https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=513 2025-12-08T08:33:30Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=513 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > cognition and art 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... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1667638 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/08/linguists-start-compiling-first-ever-complete-dictionary-of-ancient-celtic 2025-12-08T08:33:30Z Iceland’s former prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, 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. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1666898 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/15/icelandic-is-in-danger-of-dying-out-because-of-ai-and-english-language-media-says-former-pm 2025-11-16T09:56:48Z 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-Miranda’s study revealed some data-driven benefits: “We used... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1663238 https://blog.medium.com/how-better-sidewalks-make-better-communities-b94ca12f3e53 2025-05-28T11:00:10Z “people with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse spatial memory during self-guided navigation”. Thirteen of their participants were retested three years after the initial research, when they found that “greater GPS use since in... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1662598 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise 2025-04-28T05:42:54Z In The Shape of Things Unseen, neurologist Adam Zeman attempts to explain how and why this is. It is a wide-ranging survey – too wide, offering a mass of fascinating information about creativity, mental imagery and child development blo... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1660157 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/03/the-shape-of-things-unseen-by-adam-zeman-review-the-science-of-imagination 2025-01-03T07:48:07Z In The Shape of Things Unseen, neurologist Adam Zeman attempts to explain how and why this is. It is a wide-ranging survey – too wide, offering a mass of fascinating information about creativity, mental imagery and child development blo... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1660157 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/03/the-shape-of-things-unseen-by-adam-zeman-review-the-science-of-imagination 2025-01-03T07:48:07Z 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. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1660099 https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986 2024-12-25T09:14:39Z Anthropic has hired its first full-time employee focused on the welfare of artificial intelligence systems, Transformer has learned. It’s the clearest sign yet that AI companies are beginning to grapple with questions about whether future... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1659699 https://www.transformernews.ai/p/anthropic-ai-welfare-researcher 2024-11-27T07:42:08Z 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... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1659138 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/03/runes-prove-elfdalian-is-distinct-ancient-nordic-language-say-researchers 2024-11-03T14:42:22Z 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... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1659091 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/23/human-brain-can-process-certain-sentences-in-blink-of-an-eye-says-study 2024-10-24T03:01:43Z The UK is being urged by Europe’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 ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1658554 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/19/uk-urged-to-promote-speaking-of-irish-and-ulster-scots-in-northern-ireland 2024-09-19T06:55:18Z Scientists show it is possible to control a virtual car and switch on real-world kettle from inside a lucid dream https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657962 https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/18/linking-two-realms-efforts-to-tap-real-life-potential-of-lucid-dreams-advance 2024-08-19T06:15:00Z In other fields, there’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. â€... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657527 https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/mar/21/why-we-do-things-bad-for-us-impulse-habits-akrasia 2024-03-22T07:38:07Z 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? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657505 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240215-do-some-people-have-a-better-sense-of-direction 2024-02-29T04:27:50Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657491 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/louisiana-school-indigenous-cajun-languages-community-impact 2024-02-16T08:19:19Z the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657486 https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html 2024-02-10T13:31:40Z 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, https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657484 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/10/fighting-the-smartphone-invasion-the-french-village-that-voted-to-ban-scrolling-in-public 2024-02-10T07:41:22Z Besides altering the quality of our memories, switching ... can influence people’s financial decision-making and t... moral dilemmas. By speaking a second language, we can ev... rational, more open-minded and better equipped to deal w... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657385 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/17/how-learning-thinking-in-a-foreign-language-improves-decision-making 2023-09-17T13:45:35Z According to Tolkien, a eucatastrophe in a story often h... darkest moment. When all seems lost – when the enemy s... – a sudden "joyous turn" for the better can emerge. