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2017-04-20 08:02:39     The effects of taxes and benefits on household income - Office for National Statistics

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopu.../financialyearending2015

The redistribution effects on households of direct and i... and benefits received in cash or kind analysed by househ... changing levels of income inequality over time.

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2009-04-10 08:12:05     Cool URIs for the Semantic Web

http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/

The Resource Description Framework RDF allows users to d... documents and concepts from the real world—people, org... topics, things—in a computer-processable way. Publishi... descriptions on the Web creates the Semantic Web. URIs (... Identifiers

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2014-03-11 20:49:14     About « The Restart Project

http://therestartproject.org/about/

The Restart Project is a London-based social enterprise ... empowers people to use their electronics longer, by lear... repair and maintenance skills.
Through community and workplace events we create engagin ...
Electronic waste is one of the fastest gr

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2011-05-21 09:13:49     The Right to Read - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

The right to read is a battle being fought today. Althou... years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity... specific laws and practices described above have already... many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere.... 1998 Digita

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2011-07-25 11:24:17     Anders Behring Breivik: Tunnel vision in an online world | Thomas Hylland Eriksen | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...hring-breivik-norway-extremists

The role of the internet in fragmenting the public spher... subject of some scholarly and journalistic interest, mos... Pariser's excellent The Filter Bubble, which shows how G... and other major actors filter our web searches, updates ... our user pr

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2006-04-14 19:46:37     Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X

http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html

The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up... of steam over the last year. Fueled by some significant ... impressive portfolio of real-world applications already ...
It should come as no surprise that Mac OS X is a favored ...
This articl

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2009-12-28 08:14:16    

http://www.drabruzzi.com/ResearchDesign.htm

The Scientific Method
Reading Assignment:
1. Bernard, Chapters 1 & 2.
2. Kuznar, Chapters 1-3.
... --Lawrence Kuznar, Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

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2015-04-08 07:22:37     About the SSNS

http://ssns.org.uk/about.html

The Scottish Society for Northern Studies explores the i... between the Scandinavian, Celtic and Scottish cultures t... historical media and scholarly research.
The Society was founded in 1968 and has since provided b ...

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2015-12-19 12:54:15     Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw - Bloomberg Business

http://www.bloomberg.com/...ess-cars-and-exposing-a-key-flaw

The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ...
The glitch?
They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...

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2008-02-24 20:02:44     The Semantic Web: Scientific American

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?...

The Semantic Web
A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computer ...
By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila

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2006-05-13 15:23:40     BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | New feel and sound of computers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_o.../4764911.stm

The sensitive PC is a research project intended to impro... between man and machine, and to see if computers can be ...
Dr Jörg Voskamp, from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute, w ...
"We thought that it might be a good idea to bring the co ...
The system

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2009-01-19 09:08:04     SitePoint » Stream Your Life Completely with thisMoment

http://www.sitepoint.com/...life-completely-with-thismoment/

The service is focused on the idea of “You over Time,⮮.
Imagine Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, Delicious, Facebook ...
Read on: the first 20 SitePoint readers to follow the li ...
My Life, The Digital Version
... nts of your own, family members, friend

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2013-02-19 07:45:23     Arctic Death Spiral Bombshell: CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice Volume Has Collapsed | ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/...ea-ice-volume-has-collapsed/?...

The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched b... but equally sharp, drop in sea ice thickness. The combin... a collapse in total sea ice volume — to one fifth of i...
Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via ...

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2015-04-07 14:39:48     Facebook use linked to depressive symptoms -- ScienceDaily

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201.../150406144600.htm

The social media site, Facebook, can be an effective too...
Related Articles
Infectious mononucleosis
Double blind
... lished in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

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2013-09-15 21:52:49     A 1,476-foot tower equipped with its very own cloaking device

http://io9.com/...pped-with-its-very-own-cloaking-1300809867

The South Korean government has granted approval to begi... what will be the world's first "invisible" tower. Called... Tower, it will be equipped with an LED facade system and... give it a reflective skin — and a striking translucent...

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2010-01-06 12:48:41     New Statesman - Will Self on Charles Maclean's St Kilda: Island on the Edge of the World

http://www.newstatesman.com/200011270045

The St Kilda that Maclean describes is a tiny world, whi... much above 200 inhabitants. They spoke their own dialect... littered with Norse archaisms. They lived off the fruits... most notably the teeming seabirds - puffins, fulmars and...
With its ow

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2010-01-06 11:45:41     The Dark Ages -Times Online

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/trave.../article3184083.ece

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

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2014-04-12 07:39:18     A World Of Open Source Sex Toys, Built By Three Georgia Tech Students ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community

http://www.fastcolabs.com/...three-georgia-tech-students?...

The Stitchfest hackathon at UPenn didn’t know what was... Quitmeyer and Firaz Peer built an Arduino-powered genita... DIY hacking contest. This was no stunt: Quitmeyer intend... toy to be one of an open source suite when he opens Comi... August--wha

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2013-10-04 06:23:14     The strange world of urban exploration | Books | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...ert-macfarlane-bradley-garrett

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

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2008-03-08 12:14:24     Visual Business Intelligence - Don’t Let Your Brain Get in the Way

http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=214

The subtitle to Kida’s book is “The 6 Basic Mistakes...
A skeptic is just a person who wants to see and evaluate ...
In this book, he winnows the common problems that get in ...
* We prefer stories to statistics.
... * We have faulty memories

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2010-01-05 07:41:58     Building an industry-wide mobile data synchronization protocol

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/l.../0402_murphy.html

The success of mobile computing demands data synchroniza... handle many diverse data types and communication protoco... describes the requirements for an industry-wide data syn... protocol, and introduces the SyncML initiative to create...

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2016-09-14 18:34:28     How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/...stry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?...

The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play ... between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fa... instead, newly released historical documents show.
The internal sugar industry documents, recently discover ...

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2006-01-12 16:42:00     EXCALIBUR & THE SWORD IN THE STONE: TEXTS, IMAGES, BASIC INFORMATION

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/swrdmenu.htm

The Sword in the Stone, sometimes a sword in an anvil, i... as proof of his birthright and of his nobility. It is b... miraculous sign of his royalty. The sword drawn from th... different from the one given to Arthur by the Lady of th... latter is a

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2016-12-06 14:30:57     Symposium on Computational Fabrication

http://www.symposium-on-computational-fabrication.com/

The Symposium on Computational Fabrication is an interdi... that brings together leading experts from academia and i... of computer graphics, geometry processing, mechanical en... materials science, architecture, human-computer interact... applied mat

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2015-08-18 21:58:20     Police Shootings Are About Class as Well as Race | Rev. Jesse Jackson

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-as-race_b_7972218.html?...

The system has a class bias as well as a race bias. An i... Alternet's Zaid Jilani revealed that in the first five m... 95 percent of police killings occurred in neighborhoods ... incomes under $100,000. There were no killings in neighb...
Not surpris

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2007-11-20 21:17:25     TAGora

http://www.tagora-project.eu/

The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportu... the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social in... variety of contexts. Such popularity, in fact, is making... amounts of raw data from online semiotic systems (for ex... collaborati

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2006-07-08 12:40:44     New Scientist Breaking News - 'Rewired brain' revives patient after 19 years

http://www.newscientist.com/...s-patient-after-19-years.html

The team's findings suggest that Wallis’s brain had, v... developed new pathways and completely novel anatomical s... re-establish functional connections, compensating for th...
They found that new axons – the branches that connect ...
Surprisingl

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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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2013-03-11 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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2005-11-17 16:24:02     Information Processing in Human Body

http://vadim.www.media.mit.edu/MAS862/Project.html

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

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