Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Materials scientists know that things behave differently...
The MIT team, comprised of Parthiban Santhanam, Dodd Jos ...
How the heck is that possible? The long answer looks lik ...
The researchers chose a light-emitting diode with a ...
The gist of

McDonald’s restaurants with staff predominantly aged o... profitable

Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists... to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or... “ism” and start exploring how technology is changing... of the liberal arts. This latest frontier is about metho... powerful te

Microsoft is under fire this week over a patent it was g... dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS devices. The n... to help pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods, bad weat... terrain by taking information from maps, weather reports...
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MILAN - This venerable city, long known for savory saffr... leggy models of Fashion Week, is moving to establish its... else: a zero-tolerance zone for Gypsies.

Mitchell is the second contributor to the Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project, for which 1,000 trees were planted two years ago in Oslo’s Nordmarka forest. Starting with Margaret Atwood, who last year handed over the...

More than 200 schools are using CCTV cameras in toilets ... figures showed today.
A total of 825 cameras were located in the toilets or ch ...

Most of the people I know, friends or students, are too ... they prefer to not even try. They spend their lives tryi... and thinking that this is “success”. They can go on ... know what they are capable of or how unique they are jus... unfriendly

Mr. Csikszentmihalyi describes flow as "being completely... activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flie... movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previo... playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're u... to the utmo

My attention span was never great, but modern technology... halved it again, and again and again, down to an atomic ... there's nothing discernible left. Back in that room, bom... and emails, repeatedly tapping search terms into Google ... good reason

Mynd is a competeley new kind of Calendar App developed ... seed-funded team who had previously worked together at M... article, they shared a few of the design lessons that we...
I must admit that with some of my co-authors we develope ...
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NAVIGATE TO THERE WHERE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN
Design your personal definition of silence, was the assi ...

NAVIGATE TO THERE WHERE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN
Design your personal definition of silence, was the assi ...

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

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

Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz. Click here or on a photo t... slideshow: http://yhoo.it/GlassCabinPhotosBuilding the h... and hard,” Horwitz said. “Looking at it now, it’s ... insane. It’s huge. …“The house is an experience at... Olson said.

Nieder thinks that consciousness probably emerged separa... occasions, in much the same way that wings appeared sepa... birds and bats.

Non-Places, Placelessness

Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, bored... makes people more generous to strangers and more toleran... Couples feel closer and look happier when they’re shar... memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nos... feel warmer

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

On display, I spotted a book written by one of the Briti...
It was entitled Kansha - The Land of Maybe - which it se ...
Back at the airport I told Magni Arge, the chief executi ...
"Kansha means more than maybe," he explained.
... and respecting their a

On display, I spotted a book written by one of the Briti...
It was entitled Kansha - The Land of Maybe - which it se ...
Back at the airport I told Magni Arge, the chief executi ...
"Kansha means more than maybe," he explained.
... and respecting their a

On May 21st and 22nd 2007, the Krasnow Institute for Adv... George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, hosted a Symposi...
Ten eminent neuroscientists signed the letter in Science ...
The "Decade of the Brain" [2], has quite naturally led t ...
The "Decade

On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life.
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On the 25th March 2011, Mark Coop of 'Keep Calm and Carr... registered a trademark of the words Keep Calm and Carry ... to take control of the very British and now very famous,... invoking, wartime poster. The trademark has angered Bart... discovered

On the 25th March 2011, Mark Coop of 'Keep Calm and Carr... registered a trademark of the words Keep Calm and Carry ... to take control of the very British and now very famous,... invoking, wartime poster. The trademark has angered Bart... discovered

One Day in History
Make history with us on 17 October by taking part in the ...
'One Day in History' is a one off opportunity for you to ...

One of Guinness World Records’ more unusual awards was... National Maritime Museum yesterday. After a 100-day tria... known as Clock B – which had been sealed in a clear pl... prevent tampering – was officially declared, by Guinne...
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One of Lynch's innovations was the concept of place legi... essentially the ease with which people understand the la... By introducing this idea, Lynch was able to isolate dist... city, and see what specifically is making it so vibrant,... people. To

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is... exciting discoveries. Milne, A. A.