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1654956 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221005-eucatastrophe-tolkiens-word-for-the-anti-doomsday 2022-10-23T06:52:30Z “in the 1950s, 12% of high-school students perceived t... important person’ – by the 1990s, 80% did.” https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1654898 https://hbr.org/2016/08/millennials-are-actually-workaholics-according-to-research 2022-10-21T07:02:21Z ‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1653248 https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/jul/03/is-your-smartphone-ruining-your-memory-the-rise-of-digital-amenesia?CMP=share_btn_tw 2022-07-04T07:02:29Z ‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1653248 https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/jul/03/is-your-smartphone-ruining-your-memory-the-rise-of-digital-amenesia?CMP=share_btn_tw 2022-07-04T07:02:29Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1653140 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine 2022-06-13T06:38:34Z Nieder thinks that consciousness probably emerged separa... occasions, in much the same way that wings appeared sepa... birds and bats. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1651010 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25033420-700-what-is-consciousness-like-for-other-animals-and-when-did-it-evolve/ 2022-01-09T13:53:29Z In a new set of experiments published in Science, howeve... found that the raven’s ability to plan ahead goes much... simply catching food. The first experiment trained the birds to use a tool to ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1614449 http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ravens-are-able-to-plan-for-the-future-just-like-apes/ 2017-07-15T09:27:18Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1598326 http://www.kurzweilai.net/brain-has-more-than-100-times-higher-computational-capacity-than-previously-thought-say-ucla-scientists?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=84574ad2b2-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_147a5a48c1-84574ad2b2 2017-03-13T18:47:54Z For years, only humans were thought to have this key cog... attributing “false belief,” which is believed to und... empathy, teaching, and perhaps even language. But three ... apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans—also know ... a false bel https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1592213 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/humans-aren-t-only-great-apes-can-read-minds 2017-01-19T20:05:39Z The allure of the doctrine of time management is that, o... might finally be under control. Yet work in the modern e... for its limitlessness. And if the stream of incoming ema... Inbox Zero can never bring liberation: you’re still Si... boulder up https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1591585 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/why-time-management-is-ruining-our-lives 2017-01-15T10:10:30Z Is it possible to put some order into our thoughts about... memory, perception, and the like? Hardly a day goes by w... in-depth article wondering whether computers can be cons... universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a u... human being https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1587760 http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/21/challenge-of-defining-consciousness/ 2016-12-09T18:00:51Z After finding evidence that much of the “fake” and h... traffic during 🇺🇸#Election2016 was arriving throug... hyperlinks, search engines, and “old school” sharing... email newsletters, RSS, and instant messaging, I thought... “big data https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1587758 https://medium.com/@d1gi/the-election2016-micro-propaganda-machine-383449cc1fba#.fjuybd7qn 2016-12-09T17:34:47Z Have you found yourself checking email at dinner, or ski... screen, unable to focus? The closer the world gets to ou... more we stand to lose https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1587056 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/03/jonathan-safran-foer-technology-diminishing-us 2016-12-04T12:42:50Z Rather than pointlessly rehearsing entire sections of th... little bearing on the player’s overall score, “dream... to highlight certain sections of the game that are espec... and repeat them ad nauseam until expertise is achieved. ... technique, https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1587055 https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/240163-googles-deepmind-ai-gives-robots-ability-dream 2016-12-04T12:39:44Z The question that has long raged among archaeologists is... first began using ochre as a tool for engineering or as ... making art. In other words, does symbolism start with sc... aesthetics? By examining 23 ochre-processing tools from ... researchers https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1587041 http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/12/incredible-discovery-of-40000-year-old-tools-for-art-and-engineering/ 2016-12-03T12:13:33Z There was one other, better map of the project that I fo... partially inspired by–a relatively simple yet powerful... Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Protest Map by Jordan ... Maps like this are great, and there should be more of th ... My Wisconsi https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1584022 https://northlandia.