢ve hear

About | Learning Resource Metadata Initiative

2011-11-22T13:24:27Z

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a pr... common vocabulary for describing educational content. Wh... benefits to such a project, the main goal of the initiat... end-user search and discovery of learning resources.

Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey relationship

2011-11-22T13:05:28Z

Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey... By John Timmer | Published about 17 hours ago You'll frequently hear references to a "software ecosyst ... The team went back to 1993 and compiled statistics on ev ... ... PNAS, 2011. DOI: 10.10

Facebook Is Badware (and Why Google Should Warn Its Users)

2011-11-22T08:51:29Z

The power of the written word | Ruth Stalker-Firth

2011-11-22T06:54:22Z

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Scans reveal how the brain's GPS helps us navigate from A to B | Science | The Guardian

2011-11-16T19:14:14Z

People walking on Old Compton Street in Soho, London One part of the brain keeps track of the straight line d ... Brain scans have revealed the workings of the brain's GP ... Two areas of the brain appear to take turns as our inter ... ... identify how th

Slide to Unlock: Wearable Multitouch Interaction Everywhere Ã¢â¬â get addicted to ... DAILY MIX OF CREATIVE CULTURE

2011-11-16T12:49:33Z

Slide to Unlock: Wearable Multitouch Interaction Everywhere Slide to Unlock. Chris Harrison completed this mesemerizing work while he ...

A List Apart: Articles: Dark Patterns: Deception vs. Honesty in UI Design

2011-11-16T11:31:08Z

We might not like to admit it but deception is deeply en... To fill the gap, darkpatterns.org was created in August ... If we put aside our moral quibbles letÃ¢â¬â¢s put ourselves ... LetÃ¢â¬â¢s continue a while as evil web designers: perhaps ... ... ominent

MicrosoftÃ¢â¬â¢s Code Space project combines Kinect, touchscreens for awesome meetings | VentureBeat

2011-11-16T08:51:16Z

Microsoft Research is at it again: The wily folks who cr... Dubbed Code Space, the project allows groups to collabor ... While still a very early concept, Code Space shows the p ... Why the need for so many input devices, when a simple wh ... The project

BBC News - US dismantles 'massive' cyber crime syndicate

2011-11-12T16:27:49Z

Cyber criminals who are alleged to have made $14m (ÃÂ£9m)... fraud have been arrested in Estonia. The FBI alleged that the gang infected more then four mi ...

2011-11-12T13:26:05Z

I have been collecting some random bits of advice that I... Lecturing Blackboard Technique Publish the same results several times. ... Be prepared for old age.

US court verdict 'huge blow' to privacy, says former WikiLeaks aide | World news | guardian.co.uk

2011-11-11T19:38:29Z

The Twitter users "voluntarily" turned over the internet... when they signed up for an account and relinquished an e... "Petitioners knew or should have known that their IP inf ... The fight comes amid widening concerns about online priv ... "I want eve

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

2011-11-09T16:09:00Z

So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now. It's a lot of this sort of thing. As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Futur ... My problem is the opposite, really Ã¢â¬â this vision, from ... ... or anything. I just hope to suggest

The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)

2011-11-09T16:04:06Z

I first came across the phrase social graph in 2007, in ... The idea of representing relationships between people as ... At the time he wrote, Fitzpatrick had two points to make ... Fitzpatrick subsequently went to work for Google, and hi ... ... ith the

DSPL: Dataset Publishing Language - Google Code

2011-11-08T16:27:46Z

DSPL is the Dataset Publishing Language, a representatio... Features Use existing data: Just add an XML metadata file to ... Powerful visualizations: Unleash the full capabiliti ... ... pen: Freely use the DSPL format in your own applications

Olly: A device that lets you smell the Internet - The Next Web

2011-11-08T15:25:42Z

While weÃ¢â¬â¢re used to seeing and hearing content on the ... it has never really had much of a look in. That changes ... a cool new product from LondonÃ¢â¬â¢s Mint Digital Foundry. Olly is a USB-powered device which takes events on the I ...

86th Birthday Rage [very long] [first post] [hello!] - Imgur

2011-11-06T09:00:57Z

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BBC - Archive - HG Wells on the Future - HG Wells | Science and the Citizen

2011-11-05T09:28:32Z

HG Wells addresses the British Association Conference on... 'Science and the Citizen'. In typical provocative style,... medium of the newspaper as dead and the art of journalis... He claims that reports in newspapers are unreliable and ... people migh

Yahoo Gives the iPad the Power to Understand TV - Technology Review

2011-11-04T08:59:43Z

A new iPad app from Yahoo can recognize any TV show by l... audio, and automatically serve up related Web content, s... related to a news broadcast or play-by-play stats for a ...

Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Hacktivists | TPM Idea Lab

2011-11-02T11:54:29Z

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Pachube :: blog: Bringing down the barriers: Pachube service goes free!

2011-11-02T09:57:46Z

So, why go free? No, we havenÃ¢â¬â¢t decided to become a no... weÃ¢â¬â¢re not just super-nice. What we are is ambitious. A... with and talked with many people in the Pachube communit... theyÃ¢â¬â¢re ambitious too. The Ã¢â¬ÅInternet of ThingsÃ¢â¬Â is a big idea (tho

Microsoft Pri0 | Getting ever closer to the Matrix: Augmented Projectors (video) | Seattle Times Newspaper

2011-11-02T08:44:00Z

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Unthinkable Consulting - Unthinkable Blog - Green shoots of linked (open) data aroundÃÂ news

2011-11-02T08:31:24Z

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2011-10-31T15:07:33Z

HaptiMap, Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps a... Services, is a project which receives financial support ... Commission in the Seventh Framework Programme, under the... If you are walking or cycling, and donÃ¢â¬â¢t want to (or a ... The HaptiMa

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2011-10-31T14:05:33Z

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Sorry, Dropbox, I still don't trust you | ZDNet

2011-10-30T19:09:40Z

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Nokia's new interface is seriously twisted - Mobile Phones

2011-10-30T19:06:04Z

Multi-touch revolutionised user interfaces, and, if Noki... their way, a mobile device that's sensitive to how it's ... be the next revolution. At the Nokia World show, the Finnish mobile phone maker ... While it was a real computing device with a real

BBC News - The only living master of a dying martial art

2011-10-30T08:31:06Z

A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be... master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shas... father of four is now engaged in a full-time search for ...

BBC News - The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic

2011-10-30T08:30:52Z

Mass panic and hysteria swept the United States on the e... 1938, when an all-too-realistic radio dramatisation of T... Worlds sent untold thousands of people into the streets ... The radio show was so terrifying in its accounts of inva ... Or, more ac

BBC News - About Time: The science of telling the time

2011-10-30T08:30:15Z

Time zones sometimes seem positively eccentric, affected... political, geographical and social changes in the real w... But as irregular as they are, if you want to divide the ... Our science reporter Rebecca Morelle has been finding ou ...

The 147 Companies That Control Everything - Forbes

2011-10-24T13:33:02Z

Visualizing the "super entity." Courtesy: New Scientist Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute o ... They discovered that global corporate control has a dist ...

New Malware Brings Cyberwar One Step Closer - Technology Review

2011-10-24T13:30:09Z

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the pad Ã¢â¬â DIY-AT paper to appear at ASSETS 2011!

2011-10-24T11:29:19Z

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Diffusion of innovations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2011-10-24T11:23:25Z

Diffusion of Innovations is a theory that seeks to expla... what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultur... a professor of rural sociology, popularized the theory i... Diffusion of Innovations. He said diffusion is the proce... innovation

Technology adoption lifecycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2011-10-24T11:22:42Z

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2011-10-24T11:21:44Z

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Shapeways | Passionate about creating

2011-10-24T11:18:39Z

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2011-10-24T11:18:26Z

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Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects

2011-10-24T11:17:50Z

This is a place to share digital designs that can be mad... physical objects. Let's create a better universe, together!

2011-10-23T10:06:19Z

MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for ... No more setup for readers. No more browser plugins. No m ... LaTeX: JÃÂ±(x)=Ã¢Ëâm=0Ã¢ËÅ¾(Ã¢Ëâ1)mm!Ãâ(m+ÃÂ±+1)(x2)2m+ÃÂ± ... (Math rendered by MathJax)

BlackBerry cuts made roads safer, police say - The National

2011-10-23T07:58:44Z

ABU DHABI // A dramatic fall in traffic accidents this w... directly linked to the three-day disruption in BlackBerr... In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from averag ...

List of Algorithms

2011-10-22T16:08:31Z

A complete list of all major algorithms (300), in any do... to provide a ready to run program for each one, or a des... algorithm. Programming languages include Java, JavaScrip... either in direct form or generated from a Scriptol source.

Lytro

2011-10-20T08:08:08Z

Lytro lets you take pictures like never before. Unlike a... camera that captures a single plane of light, the Lytro ... entire light field, which is all the light traveling in ... every point in space.

Google Analytics Blog: Introducing Flow Visualization: visualizing visitor flow

2011-10-20T08:07:38Z

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NaviRadar: A Novel Tactile Information Display for Pedestrian Navigation. - YouTube

2011-10-18T23:28:04Z

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Emotional Touch - YouTube

2011-10-18T23:27:33Z

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Taylor & Francis Online :: Creativity Research Journal - Aims & scope

2011-10-18T18:19:21Z

The well-established Creativity Research Journal publish... scholarly research capturing the full range of approache... creativity--behavioral, clinical, cognitive, cross-cultu... educational, genetic, organizational, psychoanalytic, ps... social. Int

Journal of Creative Behavior | Creative Education Foundation (CEF) - Where Brainstorming Began

2011-10-18T18:17:43Z

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How Google's Self-Driving Car Works - IEEE Spectrum

2011-10-18T17:03:56Z

google self-driving robotic car Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are ... Google's fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses has now logged ...

Data visualisation: in defence of bad graphics | News | guardian.co.uk

2011-10-18T09:04:52Z

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Funf | Open Sensing Framework

2011-10-17T13:14:00Z

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BPS Research Digest: Are we really blind to Internet banners?

2011-10-17T12:05:25Z

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Kern Type, the kerning game

2011-10-12T18:33:41Z

Why indoor navigation is so hard - O'Reilly Radar

2011-10-12T18:33:37Z

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I've been staring at this quote from James Dyson for the... on Twitpic

2011-10-11T16:54:01Z

Draw a Stickman

2011-10-11T16:53:37Z

TheyWorkForYou: Hansard and Official Reports for the UK Parliament, Scottish Parliament, and Northern Ireland Assembly - done right

2011-10-10T12:53:50Z

TheyWorkForYou lets you find out what your MP, MSP or ML... name, read debates, written answers, see whatÃ¢â¬â¢s coming... and sign up for email alerts when thereÃ¢â¬â¢s past or futu... someone or something youÃ¢â¬â¢re interested in.

CoRR - Computing Research Repository

2011-10-10T11:36:10Z

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With Ã¢â¬Ëfrictionless sharing,Ã¢â¬â¢ Facebook and news orgs push boundaries of online privacy | Poynter.

2011-09-30T22:20:18Z

The fact that my friend read an article is not useful wi... Did he like it? Did he think I would like it? Did it mak... A couple months ago I wrote about research that revealed ... The fact that people choose to keep most things private ... Ã¢â¬ÅSharing

Moods on Twitter Follow Biological Rhythms, Study Finds - NYTimes.com

2011-09-29T23:09:07Z

However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumb... Multimedia Graphic Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :) ... and expands on what is known about how mood fluctuates.

How to create a machine-based persona | Opinion | .net magazine

2011-09-29T17:11:35Z

Machines, including the likes of search engines, content... countless applications, are increasingly consuming web c... So what does this mean for designers and developers? Wor ... Research has shown that brands that have jumped on the A ... Then I real

Origo a 3D printer for everyone | What is Origo?

