Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Yes, it's true! I'm the author of ping for UNIX. Ping is... thousand-line hack that I wrote in an evening which prac... seems to know about. :-)

When ministers’ priorities are cost-cutting and short-... research into what actually works falls by the wayside ⮮. consequences

The strange world of urban exploration
Urban explorers scale skyscrapers, jump fences, lift man ...

The deep union of ourselves with our inventions is not n... means a being that is part biological and part technolog... humans began as cyborgs, and still are. Our ancestors fi...
We are not the same folks who marched out of Africa. Our ...
Clearly, we

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

My theory was that all the physical places interconnected by apps had a way of resembling one another. In the case of the cafes, the growth of Instagram gave international cafe owners and baristas a way to follow one another in real time an...

This graph shows how the UK's budget deficit has fluctua... of the country's economic output (GDP):
UK budget deficit by GDP

Paul Buckland refused to pass students who didn't unders... archaeology - and he's just one of many academics under ... the marks of undeserving students. So will Buckland's le... the destruction of standards in some universities, asks ...

Today I’ve been working on some template stuff using j...
Okay, better google for outerHtml: yes… no… grrrrr†...
jQuery.fn.extend( {
outerHtml: function( replacement )
... $('div').outerHtml(x);

Over the past few years, one of the most important shift... world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semicl... that use the Internet for transport but not the browser ... It’s driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model ... computing,

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,

Most of us don't even realise it, but the home pages for... heavyweights such as Amazon, Facebook and YouTube have c... recognition since they launched.
Likewise, most of us don't remember that Google once had ...
With their plain colour schemes and emp

We believe that the easiest way to change people's behav... is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory.

The ability to describe, assign and attribute certain me... referred to as Theory of Mind. This topic has been exten... the field of autism, where deficits in social interactio... characterize this disorder are thought to be due to a la... Mind. Howev

I've seen PhD students with depression, sleep issues, ea... thoughts of suicide. Mental health in academia is an iss... addressed

TEG is an acronym for ‘thermoelectric generator’. A ...
When heat is applied to the hot side of a TEG, electrici ...
Can you really generate that much electricity from waste ...
You may be surprised just how much you can! Here is a sm ...
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Here’s how chains are assembled

These heat maps reveal where we feel love, anger, shame ...
Image Credit: Pnas.org
December 31, 2013 7:57 AM
Rebecca Grant
... what we feel and the physical sensation of that feeling.

Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz. Click here or on a photo t... slideshow: http://yhoo.it/GlassCabinPhotosBuilding the h... and hard,” Horwitz said. “Looking at it now, it’s ... insane. It’s huge. …“The house is an experience at... Olson said.

It was the fall of 1998, and Schaefer was about to leave... job in the linguistics department at Uppsala University,... Stockholm. Hock announced that he had a going-away prese...
She was a little surprised—a parting gift seemed an od ...
Schaefer op

TheyWorkForYou lets you find out what your MP, MSP or ML... name, read debates, written answers, see what’s coming... and sign up for email alerts when there’s past or futu... someone or something you’re interested in.

This is a place to share digital designs that can be mad... physical objects. Let's create a better universe, together!

Zoom
eStarling is Back and Better than Ever
You may remember the unique eStarling Wi-Fi enabled phot ...

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

Between 1974 and 1979, residents of a small Manitoba cit... be subjects in a project that ensured basic annual incom...
And for five years, poverty was completely eliminated.
The program was dubbed “Mincome” -- a neologism of ⠮..
The project’s o

On March 21, 2011, my MacBook was stolen from my apartme... I reported the crime to the police and even told them wh... they couldn't help me due to lack of resources. Meanwhil...
Update: (May 31, 8:37 PM PST) ARRESTED! An Oakland polic ...
Update: (Ma

The anatomy of the twitter-storm that cost media PR pro ... job.