Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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?

A network of brain regions which is activated during int... experience overlaps with the brain network associated wi... contemplation and self-assessment, New York University r... found. Their study sheds new light on the nature of the ... experience,

Timeline yourself.
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Swarm Creativity introduces a powerful new concept-Colla... Networks, or COINs. Its aim is to make the concept of CO... among business managers as any methodology to enhance qu... competitive advantage. The difference though is that COI...
Through rea

KISSING-CRUST (n.)
As loaves of bread expand in the oven as they're cooked, ...
LONGINQUITY (n.)
Derived from the Latin word for distance, longinquity is ...

Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La sociét... (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer cu... examines the “Spectacle,” Debord’s term for the e... manifestatio

rian Marick, Boundary Objects
An analytical concept from science studies: does it appl ...

Theoretically, the number of numbering systems is unlimi... complete (used by the divinities and the angels) has an ... symbols, one for each individual number; the simplest ne... is written as 0, one 1, two 10, three 11, four 100, five... seven 111,

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

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

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

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I am interested in the role that elementary learning pro... behavior. It turns out that many such learning processes... that is, they occur without intention and without result... verbalizable knowledge. Thus it appears that many things...
To get an o

Preserving Indian French, as community members call it, has taken on new urgency as climate-related hurricanes and coastal erosion threaten to displace the tribe

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...

An individual is the only ethical integration point for ...
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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.

Bacteria, Not Electricity, Powers This Light Bulb
by Mary Mazzoni
Published on December 5th, 2011
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Bad Moves
Bad Moves is a series by philosopher Julian Baggini deta ...
* The innocent have nothing to fear
* Motivation speculation
... * Genetic fallacies

These would be the successive phases of the image:
1 It is the reflection of a basic reality.
2 It masks and perverts a basic reality.
3 It masks the absence of a basic reality.
4 It bears no relation to any reality whatever: it is it ...

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

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,...
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8 is a way of sharing all the lessons learned from our

Many experts believe our brains aren't prepared for the ... bundle of digital distractions that we are bombarded wit... feeling sluggish and ultimately less productive. What we... very 21st Century problem.

Rats experience regret when their actions make them miss... options, a study has found.
It is the first time regret has been identified in mamma ...

3D voyage from cinema screen to cereal box
Katia Moskvitch By Katia Moskvitch Science and technolog ...
3D Nestle Rio campaign A 3D bird from the film Rio comes ...
Still not very used to having a full-size car jump out a ...
... s of a jewellery firm De

On display, I spotted a book written by one of the Briti...
It was entitled Kansha - The Land of Maybe - which it se ...
Back at the airport I told Magni Arge, the chief executi ...
"Kansha means more than maybe," he explained.
... and respecting their a