Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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Gibraltar Health Authority launches electronic prescript...
28 April 2008
The Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) has introduced a ne ...
Using a combination of unique prescription IDs and uniqu ...
... his type of information can be critical to patient car

This week, the prestigious Journal of Political Philosop... series of articles under the heading “Black Lives Matt... All the authors published in the series are white.

Background Real science has the potential to not only am... transform the way one thinks of the world and oneself. T... process of science is little different from the deeply r... processes of play. Play enables humans (and other mammal...
Principal f

ABU DHABI // A dramatic fall in traffic accidents this w... directly linked to the three-day disruption in BlackBerr...
In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from averag ...

Whether a farmer can afford a forge and anvil will depen... to a blacksmith shop, the amount of machinery repair wor... have done, and his ability as a mechanic. Although not e... profitably own blacksmithing equipment, many farmers can...
Although bl

Call me naive: I think you can make a lot of money, go p... monopolize a market, and still retain a moral compass th... direction of Google’s stated top priority—users.
But Google lost me today:
Google is now displaying “tips” that point searche

NAVIGATE TO THERE WHERE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN
Design your personal definition of silence, was the assi ...

Interest in MySpace.com increased following the murder o... Taylor Behl who had a MySpace.com account. The account i... goodbyes and well wishes.

luefish is a surveillance system which tracks the prese... devices, and their users.
Bluefish constantly scans for Bluetooth-enabled devices, ...
Over time, a profile is built for each discovered device ...

Red, yellow and orange show activated regions while blue... are deactivated in these maps of bodily sensations assoc...
Yellow shows regions of increased sensation while blue a ...
Chests puffing up with pride — and happiness felt head ...
Researchers

I have been playing with GData since I was on the Google... in 2005/2006. My experiences with GData can be summarize... graph:

BookLending.com is a website that matches lenders and bo... ebooks.

Booklet is a jQuery tool for displaying content on the w... layout.

<script type="text/javascript">
function bookmark_us(url, title){
if (window.sidebar) // firefox
window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url, "");
... </script>

Bookshelf Porn is a photoblog showcasing only the best p... bookshelves.

Quick and easy way to build your product tours with Twit... Popovers.

Doug Engelbart is best known for inventing the mouse and... however his greatest innovations have been in the vision... devised for bootstrapping the innovation, creating a ver... turbo charged learning curve in his lab out of which eme...
Thus emerge

Current Mayor and Tory candidate Boris Johnson told us: "We're making the case now to central government for more funding. I'm making the argument to the Treasury that a pound spent in Croydon is far more of value to the country than a pound spent in Stra

one of the very earliest of spring flowers, its cheery, ... lighting up our hedges even before winter is quite spent

Bounded Rationality: A Response to Rational Analysis
Simon criticizes Anderson's proposed rational analysis a ...
Humans are not optimal and only in some cases locall ...
Assumptions made by cognitive modelers about how an ...
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It's a line of research that Google doesn't want you to ...
Now Guillaume Hervet and his team have attempted to addr ...
The results may be of some consolation to Google and the ...
Another aspect to the results is how the participants' b ...
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In Western cultures, girls consistently prefer pink, boy... Which academic camp lays claim to this difference? Past ... a case, in terms of the evolutionary advantage of findin... females might be biologically predisposed to prefer pink... colours. Bu

Paul Churchland, in his recent “Chimerical Colors: Som... from Cognitive Neuroscience” (2005), describes very od... experiences that are predicted by a neural model of chro... processing. In brief, the differential fatiguing and rec... processing

Illustration of neuron and dendrites. Dendrites receive ... stimulation (via synapses, not shown here) from neurons ... and propagate that stimulation to the neuron cell body (... sends electrochemical stimulation via an axon to communi...
Dendrites h

Attempts to simulate the brain usually involve programmi... behave like groups of neurons. A new "neuromorphic" desi... recreate the brain's hardware, using analogue components...
The Spikey chip contains 400 "neurons", or printed circu ...
Spikey also

Brainstorming is a widely used technique for groups to d... fresh perspectives on an issue, problem or project, and ... taught and used by team leaders and consultants working ... study by researchers at Texas A&M University, and publis...
The researc