Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies over reproducibility, Motyl and his adviser, Brian Nosek, dec... the study. With extra data, the P value came out as 0.59... to the conventional level of significance, 0.05. The eff... disappeared

An academic scientist’s professional success depends o... Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As s... incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting dec... positive results and ignore negative results. Prior repo... these incen

Researchers at the Karadag Nature Reserve, in Feodosia, ... recorded two Black Sea bottlenose dolphins by the names ... having conversations consisting of sentences up to five ... The team says this shows dolphins have a language not en... from our o

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But as access to the published results of scholarly rese... issues around making the data that is summarized in thos... available are coming to the fore. The White House memora... a certainty. Sharing the results of scientific research ... unveiling a

Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon.
Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ...
The study will examine the psychological impact of being ...

The federated vertical search portal scitopia.org was cr... imagination and collaboration of 21 leading science and ... societies.
Searching for a better way to help researchers quickly g ...
Scitopia.org is powered by Deep Web Technologies' Explor ...

Tim Godwin, the Scotland Yard acting commissioner, said ... management team at Scotland Yard discussed shutting down... networking site "a few times" as rumours about further r...

A trip on the 'Loch Carron', travelling up the Firth of ... of Kintyre, Oban, Tiree and the Outer Hebrides.
The film-maker believed this service provided by the 'Lo ...

Scrollbars Through the History

The Radius 320™ takes widescreen computing to a new le ...
Advances in display technology have allowed 20-inch, 24- ...

Sleep on a Problem... It works like a dream
Josephine Ross with some fascinating anecdotal accounts ...

Secret Fore Edge Paintings Revealed in Early 19th Centur... University of Iowa seasons painting illustration fore ed...
Summer by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & Universit ...
A few days ago Colleen Theisen who helps with outreach a ...
When I real

Selecting k smallest or largest elements
Another fundamental selection problem is that of selecti ...

Represents the active selection, which is a highlighted ... and/or other elements in the document on which a user or... carry out some action.

EnOcean's self-powering sensors -- found inside these sw...
Humans are inherently inefficient creatures. We leave li ...
And despite the advances in computing power over the pas ...
“Most buildings today are dumb,” says EnOcean Chairm ...
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Self-Referential Aptitude Test
by Jim Propp (propp@math.mit.edu)
A few years ago I wrote a "Self-Referential Aptitude Tes ...
The solution to the puzzle is unique, and in some cases ...
... all of the above

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

Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free extension of MediaWik... wiki-system powering Wikipedia – that helps to search,... browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content. While tr... contain only texts which computers can neither understan... SMW adds se

This page contains the information on RDF and OWL tools ... listed on the home pages of the RDF and OWL Working Grou...

SEMIC.EU is a participatory platform and a service by th... Commission that supports the sharing of assets of intero... used in public administration and eGovernment

Semiotics, Communication, and Cultural Theory:
Basic Assumptions

e1071. Sending a POST Request Using a Socket
See also e135 Sending a POST Request Using a URL.
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Child by mail
This city letter carrier posed for a humorous photog ...
By Jason Kottke

I have remained fairly silent over the last year, ever s... letter from the British Chiropractic Association threate... This essay is an attempt to explain what has been happen... twelve months, why I have decided to apply to the Court ... might happe