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/a-nodapl-map/ 2016-11-03T12:10:23Z rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1583885 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/01/human-brain-is-predisposed-to-negative-stereotypes-new-study-suggests 2016-11-02T10:32:25Z rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1583885 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/01/human-brain-is-predisposed-to-negative-stereotypes-new-study-suggests 2016-11-02T10:32:25Z One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every yea... estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous langu... by the year 2050 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1582337 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-19/race-to-save-indigenous-languages-as-they-fade-away/7946006?pfmredir=sm 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1582337 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-19/race-to-save-indigenous-languages-as-they-fade-away/7946006?pfmredir=sm 2016-10-19T14:39:55Z Changing the Appearance of Physical Interfaces Through C... David Lindlbauer1, Jörg Müller2, Marc Alexa1 1 TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2 Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Aar ... ... examples https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1582161 https://www.cg.tu-berlin.de/research/projects/transparency-controlled-physical-interfaces/ 2016-10-18T17:16:44Z You would need a strong head for heights and nerves of s... live in this vacation home built on the side of a cliff ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1579916 http://dailynewsdig.com/vacation-home/ 2016-09-27T20:39:40Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1579859 http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-revolutionary-concept-of-standard-sizes-only-dates-to-the-1920s?curator=MediaREDEF 2016-09-27T10:23:19Z The question of when and how language first emerged is t... tremendous controversy – it has even been called ‘th... in science’. My work is on what information can be ext... vocalisations. It is a first step in understanding where... dictates th https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1578830 https://aeon.co/essays/we-learn-more-about-our-language-by-listening-to-the-wolves 2016-09-16T20:26:59Z 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... from our o https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1578571 http://www.geek.com/science/scientists-discover-dolphins-talk-to-each-other-in-sentences-up-to-five-words-long-1670488/ 2016-09-14T18:51:27Z Every cognitive bias is there for a reason — prima... brains time or energy. If you look at them by the proble... to solve, it becomes a lot easier to understand why they... they’re useful, and the trade-offs (and resulting ment... they introd https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1577654 https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18#.373nn5y5n 2016-09-06T13:12:19Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1577161 http://hyperallergic.com/313435/an-illustrated-guide-to-guy-debords-the-society-of-the-spectacle/ 2016-08-17T12:16:15Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1575177 http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/ibm-phase-change-neurons/ 2016-08-04T12:25:31Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1574516 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/fashion/internet-technology-phones-introspection.html?_r=1 2016-06-12T19:49:06Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1564695 http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zshv9qt 2016-03-01T13:37:33Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1533019 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34744859 2015-11-27T22:56:13Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1514091 http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2015/09/18/gaps-in-the-map-why-were-mapping-everything-and-why-not-everything-can-or-should-be-mapped/ 2015-09-20T13:40:09Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1511658 http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/art-and-science-innovation?utm_source=Nesta+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b8acd485b3-Nesta_newsletter_2_9_159_1_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d17364114d-b8acd485b3-180628921 2015-09-12T11:11:31Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1506676 http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/11/us-germany-traffic-odd-idUSGOR14512420070911 2015-08-27T10:30:12Z These technologies, BCI and CBI, can be combined to real... non-invasive, computer-mediated brain-to-brain (B2B) com... subjects (hyperinteraction). https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1504282 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0105225 2015-08-18T22:12:57Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1503581 http://www.vox.com/2015/3/3/8053521/25-maps-that-explain-english 2015-08-15T20:29:45Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1479211 http://thelongandshort.org/issues/season-four/head-teachers-using-neuroscience-for-education.html 2015-06-15T12:24:04Z The genetic underpinnings of psychosis are elusive and d... hundreds of common genetic mutations scattered throughou... that each bump up by just a tiny bit the risk of develop... illness like schizophrenia. Many people carry some set o... most don't https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1478258 http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/06/08/412314685/do-creativity-and-schizophrenia-share-a-small-genetic-link-maybe?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150608 2015-06-09T07:42:45Z 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. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1471891 http://theconversation.com/how-the-language-you-speak-changes-your-view-of-the-world-40721 2015-04-30T07:55:09Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470650 http://www.audiencedialogue.net/pmlr3-4.html 2015-04-21T21:08:55Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470642 http://tcf.ua.edu/2014/11/11/butler-analyzes-tv-shot-length-trends-in-new-issue-of-cinema-journal/ 2015-04-21T15:47:22Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470641 http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/08/movie-shot-lengths-and-attenti.html 2015-04-21T15:47:19Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470640 http://www.cinemetrics.lv/salt.php 2015-04-21T15:47:17Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470639 http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/the-longest-average-shot-lengths-in-modern-hollywood 2015-04-21T15:47:14Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470638 http://www.cinemetrics.lv/database.php 2015-04-21T15:47:00Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470637 https://justtv.