Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

American culture worships creativity, but mostly in the ... people really don't like new ideas that sound entirely n... the experts that often have to approve them. The trick i... new ideas as old ideas—to make your creativity seem, w... creative.

Amid China's tumultuous dash to become rich, one man's p...
Huang Qingjun has spent nearly a decade travelling to re ...
The results offer glimpses of the utilitarian lives of m ...
But seen more closely, they also show the enormous socia ...
Elderly Chi

Amid China's tumultuous dash to become rich, one man's p...
Huang Qingjun has spent nearly a decade travelling to re ...
The results offer glimpses of the utilitarian lives of m ...
But seen more closely, they also show the enormous socia ...
Elderly Chi

An algorithm apparently generates these light patterns. Be better if an artist had?

An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say ...
The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate ...
The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while t ...
The idea is a controversial one, and further study will ...

An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say ...
The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate ...
The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while t ...
The idea is a controversial one, and further study will ...

An individual is the only ethical integration point for ...
Our purpose is to catalyze a Personal Data Ecosystem whe ...
The Startup Circle - for startups committed to putti ...
1 Million People for Personal Data - gathers people ...
Industr

Annual Review of Sociology
Vol. 26: 463-496 (Volume publication date August 2000)
(doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.463)
A Space for Place in Sociology
... laces matter for social practices and historical change?

Architecture is often seen as the art of a thinking mind... organises and establishes relationships between the part... It is also seen as the art of designing spaces, which we... through movement and use. Conceptual ordering, spatial a... narrative a

Archiving digital photos is hard if you want to do it ri... change. When Phanfare started back in 2004, Flash 7 was ... format on the web. Now H.264 is the standard for high qu... resolutions are always increasing. Phanfare can change w... carrying yo

Aristotle defined our five senses over two and a half th... But in fact we have many more. In this five part series,... delves into the Extra Senses that we take for granted. H... they work and meets some remarkable people who experienc... a unique wa

Art Mapping Event
A two-day workshop for those with an interest in mobile ...

Artists are lighting up London's South Bank with 1200 wi... as part of a digital arts festival.

As I coach new developers, I've taken to scribbling out ... diagram for visualizing the creative process again and a... coffee-ringed napkins. In order to limit my future abus...
The conversation usually starts with the following state ...
And when co

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our custom... month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of ... customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our... looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we d... our own cus

At the heart of the Art Maps project is an exploration o... the future museum. Throughout the project we have been c... kinds of ideas and meanings – both personal and art hi... audiences might generate around artworks and geographica... Furthermore

‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories?

‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories?

“in the 1950s, 12% of high-school students perceived t... important person’ – by the 1990s, 80% did.”

“Time” is the most used noun in the English language...
1. Time exists. Might as well get this common question o ...
2. The past and future are equally real. This isn’t co ...
3. Everyone experiences time differently. This is true a ...
... #9 and

Bacteria, Not Electricity, Powers This Light Bulb
by Mary Mazzoni
Published on December 5th, 2011
4 Comments
... More articles by Mary

Bad Moves
Bad Moves is a series by philosopher Julian Baggini deta ...
* The innocent have nothing to fear
* Motivation speculation
... * Genetic fallacies

Berlekamp et al quote G. W. Leibniz:
The game called Solitaire pleases me much. I take it in ...
This quote fills my heart with humility as I find it by ...

Besides altering the quality of our memories, switching ... can influence people’s financial decision-making and t... moral dilemmas. By speaking a second language, we can ev... rational, more open-minded and better equipped to deal w...

Bilinguals get all the perks. Better job prospects, a co... even protection against dementia. Now new research shows... view the world in different ways depending on the specif... are operating in.

Book review
THE FIRST IDEA: HOW SYMBOLS, LANGUAGE AND INTELLIGENCE E ...

Book review
THE FIRST IDEA: HOW SYMBOLS, LANGUAGE AND INTELLIGENCE E ...

Bounded Rationality: A Response to Rational Analysis
Simon criticizes Anderson's proposed rational analysis a ...
Humans are not optimal and only in some cases locall ...
Assumptions made by cognitive modelers about how an ...
... theory based u

Brainstorming is a widely used technique for groups to d... fresh perspectives on an issue, problem or project, and ... taught and used by team leaders and consultants working ... study by researchers at Texas A&M University, and publis...
The researc

Broken sleep affects the ability to build memories, a st... suggests.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science findi ...
The Stanford University found disrupting sleep made it h ...