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2015-08-17 19:54:51     U.K. National Grid status

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

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2010-09-17 13:41:49     Charlie Brooker | Google Instant is trying to kill me | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../charlie-brooker-google-instant

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

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2011-05-05 09:42:43     Charlie Brooker | Google Instant is trying to kill me | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../charlie-brooker-google-instant

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

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2011-07-25 11:24:17     Anders Behring Breivik: Tunnel vision in an online world | Thomas Hylland Eriksen | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...hring-breivik-norway-extremists

The role of the internet in fragmenting the public spher... subject of some scholarly and journalistic interest, mos... Pariser's excellent The Filter Bubble, which shows how G... and other major actors filter our web searches, updates ... our user pr

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2012-04-10 11:26:45     Britain's economy will thrive if computing becomes child's play | Eric Schmidt | Comment is free | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...-improve-computer-education?...

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2013-02-09 13:58:56     Welfare fraud is a drop in the ocean compared to tax avoidance | James Ball | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/com.../welfare-fraud-tax-avoidance

The British public believe benefit fraud is a big proble...
The reality is very different. Last year, 0.7% of total ...
Indeed, welfare fraud is smaller than accidental overpay ...
In other words, if we wiped out benefit fraud tomorrow ⠮..
... people

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2009-04-28 11:33:42     Oxford University reveals it is losing £8,000 per student as tuition fees debate begins | Education | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../tuition-fees-oxford-university

The disclosure comes as a poll showed half of students i...
According to a survey of 1,026 students, published by th ...
Students are choosing universities where they can live a ...
Close to a third (27%) of poorer students choose univers ...
The survey

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2009-04-28 11:31:14     Are loans from the IMF preventing the poorest countries from spending on children's education? | Education | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2.../imf-loans-education

If the world raised £11bn, every child could go to scho... seem all that much when the UK government manages to rai... billions to rescue its banking sector?

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2012-01-11 16:49:09     Britain's computer science courses failing to give workers digital skills | Education | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...-science-courses-digital-skills

Leading companies interviewed for a new Guardian series ... staff at a senior level to be computer literate, combini... with the ability to lead a team. But they face delays in... staff, or have to give new employees extensive training ...
Ian Wright,

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2012-01-11 16:49:55     Raspberry Pi device will 'reboot computing in schools' | Education | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...revolutionise-computing-schools

Raspberry Pi device will 'reboot computing in schools'
A tiny computer called Raspberry Pi and costing £20 is ...

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2012-04-01 14:21:24     Young coders: ideas for change | Education | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...ung-coders-ideas-for-change?...

Young coders: ideas for change
Seven teenagers talk about how they got into coding and ...

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2013-02-12 08:47:55     Don't scare students off philosophy | Education | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...t-scare-students-off-philosophy

Welcome to the real legacy of the coalition's fee rises:... mere consumers of an educational product, paying to rece... in a subject that the government is gambling on to provi... our job market will demand in years to come. Meanwhile u... into soulle

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2011-12-21 13:09:30     Scientists to study psychological benefits of birdsong | Environment | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...chological-effects-birdsong?...

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 ...

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2011-09-12 11:26:44     Arctic sea ice is melting at its fastest pace in almost 40 years | Environment | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...tic-ice-melting-at-fastest-pace

This year, both the North-west and North-east passages w...
Last month, the 74,000-tonne STI Heritage tanker passed ...
The north-east sea route, which links the Atlantic to th ...
Further evidence of dramatic change in the Arctic came l ...
... ear (20

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2012-02-13 09:53:59     The great escape of bath toys in the Pacific | Environment | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...at-escape-bath-toys-pacific?...