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/more-data-on-scene-rhythms/ 2015-04-21T15:30:30Z One of Guinness World Records’ more unusual awards was... National Maritime Museum yesterday. After a 100-day tria... known as Clock B – which had been sealed in a clear pl... prevent tampering – was officially declared, by Guinne... It was an i https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470464 http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/national/clockmaker-john-harrison-vindicated-250-years-after-%E2%80%98absurd%E2%80%99-claims/ar-AAbhtA2?ocid=mailsignoutmd 2015-04-20T12:12:01Z Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We... by Maria Popova “Time perception matters because it is the experience ... Given my soft spot for famous diaries, it should come as ... That’s precisely what acclaimed BBC broadcaster and ps https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1465275 http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/07/15/time-warped-claudia-hammond/ 2015-04-08T12:45:09Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1465117 http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/244376?utm_content=buffer85c47&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 2015-04-07T19:04:25Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1465117 http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/244376?utm_content=buffer85c47&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 2015-04-07T19:04:25Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1465116 http://www.futurity.org/brain-neuron-data-website-889112/?utm_content=buffer81c9d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 2015-04-07T19:02:45Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1465114 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_learning#cite_note-1 2015-04-07T17:54:45Z 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 ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1464371 http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/articles/2015/speaking-a-second-language-makes-you-see-the-world-differently/ 2015-04-02T15:29:37Z 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 “hotter” colors... with strong https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1462582 http://www.kurzweilai.net/etwork-theory-suggests-consciousness-is-global-in-the-brain?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6502f5da23-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_147a5a48c1-6502f5da23-282115901 2015-03-23T11:08:15Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1462575 http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/18/modern-world-bad-for-brain-daniel-j-levitin-organized-mind-information-overload 2015-03-23T10:31:28Z Research shows that our intuition is wrong. We can focus... that we can’t may not be a phantom. Paying attention r... ability but desire. Technology may snuff out our desire ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1452732 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/opinion/smartphones-dont-make-us-dumb.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0 2015-01-22T18:20:39Z The 110 Year-Old Light Bulb That's Never Been Turned Off The oldest lightbulb in continuous use was installed bef ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1436931 http://gizmodo.com/the-110-year-old-lightbulb-thats-never-been-turned-off-1659505178?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow 2014-11-18T19:00:22Z When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonde... no historical buildings or monuments?” The reason is simple. Europeans have destroyed most of t ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1429233 http://www.siliconafrica.com/terra-nullius/?fb_action_ids=10152344700575426&fb_action_types=og.likes 2014-11-05T10:56:05Z KISSING-CRUST (n.) As loaves of bread expand in the oven as they're cooked, ... LONGINQUITY (n.) Derived from the Latin word for distance, longinquity is ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1421983 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-anthony-jones/forgotten-words_b_5985494.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000043&ir=Science 2014-10-21T22:40:41Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1421866 https://www.slow-watches.com/the-brand 2014-10-21T16:15:00Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1421848 http://mapstory.org/ 2014-10-21T15:29:41Z 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 ideas—to make your creativity seem, w... creative. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1420987 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/why-new-ideas-fail/381275/2/ 2014-10-20T10:01:31Z DataShine, a new census data visualisation tool from Oli... UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, shows ‘n... hotspots in Brighton, Bristol and Norwich; while Bradfor... clearly split and Liverpool keeps the faith. Dark blue a... least 39.5% https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1408971 http://www.theguardian.com/cities/datablog/gallery/2014/jul/03/where-atheists-live-maps-uk-godless-cities-religion-census-data-viz 2014-10-07T09:50:27Z E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such ... improve, but research suggests that reading on paper sti... advantages https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1406029 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/ 2014-10-02T05:21:39Z A 2014 study found that readers of a short mystery story... significantly worse at remembering the order of events t... the same story in paperback. Lead researcher Anne Mangen... Stavanger University concluded that "the haptic and tact... Kindle does https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1406028 http://mic.com/articles/99408/science-has-great-news-for-people-who-read-actual-books 2014-10-02T05:20:25Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1403587 http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/24/manifesto-fairer-grounded-city-sustainable-transport-broadband-housing 2014-09-28T20:43:02Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1378829 http://io9.com/the-rise-of-the-evolutionary-psychology-douchebag-757550990 2014-07-09T09:54:22Z 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. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1378095 http://www.businessinsider.com/inglehart-welzel-culture-map-2014-7 2014-07-05T11:52:19Z 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 novels’ popularity, ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1377564 http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/j-k-rowling-plotted-harry-potter-with-a-hand-drawn-spreadsheet.html 2014-07-02T16:05:20Z A review of the state of our knowledge regarding problem... it work? What is insight? How can we boost our creativit... problem solving performance? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1375024 http://rs.io/2014/02/21/problem-solving.html 2014-06-20T08:37:04Z 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 ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1373946 http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/27716493 2014-06-15T10:10:56Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1363623 http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/05/phineas_gage_neuroscience_case_true_story_of_famous_frontal_lobe_patient.html 2014-05-08T23:43:11Z 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. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1347483 http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/sustainable-smart-lighting-systems-cities 2014-03-17T16:13:28Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1346290 http://www.localdaylighttime.org/about-ldt/ 2014-03-10T16:13:28Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1346062 http://www.kith.org/logos/words/lower/c.html 2014-03-08T23:43:43Z 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 ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1345800 https://exist.io/ 2014-03-07T10:28:53Z 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. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1343721 http://mapkibera.org/ 2014-02-26T10:42:11Z 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 I’m writing, near the winter solstice, Mad ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1342830 http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/index.php/2014/01/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-17043 2014-02-22T07:53:00Z Researchers at Colorado College found students who were ... good night’s sleep, even if they did not, performed be... and memory skill tests than those who had been informed ... badly. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1341540 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/just-thinking-you-had-a-good-nights-sleep-can-improve-cognitive-skills-9079815.html 2014-02-17T10:03:12Z "Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes." Desmond Tutu https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1298156 https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5943.Desmond_Tutu 2014-01-11T11:35:00Z In 1945, Dr. Vannevar Bush published "As We May Think", ... In that article, he described an automated desk called a ... Sadly, Vannevar Bush's memex was far beyond what the ana ... Until Now! ... incomplete memex Memex #001 during construction https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1280161 http://trevor.smith.name/memex/ 2013-12-31T16:12:03Z Reality television and rolling 24-hour news give us inst... entertainment, but now a new television format is slowin... Pioneered in Norway, so-called Slow TV has featured an e ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1275544 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25524704 2013-12-28T12:06:02Z 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 – both personal and art hi... audiences might generate around artworks and geographica... Furthermore https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1255018 http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/art-maps-and-museum-platform 2013-12-12T16:53:54Z 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 study—one the largest of its kind with 949 individ ... Using the d https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1247465 http://sploid.gizmodo.com/newly-discovered-gender-neuronal-differences-explain-so-1475665938?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow 2013-12-06T11:02:01Z 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 isn’t necessarily better. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1232896 http://www.viralnova.com/tiny-house/ 2013-11-26T21:59:22Z Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz. Click here or on a photo t... slideshow: http://yhoo.it/GlassCabinPhotosBuilding the h... and hard,” Horwitz said. “Looking at it now, it’s ... insane. It’s huge. …“The house is an experience at... Olson said. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1139759 http://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/young-couple-quit-jobs-build-glass-house-500-204553074.html 2013-10-18T20:04:17Z Chris Dancy records nearly every detail of his life. So ... magazine has dubbed him “the Quantified Man”. Using ... sensors, mobile devices and ‘low friction’ tracking ... seamlessly building a digital archive of his entire bein... Dancy consi https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1137678 http://westspacejournal.org.au/article/winter-2013/the-numbers-man/ 2013-10-16T15:18:17Z Van den Hoven believes we need to delete more. “A lot ... think forgetting is a bad thing, that it’s a bug of hu... not. Forgetting is a side-product of a successful memory.” And that, she says, is one of the project’s aims. “W ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1127578 http://www.newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2013/10/remembering-to-forget 2013-10-08T09:46:58Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1126417 http://alessiomalizia.