Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

This is a general category of Creativity and Innovation ... listed in alphabetical order. Like most tools these crea... all have their good and bad points. I like to think of t... techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as... home for DI

More than 200 schools are using CCTV cameras in toilets ... figures showed today.
A total of 825 cameras were located in the toilets or ch ...

Every 10 years since 1841, the government has collected ... population to understand how the country is changing. Us... to get a picture of how your local authority has changed... previous census in 2001 and the most recent. Our data tr... census cate

Charissa Borroff
Born 1st May, 1977, Nottinghamshire, UK
"I draw landscapes in Charcoal, paint abstracts, and I'v ...
I grew up in Sherwood Forest. My family moved into Sherw ...
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Last week I realised the internet wants to kill me. I wa... script in a small room with nothing but a laptop for com... conditions for quiet contemplation – but thanks to the... connection, I may as well have been sharing the space wi... marching ba

My attention span was never great, but modern technology... halved it again, and again and again, down to an atomic ... there's nothing discernible left. Back in that room, bom... and emails, repeatedly tapping search terms into Google ... good reason

One of Guinness World Records’ more unusual awards was... National Maritime Museum yesterday. After a 100-day tria... known as Clock B – which had been sealed in a clear pl... prevent tampering – was officially declared, by Guinne...
It was an i

Every cognitive bias is there for a reason — prima... brains time or energy. If you look at them by the proble... to solve, it becomes a lot easier to understand why they... they’re useful, and the trade-offs (and resulting ment... they introd

How Dreams And Memory May Be Related
Tarnow, Dr. Eugen (2003) How Dreams And Memory May Be Re ...
Full text available as:
PDF - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or other PDF viewer.
... ty: the selection process of the Storage Transformation.

The fate of human memory: My latest Wired magazine column
Quick: Can you do long division? Probably, though you'd ...

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.

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.

Contextualizing Concepts
Liane Gabora and Diederik Aerts
... develop a formal description of the contextual manner in which concepts are evoked, used, and combined to generate meaning.

Contextualizing Concepts
Liane Gabora and Diederik Aerts
... develop a formal description of the contextual manner in which concepts are evoked, used, and combined to generate meaning.

"The Nature of Consciousness"
The Structure of Life and the Meaning of Matter" (2006)
by Piero Scaruffi
ISBN 0-9765531-1-2
A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Cognitive Sci ...

The "relational mind" approach to the inner content of c... developed in terms of various control structures and pro... and their possible neurobiological identifications in br... leads naturally to a division of consciousness into a pa... active part

So, it was easy to live together in such a small space.
So, it was easy to live together in such a small space.
dailymail.co.uk
This couple proves that bigger isn’t necessarily better.

We're walking faster
ITV News - 'World is walking 10% faster'
The pace at which city dwellers walk has increased by 10 ...

In certain situations animals can spontaneously solve pr...
Animals rarely solve problems spontaneously, yet certain ...
The University of Auckland research shows that such prob ...
“Crows and parrots have long been known to solve the s ...
... ings of

The foundations of spatial analysis span many discipline... generations of researchers and practitioners. CSISS Clas... summaries and illustrations of major contributions to sp... the social sciences. Primary emphasis is given to resear... with an att

One of Lynch's innovations was the concept of place legi... essentially the ease with which people understand the la... By introducing this idea, Lynch was able to isolate dist... city, and see what specifically is making it so vibrant,... people. To

DAB02: Anti Dogmatic Design
Instructors:
Prof. Dr. M. Rauterberg
Faculty Industrial Design, Technical University Eindhoven
... ediate to advanced level (depending on your commitment).

Data.gov.uk Newspaper
Friday, October 16th 2009
Over the last three days we’ve been working on a side ...
We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk reposit ...
And perhaps unsurprisingly, we thought a good way to do ...

"Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes."
Desmond Tutu

Psychological sleuths
Detecting deception
Some research links lying with such facial and bodily cu ...
BY RACHEL ADELSON

Digital Creativity is a major peer-reviewed journal at t... the creative arts and digital technologies. It carries a... interest to those involved in the practical task of maki... software for creative purposes. By the term �creative ... such discip