Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every yea... estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous langu... by the year 2050

One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every yea... estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous langu... by the year 2050

Freedom is an application that disables networking on an... up to eight hours at a time. Freedom will free you from ... the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or creat... your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your ne...
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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

This page is an annotated visual gallery of some timeline designs from their origin to today.

Evolution and Creationism
Sites describing and/or promoting evolution
The sites below provide you with the opportunity to lear ...

Giant Tetris in Hevanta - Finland
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One's culture is too deeply linked with one's language. ... the barometer of one's culture. If one knows one's langu... can know one's own culture well. One can never reach int... eternal understanding through somebod y else's mother to... a shadow ov

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

Rather than pointlessly rehearsing entire sections of th... little bearing on the player’s overall score, “dream... to highlight certain sections of the game that are espec... and repeat them ad nauseam until expertise is achieved. ... technique,

Last year GE introduced the “Color Effects” G-35 str... Christmas lights, each individually adjustable as to col... Each light has a microprocessor and a serial communicati... string of lights, with a pre-set lighting options, sells...
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Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke did experiments... contrary to what many scholars believed, children learn ... independently about objects before they learn language. ... Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office)

Internet censorship and surveillance are growing global
phenomena. ONI’s mission is to identify and document
Internet filtering and surveillance, and to promote and
inform wider public dialogue about such practices.

How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn ...
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At the height of the Harry Potter novels’ popularity, ...

A few years ago I went to Spain for the first time, and ... surprised by how late is dinner. The first night I dined...
Solar time vs. standard time
Solar time vs. standard time
At the time I’m writing, near the winter solstice, Mad ...

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.

Some people can strike off on any journey with no guide except their 'pigeon senses'. How do they do it? And can this ability be learned?

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

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

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

For years, only humans were thought to have this key cog... attributing “false belief,” which is believed to und... empathy, teaching, and perhaps even language. But three ... apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans—also know ... a false bel

Less provocatively, perhaps a community of interacting i... city - after all, a more complex system than a single on... also be conscious. Perhaps there are all sorts of consci... can't see precisely because they emerge at a more abstra... one we occu

IBM Research in Zurich has created the world's first art... stochastic phase-change neurons. IBM has already created... 500 of these artificial neurons and used them to process... brain-like (neuromorphic) way.

In their book, Idealized Design: How to Solve Tomorrow's... (Wharton School Publishing), authors Russell L. Ackoff, ... Herbert J. Addison build upon a simple notion. They argu... get to the best outcome is to imagine what the ideal sol...
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Palo Alto, 2003. Keep people at the center of your work!... help. Look at what they do. Learn from the facts you gat... yourself! Ideo has become a leader in design by keeping ... center of the design process. These cards show some of t... to inspire

Illuminating cities with sustainable smart lighting systems
Lights that switch off automatically when streets are em ...
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... a city-lighting system that's both sustainable and fun.