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/its-time-to-design-the-next-calendar-app-design-lessons-on-building-mynd/ 2013-10-07T10:26:28Z The strange world of urban exploration Urban explorers scale skyscrapers, jump fences, lift man ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1123076 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/20/urban-exploration-robert-macfarlane-bradley-garrett 2013-10-04T06:23:14Z Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, bored... makes people more generous to strangers and more toleran... Couples feel closer and look happier when they’re shar... memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nos... feel warmer https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1099906 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/science/what-is-nostalgia-good-for-quite-a-bit-research-shows.html?smid=fb-share&_r=2& 2013-09-05T11:31:07Z I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted — one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1031416 http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/lovebird-is-ready-for-beta-testing/ 2013-03-28T18:56:25Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1031297 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21878739 2013-03-28T11:25:50Z 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 ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1024962 http://www.npr.org/2013/03/05/173435599/wanna-play-computer-gamers-help-push-frontier-of-brain-research 2013-03-14T07:07:59Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1024560 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21759233 2013-03-13T09:37:26Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1023251 http://gerryco23.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/public-libraries-150-years-of-advance-is-being-destroyed/ 2013-03-10T12:29:27Z Lina Bo Bardi Having completed the vast majority of her work in post-w ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1023075 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/the-10-most-overlooked-women-in-architecture_n_2836782.html?utm_hp_ref=arts 2013-03-09T21:01:18Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1006445 http://flowingcity.com/the-project/ 2013-02-10T06:39:40Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1000170 http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v16/n2/full/nn.3304.html 2013-01-31T13:37:39Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1000170 http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v16/n2/full/nn.3304.html 2013-01-31T13:37:39Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1000025 http://www.gizmag.com/emotional-intelligence-brain-mapped/25980/ 2013-01-31T09:30:25Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=999464 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324539304578264052022342798.html?mod=e2fb 2013-01-30T13:00:51Z 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 “making maps” to the purposefu... Purposeful https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=997762 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geoinformatics/centre-for-geoinformatics-seminar-series/friday-1-february-2-3pm/ 2013-01-28T17:39:08Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=979219 http://www.lbc.co.uk/is-this-tube-map-an-improvement-for-london-59836/album/is_it_time_for_the_tube_map_to_change_/1850 2013-01-11T09:29:40Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=975322 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/tongue-and-tech-the-many-emotions-for-which-english-has-no-words/266956/ 2013-01-09T06:01:31Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=941656 http://www.inspired-by-design.co.uk/ 2012-12-19T11:11:00Z Every 10 years since 1841, the government has collected ... population to understand how the country is changing. Us... to get a picture of how your local authority has changed... previous census in 2001 and the most recent. Our data tr... census cate https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=933733 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2012/dec/13/census-2011-truth-where-you-live-interactive 2012-12-13T13:49:25Z I looked down at Jane, aka the voice of my TomTom XL1 na... Completely empty. We are nowhere. Disturbingly precise, our nowhere was notated. ... 0mph 1:22pm 206 SW https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=932310 http://elizabethchurchill.com/abstracts/maps-and-moralities-blanks-and-beasties/ 2012-12-12T11:23:09Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=926166 http://emailcharter.org/ 2012-12-07T08:24:04Z When the Germanic tribes known as the Anglo-Saxons and t... From Irish (Gaelic): banshee - bean síth, "woman of the fairy mound" bard - bard, a high rank of poet ... gull - gullan, "bird" https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=920525 http://everything2.com/title/English+words+of+Celtic+origin 2012-12-01T17:44:30Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=889346 http://www.slate.com/slideshows/health_and_science/gorgeous-cave-paintings-and-sculptures-from-thousands-of-years-ago.html?wpisrc=msn_gallery#slide_7 2012-10-31T20:03:00Z PARIS https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=889318 http://www.armellecaron.fr/art/index.php?page=plans_de_berlin 2012-10-31T19:28:30Z In certain situations animals can spontaneously solve pr... Animals rarely solve problems spontaneously, yet certain ... The University of Auckland research shows that such prob ... “Crows and parrots have long been known to solve the s ... ... ings of https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=887890 http://sciencealert.com.au/news-nz/20122810-23822-2.html 2012-10-30T14:08:53Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=864481 http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/footer/about.jsp 2012-10-08T12:26:04Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=854743 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19648095 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=854743 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19648095 2012-09-25T08:10:48Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=852131 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/lifx-the-light-bulb-reinvented 2012-09-18T22:03:03Z 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 ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=848761 