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2013-03-14 08:12:03     Majority of British children will soon be growing up in families struggling 'below the breadline', Government warned - UK Politics - UK - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/...vernment-warned-8531584.html

The majority of British children will soon be growing up... are struggling “below the breadline” because of welf... and wage freezes, the Government is warned today.
Within two years, almost 7.1m of the nation’s 13m youn ...

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2013-03-14 07:25:44     #Climatefairness: the triple injustice facing low-income households | Joseph Rowntree Foundation

http://www.jrf.org.uk/bl.../climatefairness-triple-injustice

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 ...
So lower in

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2013-03-14 07:07:59     Wanna Play? Computer Gamers Help Push Frontier Of Brain Research : NPR

http://www.npr.org/...s-help-push-frontier-of-brain-research

Enlarge image
Daniel Berger, a researcher at MIT, traced these neurons ...
EyeWire
People can get pretty addicted to computer games. By som ...
Right now I'm at the novice level of a game called EyeWi ...

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2013-03-13 10:14:27     BBC News - 'Pirate Bay' for 3D printing launched

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21754915

The company that developed 3D printed gun parts has anno... launch a new firm, dedicated to copyright-free blueprint...
Defcad, as the firm will be known, has already been dubb ...
The site will become a "search engine for 3D printing," ...
But its flo

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2013-03-13 09:41:13     Can Wind, Water and Sunlight Power New York by 2050? - NYTimes.com

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/...power-new-york-by-2050/

A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a... New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fo... nuclear power — including for transportation — by 20... charts the contributions played by improved efficiency a... renewable e

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2013-03-13 09:37:26     BBC News - Neanderthal large eyes 'caused their demise'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21759233

Neanderthals are a closely related species of human that... from around 250,000 years ago. They coexisted and intera... our species until they went extinct about 28,000 years a...
The research team explored the idea that the ancestor of ...
The humans

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2013-03-11 09:58:50     Microsoft brings solar Wi-Fi to rural Kenya - tech - 13 February 2013 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...olar-wifi-to-rural-kenya.html

GAKAWA Senior Secondary School is located in Kenya's wes... Province, about 10 kilometres from Nanyuki town. It is n... live. There are no cash crops, no electricity, no phone ...
"For internet access we had to travel the 10 kilometres ...
Not for muc

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2013-03-11 09:57:19     Robot & Frank: vision of the future? | Film | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/f.../robot-and-frank-vision-future

Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which e...
Frank Langella on Robot & Frank: 'I'd rather make love i ...
Share 14
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... Robot & Frank

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2013-03-11 08:56:05     World University Rankings 2012-2013

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world.../world-ranking

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 201... Thomson Reuters are the only global university performan... world class universities across all of their core missio... research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. ... universitie

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2013-03-11 08:55:19     Crowdsourced 'Maker Map' Charts Nearby Hackerspaces and Hardware Shops | Wired Design | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/03/the-maker-map/

Screenshot via The Maker Map
We’ve long been fascinated with makerspaces, the DIY e ...
San Francisco is one such locale, with such a robust com ...

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2013-03-11 08:30:15     Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

http://gruntjs.com/

Why use a task runner?
In one word: automation. The less work you have to do wh ...

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2013-03-10 14:21:38     Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy? | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...gle-glass-threat-to-our-privacy

The tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now bei... volunteers, meaning you might already have been surrepti... uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you be?

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2013-03-10 12:29:27     Public libraries: 150 years of advance is being destroyed | That's How The Light Gets In

http://gerryco23.wordpress.com/...dvance-is-being-destroyed/

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2013-03-10 07:21:05     BBC News - Web-based 'brain' for robots goes live

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21714191

Continue reading the main story
Related Stories
Robots to get their own internet
Arm lifts BigDog robot to new level
... f standardising the way robots perceive the human world.

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2013-03-09 21:01:18     The 10 Most Overlooked Women in Architecture History (PHOTOS)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...itecture_n_2836782.html?...

Lina Bo Bardi
Having completed the vast majority of her work in post-w ...

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2013-03-09 20:26:53     Thermoelectric Generator by TEG Power

http://tegpower.com/index.html

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 ...
... solar h

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2013-03-09 16:47:04     BBC News - EU Commission launches 'grand coalition' to tackle IT shortage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21668166

The European Commission has launched a "grand coalition"... region's IT skills shortages.

