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Telstra hit over virtual Uluru
By Simon Canning
May 24, 2007 01:00am
Article from: The Australian
... ts extensive investment in the online world Second Life.

Telstra hit over virtual Uluru
By Simon Canning
May 24, 2007 01:00am
Article from: The Australian
... ts extensive investment in the online world Second Life.

That proved bipedalism did not evolve on the savannah, b... not fossilise, it is hard to establish when the hominids... In 2006, Nina Jablonski, an anthropologist at Penn State... a book, Skin: A natural history, in which she proposed t... bipeds fina

The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an edu ...
Over the last decade, a company called "Octavo" digitall ...
This site contains all of the books (about 400) that hav ...

The "relational mind" approach to the inner content of c... developed in terms of various control structures and pro... and their possible neurobiological identifications in br... leads naturally to a division of consciousness into a pa... active part

The 110 Year-Old Light Bulb That's Never Been Turned Off
The oldest lightbulb in continuous use was installed bef ...

The ability to describe, assign and attribute certain me... referred to as Theory of Mind. This topic has been exten... the field of autism, where deficits in social interactio... characterize this disorder are thought to be due to a la... Mind. Howev

The allure of the doctrine of time management is that, o... might finally be under control. Yet work in the modern e... for its limitlessness. And if the stream of incoming ema... Inbox Zero can never bring liberation: you’re still Si... boulder up

the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

The Art
Aurora 18×18 + Audio Interface Video
Here’s a video showing how Aurora 18×18 works with th ...
Aurora 9×18 mk2 will work the same way, except with onl ...
... will start shipping the kits as soon as I have the PCBs.

The atlas contains five maps which trace the territories...
The maps are:
– Public Authoring, Education & Learning
– Neighbourhoods & Communities
... – Robotic Feral Public Authoring

The black dots correspond to the 264 areas of the cerebr... researchers studied; the lines correspond to the increas... functional connections between each of these brain areas... consciously perceive the target. The “hotter” colors... with strong

The Daily Telegraph, Thursday 28th January 1999
The Stuff that Dreams are made of...
Jim Horne
Even though the sleeper has little knowledge of what is ...

The deep union of ourselves with our inventions is not n... means a being that is part biological and part technolog... humans began as cyborgs, and still are. Our ancestors fi...
We are not the same folks who marched out of Africa. Our ...
Clearly, we

The democratizing technologies of the web have brought t... raw-materials required to make a map to a wider audience... This proliferation of mapping has redefined modern Carto... general practice of “making maps” to the purposefu... Purposeful

The device consists of a tiny camera and transmitter mou... an implanted receiver, and an electrode-studded array th... the retina with a microtack the width of a human hair. A...
The camera on the glasses captures an image and sends th ...
Second Sigh

The education secretary, Alan Johnson, has come under fi... the use of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia for sc...

The engineer compiled a transcript of the conversations,... point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of.

The fate of human memory: My latest Wired magazine column
Quick: Can you do long division? Probably, though you'd ...

The flow state has been defined as "an intrinsic reward ... in an activity (Csikszentmihalyi, 1977), an optimal stat... there is a balance between the perceived challenges of a... person’s skills or capabilities for action (Csikszentm... a centering

The Flowing city is a collection of projects that I foun... for information visualization projects about cities and ... of my thesis which you can download here.
Some of these projects visualize community generated dat ...
Other projects visualize Real

The foundations of spatial analysis span many discipline... generations of researchers and practitioners. CSISS Clas... summaries and illustrations of major contributions to sp... the social sciences. Primary emphasis is given to resear... with an att

The genetic underpinnings of psychosis are elusive and d... hundreds of common genetic mutations scattered throughou... that each bump up by just a tiny bit the risk of develop... illness like schizophrenia. Many people carry some set o... most don't

The intelligent use of space
David KirshE-mail The Corresponding Author
Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 9209 ...
Available online 6 April 2000.
... tasks, and how they continuously manage that workplace.

The Journal of Creative Behavior is our quarterly academ... the most current research in creative thinking. For near... has been the benchmark scientific periodical in the fiel... to date cutting-edge ideas about creativity in education... business, a

The Journal of Writing in Creative Practice is the offic... Writing Purposefully in Art and Design (Writing PAD) net... art and design institutions an arena in which to explore... notion of thinking through writing as a parallel to visu... art and des

The law of entropy, or the second law of thermodynamics,... first law of thermodynamics comprise the most fundamenta... Entropy (the subject of the second law) and energy (the ... first law) and their relationship are fundamental to an ... just of phy

The map–territory relation—the relationship between ... object—is one of the lasting philosophical quandaries.
Coined by Alfred Korzybski, The map is not the territory ...

The Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Com... Japan has developed a prototype pair of GPS-enabled glas... lights built into the frame to keep you moving in the ri...
The glasses house a microcomputer used to input your fin ...

The question of when and how language first emerged is t... tremendous controversy – it has even been called ‘th... in science’. My work is on what information can be ext... vocalisations. It is a first step in understanding where... dictates th