2011-09-29T14:05:53Z

What is Origo? Hello, I am Origo. I am a 3D printer for ten year olds. You can draw your very own things in 3Dtin and IÃ¢â¬â¢ll bu ... Right now, I am just an idea. I will be as easy to use a ... ... want it to be. Most of all though, IÃ¢â¬â¢m a tool for you.

Giant Tetris in Hevanta - Finland - YouTube

2011-09-27T21:54:13Z

Giant Tetris in Hevanta - Finland MCExperience Loading... 25,122 ... Giant Tetris in Hevanta - Finland

World's Biggest Tetris Game - YouTube

2011-09-27T21:53:50Z

World's Biggest Tetris Game stellagonzales Loading... 108,841 ... Source: http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/

La Bastille: A Tech House Art Installation

2011-09-27T21:53:31Z

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World's Biggest Snake Game - YouTube

2011-09-27T21:45:14Z

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Disney Mobile's Bart Decrem shows off Cars hybrid iPad app and toy - YouTube

2011-09-27T17:27:06Z

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Keep Calm, But Cease and Dissist | MetaFilter

2011-09-26T07:44:11Z

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Hackers liberate intelligent Christmas lights Ã¢â¬â and we have a string to give away - PowerSource | Blog on EDN

2011-09-24T17:54:17Z

Last year GE introduced the Ã¢â¬ÅColor EffectsÃ¢â¬Â G-35 str... Christmas lights, each individually adjustable as to col... Each light has a microprocessor and a serial communicati... string of lights, with a pre-set lighting options, sells... Last Novemb

A Brief History of the Emoticon

2011-09-22T12:52:10Z

Did you know the emoticon is almost 30 years old? Twenty... Fast-forward and the simple smiley has evolved Ã¢â¬â some ... To mark this anniversary, weÃ¢â¬â¢ve taken an abridged look ... 1. The Olden Days ... Thumbnail image courtesy of Laihiuyeung Ryanne

Microsoft details new Windows 8 file copy and move UI [video] | WinRumors

2011-09-20T13:35:29Z

Copy, moving, renaming and deleting make up around 50% o... usage according to MicrosoftÃ¢â¬â¢s Windows 7 telemetry dat... 8, we want to make sure that using these core file manag... which we collectively refer to as Ã¢â¬Åcopy jobs,Ã¢â¬Â is a ... experience,

2011-09-20T08:31:58Z

This tutorial gives a broad view of modern approaches fo... machine learning and data mining methods on parallel/dis... platforms. Demand for scaling up machine learning is tas... some tasks it is driven by the enormous dataset sizes, f... The tutoria

README.markdown at master from theshadowhost/Cite-the-PC - GitHub

2011-09-19T15:53:28Z

A command line and web app to find the papers you need t... paper published. Ever tried to get a paper published onl... reference papers you know were written by the programme ... suck up to get a paper accepted in your field? Now with Cite The PC, it'

Million Song Dataset | scaling MIR research

2011-09-19T15:45:23Z

The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collectio... Its purposes are: To encourage research on algorithms that scale to co ... To provide a reference dataset for evaluating research ... To help new researchers get started in the MIR f

Science Exchange // The Online Marketplace For Outsourcing Science Experiments

2011-09-19T15:23:54Z

Science Exchange is an online marketplace for science ex... is to make it easier for researchers to access core reso... institutions. Our first product, ScienceExchange.com bri... research scientists looking to outsource experiments wit... at core fac

Sending children through the post

2011-09-17T19:27:02Z

Child by mail This city letter carrier posed for a humorous photog ... By Jason Kottke

Like To Hit Snooze? This App Will Make You Think Twice - AllTwitter

2011-09-14T09:29:21Z

Mysterious paper sculptures - Central Station Blog post

2011-09-14T09:08:41Z

jStorage - simple JavaScript plugin to store data locally

2011-09-12T17:41:33Z

jStorage is a simple wrapper plugin for Prototype, MooTo... cache data (string, numbers, objects, even XML nodes) on...

About Full Fact | Full Fact

2011-09-12T12:34:54Z

Full Fact is an independent fact-checking organisation. ... to see the facts and context behind the claims made by t... British political debate and press those who make mislea... We have already successfully pressed for inaccurate clai ... Since its c

Arctic sea ice is melting at its fastest pace in almost 40 years | Environment | The Guardian

2011-09-12T11:26:44Z

This year, both the North-west and North-east passages w... Last month, the 74,000-tonne STI Heritage tanker passed ... The north-east sea route, which links the Atlantic to th ... Further evidence of dramatic change in the Arctic came l ... ... ear (20

Copenhagen's novel problem: too many cyclists | Amelia Hill | Environment | guardian.co.uk

2011-09-12T11:21:55Z

Local cycling federation and tourist organisation warn t... in the Danish capital can make riding intimidating

Concerns that proposed 4G broadband network might disable GPS

2011-09-12T09:11:10Z

Broadband communications and Global Positioning Systems ... technologies happily used by many walkers as navigation ... the still essential map and compass. And - as many smartphone users will testify - these two ... But this could change if a new 4G m

How to embed the JavaScript engine - MDN

2011-09-10T13:19:27Z

Hello World sample embedding application The following code is a very simple application that sho ...

A Plausible Thought About the Future: Safeguarding Privacy With Deception - Conor Friedersdorf - Technology - The Atlantic

2011-09-09T18:22:41Z

In the future, I wonder if it'll be common for people in... that to stop trying to scrub information from the Web, p... strategically add more content to the cloud as an elabor...

Developer Painkiller: Interactive API Docs

2011-09-07T19:14:45Z

Redesigning Docs for RESTful Web APIs In the past year, a new trend has emerged for web API do ... Companies such as Posterous, Wordnik and Google have led ... At Mashery, we were inspired by these new designs to bui ... ... already deployed I/O Docs for

BBC News - Vibrating suit to teach posture

2011-09-07T13:47:30Z

A vibrating suit has been designed at Birmingham City Un... teach nursing staff the correct technique when lifting a... patients. The suit vibrates until the correct posture has been ado ...

Equal Height Columns with jQuery

2011-09-06T13:56:50Z

Creating equal-height columns with CSS is sometimes a be... the hassle of faux columns, Ã¢â¬ÅclearÃ¢â¬Â divs and the res... of jQuery, you can easily equalize the heights of any gr...

Cross-Browser Support for HTML5 Placeholder Text in Forms

2011-09-06T13:56:07Z

HTML5 offers a lot of exciting new features in the realm... my favorite new additions to forms in HTML5 is the place... Placeholder text is the Ã¢â¬ÅhintÃ¢â¬Â or Ã¢â¬ÅexampleÃ¢â¬Â text...

Theory of Mind in Young People with DownÃ¢â¬â¢s Syndrome | IJPSY

2011-08-30T16:48:48Z

The ability to describe, assign and attribute certain me... referred to as Theory of Mind. This topic has been exten... the field of autism, where deficits in social interactio... characterize this disorder are thought to be due to a la... Mind. Howev

Visual Data Web - Visually Experiencing the Data Web

2011-08-29T17:44:36Z

This website provides an overview of our attempts to a m... Web. The term Data Web refers to the evolution of a mainly do ... The term Visual Data Web reflects our goal of making the ...

GENESYS: An Interactive Computer-Mediated Animation System - YouTube

2011-08-28T20:59:05Z

wasbuxton Loading... 175 views Uploaded by wasbuxton on Aug 22, 2011 ... ced the HCI Community. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 7 - 12.

Sketchpad - YouTube

2011-08-28T20:56:31Z

wasbuxton Loading... 8 views Uploaded by wasbuxton on Aug 24, 2011 ... http://billbuxton.com/LincolnLab.pdf

A List Apart: Articles: Making up Stories: Perception, Language, and the Web

2011-08-24T12:49:56Z

Storytelling is a buzzword with lots of different interp... the internet is killing stories, or itÃ¢â¬â¢s the best thin... them since the printing press.Ã¢â¬Â¨Ã¢â¬Â¨ Stories have been around as long as we have, helping us ...

The impact of Oracle's defense of API copyrights | ITworld

2011-08-23T18:41:24Z

BBC News - When algorithms control the world

2011-08-23T18:38:16Z

If you were expecting some kind warning when computers f... than us, then think again. There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing ... In reality, our electronic overlords are already taking ... Their weapon of choice - the algorithm.

Custom Web Scraping Services and Text Web Data Mining Software & Tools - Scraping Web

2011-08-23T11:06:30Z

Many web screen scraping tools exist. They are hard to l... fully satisfy your specific requirements and changing de... need custom Web scraping services rather than ready-made... nor any Web scraping software. In a custom scraping proj... you scrape

One API to Link Them All | uberblic

2011-08-23T11:05:46Z

There is an ever-increasing amount of data available on ... waiting to be integrated by product developers. But actu... more than just one API into a product poses a problem to... A location based product, for example, would aim to pull ... UberblicÃ¢â¬â¢

Writing the Dissertation: One Reason Why it is Difficult ÃÂ« Beki's Blog

2011-08-23T11:03:49Z

I have a theory about why writing the dissertation is su... The dissertation is a reflective document. It requires i ... And what self-critical researcher (which of course is wh ... This is not the writerÃ¢â¬â¢s fault. This is the fault of r ... ... IÃ¢â¬â¢d l

Tweet-a-Prisoner: Social Media and Prisoners ÃÂ« Clare Hooper's Blog

2011-08-23T11:00:36Z

A friend of mine called Mark Alexander is in prison, wro... HeÃ¢â¬â¢s been in prison for quite some months (good lord, ... (Andy and I have been discussing related issues of laten ... Email A Prisoner is a nice service, and has been complem ... So I was ab

Page 1 The programming secrets today's coders have forgotten - ComputerworldUK.com

2011-08-23T10:58:32Z

Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a... create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and... car's GPS (which has been done, it turns out). But there... predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

BenÃ¢â¬â¢s Blog - Inside Time Newspaper

2011-08-18T18:12:48Z

Lifer Ben GunnÃ¢â¬â¢s Prison Blog Ã¢â¬Â¦ the only blog by a se... prisoner which Ã¢â¬Ëlooks stupidity and ignorance in the e... attempting to inject some neurons into the criminologica...

Online TV Database - An open directory of television shows for HTPC software

2011-08-18T11:17:18Z

Welcome to TheTVDB.com. This site is an open database th... by anybody. Please click on login in the navigation to g... content and images on the site have been contributed by ... database schema and website are open source under the GP... This site a

Valuing patents: Doing the maths | The Economist

2011-08-18T10:51:49Z

GOOGLE'S $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility ... How might Google, a company famously fond of numbers and ... "Motorola has a portfolio of 24,500 patents and pate ... Using one of the industries recent patent auctions a ... ... lio and

Scotland Yard considered shutting down Twitter - Telegraph

2011-08-18T10:50:27Z

Tim Godwin, the Scotland Yard acting commissioner, said ... management team at Scotland Yard discussed shutting down... networking site "a few times" as rumours about further r...

WhoTweetedMe.com

2011-08-16T18:14:47Z

WhoTweetedMe.com will analyze a URL and show you its mos... retweeters, potential reach and timeline. Due to Twitter... It works best on blog post URLs that are between 1 day a...

Times Higher Education - Leader: Hours and hours of reckoning

2011-08-15T17:15:51Z

In higher education, it's not how much time you spend wi... what you do with it that should count What is a contact hour? How does a lecture with 70 other ...

India unveils prototype of $35 computer - ÃÂ Tech & Gadget - MSN CA

2011-08-15T17:13:57Z

MUMBAI, India - It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th ... unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet... which it hopes to bring into production by 2011. If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux ope ...

