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English is the language of Shakespeare and the language ... spoken in dozens of countries around the world, from the... tiny island named Tristan da Cunha. It reflects the infl... of international exchange, including conquest and coloni... Vikings thr

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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 ...

Ericsson, K. A., & Kintsch, W. (1995). Long-term working... Psychological Review, 102, 211-245.
Author of the summary: David Zach Hambrick, 1998, gt8781 ...
The sine qua non of skilled cognitive performance is the ...
Working memory (WM) refers to the si

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...
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European Neanderthals were dying off and already on the ... even before the arrival of competing modern humans, Swed... say.
Scientists said a study of ancient DNA indicates most Ne ...

Every 10 years since 1841, the government has collected ... population to understand how the country is changing. Us... to get a picture of how your local authority has changed... previous census in 2001 and the most recent. Our data tr... census cate

Every cognitive bias is there for a reason — prima... brains time or energy. If you look at them by the proble... to solve, it becomes a lot easier to understand why they... they’re useful, and the trade-offs (and resulting ment... they introd

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

Flyfire, a project initiated by the SENSEable City Labor...
In its first implementation, the Flyfire project sets ou ...
With the self-stabilizing and precise controlling techno ...
Flyfire serves as an initial step to explore and imagine ...
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For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of Psychology i... Psychiatry at the University of California at San Franci... his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago... University. He received his Ph.D. from Adelphi Universit...
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For years, only humans were thought to have this key cog... attributing “false belief,” which is believed to und... empathy, teaching, and perhaps even language. But three ... apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans—also know ... a false bel

Freedom is an application that disables networking on an... up to eight hours at a time. Freedom will free you from ... the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or creat... your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your ne...
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging of men and women u... neuroscientists how their brains differed in response to... situations. In men, increased blood flow to the left orb... suggested activation of the "fight or flight" response. ... activated t

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

Ghost Towns of the American West are what come to mind f... think of abandoned settlements. However, there are fasci... abandonments all over the world. Some of these have a cl... reason for being deserted, while the abandonment of othe... mystery. He

Giant Tetris in Hevanta - Finland
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Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La sociét... (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer cu... examines the “Spectacle,” Debord’s term for the e... manifestatio

HaptiMap, Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps a... Services, is a project which receives financial support ... Commission in the Seventh Framework Programme, under the...
If you are walking or cycling, and don’t want to (or a ...
The HaptiMa

Have you found yourself checking email at dinner, or ski... screen, unable to focus? The closer the world gets to ou... more we stand to lose

Hedge fund manager James Altucher recently wrote about h... kill you. Neuroscience shows that our brains simply were... Yet many people continue to live hyper-connected lives, ... creating 24/7 workweeks — no matter how unhealthy it is.
This excellen

How balanced is the UK grid at the moment?
This meter is monitoring the power balance of the UK ele ...
The meter actually shows the grid's "frequency", which i ...

How Dreams And Memory May Be Related
Tarnow, Dr. Eugen (2003) How Dreams And Memory May Be Re ...
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... ty: the selection process of the Storage Transformation.

How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn ...
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At the height of the Harry Potter novels’ popularity, ...

However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumb...
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Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :)
... and expands on what is known about how mood fluctuates.

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of...
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... That is, some of us do. Others use data.

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of...
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... That is, some of us do. Others use data.

I am interested in the role that elementary learning pro... behavior. It turns out that many such learning processes... that is, they occur without intention and without result... verbalizable knowledge. Thus it appears that many things...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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I had to laugh this morning while reading the Ottawa Cit... crafty yet bafflingly incompetent vandal described as "H... pack, but the plastic thingy that holds them together is... spin-off of the saying "He's one can short of a full six...
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