Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 can’t bear to let them go. And ... decline eff

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 registry’s creation, requir ...

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

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 ...

At least 86 people have been shot and killed by police a... States within the past 30 days, according to Washington ... database is based on news reports, public records, Inter... original reporting.

“I need a car to pick me up at my hotel and take me to... as collaborative as “my yard looks like crap and I rea... cheap landscaper.” You’re talking about buying and s...
Let me ask you this: if someone pushed out an escort-boo ...
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Fresh out of Harvard in 2005, Leila Janah landed a job a... consultant. One of her first assignments took her to Mum... traveled by auto-rickshaw to a sleek outsourcing center ...
“There aren’t any unions for online workers. They ha ...
Janah, 32,

At the moment tax law ensures that companies based here,... other countries, don't get taxed twice on the same money... only the difference between our rate and that of the oth... example, Dirty Oil plc pays 10% corporation tax on its p...
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Mapping and activism have a long history. In the final d... Commune the military advances of the Versailles army wer... basis as the revolutionaries sought to keep them at bay.... nearly 100 years and the Situationists were once again m... altogether

In this essay, I want to offer a competing narrative to the popular but woefully misnamed “sharing economy” (which, of course, isn’t sharing, unless you tell your kids that buying and selling toys from other five year olds is “shari...

It’s not everyday you see a book that can be read in s... different ways, and this small book from the National Li... definitely an anomaly. According to Medieval book histor... this 16th century text has a special sixfold dos-à-dos ... back”) bi

Thomas is 70 years old. He lives a quiet life alone. Out... health, his children send him gifts to track his habits ... smart fork that counts calories, a smart cane that count... bed that monitors his sleep. But Thomas soon finds he do... told what t