Police kill mobile phone service to squelch protest Ã¢â¬Â¢ The Register

2011-08-15T15:12:39Z

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...

Documentation | uberblic

2011-08-15T14:28:17Z

The Doppelganger service translates between IDs of entit... APIs. When you query Doppelganger with an entity ID, you... of that same entity in other APIs. In addition, a persis... serves as an anchor for your application that you can us... queries.

Skinput: Appropriating the Skin as an Interactive Canvas | August 2011 | Communications of the ACM

2011-07-26T14:39:12Z

Skinput is a technology that appropriates the skin as an... analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through t... Specifically, we resolve the location of finger taps on ... using a novel sensor array worn as an armband.

How BrowserID Works

2011-07-26T13:57:17Z

BBC News - Fragmented sleep 'harms memory'

2011-07-26T08:57:45Z

Broken sleep affects the ability to build memories, a st... suggests. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science findi ... The Stanford University found disrupting sleep made it h ...

Ã¢â¬ÂªPass-Them-Around: Collaborative Use of Mobile Phones for Photo Sharing (CHI 2011)Ã¢â¬Â¬Ã¢â¬Â - YouTube

2011-07-25T22:41:56Z

Pass-Them-Around is a phone-based application that allow... collocated people to share photos using the metaphor of ... photos around. The prototype encourages people to share ... use them interchangeably while discussing photos face-to... prototype s

happiest Public Beta Invitation

2011-07-25T21:46:07Z

Your social motivation network to explore, create and sh... happiest experiences

Microsoft Says It Will Give Your Data to the U.S. Government, Even If It's Not in the U.S. - ReadWriteCloud

2011-07-25T21:34:28Z

Microsoft has admitted that it will hand over data to th... if properly requested, even if that data is stored somew... the U.S.

Ã¢â¬ÂªThe Wednesdays - Sam's posterous

2011-07-25T12:57:18Z

The Wednesdays via youtube.com Reminded of this today by someone. Brilliant.

Anders Behring Breivik: Tunnel vision in an online world | Thomas Hylland Eriksen | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

2011-07-25T11:24:17Z

The role of the internet in fragmenting the public spher... subject of some scholarly and journalistic interest, mos... Pariser's excellent The Filter Bubble, which shows how G... and other major actors filter our web searches, updates ... our user pr

Open-data cities: The road to a digital Brighton | Cogapp

2011-07-25T11:02:37Z

What Apple Has That Google DoesnÃ¢â¬â¢t - An Auteur - NYTimes.com

2011-07-24T20:11:49Z

Two years ago, the technology blogger John Gruber presen... Auteur Theory of Design,Ã¢â¬Â at the Macworld Expo. Mr. Gr... The auteur, a film director who both has a distinctive v ... Ã¢â¬ÅThe quality of any collaborative creative endeavor te ... Two years a

About CloudMade

2011-07-22T19:18:00Z

CloudMade enables you to build dramatically different Lo... Applications and Services. CloudMade provides application developers with a range o ...

Data Web Marketing

2011-07-22T19:11:44Z

Kill Math

2011-07-21T14:54:02Z

The power to understand and predict the quantities of th... be restricted to those with a freakish knack for manipul... When most people speak of Math, what they have in mind i ... This mechanism of math evolved for a reason: it was the ... We are no l

The Internet of Things [Infographic] Ã¢â¬â Tech News and Analysis

2011-07-18T20:20:39Z

In 2008, the number of devices that connected to the Int... number of people. That number continues to rise, thanks ... number of connected devices and gizmos, ranging from tel... machines. Folks at Cisco have put together this infograp... the growth

This chip makes sure you always buy your round | Science | The Observer

2011-07-12T11:27:31Z

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic. Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

andrew losowsky - I've got you under my skin

2011-07-12T11:27:11Z

Two months ago, Baja announced it would be the first nig... to offer their VIPs something more than a gold-plated en... wanted it could have a microchip implanted under their s... only guarantees entry but provides access to a debit acc... they can pa

Microchip implant (human) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2011-07-12T11:21:44Z

The hand of microchip implant hobbyist Amal Graafstra, j... operation to insert an RFID tag. The yellow coloration c... used to disinfect the hand for surgery.

Radio-frequency identification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2011-07-08T10:01:51Z

Some business establishments give customers the option o... RFID-based tab to pay for service, such as the Baja Beac... Barcelona.[114] This has provoked concerns into privacy ... they can potentially be tracked wherever they go by an i... to them.

US anti-piracy body targets foreign website owners for extradition | Technology | The Guardian

2011-07-04T14:29:26Z

British website owners could face extradition to the US ... even if their operation has no connection to America and... which is most probably legal in the UK, the official lea... The US's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE ... As long as

Facebook Export - Export Your Facebook Data

2011-07-03T21:41:18Z

Facebook Export uses the Facebook Open Graph protocol to... Facebook data to an xml file. Facebook Export does not s... about you. You can then use this xml file to import your... services and websites that support the Facebook Export (...

Bounded Rationality

2011-07-02T07:42:11Z

Bounded Rationality: A Response to Rational Analysis Simon criticizes Anderson's proposed rational analysis a ... Humans are not optimal and only in some cases locall ... Assumptions made by cognitive modelers about how an ... ... theory based u

Latest Updates - DocumentCloud

2011-06-27T18:09:48Z

Code Drop: VisualSearch.js Posted Jun 23rd, 2011 Tags ... t, so you donÃ¢â¬â¢t have to manually re-parse it yourself.

Optimizely Open-Sources Guiders.js, a Library to Help You Guide New Users - The Optimizely Blog

2011-06-27T18:08:17Z

Today weÃ¢â¬â¢re open-sourcing a JavaScript library for vis... A guider is a dialog box that guides a user through your ... This example guider is not attached to any element and h ... Screen_shot_2011-06-22_at_6 An example guider attached to the "Add Varia

HAL - Hypertext Application Language

2011-06-21T18:27:29Z

CoffeeScript

2011-06-19T19:41:37Z

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into Jav... all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScr... a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an... the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

China military paper urges steps against U.S. cyber war threat | Reuters

2011-06-18T14:55:41Z

(Reuters) - China must boost its cyber-warfare strength ... Pentagon push, the country's top military newspaper said... weeks of friction over accusations that Beijing may have... of Internet hacking attacks.

BBC News - African jitters over blogs and social media

2011-06-18T14:55:13Z

African governments are turning to more sophisticated te... internet sites and bloggers who they perceive to be a th... That is the conclusion of The Committee for the Protecti ...

The traveler's vade mecum: or ... - Google Books

2011-06-18T14:32:03Z

ÃÂ ÃÂ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium

2011-06-14T16:06:46Z

An individual is the only ethical integration point for ... Our purpose is to catalyze a Personal Data Ecosystem whe ... The Startup Circle - for startups committed to putti ... 1 Million People for Personal Data - gathers people ... Industr

WAI-ARIA Overview

2011-06-13T11:58:05Z

WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suit... make Web content and Web applications more accessible to... disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content a... interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript... technologie

Database.com

2011-06-10T08:13:00Z

The enterprise cloud database from salesforce.com Designed for the next generation of apps Cloud: auto elasticity, auto security & auto backups Open APIs & Authentication: REST, SOAP & OAuth ... Secure: Trusted by 87,000+ businesses & governme

API Growth Doubles in 2010, Social and Mobile Are Trends

2011-06-05T07:36:24Z

Was 2010 the year of the API? Some have claimed this eac... years, with the next always eclipsing the previous. Ther... APIs added to our API directory in 2010, two times the n... 2009. Greater trends on the web are being played out, as... the most po

Mashape, the Marketplace for APIs, Moves to Beta

2011-06-05T07:24:51Z

API providers can list their JSON APIs, which using Mash... in turn auto-generate five client libraries - PHP, Ruby,... Objective-C, and Java. The new billing tool lets develop... monthly price, API call limits, and the price per additi... Consumers c

PHP Microdata Parser - Library to parse microdata from HTML

2011-06-03T16:50:37Z

Microdata is a proposed feature of HTML 5 that allows se... information to be embedded within the markup of a web pa... Why PHP Microdata? One of the most interesting features of the Microdata sp ... The library allows one to parse out the structured Mi

Of Data Scientists, Big Data, the City and Dancers ÃÂ« Rev Dan Catt's Blog

2011-06-03T07:45:37Z

So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to sayÃ¢â¬Â¦ You want a Dancer not a Scientist.

BBC News - A wild ride to the Faroe Islands

2011-06-03T07:43:06Z

On display, I spotted a book written by one of the Briti... It was entitled Kansha - The Land of Maybe - which it se ... Back at the airport I told Magni Arge, the chief executi ... "Kansha means more than maybe," he explained. ... and respecting their a

BBC News - Creating Cumbria's musical hill

2011-06-03T07:38:42Z

Five hundred musical instruments, powered only by the wi... The sound made by the instruments, some conventional and ... French composer Pierre Sauvageot, along with French grou ... He explains how it works and how his team went about ins ... "Harmonic F

MpembaÃ¢â¬â¢s baffling discovery: can hot water freeze before cold? (1969) | Skulls in the Stars

2011-06-02T17:03:45Z

Ã¢â¬ÅMy name is Erasto B Mpemba, and I am going to tel... discovery, which was due to misusing a refrigerator.Ã¢â¬Â With those words, Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba entere ...

peterorntoft.com

2011-06-01T08:23:20Z

The project deals with data from a list of the social re... the Danish people. The list is the result of an opinion ... consultancy company in Denmark. I have used the context ... opinion polls within each interest to shape and design d... so the rece

This Guy Has My MacBook

2011-06-01T08:22:10Z

On March 21, 2011, my MacBook was stolen from my apartme... I reported the crime to the police and even told them wh... they couldn't help me due to lack of resources. Meanwhil... Update: (May 31, 8:37 PM PST) ARRESTED! An Oakland polic ... Update: (Ma

Hidden - The most advanced theft tracking software for your Mac.

2011-06-01T08:21:12Z

When you activate tracking, Hidden will locate your stol... anywhere on the planet, collect photos of the thief and ... the computer in use. (We also collect lots of nerdy netw... but we wonÃ¢â¬â¢t bore you with the details!)

Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework

2011-05-31T20:08:03Z

This paper provides insights into the concepts underlyin... framework for open reference linking in the web-based sc... information environment. The discussion starts by briefl... problems with reference linking that were initially desc... addressed a

Hidden device distorts news on wireless networks, brews beer, is time machine - Hack a Day

2011-05-30T15:48:38Z

We covered the Newstweek, a wall-wart sized box that inj... stories over public WiFi connections last February, but ... great walk through and it seems our doubts about this pr... The Newstweek uses ARP spoofing to change the text displ ... Aside from

Stream(SQL) Event Processing with Esper - igvita.com

2011-05-30T07:12:57Z

The growth of both the types and the amount of data gene... users, and applications have resulted in a number of rec... innovations: NoSQL, rise of popularity of Hadoop, and do... higher-level map-reduce frameworks. However, the batch-p... What if we

Bolinfest Changeblog: GData: I can't take it anymore

2011-05-30T06:33:46Z

I have been playing with GData since I was on the Google... in 2005/2006. My experiences with GData can be summarize... graph:

McKinsey & Company - Report - Internet matters: The netÃ¢â¬â¢s sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity - May 2011

2011-05-26T16:28:28Z

The Internet's impact on global growth is rising rapidly... accounted for 21 percent of GDP growth over the last fiv... developed countries MGI studied, a sharp acceleration fr... contribution over 15 years. Most of the economic value c... Internet fa

Full text of Obama's speech to UK parliament - CNN.com

2011-05-25T17:56:34Z

In other words, we live in a global economy that is larg... making. And today, the competition for the best jobs and... countries that are free-thinking and forward-looking; co... most creative, innovative, entrepreneurial citizens. That gives nations

SEMIC.EU - The Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe

2011-05-25T14:50:42Z

SEMIC.EU is a participatory platform and a service by th... Commission that supports the sharing of assets of intero... used in public administration and eGovernment

The smallest 3D printer in the world ÃÂ« 3d printing event

2011-05-25T13:58:30Z

A research project at the Vienna University of Technolog... turn futuristic 3D-printers into affordable everyday items. Printers which can produce three-dimensional objects hav ... Several scientific fields have to come together, to desi ...

