Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Visualizing the "super entity." Courtesy: New Scientist
Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute o ...
They discovered that global corporate control has a dist ...

In a candid conversation with Frank Rich last fall, Chri... people don’t even know. If poor people knew how rich r... there would be riots in the streets.” The findings of ... published over the last several years inPerspectives on ... Science, su

MARVIN THE ROBOT, a supporting player in "The Hitchhiker... Galaxy," speaks in the dull monotone of the chronically ... "Star Wars" films, C-3PO is a bundle of anxiety and neur... "2001: A Space Odyssey," the HAL 9000 is creepily homicidal.

Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules
(AP) – 2 days ago
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Tony Brown didn't set out to over ...
The University of Missouri student came up with an idea ...
But the invention also raised a perplexing question when ...

In 2018, a study analysed 14 million tweets over a ten-month period in 2016 and 2017. It found bots on social media were significantly involved in disseminating articles from unreliable sources. Accounts with high numbers of followers were ...

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

This post is by Rebecca Willis, independent adviser on e... sustainability and Green Alliance associate, working wit... Leadership Programme. This is a shortened version of her... presentation to the Tyndall Centre’s Radical Emissions... conference.

This ancient Tiree battle is believed to have been fough...
Vikings try to take Tiree
Vikings try to take Tiree
Fionn (meaning “Fair”) was the son of an irish mothe ...
The story continues with the Norsemen landing and the ba ...

I had to laugh this morning while reading the Ottawa Cit... crafty yet bafflingly incompetent vandal described as "H... pack, but the plastic thingy that holds them together is... spin-off of the saying "He's one can short of a full six...
This chapte

test scores in my visual-communication course have gone ... laptops the boot a year ago. Now I coach students on how... longhand to help those who have not used that muscle muc... convinced that while laptops have a lot of good uses in ... taking is n

The first point I wish to make is that a lack of motor t... very worrying prospect for a scientific community. There... researchers should ask themselves whether CHI is or want... scientific conference. If not, then the reasonable quest...
My argument

A bionic eye implant has been shown to give blind men an...
The technology is quite incredible. A three millimetre s ...
However, as impressive as the technology is, the impact ...
The results have been tagged as astonishing by eye surge ...
... suffere

If we define
to be a new estimator of , then the bias of is
which is less than the bias of since it eliminates the ...
where i = 1, ... n. This is the first order jackknife e ...
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the British Library came out with its own announcement o...
We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commo ...

Is it possible to put some order into our thoughts about... memory, perception, and the like? Hardly a day goes by w... in-depth article wondering whether computers can be cons... universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a u... human being

When Google announced it was integrating AI-generated summaries into its search engine earlier this year, it brandished a bold slogan: “Let Google do the searching for you.” It’s an appealing idea that plays on our fondness for conven...

An Anthropologist Explores Video Blogging
Michael L. Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural ant ...
Within just a few weeks, the video had been viewed more ...
This semester Mr. Wesch is leading a class of nine under ...

OpenBook is a WordPress PHP plugin that implements the O... insert book covers, titles, authors and publishers into ... motive behind the development was to provide an easy alt... common practice of linking to Amazon. Open Library was s... source beca

William Greider: Will It Matter That Janet Yelle...
Dave Zirin: Chris Kluwe, Aaron Rodgers and LGBT ...
John Nichols: Five Reforms to Make Democratic Po ...
A Look Back at the Year in Crazy, Part Two
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Bitcoin is giving banks a run for their money. Now the s... threatens to eradicate social networks, stock markets, e... governments. Are we heading towards an anarchic future w... power of any kind will dissolve?

This is a paper I wrote for my course in Order, Chaos an...
Introduction
Consciousness is notoriously difficult to define, though ...
The fields of Chaos and Complexity theories have opened ...
I will attempt in this essay to present how certain appr ..

For some time now, we’ve been using various technologi... store text within a web browser. Now with the contentedi... things have got a whole lot easier. In this article, Iâ€... this attribute is for, how it works, and how we can take...

One of Coral's key goals is to avoid ever creating hot s... infrastructure. It achieves this through a novel indexin... introduce called a distributed sloppy hash table (DSHT),... self-organizing clusters of nodes that fetch information... to avoid co

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

The St Kildans climbed barefoot up the sheer cliffs, kil... gathering their eggs to survive. Over hundreds of years,... the job. There is a species of St Kilda wren, a St Kilda... is, it’s said, a St Kilda toe, an elongated big toe th... cling more

On May 21st and 22nd 2007, the Krasnow Institute for Adv... George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, hosted a Symposi...
Ten eminent neuroscientists signed the letter in Science ...
The "Decade of the Brain" [2], has quite naturally led t ...
The "Decade

A few weeks ago I discontinued (temporarily, I hope) my ... consultations, particularly those related to the fraught... whether or not to leave academia. I discontinued these ... dealing with a health issue that, while thankfully not s...
In any case

Thunderbird Extensions: How to Get the Body of A Message
The XPCOM component nsIMsgHdr is, as you would expect, t ...