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2013-03-09 16:44:50     BBC News - Star Trek 'holodeck' in the living room?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21706180

With "immersive media" taking content well beyond the TV... technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards... closer to real life.
Whether it be a cave, an igloo or a theatre, virtual rea ...
Full 360-degree screens are now capable of taking a

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2013-03-08 08:45:31     Which software is responsible for this? - Junk Charts

http://junkcharts.typepad.com/...s-responsible-for-this.html

@guitarzan wants us to see this chart from north of the ... the comments. Please hold your nose first.
Cbc-drinking-graph
Here's one insightful comment: "I think it's insane to d ...
Reminds me of signs that say this elevator holds 13 peop ...

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2013-03-06 14:36:45     kamens/jQuery-menu-aim · GitHub

https://github.com/kamens/jQuery-menu-aim

menu-aim is a jQuery plugin for dropdown menus that can ... between a user trying hover over a dropdown item vs tryi... a submenu's contents.
menu-aim assumes that you are using a menu with submenus ...

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2013-03-06 14:35:19     Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown - Ben Kamens

http://bjk5.com/post/.../breaking-down-amazons-mega-dropdown

How did Amazon get away without using a delay?
It’s easy to move the cursor from Amazon’s main drop ...
image
If the cursor moves into the blue triangle the currently ...
... switch the submenu, giving it a really responsive feel.

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2013-03-06 00:42:37     Can humour make students love statistics? - Vol. 22, Part 3 ( March 2009)

http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/ar.../archive_home.cfm?...

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

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2013-03-05 17:13:39     MYO - Wearable Gesture Control from Thalmic Labs - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

MYO - Wearable Gesture Control from Thalmic Labs

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2013-03-05 09:43:35     MIT wants future US Army uniforms to contain 'functional fibres' (Wired UK)

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/.../mit-smart-fibres?...

The gold fibres in the uniform, the product of years of ... actually do that communications work yet. Currently, the... a uniform," Joannopoulos tells Wired.com: They're about ... diameter, and Joannopoulos wants to scale down to 100 mi...
The fibres

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2013-03-05 09:40:23     10 amazing scientific facts about lists | Dean Burnett | Science | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sc.../10-science-facts-about-lists

People like lists of things. They're everywhere on the i... any subject matter you can think of, odds are there's a ... Nowhere is safe. Even here, on the Guardian Science sect... most popular articles in recent months is a list. But wh... popular? We

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2013-03-05 09:34:28     RIPS | Free Security & Utilities software downloads at SourceForge.net

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rips-scanner/

RIPS is a static source code analyser for vulnerabilitie... webapplications. It was released during the Month of PHP... (www.php-security.org).

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2013-03-04 09:02:43     Standing Room Only: The Vignelli Subway Map | Dwell

http://www.dwell.com/post/art.../massimo-vignelli-subway-map

Photo
A talk about the history of Vignelil’s subway map, app ...
In a panel led by the MTA’s Director of Marketing & Co ...

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2013-03-04 08:39:47     ALICE Virtual Receptionist | Virtual Office Assistant

http://www.alicereceptionist.com/

Let ALICE manage your building lobby by greeting vis...
Click here to see and learn more about how ALICE can ...
ALICE presents visitors with a touch screen list of ...
Click here for a full list of features and benefits.
... ick here to

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2013-03-03 08:58:46     Dictionary + algorithm + PoD t-shirt printer + lucrative meme = rape t-shirts on Amazon | I Am Pete Ashton

http://iam.peteashton.com/keep-calm-rape-tshirt-amazon/

The world around us is increasingly governed by these al... annoyingly dumb and some freakishly intelligent. Because... generally mimic decisions that used to be made directly ... tendency to humanise the results and can easily be horri...
Douglass Ru

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2013-02-24 09:21:43     National Public Toilet Map - About

http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/staticpage.aspx?page=about

The National Public Toilet Map (the Toilet Map) shows th... than 16,000 public and private public toilet facilities ... Details of toilet facilities can also be found along maj... and for shorter journeys as well. Useful information is ... toilet, suc

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