Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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

"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

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 ..

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 — making it the sec... in the nation. Appearing mysteriously on Friday night, t... the culmina

19 Things You Didn't know about Star Wars
19 Things You Didn't know about Star Wars
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Is Tech Bad for Teenagers?
... Online Marketing in 2012

Is tech saturation good or bad for the modern teenager?
Arguments can be made either way, but there’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
[ 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 ...

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

Browse all maps with options to filter by year, auth...
Listing of all current & past venues.
See what the exhibit entails, plus how to host it at ...
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cro ...

FIFTEEN years ago, the bid to create Australia's first b... university researchers pillaging old stereos for parts.
However today, 154 researchers led by biomedical enginee ...

The past several years have not been kind to the world's... working poor. The foundations on which we have built the... commerce—the markets, the banks, and government—have...
Nevertheless, there is one institution that has continue ...
This is the

Sorry, you can't have my magical idea chair, but if you ... let you use it for a few minutes

The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open source refe... anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism.
It was born at a 48 hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in Lon ...

adding images into QR Codes

Here’s a nice example. On one morning, I was walking t... via the underground pass, and I noticed a new Disney pos...
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Stitch. Notice the eyes a ...

It seems that a lot of people have been talking about pu...
Each stone measures 40 x 40 x 7 centimeters (15.75 x 15. ...
iPavement being installed in Spain
Along with providing internet usage to passers-by, howev ...
The apps are available in a number of

For about a year, former aerospace engineer Sam Cervante...
An object created using the Solidoodle 2
An object created using the Solidoodle 2
Objects created using the Solidoodle 2
... onally features an outer cover and a front acrylic door.

An HTC phone starts out somewhere between four months an... reaching to the ABS block mockup stage. During this time... out the next best way to put the phone together, as well... best weight and the best components for certain models, ... size of the

A businessman laments that he no longer has colleagues a... doesn’t stop by to talk; he doesn’t call. He says th... want to interrupt them. He says they’re “too busy on... But then he pauses and corrects himself. “I’m not te...
A 16-year-o

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,

Why is OpenFlow so advantageous to a company like Google... traditional model you can think of routers as akin to ta... passengers from one place to another. If a street is blo...
With the software-defined network Google has implemented ...
Therefore,