Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Despite their prevalence, building standards really only... the last century. A major turning point in their wild pr... in the 1920s, when the German government made the then-r... standardize the size of office paper.
This seemingly bureaucratic move i

They believe that certain groups of people are inherentl... others. They write books about how rape is a natural par... evolution. And now, with another scandal rocking the wor... psychology, we can officially welcome a new breed of mad...
Evolutionar

A review of the state of our knowledge regarding problem... it work? What is insight? How can we boost our creativit... problem solving performance?

The strange world of urban exploration
Urban explorers scale skyscrapers, jump fences, lift man ...

The deep union of ourselves with our inventions is not n... means a being that is part biological and part technolog... humans began as cyborgs, and still are. Our ancestors fi...
We are not the same folks who marched out of Africa. Our ...
Clearly, we

The ability to describe, assign and attribute certain me... referred to as Theory of Mind. This topic has been exten... the field of autism, where deficits in social interactio... characterize this disorder are thought to be due to a la... Mind. Howev

Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz. Click here or on a photo t... slideshow: http://yhoo.it/GlassCabinPhotosBuilding the h... and hard,” Horwitz said. “Looking at it now, it’s ... insane. It’s huge. …“The house is an experience at... Olson said.

Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan
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Chris Ayres in Los Angeles
Click here for a slideshow of the history of computers
... eo game,” he told The Times in an exclusive interview.

A TimeMap is an interactive graphic showing change over ... is linked to descriptions of the change being shown.
The TimeMap of World History covers human history at dif ...
We also have a growing range of Topic TimeMaps which tak ...

There are many, many more conditions out there that Engl...
Here, selected from the blog So Bad So Good, are some of ...
Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for ...
... g of a cleve

Toward a Theory of Creative Inklings
Liane Gabora,
... what sort of a system could spawn the initial seed of creativity from which an idea grows?

A town council in Germany has decided the best way of im...
From September 12, all traffic controls will disappear f ...
In an area used by 13,500 cars every day, drivers and pe ...
"Traffic will no longer be dominant," he said.
The idea of removing sign

I have been enjoying Adam Hochschild’s To End All Wars... Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, which covers the Briti... War I. My favorite section details how the British resp... turned out they had a drastic shortage of binoculars, wh...
The Germans

Changing the Appearance of Physical Interfaces Through C...
David Lindlbauer1, Jörg Müller2, Marc Alexa1
1 TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2 Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Aar ...
... examples

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

We tend to think of reason and emotion as being two diff... it turns out that there may not be a choice between the ...
Relationships between general and emotional intelligence
CT scan showing overlaps of different general and em ...
Differe

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — There are areas in the b... arms, legs, and various parts of our bodies. The way the... distributed throughout the brain are known as "body maps... some significant differences in these maps between left-... people. For

# Medevec, V., & Gilovich, T. (1995). The experience of ... and why? Psychological Review, 102(2), 379-395.
# Medevec, V., & Gilovich, T. (1994). The temporal patte ...

The subtitle to Kida’s book is “The 6 Basic Mistakes...
A skeptic is just a person who wants to see and evaluate ...
In this book, he winnows the common problems that get in ...
* We prefer stories to statistics.
... * We have faulty memories

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Daniel Berger, a researcher at MIT, traced these neurons ...
EyeWire
People can get pretty addicted to computer games. By som ...
Right now I'm at the novice level of a game called EyeWi ...

Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless ne... in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer or PDA.

The question of when and how language first emerged is t... tremendous controversy – it has even been called ‘th... in science’. My work is on what information can be ext... vocalisations. It is a first step in understanding where... dictates th

Tele-gardening
By Regine
on October 12, 2006 4:50 PM
Categories:
... ill wither to notify you that you're forgetting him/her.

Talking about slowing the web:
Louise Klinker's SLOWEB project that responds to peoples ...
What does it mean when you have to queue to enter a webs ...
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... t develop gradually to represent pending correspondence.

Real snail email
By Regine
on October 11, 2006 6:14 PM
Categories:
... e artists will give a talk tonight 7PM at [ s p a c e ].

Hedge fund manager James Altucher recently wrote about h... kill you. Neuroscience shows that our brains simply were... Yet many people continue to live hyper-connected lives, ... creating 24/7 workweeks — no matter how unhealthy it is.
This excellen