3D LED Cube,LED Cube,3D LED Display,Light Cube | Seekway Technology Ltd.

2011-05-24T14:58:05Z

YouTube - 3D LED Cube(323232=32768 pixels)

2011-05-24T14:56:22Z

3D LED Cube(32*32*32=32768 pixels)

Zend Framework: Documentation: Introduction - Zend Framework Manual

2011-05-24T13:17:58Z

Zend_OpenId is a Zend Framework component that provides ... What is OpenID? OpenID is a set of protocols for user-centric digital id ... For more information about OpenID visit the ÃÂ» OpenID of ... ... ing an additional direct request to the OpenID provi

3D Systems | Personal 3D Printers - RapMan Kits, BFB3000 and V-Flash

2011-05-23T18:50:07Z

3D Systems has long been committed to providing great te... to the growing 3D Printing segment. In 2009 we launched ... 3D printer and began to better understand the barriers t... utilization. We are now working on a multi-front strateg... access and

TechShop is the SF Bay Area's Only Open-Access Public Workshop -- What Do You Want To Make at TechShop?

2011-05-23T18:49:20Z

You can think of TechShop like a fitness club, but with ... TechShop is designed for everyone, regardless of their s ... TechShop is perfect for inventors, makers, hackers, tink ... TechShop provides you with access to a wide variety of m ... TechShop is

Ponoko media center - About Us - Ponoko

2011-05-23T18:47:54Z

Ponoko is an online marketplace for everyone to click to... ItÃ¢â¬â¢s where creators, digital fabricators, materials su ... We kicked off at TechCrunch40 at the end of 2007 with a ... The core of this vision is the trade in product designs ... ... nstead

BBC News - Hard to explain how bad economic crisis is, says Cable

2011-05-21T21:30:59Z

Business Secretary Vince Cable says it has been a challe... government to explain to the public how bad a state the ... He told the Guardian the country was poorer because of t ... Britain is no longer one of the "price-setters" in world ... "We have ha

LANGUAGE AND COGNITION

2011-05-21T10:00:40Z

Language and Cognition is the journal of the UK Cognitiv... Association. It is a venue for the publication of high q... peer-reviewed research of a theoretical and/or empirical... nature, focusing on the interface between language and c... open to res

NHS IT project 'has cost billions without delivering ANY benefits' | Mail Online

2011-05-21T09:33:21Z

The NHSÃ¢â¬â¢ controversial project to computerise all pati... cost billions of pounds without delivering any benefits,... damning report. It warns the project is running years behind schedule an ...

The Right to Read - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

2011-05-21T09:13:49Z

The right to read is a battle being fought today. Althou... years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity... specific laws and practices described above have already... many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere.... 1998 Digita

BBC News - Amondawa tribe lacks abstract idea of time, study says

2011-05-21T09:02:19Z

An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say ... The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate ... The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while t ... The idea is a controversial one, and further study will ...

Tim Harford's Adapt: How to fund research so that it generates insanely great ideas, not pretty good ones. - By Tim Harford - Slate Magazine

2011-05-19T12:04:33Z

Whichever way they sliced the data, Azoulay, Manzo and Z... that the more open-ended, risky HHMI grants were funding... important, unusual, and influential research. HHMI resea... no better qualified than their NIH-funded peers, were fa... The HHMI re

About | DataSift: Realtime Social Data Mining Platform

2011-05-17T12:34:31Z

DataSift is the real time social media filtering engine ... which builds upon the success of TweetMeme, the consumer... MediaSift Ltd. DataSift provides very granular and modular Ã¢â¬ËsiftingÃ¢â¬ ... The world is moving to streams, and consumers will consu

HTTP Protocol for RDF Stores ÃÂ« IvanÃ¢â¬â¢s private site

2011-05-17T12:32:05Z

I think it is worthwhile calling attention on one of the... not be seen as a Ã¢â¬ÅcoreÃ¢â¬Â SPARQL query language docume... Graph Store HTTP Protocol. Indeed, this document stands a little bit apart. Instead ...

Open Data Protocol (OData)

2011-05-17T12:29:17Z

There is a vast amount of data available today and data ... collected and stored at a rate never seen before. Much, ... this data however is locked into specific applications o... The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for que ... OData is co

UK: Google Zeitgeist 2011 Keynote address by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt Hon George Osborne MP

2011-05-17T12:25:58Z

Our ambition is to become the world leader in open data,... accountability revolution that the internet age has unle...

About Us | Open Culture

2011-05-16T17:44:22Z

Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & edu... the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has g... amounts of intelligent audio and video. ItÃ¢â¬â¢s all free.... enriching. But itÃ¢â¬â¢s also scattered across the web, and... Our whole m

My hairiest bug war stories

2011-05-16T12:55:46Z

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About: Linked Railway Data Project Datasets

2011-05-13T20:13:44Z

This dataset contains information for virtually all UK r... for the lines (routes) that the stations lie on. Links a... the stations and routes, and between adjacent stations. ... included to Wikipedia, dbpedia.org, the National Rail En... and geoname

Lost Garden: Visualizing the Creative Process

2011-05-13T15:33:13Z

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30 excellent free ux tools ÃÂ«

2011-05-13T15:22:09Z

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Lost Garden: Game Design Logs

2011-05-13T15:14:08Z

Game design is a process of informed iteration, not a fi... How to write a design log Start with a concept: At the very bottom of the des ... Build the prototype: Design logs exist as a supplem ... ... stuff is at the top and the old stuff is

Google Lobbies Nevada To Allow Self-Driving Cars - NYTimes.com

2011-05-12T10:09:51Z

Google, a pioneer of self-driving cars, is quietly lobby... that would make Nevada the first state where they could ... on public roads.

Let Kids Play With Fire, and Other Rules for Good Parenting - Veronique Greenwood - Life - The Atlantic

2011-05-12T09:53:02Z

The Atlantic Home Thursday, May 12, 2011 Follow the Atlantic ÃÂ» Twitter Facebook RSS iPhone ... w up, with a little common sense and a lot of curiosity.

In a World Without Tracking & Cookies, Can Online Commerce Succeed?

2011-05-11T13:04:28Z

A core tenet of Buyosphere is a C2B (thatÃ¢â¬â¢s consumer-t... communication flow. In other words, rather than business... gathering data on your behavior and pushing advertising ... Ã¢â¬ÅAt Buyosphere, you gather what you buy and own, a ... As the Do N

Android And Chrome: Anywhere And Everywhere

2011-05-11T10:20:34Z

Google is approaching a watershed moment in its internal... time is nearly at hand when they will have to decide onc... Android is, what Chrome OS is, and where they are both g... to say it has not been internally decided and even worke... The hint is

GOACOM-Kuwait Konkanni Kendr

2011-05-11T08:51:24Z

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sorttable: Make all your tables sortable

2011-05-10T16:33:38Z

This is not a new trick, sorting a table using the DOM. ... Now, how to use it. To make a table of your choice sorta ... Download the Javascript library Include the Javascript library, by putting a link to ... ... w have column sorting available

The UK's Budget Deficit Explained

2011-05-09T20:14:33Z

This graph shows how the UK's budget deficit has fluctua... of the country's economic output (GDP): UK budget deficit by GDP

UK Retail Price Index since 1960

2011-05-09T20:11:24Z

Retail Price Index Since 1960 Consumer and Retail Price Indices 1996 onwards. Retail Price Index by month: 1976 - 1995. January 1987=100. The index is for December. The annual ...

Deficit, national debt and government borrowing - how has it changed since 1946? | News | guardian.co.uk

2011-05-09T20:10:53Z

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics ... borrowing up to October 2010. The figures go all the way... 1940s. It seems that all the political parties have face... of debt through the years - as if the economic climate h... independent

Time series changes: Office for National Statistics

2011-05-09T20:02:26Z

On the new website access to detailed time series data w... new data explorer tool. Users will also be able to use t... facility to find datasets that contain specific time ser... interested in (including searching by CDID). Complete detailed time seri

National Statistics Online - Time Series Data

2011-05-09T19:59:22Z

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Guernica / Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin LadenÃ¢â¬â¢s Death

2011-05-09T19:34:54Z

ItÃ¢â¬â¢s increasingly clear that the operation was a plann... multiply violating elementary norms of international law... have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as... have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no oppos... they claim,

What is NaPTAN?

2011-05-09T13:43:06Z

National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN) Local authorities are using NaPTAN to code information f ...

jQuery plugin: Tablesorter 2.0

2011-05-09T08:24:42Z

tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HT... Multi-column sorting Parsers for sorting text, URIs, integers, currency, ... Support secondary "hidden" sorting (e.g., maintain a ... ... Small code size

Dalek 6388 - A History of the Dalek Props from 1963 to 1988 - Doctor Who and The Daleks

2011-05-08T17:01:22Z

"An exhaustive - if bonkers - work of genius!" Mike Tucker In the spring of 2002, before most of the world had hear ...

The Battle of Tiree Sheaves ÃÂ« Struthan Cottages Ã¢â¬â Tiree Accommodation

2011-05-08T09:29:37Z

This ancient Tiree battle is believed to have been fough... Vikings try to take Tiree Vikings try to take Tiree Fionn (meaning Ã¢â¬ÅFairÃ¢â¬Â) was the son of an irish mothe ... The story continues with the Norsemen landing and the ba ...

Sorting algorithms as dances

2011-05-07T20:15:22Z

You may well have seen many simulations of sorting algor... show in novel ways how the algorithm works or perhaps do... as well as it should. However I guarantee that you have ... Take one Central European folk dancing team, a small fol ... sortdance

Pachube - data infrastructure for the Internet of Things

2011-05-07T12:07:44Z

Store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and envi... objects, devices & buildings around the world. Pachube is a convenient, secure & scalable platform that ...

Arnetminer Introduction

2011-05-07T12:04:48Z

Arnetminer (arnetminer.org) aims to provide comprehensiv... services for researcher social networks. In this system,... creating a semantic-based profile for each researcher by... information from the distributed Web; (2) integrating ac... the bibliog

sabredav - SabreDAV is a WebDAV framework for PHP - Google Project Hosting

2011-05-05T15:28:59Z

SabreDAV allows you to easily add WebDAV support to a PH... Feature list: Fully WebDAV compliant Supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS/X, DavFSv ... ... CalDAV ctag, CalDAV-proxy.

