Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Universities in the UK are worth £59bn for the economy,... the economic impact of higher education.
The report, based on figures for 2007-8, highlights the ...
Universities created, directly or indirectly, over 668,5 ...
The figures follow the launch o

ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2009) — A diet high in fat and ... carbohydrates, known as the "ketogenic" diet, quickens r... paralyzed rats after spinal cord injury, according to ne...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of men and women u... neuroscientists how their brains differed in response to... situations. In men, increased blood flow to the left orb... suggested activation of the "fight or flight" response. ... activated t

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — There are areas in the b... arms, legs, and various parts of our bodies. The way the... distributed throughout the brain are known as "body maps... some significant differences in these maps between left-... people. For

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The Art of Swishing involves getting your friends togeth... clothes and party at the same time. Every lady must brin...
(Large sacks of designer frocks are also gratefully rece ...
"Save money, save the planet, have a party: swishing eff ...
Lucy Shea,

Indian telcos give voice to the illiterate
knINDIAN_KIDS_wideweb__470x350,0.jpg Sending text messag ...
"... Since the urban market for mobile phones in India i ...
The solution is called Voice SMS. It is just like leavin ...
Some of the big operators —

I have remained fairly silent over the last year, ever s... letter from the British Chiropractic Association threate... This essay is an attempt to explain what has been happen... twelve months, why I have decided to apply to the Court ... might happe

I am going to create my own Ph.D. program via open educa... courseware. My degree will be in Educational Technology... in (what else?) Open Education as the Great Equalizer. ... my blog states: it will be all the learning, with none o... “doc”-u

That proved bipedalism did not evolve on the savannah, b... not fossilise, it is hard to establish when the hominids... In 2006, Nina Jablonski, an anthropologist at Penn State... a book, Skin: A natural history, in which she proposed t... bipeds fina

Data.gov.uk Newspaper
Friday, October 16th 2009
Over the last three days we’ve been working on a side ...
We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk reposit ...
And perhaps unsurprisingly, we thought a good way to do ...

LumiNet is a network of low-cost intelligent pixels that... an organic fashion: Without a central point of control, ...
Each node consists of an RGB LED, microcontroller, and c ...
New behaviors are injected into the network from a singl ...
LumiNet nod

Q I have a website - can I display your calendar (or it...
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Absolutely! Interaction-Design.org is founded on princip ...

A recent iome survey into the social impact of mobile ph... the UK’s deep rooted emotional bond with handheld devi... mobile phones a vital role in our social lives. Almost a... respondents (31 per cent) confirmed they would feel “c...
from this p

A new generation of contact lenses built with very small...
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... ess to information that appears right before their eyes.

Life imitates sci-fi as contact lens displays inch close...
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... with machines is too compelling not to pay attention to.

Solid-state lighting won't supplant the lightbulb until ...
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Printed compound semiconductors could challenge OLEDs, s...
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... energy efficiency, durability, and moisture resistance.

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Under the leadership of Pacific Northwest National Labor...
The R&D Agenda presents recommendations to advance the s ...
* The science of analytical reasoning
* Visual representations and interaction techniques
... Additional Reading (84K PDF)

Quercus is Caucho Technology's fast, open-source, 100% J... of the PHP language (requires JDK 1.5).

Dewey.info is an experimental space for linked DDC data....
The ten main classes
000 Computer science, information & general works 100 Ph ...
Highlights
... ta is reusable under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license

The extremity in teenagers’ attitudes and actions coup...
But however meaningful the phone is in teenagers’ live ...
The BuddyBeads project suggests alternative ways for com ...
BuddyBeads are techno-jewelry items that facilitate non- ...
Each group

McDonald’s restaurants with staff predominantly aged o... profitable

The imperatives of the link economy
At a Berkman center session last week about supporting i ...
1. All content must be transparent: open on the web with ...
2. The recipient of links is the party responsible for m ...
... networks to help the recipients

ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) is a non-propri... permissions tool that puts content owners in control of ... content in a way that is conducive to developing new onl... models, putting new, high-quality content on the net and... benefits of

The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the Intern... fighting the link and the link is the basis of the Inter... Perez-Pena's New York Times story today:
Tom Curley, The A.P.'s president and chief executive ...
Them's fightin' words: quoting