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2009-07-01 12:38:39     Life With Alacrity: The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/03/the_dunbar_numb.html

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2013-03-10 12:29:27     Public libraries: 150 years of advance is being destroyed | That's How The Light Gets In

http://gerryco23.wordpress.com/...dvance-is-being-destroyed/

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2011-08-23 11:00:36     Tweet-a-Prisoner: Social Media and Prisoners « Clare Hooper's Blog

http://clarehooper.wordpress.com/...ial-media-and-prisoners/

A friend of mine called Mark Alexander is in prison, wro...
He’s been in prison for quite some months (good lord, ...
(Andy and I have been discussing related issues of laten ...
Email A Prisoner is a nice service, and has been complem ...
So I was ab

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2010-11-19 14:49:02     Community is king, so build up your social capital and get connected | Smarter Cities | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/smarter-cities/community-is-king

A smart city is an open city. It runs on data, so public... demonstrate a presumption of openness, making data freel... in an accessible format. Data connectivity needs to be s... a privilege and as ubiquitous as water from the tap.

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2011-06-18 14:55:13     BBC News - African jitters over blogs and social media

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13786143

African governments are turning to more sophisticated te... internet sites and bloggers who they perceive to be a th...
That is the conclusion of The Committee for the Protecti ...

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2012-09-25 08:10:48     BBC News - Chinese families' worldly goods in Huang Qingjun's pictures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19648095

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

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2022-10-21 07:02:21     Millennials Are Actually Workaholics, According to Research

https://hbr.org/...ctually-workaholics-according-to-research

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

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2011-10-31 14:05:33     Digital Death Day

http://digitaldeathday.com/

DEATH IS A PART OF LIFE AND LIFE HAS (TO AN EXTENT) BECO...
Our increasing digitality means that we will increasingl ...
Held in the inspiring setting of the Tropenmuseum’s ex ...
Thus stimulating a reconsideration of how death, mournin ...

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2009-07-02 09:08:42     BBC - The Knowledge Exchange Blog: The Power of 8

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/knowledgee.../the_power_of_8.html

If you see a particularly colourful newspaper lying on t... 'great' and the 'good' over the next few months it could... AHRC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Programme's new publication,...
8pic5resized.jpg
8 is a way of sharing all the lessons learned from our

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2009-08-18 17:39:02     fhios insights | The McDonalds equation: Workforce over 60 = Increased profits

http://www.fhiosinsights.com/?p=490

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

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2010-10-14 21:04:30     Italy's crackdown on Gypsies reflects rising anti-immigrant tide in Europe

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn.../AR2010101105815.html

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.

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2011-09-26 07:44:11     Keep Calm, But Cease and Dissist | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/...Keep-Calm-But-Cease-and-Dissist

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

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2014-07-05 11:52:19     Inglehart-Welzel Culture Map - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/...-welzel-culture-map-2014-7

Political scientists Ronald Inglehart of the University ...
The latest chart, published several years ago, includes ...
Check it out:
Inglehart World Values Map
... ow much things like language and religion shape culture.

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2016-11-02 10:32:25     Human brain is predisposed to negative stereotypes, new study suggests | Science | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...tereotypes-new-study-suggests

rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows

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2024-02-10 07:41:22     Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public | France | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ed-to-ban-scrolling-in-public

Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public,

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2009-02-23 07:35:43     Social Performance - Cambridge University Press

http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?...

Social Performance
* Description
* Table of contents
* Excerpt
... DOI: 10.2277/052167462X

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2010-10-25 18:37:50     Rare Book Room

http://www.rarebookroom.org/


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 ...

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