Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Ian Sample talks to the scientists teasing out why we st... pleasurable experiences - and why, when we have it all, ... for more excitement

Welcome
... Serendip is
a gathering place for people w ...
instructions are always ambigu ...
... and in how one makes sense of life.

In linguistics, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (SWH) state... systematic relationship between the grammatical categori... a person speaks and how that person both understands the... in it. Although it has come to be known as the Sapir–W... it rather w

This is a general category of Creativity and Innovation ... listed in alphabetical order. Like most tools these crea... all have their good and bad points. I like to think of t... techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as... home for DI

New finds from an open-air archaeological site in the Se... Park in Tanzania have intriguing implications for the ev... human behavior, including further indications that symbo... developed in humans earlier than the currently accepted ... 35,000 year

Evolution and Creationism
Sites describing and/or promoting evolution
The sites below provide you with the opportunity to lear ...

ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
A Publication of the International Society for Ecologica ...
Editor(s):
William M. Mace
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To study Ecological Psychology is to study the relation ... known. Because every other discipline, by definition, be... epistemic agent (the knower), and an intentional object ... known) as well as the explicitly or implicitly held epis... ontological

Leonardo Sample Articles
Electric Body Manipulation as Performance Art: A Histori ...
by Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha (Leonardo Music Journa ...
Sculpting Ionized Plasma
... by Victor Margolin

Leonardo was founded in 1968 in Paris by kinetic artist ... pioneer Frank Malina. Malina saw the need for a journal ... as an international channel of communication between art... emphasis on the writings of artists who use science and ... technologie

G. Polya, How to Solve It
Summary taken from G. Polya, "How to Solve It", 2nd
ed., Princeton University Press, 1957, ISBN 0-69 ...

Special Issue #5: Virtual Architecture at State of Play ... 2005

Semiotics, Communication, and Cultural Theory:
Basic Assumptions

Number of Neurons in a Human Brain
The Physics Factbook%u2122
Edited by Glenn Elert -- Written by his students
An educational, Fair Use website
... brain has more than 100 billion neurons" > 100 billion

The total information processing activity of the brain i... because the current knowledge in this area is fragmentar... possible to get a general picture of the electronic puls... activity within a couple of orders of magnitude. The act... is equivale

Estimates for the human brain range between 10 billion a... imprecision in these estimates is due almost entirely to... the number of granule cells in the cerebellum, a problem... traced back to a study by Braitenberg & Atwood (1958). M...
[A revisio

While the name of our process is %u201Cswitch sessions%u... the more general approach to creative collaboration idea... of starting from a blank slate and working together to c... final product, we document some idea seeds. These have n... advantages.

These would be the successive phases of the image:
1 It is the reflection of a basic reality.
2 It masks and perverts a basic reality.
3 It masks the absence of a basic reality.
4 It bears no relation to any reality whatever: it is it ...

oundary Object: %u201CArtifacts, Documents and perhaps e... can help people from different communities build a share... Boundary objects will be interpreted differently by the ... communinities, and it is an acknowledgement and discussi... differences

I first encountered the term boundary object when reading %u201CDistributing intelligence, organizing diversity,%u... of a silicon alley new media firm. In it David Stark, re...
What Star teaches us is that the fact that we all un ...
Star, S. L. an

I call these boundary objects, and they are a major met...
heterogeneous problems. Boundary objects are objects ...
enough to adapt to local needs and constraints of the ...
employing them, yet robust enough to maintain a commo ...
... 46-4

Susan Leigh Star and James Griesemer, “Institutional E... ‘Translations,’ and Boundary Objects:Amateurs and Pr... Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939,”... Science, 19: 387-420

rian Marick, Boundary Objects
An analytical concept from science studies: does it appl ...

oundary objects 'have different meanings in different so... their structure is common enough to more than one world ... recognizable, a means of translation' (Star and Grieseme...