Flattr - Social micropayments

2011-05-05T15:24:32Z

Flattr was founded to help people share money, not just ... Flattr, the only reasonable way to donate has been to us... The team that makes it happen ÃÂ» donations if it wasn't for a really important cause. Sen ... Flattr solves this issue. When you're r

news - Is 23,148,855,308,184,500 a magic number, or sheer chance? - Stack Overflow

2011-05-05T11:14:20Z

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Charlie Brooker | Google Instant is trying to kill me | Comment is free | The Guardian

2011-05-05T09:42:43Z

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Email: How do you manage it? ÃÂ« Beki's Blog

2011-05-05T09:41:31Z

I was just recently asked how I dealt with my email. Tha... * I take reassurance knowing that others clearly canÃ¢â¬â¢t ... * When I think its going to distract me, I quit my mail ... * When reading email I try to decide whether a task can ... ... What do

neo4j open source nosql graph database ÃÂ»

2011-05-04T17:47:15Z

Neo4j is a high-performance graph engine with all the fe... and robust database. The programmer works with an object... flexible network structure rather than with strict and s... yet enjoys all the benefits of a fully transactional, en... database. F

Home - GitHub

2011-05-04T17:46:15Z

Blueprints is a collection of interfaces, implementation... and test suites for the property graph data model. Bluep... to the JDBC, but for graph databases. As such, it provid... interfaces to allow developers to plug-and-play their gr... backend. Mo

Adrian Short ÃÂ» Blog Archive ÃÂ» Boris says bye-bye to indie Boris Bikes developers

2011-05-04T12:10:51Z

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Twitter angers third-party developers with 'no more timelines' urging | Technology | guardian.co.uk

2011-05-04T12:10:23Z

Twitter tells software developers not to try to mimic fu... 'timeline' apps - but missteps by official apps suggest ... alternatives still needed

Lawnchair

2011-05-04T11:33:27Z

a client side JSON document store. Perfect for webkit mo... Fork me on GitHub Features micro tiny storage without the nasty SQL: pure and d ... ... se syntax for searching and therefore finding of objects

Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit!

2011-05-04T11:30:08Z

Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit! How much library code do you really need Ã¢â¬â 50K? 100K? ... Sure, we all love our favorite monolithic frameworks, an ... ... akes it easy for you to pick one thatÃ¢â¬â¢ll work for you.

Underscore.js

2011-05-04T11:29:40Z

Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that... the functional programming support that you would expect... (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in Jav... It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux. Underscore provides 60-odd f

Tweet Library - damon / osamaraidlivetweets

2011-05-02T11:16:32Z

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Self-Powering, Wireless Energy Sensors Join the Internet | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

2011-05-01T20:27:56Z

EnOcean's self-powering sensors -- found inside these sw... Humans are inherently inefficient creatures. We leave li ... And despite the advances in computing power over the pas ... Ã¢â¬ÅMost buildings today are dumb,Ã¢â¬Â says EnOcean Chairm ... ... through

Create Facebook Fanpages easily with Free Wordpress Templates!

2011-04-29T07:45:42Z

As of March 11th Facebook removed itÃ¢â¬â¢s Static FBML app... Facebook Fan Pages. Instead, theyÃ¢â¬â¢re forcing everyone ... iFrame applications, making it a lot harder to create an... pagesÃ¢â¬Â¦ We figured there should be an easy way to create and mai ...

How Dmoz.org can help your Google Ranking | Beatrice Whelan Website Developer Extraordinaire Blog

2011-04-29T07:44:45Z

DMOZ.org, also known as The Open Directory Project is Ã¢â¬... DonÃ¢â¬â¢t be put off by the archaic style of DMOZ.org, it ... Google Snippets Snippets are the two lines of text that appear below you ... ... ich your website is classified and then submit your

XL: The 1900 Date System vs. the 1904 Date System

2011-04-23T08:41:45Z

Microsoft Excel supports two different date systems: the... and the 1904 date system. This article describes the two... the problems that you may encounter when you use workboo... different date systems.

Magic number (programming) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2011-04-23T08:40:31Z

Magic debug values Magic debug values are specific values written to memory ... Since it is very unlikely, although possible, that a 32- ... Famous and common examples include: ... in a live environment to reduce errors[citation needed].

IBM Research | | arun_kumar | WWTW - The World Wide Telecom Web (a.k.a. The Spoken Web)

2011-04-05T08:16:47Z

WWTW - The World Wide Telecom Web (a.k.a. The Spoken Web) The World Wide Telecom Web (also referred to as The Spok ... The World Wide Telecom Web Past and Present Collaborators: ... Related Publications are available here

Gmail Motion April Fools' gag inevitably turned into reality using Kinect (video) -- Engadget

2011-04-04T08:22:41Z

Gmail Motion April Fools' gag inevitably turned into rea... (video) By Vlad Savov posted Apr 2nd 2011 1:24PM It had to happen. When Google showed off a new and revol ...

Gmail Motion BETA

2011-04-01T09:05:43Z

The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet... Since then, countless technological advancements have al... more efficient human computer interaction. Why then do w... outdated technology? Introducing Gmail Motion -- now you... with your b

Fisher Space Pen

2011-03-25T10:16:58Z

During the first NASA missions the astronauts used penci... During this time period, Paul C. Fisher of the Fisher Pe ... Fisher developed his space pen with no NASA funding. The ... Fisher offered the pens to NASA in 1965, but, because of ... ... rt into

BBC News - Can libraries survive in a digital world?

2011-03-17T06:13:46Z

"Communities need libraries more than they ever have don... are in a superb position to help [during difficult econo... "People who say 'we don't need libraries because it's al ...

REAL Software: Real Studio, Best Development Tool for Mac, Windows and Linux

2011-03-13T15:08:30Z

Real Studio is a full-featured, cross-platform software ... suited to creating a wide range of applications, from ut... enterprise-class applications. Real Studio is the only o... cross-platform software development tool that enables us... to create p

The Problem With Code-Point Open From Ordnance Survey Ã¢â¬â Jamie Thompson

2011-03-13T14:40:26Z

The Code-Point Open dataset is advertised with the bold ... Ã¢â¬ÅCode-Point Open locates every postcode unit in the UK... precisionÃ¢â¬Â. Unfortunately this is simply untrue, and a... me to point this out, theyÃ¢â¬â¢ve fallen at the first hurd... Northern Ir

UK Postcode -> geocode (latitude,longitude) - Flat, Baroque & Berserk

2011-03-13T14:38:17Z

Want to find the latitude/longitude of any UK postcode? ... Wales, and Northern Ireland? Read these first: The problem with code point open from ordnance survey Code point open northern ireland addendum Then follow these instructions:

Refractions Research : PostGIS

2011-03-13T14:35:31Z

PostGIS is a spatial database extension for the popular ... object-relational database. PostGIS Ã¢â¬Åspatially enables... server, allowing it to be used as a back-end spatial dat... geographic information systems (GIS) and web-mapping app... same manner

LiSC ÃÂ« Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre

2011-03-12T19:15:47Z

The most important issue that came to light was that dat... readily available in on-line API formats and are current... masses of spreadsheets that need to be downloaded and ho... worked into a usable and highly available format. If thi... process is

Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, Akerman, Karrow, McCarter

2011-03-10T21:19:19Z

Maps are universal forms of communication, easily unders... appreciated regardless of culture or language. This trul... introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever cons... volume: maps from different time periods and a variety o... made for di

Precisely Defining the World's Emoticons - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

2011-03-10T08:25:43Z

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... unicode.jpg

About - Statistical Analysis - Stack Exchange

2011-03-08T18:05:51Z

This is a free, community driven Q&A for statisticians, ... miners and data visualization experts.

BBC GEL Social Media Icons Ã¢â¬â the set | nicepaul.com

2011-03-08T11:52:04Z

BBC GEL Social Media Icons v1.0 Back in April, before I left Clearleft, I started creati ... The BBCÃ¢â¬â¢s icons were lovely, single-colour icons, and ... When BBC News (my news source of choice) launched a beau ... ... d I claim no ownership of the logos

Feuz

2011-03-04T12:54:46Z

Web search engines have become indispensable tools for f... online effectively. As the range of information, context... Internet searches has grown, the relationship between th... search interest and user has become more tenuous. Not al... seeking the

Docvert - Microsoft Word to Open Standards [current 4.0]

2011-03-02T16:12:33Z

Docvert takes word processor files (typically .doc) and ... Web Service receives .doc file and converts it to a Open ... The resulting OpenDocument is then optionally converted ... The result is returned in a .zip file. Docvert has a user-friendly inter

zeroclipboard - Project Hosting on Google Code

2011-03-02T16:02:37Z

The Zero Clipboard library provides an easy way to copy ... clipboard using an invisible Adobe Flash movie, and a Ja... interface. The "Zero" signifies that the library is invi... interface is left entirely up to you. This library is fully compatible w

Tagged datasets for named entity recognition tasks

2011-03-02T13:36:57Z

Tagged datasets for named entity recognition tasks

Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) Evaluation

2011-03-02T13:36:45Z

The objective of the ACE program is to develop automatic... technology to support automatic processing of human lang... from a variety of sources (such as newswire, broadcast c... weblogs). ACE technology R&D is aimed at supporting various classificati

The Stanford NLP (Natural Language Processing) Group

2011-03-02T13:30:49Z

CRFClassifier is a Java implementation of a Named Entity... Entity Recognition (NER) labels sequences of words in a ... names of things, such as person and company names, or ge... names. The software provides a general (arbitrary order)... linear chai

Acromine

2011-03-02T11:34:03Z

Acronyms result from a highly productive type of term va... substitutes fully expanded terms (e.g., retinoic acid re... shortened term-forms (e.g., RARA). Even though no generi... patterns have been established for dealing with acronym ... Acromine is

BBC News - Graduates - the new measure of power

2011-03-02T09:14:52Z

At the beginning of the last century, the power of natio... measured in battleships and coal. In this century it's as likely to be graduates. There has been an unprecedented global surge in the numb ... Among the developed OECD countries, graduation rate

BBC News - Harvard researcher rejects Google's 'personal attack'

2011-03-02T08:56:10Z

Harvard researcher rejects Google's 'personal attack' Google logo Google is under investigation by the Europea ... Continue reading the main story Related stories ... onal attacks" to distract people from its own behaviour.

Measuring Bias in "Organic" Web Search

2011-03-02T08:47:18Z

By comparing results between leading search engines, we ... in their algorithmic search listings. We find that each ... favors its own services in that each search engine links... services more often than other search engines do so. But... engines pro

d3.js

2011-03-01T12:35:40Z

D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Objec... then apply data-driven transformations to the document. ... example, you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table f... numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive ... D3 is not a

Measuring your Hand for Gloves

2011-02-24T13:51:38Z

Your Glove Size picture of hand To find out your glove size, measure (i ... Glove Size Equivalents Some manufacturers indicate glove sizes by number and ot ... ... (example: A 7" measurement equals a size 7 glove)

Glove Size Chart

2011-02-24T13:51:12Z

To ensure a proper fit: Measure your hand with a tape me... * Measure your hand with a tape measure around the k ... * Measure your dominant hand - the right if you are ... Note: some manufacturers indicate glove sizes by inches ... ... xx-larg

Visualising Data ÃÂ» Blog Archive ÃÂ» Best of the restÃ¢â¬Â¦ January 2011

2011-02-24T13:50:35Z

At the end of each month I pull together a collection of... the most relevant, interesting and useful articles IÃ¢â¬â¢v... during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter y... of these items tweeted as soon as I find them. HereÃ¢â¬â¢s ... collection

Seradina - Bedolina [Bedolina Map, Seradina - Bedolina Archaeological Park] Cup and Ring marks / Rock Art : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:

2011-02-24T10:41:37Z

A new rock with Ã¢â¬Åtopographic compositionsÃ¢â¬Âdiscovered... Valcamonica, Italy by Alberto Marretta The Bedolina area is today known mostly for one unique r ... In general the imagery found in Bedolina links both with ...

