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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...

In a paper presented recently at the WWW2010 conference ... group of researchers from Yahoo pointed out that before ... construct an accurate picture of a social network, resea... a better job of defining what it takes for two people to... Should two

In a parallel universe where the space race never ended,...
In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compa ...
It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first ...
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In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delus... Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery mak... Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors... code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers ... implied lic

In a recent blog post, Ikka warns that it is all too eac... ‘trapped’ in mindsets and personal routines that shu... potential serendipitous experiences. I think we’ve all... traps at some point in our lives; being too busy to be a...
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In Albrecht’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: “solastal

In all modern browsers (including Mozilla, now that bug ... JavaScript's escape() function (which was originally des... strings into URLs) uses %HH for Unicode codepoints below... %uHHHH for codepoints above there. Apparently, this is w... spec says.

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

In any event, we knew HTML5 was, in fact, ready, and we ... So we took it upon ourselves to rebuild the challenging ... Facebook mobile application in HTML5 in our spare time. ... introduce you to Sencha Fastbook, a technology proof of ... how fast HT

in building and designing the ability to access and mana... now could have been called data overspill is adding new ... it is possible to construct. We are entering the era of ... space. This handling of excess information - the data ov... taking on m

In case you missed it, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a flagship APA journal, published a study by Daryl Bem containing evidence for psi (precognition). I didn't really want to post in too much detail about this study (wh...

In certain instances, not everyone views every portion o... online: eventually, someone is going to print parts of i... this is perfectly fine: if you have a print style sheet ...
It’s a simple problem of resolution. Images are always ...
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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 ...
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In earlier work, we defined "multi-structural databases,... support efficient analysis of large, complex data sets o... numerical and hierarchical dimensions. We defined three ... over this data model, each of which required solving an ... problem. An

In everyday life we encounter more and more carbon dioxi...
Convert between a CO2 amount to other units as cups of t ...
Compare between two different emissions, for instance ho ...
Use our API to convert CO2 to a more understandable numb ...
Our carbon

In focus: Incredible raindrops on spiders
By Nate Lanxon
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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

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 ...

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 ...

In his recent JISC blog, David Kernohan asks: ‘Why bot... fees to attend university? …What if you could get it a... online?’ Of course, it is tongue in cheek, because as ... suggests, you don’t get something for nothing.
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In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing S...
The average respiratory rate for adults is 12-20 breathe ...
The other day, I noticed that my friend’s Dell laptop ...
It’s interesting how a lot of companies try to copy Ap ...
Now if you

In late October Jeff Atwood wrote about The Problems Wit...
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In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks ... give out, estimates suggest.
Predictions name 9 September 2011 as the date on which t ...

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

In many EU countries there is a requirement to count res... measure and prove its value. These numbers, often produc... based on the impact of journals, are used to rank univer... determine fund distribution, to evaluate research propos... determine t

In mid-April, Adobe released software called Creative Su... contained translation tools that automatically turn Flas... programs that run on the iPhone.
Shortly before the release, Apple updated the terms and ...
The revised terms placed strict restric

In most work environments people archive both the real a... of their documents. But unlike the digital world, in the... locating a document can become a very time consuming tas... this is the lack of a direct connection between the phys...
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In October 2006, I was away on a business trip when a fr... event destroyed the contents of my family’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...
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