When 28,800 bath toys fell off a cargo ship in the Pacif... they began an incredible journey. While some washed up i... and Hawaii, countless others circumnavigated the globe. ... from his new book, Donovan Hohn follows the fantastic voyage

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2011-09-12 11:21:55     Copenhagen's novel problem: too many cyclists | Amelia Hill | Environment | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/e.../copenhagen-cycling-congestion

Local cycling federation and tourist organisation warn t... in the Danish capital can make riding intimidating

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2013-03-11 09:57:19     Robot & Frank: vision of the future? | Film | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/f.../robot-and-frank-vision-future

Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which e...
Frank Langella on Robot & Frank: 'I'd rather make love i ...
Share 14
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... Robot & Frank

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2013-02-10 06:37:43     'Academia is a very well kept secret' | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...career-researchers-phd-academia

Very early in my doctoral journey, I was fortunate to ex... moment when you know the decision you have made was the ... with the realisation that I was being paid, not very muc... nonetheless funded, to sit down every day, to read, thin...
My future c

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2008-12-05 19:46:28     Inspire and innovate | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/inspire-innovate

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2010-12-11 00:41:06     A simple change in the law could open up online access to the BBC's archives | Law | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...c-archive-online-access-law?...

In the melee of the last days of the Labour government, ...
Think of George Orwell and W H Auden, of Laurence Olivie ...
But the BBC can't make them available to us, as it would ...
All this was set out in the Digital Britain reports that ...
... ive cos

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2010-04-27 13:56:45     Why Facebook's Open Graph idea must be taken seriously | Emily Bell | Media | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pd.../facebook-f8-emily-bell

Why Facebook's Open Graph idea must be taken seriously
F8 conference reveals plans that would allow users to re ...

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2010-11-19 09:34:57     The real cost of free: a response | Media | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2.../free-online-content

Two months ago I wrote a blog on "media gurus" who charg... promoting "free" as a business model. The blog drew some... responses, with Guardian contributor Cory Doctorow posti... accusing me of not understanding how giving work away fo... promotional

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2011-05-09 20:10:53     Deficit, national debt and government borrowing - how has it changed since 1946? | News | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...debt-government-borrowing-data

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics ... borrowing up to October 2010. The figures go all the way... 1940s. It seems that all the political parties have face... of debt through the years - as if the economic climate h... independent

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2011-10-18 09:04:52     Data visualisation: in defence of bad graphics | News | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...ata-visualisation-visualization

Are most online data visualisations, well, just not very...
It's an issue we grapple with a lot - and some of you ma ...
Poor Wordle - it gets the brunt of it. It was designed a ...
In the last week alone, New York Times senior software a ...
... one qu

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2010-10-18 15:40:21     The Guardian Open Platform | Open Platform | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform

Content API
Select and collect content from the Guardian for reuse. ...

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2008-11-24 12:24:51     This chip makes sure you always buy your round | Science | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...bserver.theobserversuknewspages

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

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2011-07-12 11:27:31     This chip makes sure you always buy your round | Science | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...bserver.theobserversuknewspages

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

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2011-11-16 19:14:14     Scans reveal how the brain's GPS helps us navigate from A to B | Science | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...scans-reveal-brain-gps-navigate

People walking on Old Compton Street in Soho, London
One part of the brain keeps track of the straight line d ...
Brain scans have revealed the workings of the brain's GP ...
Two areas of the brain appear to take turns as our inter ...
... identify how th

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2013-03-05 09:40:23     10 amazing scientific facts about lists | Dean Burnett | Science | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sc.../10-science-facts-about-lists

People like lists of things. They're everywhere on the i... any subject matter you can think of, odds are there's a ... Nowhere is safe. Even here, on the Guardian Science sect... most popular articles in recent months is a list. But wh... popular? We

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2012-04-03 11:54:15     Who says science is boring? Watch the world's most extraordinary 'kinetic sculpture' - video | Science | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...science-kinetic-sculpture-video

From a duck to a skeleton to a robot dinosaur: scientist... fabulous kinetic sculpture, called On the Move, to demon... the concept of energy transfer. The Launchpad team at Lo... Museum and Engineered Arts Ltd created this cause-and-ef... events in a

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