The Park of Seradina - Bedolina

2011-02-24T10:38:32Z

Just beyond the Cemmo Boulders there is the area of Sera... divided into four sectors. Most figures of this area dat... and the Iron Age (from the end of the third till the fir... B.C.). The rocks have small dimensions and present many ... The upper p

New rock art discoveries in Bedolina, Valcamonica (Italy)

2011-02-24T10:32:52Z

CRAWDAD

2011-02-22T07:53:50Z

CRAWDAD is the Community Resource for Archiving Wireless... a wireless network data resource for the research commun... has the capacity to store wireless trace data from many ... locations, and staff to develop better tools for collect... and analyzi

Copyright Intellectual Property Form Protection Information

2011-02-16T10:47:39Z

The First Case in History The first historic mention of Copyright, which set the u ... Columcille had taken to visiting monasteries, borrowing ...

www.2-sight.com

2011-02-14T14:13:30Z

The device consists of a tiny camera and transmitter mou... an implanted receiver, and an electrode-studded array th... the retina with a microtack the width of a human hair. A... The camera on the glasses captures an image and sends th ... Second Sigh

About DataMarket Ã¢â¬â DataMarket

2011-02-12T20:35:37Z

Launched in May 2010, DataMarket.com is a data portal th... to statistics and structured data from various public an... organizations. This enables users to find, compare, visualize and downl ... Access to public sector and other open and free data is

Email Previews and Rendering Tests - Litmus

2011-02-11T13:26:36Z

Litmus lets you preview your campaigns across 34 email c... Preview in real email clients Litmus shows you screenshots of your email newsletter as ... Check on mobile devices See your email on the most popular mobile devices. Litmu ...

ongoing by Tim Bray ÃÂ· Slow REST

2011-02-08T10:37:42Z

To summarize: For any and all PUT/POST/DELETE operations... In progressÃ¢â¬Â and a new Ã¢â¬ÅStatusÃ¢â¬Â resource, which co... progress indicator, a target_uri for whateverÃ¢â¬â¢s being ... to identify the operation, and, when progress reaches 10... We also tho

Gist - GitHub

2011-02-08T10:06:55Z

Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with o... are git repositories, so they are automatically versione... usable as a git repository.

Freeing Knowledge | Stanford Daily

2011-01-31T10:38:51Z

The intellectual inquiry occurring each day at Stanford ... question of how research can best be accessed and put to... Enter the Public Knowledge Project. The project works on how to make precious new informatio ... It revolves around free, downloadabl

SIMILE Widgets

2011-01-31T10:38:23Z

SIMILE Widgets Free, Open-Source Data Visualization Web Widgets, and More This is an open-source Ã¢â¬Åspin-offÃ¢â¬Â from the Simile pr ...

Why You Hate Comic Sans

2011-01-27T08:25:50Z

Everyone loves to hate Comic Sans. The child-like handwr... infamous, there is a movement to try to ban it. Mention ... common layman (aside from a preschool teacher), and you ... chuckle, mention it to a trained designer, and youÃ¢â¬â¢ll ... disgust. Bu

The Associated Press: Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules

2011-01-27T08:24:56Z

Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules (AP) Ã¢â¬â 2 days ago COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) Ã¢â¬â Tony Brown didn't set out to over ... The University of Missouri student came up with an idea ... But the invention also raised a perplexing question when ...

ifttt: The startup with the crazy name aims to automate the Internet

2011-01-25T20:57:43Z

ifttt: The startup with the crazy name aims to automate ... Have you ever wished that you could call in status updat ...

BBC News - Rural UK could get cheaper broadband under Ofcom plans

2011-01-20T18:29:04Z

Rural UK could get cheaper broadband under Ofcom plans Fibre-optic cable, Eyewire The proposals could benefit a ... Continue reading the main story Related stories ... and under plans set out by the communications regulator.

PraxisUnico - Commercialising research - Sky News: Jeff Randall interview with Dr Martin Knight, Imperial Innovations

2011-01-17T18:57:15Z

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

Papers : mekentosj.com : Software for Research

2011-01-14T11:35:11Z

Papers ÃÂ· your personal library of research Repository of knowledge Search article repositories and download articles withou ... All your papers at a glance ... Full screen reading, article notes

BBC News - Furore over 'censored' edition of Huckleberry Finn

2011-01-06T20:44:20Z

BBC News - Is working with your hands better than just with your head?

2011-01-06T20:44:08Z

BBC News - Can you count the packets of crisps?

2011-01-06T15:32:37Z

BBC - BBC Four Programmes - The Joy of Stats

2011-01-06T15:26:26Z

Extreme Sheep LED Art - StumbleUpon

2011-01-06T15:25:16Z

The Grim Threat to British Universities by Simon Head | The New York Review of Books

2011-01-06T13:12:33Z

The British universities, Oxford and Cambridge included,... from a system of state control that is undermining the o... which their worldwide reputation depends: the caliber of... scholarship.

Blackawton bees Ã¢â¬â Biology Letters

2010-12-27T10:36:09Z

Background Real science has the potential to not only am... transform the way one thinks of the world and oneself. T... process of science is little different from the deeply r... processes of play. Play enables humans (and other mammal... Principal f

Stephen Gill - Americans Are Horribly Misinformed About Who Has Money - Random things that I found interesting

2010-12-27T10:35:24Z

Americans have a really distorted view of how wealth is ... This chart is from a paper called "Building a Better Ame ... The top row shows the actual distribution of wealth in A ... Below that, the "Estimated" rows show how different grou ... ... g of ho

Videonet - News and Analysis - Linear advertising will continue to dominate

2010-12-11T00:41:27Z

Between 75% and 80% of television viewing will remain in... television viewing environment for the next 10 years in ... the US, and the 30 second spot will continue to dominate... advertising. That is the view of Simon Thomas, Strategic... However, wh

A simple change in the law could open up online access to the BBC's archives | Law | guardian.co.uk

2010-12-11T00:41:06Z

In the melee of the last days of the Labour government, ... Think of George Orwell and W H Auden, of Laurence Olivie ... But the BBC can't make them available to us, as it would ... All this was set out in the Digital Britain reports that ... ... ive cos

Open source teaching materials -time for a mandate ÃÂ« Thoughts on software and systems engineering

2010-12-11T00:39:49Z

It has become increasingly common for sponsors of resear... in the UK) to mandate that the publications from that re... accessÃ¢â¬â¢ that is, available freely to anyone who wants ... Ã¢â¬â public money has funded this work and it was ridicul... Yet public

2010-12-11T00:38:15Z

As Textbooks Go Digital, Campus Bookstores May Go Bookless - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

2010-12-11T00:35:24Z

As students cut costs by buying books from cheaper onlin... downloading e-textbooks, campus bookstores sell fewer an... That's triggering an identity crisis for one of the olde... campus and leading some college officials to ask: If tex... does the ca

Video - Artist has camera implanted on head - The Sydney Morning Herald

2010-12-04T08:51:16Z

Microsoft develops shape-shifting touchscreen - tech - 26 November 2010 - New Scientist

2010-11-27T14:55:13Z

Microsoft this week filed a patent application covering ... construct a "tactile" touchscreen Ã¢â¬â a display that use... to convince users they are actually touching the ridges,... of a displayed image. Whereas previous screens produced only an illusion

Nokia's New "Situations" App Makes Phones Self-Aware

2010-11-27T14:50:07Z

Handset maker Nokia today announced the creation of an e... called "Nokia Situations" that can automatically adjust ... behavior for various situations and contexts. For exampl... shut off the ringer whenever you go into a meeting, with... According t

Smartphone app monitors your every move - tech - 26 November 2010 - New Scientist

2010-11-27T14:49:52Z

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Google Docs Now Syncs With Microsoft Office

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2010-07-08T13:02:36Z

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2010-07-08T13:01:17Z

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2010-07-08T09:38:19Z

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2010-07-04T15:23:25Z

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2010-07-03T10:35:42Z

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2010-07-02T17:59:45Z

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2010-07-02T17:54:48Z

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2010-07-02T17:52:15Z

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2010-07-02T17:20:10Z

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BBC News - UK borrowing hits record ÃÂ£163.4bn

2010-07-02T13:15:48Z

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2010-06-30T20:46:15Z

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2010-06-30T20:41:47Z

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2010-06-30T20:41:06Z

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2010-06-29T18:34:20Z

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google-caja - Project Hosting on Google Code

2010-06-29T12:47:14Z

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Worker - MDC

2010-06-29T12:45:52Z

Firefox 3.5 introduces support for DOM workers. These a... that can be easily created and can send messages back to... Creating a worker is as simple as calling the Worker() c... specifying a script to be run in the worker thread.

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2010-06-28T18:45:49Z

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RDF Tools - An RDF Store for WordPress - benjamin nowack's blog

2010-06-18T18:56:34Z

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2010-06-18T18:54:50Z

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2010-06-18T18:50:18Z

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Facebook Connect Wordpress Plugin | Sociable! - The Social Media Blog

2010-06-18T18:43:00Z

Facebook OpenGraph and Social plugins for WordPress (new... * Open Graph Social Plugins (New!), like, activity a ... * Build a community * Login using your Facebook account ... * Facebook user email store

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2010-06-18T12:13:37Z

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2010-06-18T12:08:53Z

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2010-06-18T09:43:28Z

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The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

2010-06-18T09:30:28Z

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2010-06-17T09:14:50Z

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2010-06-15T18:57:21Z

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2010-06-15T15:51:36Z

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2010-06-15T09:01:14Z

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2010-06-15T08:59:05Z

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2010-06-15T08:58:23Z

Economics Essays: Unemployment in the UK

2010-06-15T08:54:07Z

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ActivityStreams - an evolving specification for expressing what people are doing around web

2010-06-14T19:13:15Z

SIMILE Widgets | Exhibit

2010-06-14T12:15:30Z

Exhibit Publishing Framework for Data-Rich Interactive Web Pages Exhibit lets you easily create web pages with advanced t ... click on screenshots to see live web sites

M3-Kindy and Noby: Japan gets two scary kid robots (video)

2010-06-14T12:11:26Z

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Apple Developer Connection: Monitoring File Changes with the File System Events API

2010-06-12T09:42:50Z

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Orange's Prototype Power-Welly Boots Are Made For Charging | Popular Science

2010-06-10T21:31:29Z

Party Power The Power Wellies use the heat of your feet ... cellphone charged. Gotwind.org First the British invented waterproof Wellington boots; ... The European telecom firm Orange, which sponsors the hug ...

Amazon Sued For Selling Smarties | Techdirt

2010-06-10T07:57:37Z

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2010-06-09T07:15:31Z

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What Business Card? Just Scan My QR Code | Fast Company

2010-06-09T06:56:33Z

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3-D Typography: Experimental Type Designs That Leap Off the Page | Slideshows

2010-06-09T06:55:48Z

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Apple's iPhone 4 Screen Is Better Than Your Retinas | Fast Company

2010-06-09T06:46:39Z

there were suspicions that the iPhone 4 had a super-high... Jobs just introduced it; the Retina Display. While it's in many ways a standard LCD, with 800:1 contr ... But that resolution, when used by new apps, will equal a ...

BBC News - The joy of daydreaming

2010-06-01T17:56:34Z

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ERYX XCM - XML Content Management

2010-06-01T17:22:31Z

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BBC News - Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia'

2010-05-29T16:22:18Z

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Languages for extensible virtual machines - simondobson.org

2010-05-29T16:11:17Z

Many lanÃÂguages have an underÃÂlyÃÂing virÃÂtual machin... more portÃÂable and conÃÂveniÃÂent subÃÂstrate for comÃÂ... interÃÂpretÃÂaÃÂtion. For lanÃÂguage research itÃ¢â¬â¢s use... to genÃÂerÃÂate cusÃÂtom VMs and other lanÃÂguage tools ... What I have

ECS - The Institute for Web Science: Statement by Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Professor Nigel Shadbolt

2010-05-29T16:07:38Z

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Dan Driscoll's Blog : UUID URI schemes

2010-05-18T12:11:03Z

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2010-05-18T12:10:42Z

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A List Apart: Articles: Better JavaScript Minification

2010-05-17T21:55:21Z

In the past few years, performance research has become m... thanks to research by the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance... GoogleÃ¢â¬â¢s Steve Souders. Most of that research studies ... HTML page, but the resources the page requires to displa... Although bo

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2010-05-16T20:11:22Z

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BBC News - The distraction society

2010-05-14T14:09:38Z

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BBC News - Internet approaches addressing limit

2010-05-14T11:38:50Z

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Towards a Future Internet ÃÂ» About

2010-05-12T10:06:48Z

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Novelties - The Ever-Widening World of Tiny Projectors - NYTimes.com

2010-05-10T07:46:21Z

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Many Eyes: About

2010-05-03T13:00:27Z

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Magazine Preview - The Data-Driven Life - NYTimes.com

2010-05-02T16:45:23Z

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ZCubes Demo

2010-05-01T17:40:12Z

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AskTog: A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts

2010-04-30T17:59:32Z

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CWE - 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

2010-04-29T15:49:05Z

The 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Erro... most widespread and critical programming errors that can... software vulnerabilities. They are often easy to find, a... exploit. They are dangerous because they will frequently... The Top 25

Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

2010-04-29T15:45:15Z

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2010-04-27T23:29:24Z

We are obsessed with wealth. But we gauge how rich we ar ... We wanted to do something which would help people unders ... We want people to feel rich. And give some of their extr ...