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cctv-used-in-more-than-200-school-toilets-8129979.html 2012-09-12T22:55:04Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=841123 https://twitter.com/DriverRoss 2012-08-30T07:00:42Z NAVIGATE TO THERE WHERE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN Design your personal definition of silence, was the assi ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=829858 http://cargocollective.com/tomloois/Blank-Ways 2012-08-16T06:58:36Z NAVIGATE TO THERE WHERE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN Design your personal definition of silence, was the assi ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=829858 http://cargocollective.com/tomloois/Blank-Ways 2012-08-16T06:58:36Z 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 — no matter how unhealthy it is. This excellen https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=824399 http://www.businessinsider.com/what-information-overload-does-to-your-brain-2012-8 2012-08-04T12:15:07Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=823012 http://www.horizon.ac.uk/News/placebooks-a-new-mobile-app-web-service-launched-at-royal-geographic-society?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter 2012-08-01T14:17:09Z In a recent blog post, Ikka warns that it is all too eac... ‘trapped’ in mindsets and personal routines that shu... potential serendipitous experiences. 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Jim Horne Even though the sleeper has little knowledge of what is ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=2041 http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/hu/groups/sleep/dreams.htm 2006-08-27T10:48:53Z How Dreams And Memory May Be Related Tarnow, Dr. Eugen (2003) How Dreams And Memory May Be Re ... 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BY RACHEL ADELSON https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1604 http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/detecting.html 2006-07-01T14:49:46Z JIM HORNE Jim Horne is Professor of Psychophysiology and Director ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1590 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/midweek.shtml 2006-06-29T17:28:55Z do stupid things, but do them with enthusiasm https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1558 http://www.logosdictionary.org/pls/dictionary/new_dictionary.dic.main?u_code=4395&code_language=EN&language_list=&word=&trg_lg=&phrase_code=6168523&connect_value=1235093&procedure_type=ST&subject_code=&num_row=10 2006-06-15T20:06:27Z Ian Sample talks to the scientists teasing out why we st... pleasurable experiences - and why, when we have it all, ... for more excitement https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1482 http://www.biopsychiatry.com/pleasure/index.html 2006-05-30T22:56:37Z Welcome ... Serendip is a gathering place for people w ... instructions are always ambigu ... ... and in how one makes sense of life. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1443 http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/ 2006-05-10T11:37:35Z In linguistics, the Sapir–Whorf 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 Sapir–W... it rather w https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1414 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir–Whorf_hypothesis 2006-05-02T20:59:48Z This is a general category of Creativity and Innovation ... listed in alphabetical order. Like most tools these crea... all have their good and bad points. 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Click 'Add to Cart' below for purchase... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1232 https://www.erlbaum.com/shop/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=1040-7413 2006-03-24T19:08:24Z To study Ecological Psychology is to study the relation ... known. Because every other discipline, by definition, be... epistemic agent (the knower), and an intentional object ... known) as well as the explicitly or implicitly held epis... ontological https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1230 http://www.ecologicalpsychology.com/ 2006-03-24T19:06:24Z Leonardo Sample Articles Electric Body Manipulation as Performance Art: A Histori ... by Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha (Leonardo Music Journa ... Sculpting Ionized Plasma ... by Victor Margolin https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1228 http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/journal/samplearticles.html 2006-03-24T13:39:16Z Leonardo was founded in 1968 in Paris by kinetic artist ... pioneer Frank Malina. 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Polya, "How to Solve It", 2nd ed., Princeton University Press, 1957, ISBN 0-69 ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1099 http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/polya.html 2006-03-04T15:14:18Z Special Issue #5: Virtual Architecture at State of Play ... 2005 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1010 http://firstmonday.org/issues/special11_2b/ 2006-02-09T16:12:28Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=968 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/index.html 2006-02-05T19:56:19Z Semiotics, Communication, and Cultural Theory: Basic Assumptions https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=967 http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Semiotics_and_Communication.html 2006-02-05T19:44:22Z Number of Neurons in a Human Brain The Physics Factbook%u2122 Edited by Glenn Elert -- Written by his students An educational, Fair Use website ... brain has more than 100 billion neurons" > 100 billion https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=441 http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/AniciaNdabahaliye2.shtml 2005-11-17T16:24:42Z The total information processing activity of the brain i... because the current knowledge in this area is fragmentar... possible to get a general picture of the electronic puls... activity within a couple of orders of magnitude. 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