Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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

Interactive LED Coffee Table Demo

Internet censorship and surveillance are growing global
phenomena. ONI’s mission is to identify and document
Internet filtering and surveillance, and to promote and
inform wider public dialogue about such practices.

Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X applicati... access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and webs... predetermined period of time. For example, you could blo... email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still h... rest of the

Is it possible to put some order into our thoughts about... memory, perception, and the like? Hardly a day goes by w... in-depth article wondering whether computers can be cons... universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a u... human being

It seems that a lot of people have been talking about pu...
Each stone measures 40 x 40 x 7 centimeters (15.75 x 15. ...
iPavement being installed in Spain
Along with providing internet usage to passers-by, howev ...
The apps are available in a number of

JIM HORNE
Jim Horne is Professor of Psychophysiology and Director ...

June 11, 2010, 1:24 pm
The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains
By NICK BILTON
brain scan while on the computerCharles Baldwin for The ...
... and conversation, is the quintessential place to learn.

June 11, 2010, 1:24 pm
The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains
By NICK BILTON
brain scan while on the computerCharles Baldwin for The ...
... and conversation, is the quintessential place to learn.

Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was no... man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of l... solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon,...
In In The Land of Invented Languages, author Arika Okren ...
A truly ori

Just beyond the Cemmo Boulders there is the area of Sera... divided into four sectors. Most figures of this area dat... and the Iron Age (from the end of the third till the fir... B.C.). The rocks have small dimensions and present many ...
The upper p

Kathryn Schulz: Don't regret regret
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Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map un... when young Kiberans created the first free and open digi... own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete ... community information project.

KISSING-CRUST (n.)
As loaves of bread expand in the oven as they're cooked, ...
LONGINQUITY (n.)
Derived from the Latin word for distance, longinquity is ...

La Bastille is a very-large-scale integrated art install...
When it was running, it was also the world's largest ful ...
Containing eleven custom-built circuit boards, a twelve- ...
La Bastille opened at 8 pm on Friday, April 14, 2000 and ...
... Sketch

Language and Cognition is the journal of the UK Cognitiv... Association. It is a venue for the publication of high q... peer-reviewed research of a theoretical and/or empirical... nature, focusing on the interface between language and c... open to res

Last week I realised the internet wants to kill me. I wa... script in a small room with nothing but a laptop for com... conditions for quiet contemplation – but thanks to the... connection, I may as well have been sharing the space wi... marching ba

Last year GE introduced the “Color Effects” G-35 str... Christmas lights, each individually adjustable as to col... Each light has a microprocessor and a serial communicati... string of lights, with a pre-set lighting options, sells...
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Legibility is a term used to describe the ease with whic...
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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

Less provocatively, perhaps a community of interacting i... city - after all, a more complex system than a single on... also be conscious. Perhaps there are all sorts of consci... can't see precisely because they emerge at a more abstra... one we occu

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

LumiNet is a network of low-cost intelligent pixels that...
Each node consists of an RGB LED, microcontroller, and c ...
New behaviors are injected into the network from a singl ...
LumiNet nodes can be used in academia to teach concepts ...
... LumiNet

Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching
Terry Eagleton
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins · Bantam, 406 pp,  ...
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only know ...
Dawkins on God is rather like those right-wing Cambridge ...

Lytro lets you take pictures like never before. Unlike a... camera that captures a single plane of light, the Lytro ... entire light field, which is all the light traveling in ... every point in space.

Many experts believe our brains aren't prepared for the ... bundle of digital distractions that we are bombarded wit... feeling sluggish and ultimately less productive. What we... very 21st Century problem.

Map showing the Modern Distribution of Celtic Languages In The 21st Century by reddit user targumures

Maps are universal forms of communication, easily unders... appreciated regardless of culture or language. This trul... introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever cons... volume: maps from different time periods and a variety o... made for di