Home | EventSource | Ericsson Labs

2010-04-27T20:10:53Z

The EventSource enabler allows you to use the upcoming E... The Event Source API allows you to generate JavaScript e ... To use the EventSource enabler, simply include the enabl ...

Capturing Experiences Anytime, Anywhere

2006-06-17T14:11:17Z

WhatÃ¢â¬â¢s the future of mobile experience-capture technol... if a company were to make a small, white, beautifully de... device with an Ã¢â¬ÅiÃ¢â¬Â in front of its name, what would ... explore this question by examining three technologies: o... currently a

Logos Dictionary - Logos Translations multilingual dictionary

2006-06-15T20:06:27Z

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WeeklyDig : > FLESH AND MACHINES

2006-06-09T22:00:44Z

FLESH AND MACHINES MIT robotic scientist Rodney Brooks foresees a future me ...

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2006-06-04T15:57:15Z

Jennie Carroll Working Papers This page contains various Working Papers and works in p ... The development in the Model of Technology Appropriation ...

Currency Symbols - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers

2006-06-03T16:09:16Z

Alan WoodÃ¢â¬â¢s Unicode Resources Test for Unicode support in Web browsers Currency Symbols U+20A0 Ã¢â¬â U+20CF (8352Ã¢â¬â8399)

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2006-06-02T22:14:35Z

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2006-06-01T08:43:39Z

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a system for iden... objects in the digital environment. DOIs are names assig... for use on digital networks. They are used to provide cu... including where they (or information about them) can be ... Internet. I

Psychological hedonism? The pleasure seekers

2006-05-30T22:56:37Z

Ian Sample talks to the scientists teasing out why we st... pleasurable experiences - and why, when we have it all, ... for more excitement

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | New feel and sound of computers

2006-05-13T15:23:40Z

The sensitive PC is a research project intended to impro... between man and machine, and to see if computers can be ... Dr JÃÂ¶rg Voskamp, from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute, w ... "We thought that it might be a good idea to bring the co ... The system

Amazon.co.uk: Mobile Interaction Design: Books

2006-05-10T13:11:33Z

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Serendip

2006-05-10T11:37:35Z

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Simple Guide for TEI Lite XML Markup

2006-05-07T18:44:38Z

Similarly a page break can be encoded as below: * "ed" - Allows the encoder to point to a particular ... * "n" - Holds the page number.

Translate TXT, sms, chat slang, IM speak and lingo for free... acronyms, smileys, & emoticons, ringtones, games and logos from transl8it!

2006-05-03T18:47:40Z

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SapirÃ¢â¬âWhorf hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2006-05-02T20:59:48Z

In linguistics, the SapirÃ¢â¬âWhorf hypothesis (SWH) state... systematic relationship between the grammatical categori... a person speaks and how that person both understands the... in it. Although it has come to be known as the SapirÃ¢â¬âW... it rather w

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2006-04-21T19:40:24Z

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Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X

2006-04-14T19:46:37Z

The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up... of steam over the last year. Fueled by some significant ... impressive portfolio of real-world applications already ... It should come as no surprise that Mac OS X is a favored ... This articl

Hivelogic: Articles: Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger

2006-04-14T19:46:04Z

What follows are instructions for manually building and ... * Ruby on Rails 1.1 * Ruby 1.8.4 * LightTPD 1.4.11 ... * FastCGI and MySQL bindings

Prototype in scriptaculous wiki

2006-04-14T17:03:28Z

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Building an Extension - MDC

2006-04-14T13:39:50Z

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Cross-Browser.com

2006-04-14T13:25:32Z

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East African artifacts support evolution of symbolic thinking in Middle Stone Age

2006-04-14T07:27:32Z

New finds from an open-air archaeological site in the Se... Park in Tanzania have intriguing implications for the ev... human behavior, including further indications that symbo... developed in humans earlier than the currently accepted ... 35,000 year

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2006-04-14T00:10:24Z

Geological Society of America - Evolution and Creationism

2006-04-05T10:02:37Z

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2006-03-24T19:08:24Z

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2006-03-24T19:06:24Z

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Leonardo On-Line: Sample Articles

2006-03-24T13:39:16Z

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2006-03-24T13:36:05Z

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WEBTHUMB(8)

2006-03-23T20:31:22Z

NAME webthumb -- web page snapshot-taker for Linux SYNOPSIS webthumb URL ... .com/ | pnmscale -xysize 100 100 | pnmtojpeg > thumb.jpg

JRex - The Java Browser Component

2006-03-23T20:21:31Z

"JRex" is a Java Browser Component with set of API's for... GECKO within a Java Application.

WAI Resources on Introducing Web Accessibility

2006-03-23T14:29:04Z

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategi... resources to help make the Web accessible to people with... following WAI resources are intended to provide basic in... people who are new to Web accessibility.

Designing Universal User Interfaces Ã¢â¬â The Application of Universal Design Rules to Eliminate Information Barriers for the Visually Impaired and the Elderly - For Design Professionals - Technology - VisionConnection

2006-03-23T14:27:35Z

A conservative estimate by the World Blind Union indicat... million people world-wide are blind or severely visually...

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2006-03-23T14:19:43Z

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Creating Accessible Computer Applications - American Foundation for the Blind

2006-03-23T14:18:11Z

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FAIM: FAIM/AIM/Oscar Protocol

2006-03-22T14:16:17Z

Welcome to the home of the UnOfficial AIM/OSCAR Protocol... Here, you will find the documents explaini ... the AIM/OSCAR protocol and related issues. ... into, currently, ten sections, not includi ...

joscar

2006-03-22T09:07:12Z

joscar is an extensible open-source Java interface into ... Messenger's OSCAR protocol. joscar provides an implement... SNAC commands, nine different rendezvous types (includin... direct IM, and buddy icons), and dozens of protocol data...

AIMcc

2006-03-22T09:05:42Z

What can I do with the AIM SDK? This code allows you to add AIM functionality into the p ... What does that mean? You can integrate the full power of the AIM service into ...

OSCAR protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2006-03-22T08:55:01Z

SCAR is AOL's instant messaging and presence information... for Open System for CommunicAtion in Realtime. Currently... for AOL's two main instant messenging systems: ICQ and AIM.

Build Your Own Messaging Application in Java with jYMSG

2006-03-22T08:51:31Z

YMSG (without the j) is the protocol used by Yahoo's in... chat software. jYMSG is a Java API that allows you to in... programmatically with Yahoo's messaging and chat service... with jYMSG you can have an instant message sent to your ... administrat

One in five Brits 'buy software from spam' | The Register

2006-03-21T13:23:18Z

More than one in five British consumers (22 per cent) ha... software in response to spam email, a study by Forrester... The study - sponsored by the Business Software Alliance ... substantial minority of punters are quite happy to make ... purchases a

O'Reilly Radar > The Secret Sauce of Writely

2006-03-20T17:35:16Z

behind every successful Web 2.0 company there'll be some... the user.

AJAX:Getting Started - MDC

2006-03-18T20:27:13Z

This article guides you through the AJAX basics and give... Contents [hide] 1 What's AJAX? 2 Step 1 Ã¢â¬â say "Please!" or How to Make an HTTP Request ... tep 4 Ã¢â¬â "The X-Files" or Working with the XML Response

Usability News - The Internet improves AmericansÃ¢â¬â¢ Capacity to maintain Social Networks

2006-03-18T10:08:02Z

The internet and email expand and strengthen the social ... maintain in the offline world, according to a new report... Pew Internet & American Life Project, working in collabo... University of Toronto.

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2006-03-17T18:45:10Z

This section defines the syntax and semantics of all sta... HTTP/1.1 header fields. For entity-header fields, bot ... recipient refer to either the client or the server, d ... sends and who receives the entit

Spaghetti Carbonara Recipe - Start With Pasta Easy Recipes - Spaghetti Carbonara Entree Recipes

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Web Search for a Planet

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CHI 97: Beyond Fitts' Law: Models for Trajectory-Based HCI Tasks

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Code Snippets: Model, View, Controller HOWTO [python] [cli] [shell] [mvc] [tutorial]

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Visual and Auditory Illusions

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Illusionworks.com - Optical Illusions & More

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Auditory Illusions

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Alexa Web Search Platform

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Alexa Web Information Service

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WiMedia Alliance - Home Page

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PHP Classes - Class: AJAX Edit In Place

2006-01-07T17:51:36Z

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A List Apart: Topics: User Science

2006-01-07T09:29:36Z

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Welcome to Usability News - 7.2 2005

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Ruby on Rails

2006-01-06T13:00:20Z

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O'Reilly: What Is Web 2.0

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Prototype JavaScript Framework: Class-style OO, Ajax, and more

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Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease de... dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-us... class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library aro... quickly becoming the codebase of choice for Web 2.0 deve...

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Mozilla Developer Documentation

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PHP: HTTP authentication with PHP - Manual

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online! As others see - Colour blindness?

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java.net: Java Sketchbook: Getting Started with Java Web Start

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iText, a Free Java-PDF Library: Home Page

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iText is a library that allows you to generate PDF files...

