Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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...

rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows

Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists... to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or... “ism” and start exploring how technology is changing... of the liberal arts. This latest frontier is about metho... powerful te

The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ...
The glitch?
They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...

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

The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
As a grammatically conscientious person who frequents in ...

Cool URIs don't change
What makes a cool URI?
A cool URI is one which does not change.
What sorts of URI change?
... f forethought. Here are some reasons you hear out there:

Less provocatively, perhaps a community of interacting i... city - after all, a more complex system than a single on... also be conscious. Perhaps there are all sorts of consci... can't see precisely because they emerge at a more abstra... one we occu

“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of... had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 ... they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front pa...
I am Johannes Bohannon, Ph.D. Well, actually my name is ...
Other than

The first piece of advice was: “You should mostly eat food you know is healthy. There is no magic food.”
And the second? That was: “You should also occasionally let yourself eat delicious food you know isn’t healthy. Otherwise, what...

In the same vein, programmers who pay attention to how t... written language also tend to pay a lot more attention t... You see, at its core, code is prose. Great programmers a... code monkeys; according to Stanford programming legend D...
And just li

Check which famous writer you write like with this stati... tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style ... with those of the famous writers.
Any text in English will do: your latest blog post, jour ...

A boy and a girl, maybe 10 years old, were fighting. “That’s AI! That’s AI!” the girl was shouting. What she meant was that the boy was indulging a new and particular breed of nonsense: language that sounds meaningful but has no con...

The introduction of iOS 6 also introduced "smart app ban... let users know that your site has an associated app. The... adds a META tag and mobile safari handles the rest.
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=999">

The Virtual Laser Keyboard (VKB) uses both infrared and ... generate an invisible field and project a full-size virt... keyboard on any surface.

I’d like to suggest a great MOOC that has been around ... “massive” (nearly a half million members), it is ope... (anyone can join without cost), it is open–as in share... copyright: all content by all contributors is in the pub... online (www

It’s all for you © Claire Brewster 2013
It is an edition of 20, all hand cut by me, so even thou ...

IBM Research in Zurich has created the world's first art... stochastic phase-change neurons. IBM has already created... 500 of these artificial neurons and used them to process... brain-like (neuromorphic) way.

WWTW - The World Wide Telecom Web (a.k.a. The Spoken Web)
The World Wide Telecom Web (also referred to as The Spok ...
The World Wide Telecom Web
Past and Present Collaborators:
... Related Publications are available here

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.

In their book, Idealized Design: How to Solve Tomorrow's... (Wharton School Publishing), authors Russell L. Ackoff, ... Herbert J. Addison build upon a simple notion. They argu... get to the best outcome is to imagine what the ideal sol...
Idealized d

Early research on online self-presentation mostly focuse... constructions in anonymous online environments. Such stu... individuals tended to engage in role-play games and anti... behaviors in the online world. More recent studies have ... performance

Palo Alto, 2003. Keep people at the center of your work!... help. Look at what they do. Learn from the facts you gat... yourself! Ideo has become a leader in design by keeping ... center of the design process. These cards show some of t... to inspire

HTML5 T-Shirt Designer
This demo shows a cross-section of features in Internet ...

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

Printed compound semiconductors could challenge OLEDs, s...
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... energy efficiency, durability, and moisture resistance.

Solid-state lighting won't supplant the lightbulb until ...
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... electric lighting industry, unless we can defeat droop.