Stach & Liu

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jdic: JDIC - JDesktop Integration Components

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The JDesktop Integration Components (JDIC) project aims ... technology-based applications ("Java applications") firs... of current desktop platforms without sacrificing platfor... Its mission is to enable seamless desktop/Java integration.

java.net: Make Your Swing App Go Native, Part 1

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Java applications, in particular those written with the ... have a reputation for feeling clunky and out of place, a ... belong on your computer. Often your users can't put thei ... what it is that doesn't feel quite right. It is often th ... ... pos

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Gordon Bell

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*Pixelcharmer: Field Notes: Boundary Object

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Susan Leigh Star and James Griesemer, Ã¢â¬ÅInstitutional E... Ã¢â¬ËTranslations,Ã¢â¬â¢ and Boundary Objects:Amateurs and Pr... BerkeleyÃ¢â¬â¢s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939,Ã¢â¬Â... Science, 19: 387-420

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2005-01-04T22:19:37Z

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Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: all public snips

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence â but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche | The Guardian

Generative AI without guardrails can harm learning: Evidence from high school mathematics | PNAS

The Guardian view on AI in war: the Iran conflict shows that the paradigm shift has already begun | Editorial | The Guardian

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

The UK government didnât want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. Iâm not surprised | George Monbiot | The Guardian

Era of âglobal water bankruptcyâ is here, UN report says | Water | The Guardian

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn | Biodiversity | The Guardian

Trumpâs assault on the Smithsonian: âThe goal is to reframe the entire culture of the USâ | US news | The Guardian

âSee no evil, hear no evilâ Starmer goes on full sycophant alert | John Crace | The Guardian

Just 1 Stock Market Sector Now Makes Up 34% of the S&P 500. Here's What It Means for Your Investment Portfolio. | The Motley Fool

When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr | The Guardian

George Osborne has a new job in tech, and it doesnât bode well for Britain | Chris Stokel-Walker | The Guardian

UK campaigners condemn âcreepyâ digital billboards that can track viewersâ responses | Privacy | The Guardian

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic | Language | The Guardian

âItâs going much too fastâ: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Icelandic is in danger of dying out because of AI and English-language media, says former PM | Iceland | The Guardian

Big content is taking on AI â but itâs far from the David v Goliath tale theyâd have you believe | Alexander Avila | The Guardian

Public Map Platform

ItÃ¢â¬â¢s true that my fellow students are embracing AI Ã¢â¬â but this is what the critics arenÃ¢â¬â¢t seeing | Elsie McDowell | The Guardian

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features | Deepfake | The Guardian

How better sidewalks make better communities | by The Medium Newsletter | May, 2025 | The Medium Blog

South KoreaÃ¢â¬â¢s robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers - Rest of World

Project - OpenWebSearch.eu Ã¢â¬â Promoting EuropeÃ¢â¬Ës Independence in Web Search

Carl Sagan: "This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then." Ã¢â¬â Bluesky

We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost | John Harris | The Guardian

Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case | by Cory Doctorow | Apr, 2025 | Medium

Unsure Calculator

Will you look at that! Why we are delighted by random, beautiful marvels | Australian lifestyle | The Guardian

Drone attacks killing hundreds of civilians across Africa, says report | Global development | The Guardian

About | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity

When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: Ã¢â¬ËWhy, and for whom?Ã¢â¬â¢ | Rowan Williams | The Guardian

Uncertainties as Generative Resources in Research through Design: Three Dynamics for Moving in a Design Space | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

The Shape of Things Unseen by Adam Zeman review Ã¢â¬â the science of imagination | Science and nature books | The Guardian

Wealthy parentsÃ¢â¬â¢ greatest asset is the assets they will pass on | Torsten Bell | The Guardian

Are young peopleÃ¢â¬â¢s attention spans really shrinking? ItÃ¢â¬â¢s more complex than you might think | Marion Thain | The Guardian

[2411.00986] Taking AI Welfare Seriously

Average Briton causes 23 times more CO2 on Christmas Day, study reveals | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

Anthropic has hired an 'AI welfare' researcher

Report finds Ã¢â¬Ëshocking and dispiritingÃ¢â¬â¢ fall in children reading for pleasure | Books | The Guardian

Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over Ã¢â¬ËexcessiveÃ¢â¬â¢ surveillance in smart devices | Smart homes | The Guardian

The chatbot optimisation game: can we trust AI web searches? | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Runes prove Elfdalian is distinct ancient Nordic language, say researchers | Sweden | The Guardian

A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why Ãâ¬ÃÂ² Ã¢â°Ë g. | by Gregory Roitman | Medium

Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters - Election Law Blog

Human brain can process certain sentences in Ã¢â¬Ëblink of an eyeÃ¢â¬â¢, says study | Language | The Guardian

UK urged to promote speaking of Irish and Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | The Guardian

Global AI fund needed to help developing nations tap tech benefits, UN says | Technology sector | The Guardian

An Overview of Empathy - PMC

Physicist MV Ramana on the problem with nuclear power | Nuclear power | The Guardian

Can climate stripes change the way we think about air pollution? | Air pollution | The Guardian

Google's AI-generated summaries leave publishers concerned

Linking two realms: efforts to tap real-life potential of lucid dreams advance | Neuroscience | The Guardian

Top A-level grades are up Ã¢â¬â but worrying regional disparities remain | A-levels | The Guardian

From Burnout to Balance: AI-Enhanced Work Models for the Future

IT Essentials: Investors are running out of patience with GenAI

AI and the American Smile. How AI misrepresents culture through aÃ¢â¬Â¦ | by jenka | Medium

Microsoft can't guarantee UK data sovereignty

Walking three times a week Ã¢â¬Ënearly halvesÃ¢â¬â¢ recurrence of low back pain | Health | The Guardian

The Ã¢â¬Ëdead internet theoryÃ¢â¬â¢ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

Fewer than one in 10 arts workers in UK have working-class roots | Class issues | The Guardian

Senior Labour figures call for Ã¢â¬Ëlife-transformingÃ¢â¬â¢ Sure Start policy | Early years education | The Guardian

Ã¢â¬ËI didnÃ¢â¬â¢t want to hurt that girl. I just felt this pressure building Ã¢â¬Â¦Ã¢â¬â¢ The sociopath who learned to behave Ã¢â¬â and found happiness | Psychology | The Guardian

Ã¢â¬ËThe machine did it coldlyÃ¢â¬â¢: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

Scraping away generations of forgetting: my fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena | St Helena | The Guardian

Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer | Well actually | The Guardian

Workplace AI, robots and trackers are bad for quality of life, study finds | Business | The Guardian

Shells from Captain CookÃ¢â¬â¢s final voyage saved from skip | Archaeology | The Guardian

Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them | John Naughton | The Guardian

AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation Ã¢â¬â report | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Drift of Earth's Pole Confirms Groundwater Depletion as a Significant Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise 1993Ã¢â¬â2010 - Seo - 2023 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library

JSON is incredibly slow: HereÃ¢â¬â¢s WhatÃ¢â¬â¢s Faster! | by Vaishnav Manoj | DataX Journal | Medium

How to improve your sense of direction - BBC Future

New Study Reveals The Single Most Important Factor for Learning Rate | by Scott H. Young | Feb, 2024 | Medium

An astonishing regularity in student learning rate | PNAS

Mappa Mundi: The greatest medieval map in the world - BBC Travel

Ã¢â¬ËBy preserving the language, you reinforce communitiesÃ¢â¬â¢: a school saving one of LouisianaÃ¢â¬â¢s oldest dialects | Louisiana | The Guardian

Sketch of The Analytical Engine

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence â but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche | The Guardian

The UK government didnât want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. Iâm not surprised | George Monbiot | The Guardian

Era of âglobal water bankruptcyâ is here, UN report says | Water | The Guardian

Trumpâs assault on the Smithsonian: âThe goal is to reframe the entire culture of the USâ | US news | The Guardian

âSee no evil, hear no evilâ Starmer goes on full sycophant alert | John Crace | The Guardian

George Osborne has a new job in tech, and it doesnât bode well for Britain | Chris Stokel-Walker | The Guardian

UK campaigners condemn âcreepyâ digital billboards that can track viewersâ responses | Privacy | The Guardian

âItâs going much too fastâ: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Big content is taking on AI â but itâs far from the David v Goliath tale theyâd have you believe | Alexander Avila | The Guardian

ItÃ¢â¬â¢s true that my fellow students are embracing AI Ã¢â¬â but this is what the critics arenÃ¢â¬â¢t seeing | Elsie McDowell | The Guardian

South KoreaÃ¢â¬â¢s robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers - Rest of World

Project - OpenWebSearch.eu Ã¢â¬â Promoting EuropeÃ¢â¬Ës Independence in Web Search

Carl Sagan: "This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then." Ã¢â¬â Bluesky

When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: Ã¢â¬ËWhy, and for whom?Ã¢â¬â¢ | Rowan Williams | The Guardian

The Shape of Things Unseen by Adam Zeman review Ã¢â¬â the science of imagination | Science and nature books | The Guardian

Wealthy parentsÃ¢â¬â¢ greatest asset is the assets they will pass on | Torsten Bell | The Guardian

Are young peopleÃ¢â¬â¢s attention spans really shrinking? ItÃ¢â¬â¢s more complex than you might think | Marion Thain | The Guardian

Report finds Ã¢â¬Ëshocking and dispiritingÃ¢â¬â¢ fall in children reading for pleasure | Books | The Guardian

Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over Ã¢â¬ËexcessiveÃ¢â¬â¢ surveillance in smart devices | Smart homes | The Guardian

A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why Ãâ¬ÃÂ² Ã¢â°Ë g. | by Gregory Roitman | Medium

Human brain can process certain sentences in Ã¢â¬Ëblink of an eyeÃ¢â¬â¢, says study | Language | The Guardian

Top A-level grades are up Ã¢â¬â but worrying regional disparities remain | A-levels | The Guardian

AI and the American Smile. How AI misrepresents culture through aÃ¢â¬Â¦ | by jenka | Medium

Walking three times a week Ã¢â¬Ënearly halvesÃ¢â¬â¢ recurrence of low back pain | Health | The Guardian

The Ã¢â¬Ëdead internet theoryÃ¢â¬â¢ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

Senior Labour figures call for Ã¢â¬Ëlife-transformingÃ¢â¬â¢ Sure Start policy | Early years education | The Guardian

Ã¢â¬ËI didnÃ¢â¬â¢t want to hurt that girl. I just felt this pressure building Ã¢â¬Â¦Ã¢â¬â¢ The sociopath who learned to behave Ã¢â¬â and found happiness | Psychology | The Guardian

Ã¢â¬ËThe machine did it coldlyÃ¢â¬â¢: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

Shells from Captain CookÃ¢â¬â¢s final voyage saved from skip | Archaeology | The Guardian

AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation Ã¢â¬â report | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Drift of Earth's Pole Confirms Groundwater Depletion as a Significant Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise 1993Ã¢â¬â2010 - Seo - 2023 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library

JSON is incredibly slow: HereÃ¢â¬â¢s WhatÃ¢â¬â¢s Faster! | by Vaishnav Manoj | DataX Journal | Medium

Ã¢â¬ËBy preserving the language, you reinforce communitiesÃ¢â¬â¢: a school saving one of LouisianaÃ¢â¬â¢s oldest dialects | Louisiana | The Guardian

Fighting the smartphone Ã¢â¬ËinvasionÃ¢â¬â¢: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public | France | The Guardian

PeakÃ¢â¬âend rule - Wikipedia

I have a new favourite wellness guru. And itÃ¢â¬â¢s not who you might think | Food | The Guardian

EU agrees Ã¢â¬ËhistoricÃ¢â¬â¢ deal with worldÃ¢â¬â¢s first laws to regulate AI | European Union | The Guardian

Ã¢â¬ËI couldnÃ¢â¬â¢t believe the dataÃ¢â¬â¢: how thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making | Language | The Guardian

AI machines arenÃ¢â¬â¢t Ã¢â¬ËhallucinatingÃ¢â¬â¢. But their makers are | Naomi Klein | The Guardian

Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of Ã¢â¬Ëdigital amnesiaÃ¢â¬â¢ | Memory | The Guardian

The Self-Attribution Fallacy Ã¢â¬â George Monbiot

Code like a Weaver Ã¢â¬â Code Like A Girl

Nest Founder: Ã¢â¬ÅI Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?Ã¢â¬Â

Lima Ã¢â¬â The first Cloud that respects your privacy

Counting Research Ã¢â¡â Directing Research: The Hazard of Using Simple Metrics to Evaluate Scientific Contributions (An EU Experience)

Ã¢â¬ÅPolitical Co-AuthorshipsÃ¢â¬Â in Medical Science Journals - Johal - 2017 - Clinical Anatomy - Wiley Online Library

Teaching kids philosophy makes them smarter in math and English Ã¢â¬â Quartz

Did Media Literacy Backfire? Ã¢â¬â Data & Society: Points

Black Lives Matter in Journal of Political Philosophy: Philosophers published a series written entirely by white professors Ã¢â¬â Quartz

3 Million Instacart Orders, Open Sourced Ã¢â¬â tech-at-instacart

Inside Your UsersÃ¢â¬â¢ Minds: The Cultural Probe ÃÂ· An A List Apart Article

Robert FrostÃ¢â¬â¢s Ã¢â¬ÅThe Road Not TakenÃ¢â¬Â Is Our Most Misread Poem