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2007-05-26 10:34:29     Telstra hit over virtual Uluru | NEWS.com.au Business

http://www.news.com.au/busin.../0,23636,21785853-462,00.html

Telstra hit over virtual Uluru
By Simon Canning
May 24, 2007 01:00am
Article from: The Australian
... ts extensive investment in the online world Second Life.

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/Channels/cognition and art/political
/Channels/cognition and art/space and place
/Channels/techie/second life

2006-12-01 20:30:34     Harvard Gazette: Which comes first, language or thought?

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/07.22/21-think.html

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)

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/Channels/cognition and art/postmodern

2010-11-27 14:55:13     Microsoft develops shape-shifting touchscreen - tech - 26 November 2010 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...hapeshifting-touchscreen.html

Microsoft this week filed a patent application covering ... construct a "tactile" touchscreen – a display that use... to convince users they are actually touching the ridges,... of a displayed image.
Whereas previous screens produced only an illusion

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2006-07-08 12:40:44     New Scientist Breaking News - 'Rewired brain' revives patient after 19 years

http://www.newscientist.com/...s-patient-after-19-years.html

The team's findings suggest that Wallis’s brain had, v... developed new pathways and completely novel anatomical s... re-establish functional connections, compensating for th...
They found that new axons – the branches that connect ...
Surprisingl

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2009-10-17 15:21:41     Why are we the naked ape? - opinion - 19 September 2009 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...are-we-the-naked-ape.html?...

That proved bipedalism did not evolve on the savannah, b... not fossilise, it is hard to establish when the hominids... In 2006, Nina Jablonski, an anthropologist at Penn State... a book, Skin: A natural history, in which she proposed t... bipeds fina

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/Channels/cognition and art/ecological psychology

2010-11-27 14:49:52     Smartphone app monitors your every move - tech - 26 November 2010 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...monitors-your-every-move.html

Jigsaw figures out what you are doing by monitoring your... microphone, GPS and accelerometer for patterns character... activities - and it could be set to send the results to ... sites.
More importantly, Jigsaw can log how active you are each ...

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/Channels/HCI stuff/mobiles

2012-11-26 18:40:13     Brain-like chip outstrips normal computers - tech - 22 November 2012 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...tstrips-normal-computers.html

Attempts to simulate the brain usually involve programmi... behave like groups of neurons. A new "neuromorphic" desi... recreate the brain's hardware, using analogue components...
The Spikey chip contains 400 "neurons", or printed circu ...
Spikey also

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2013-03-11 09:58:50     Microsoft brings solar Wi-Fi to rural Kenya - tech - 13 February 2013 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...olar-wifi-to-rural-kenya.html

GAKAWA Senior Secondary School is located in Kenya's wes... Province, about 10 kilometres from Nanyuki town. It is n... live. There are no cash crops, no electricity, no phone ...
"For internet access we had to travel the 10 kilometres ...
Not for muc

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2014-01-26 09:41:05     Exercise in pregnancy boosts baby brain development - health - 14 November 2013 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...by-brain-development.html#...

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2014-01-26 09:37:56     How open data empowers citizens of poorer nations - tech - 13 November 2013 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...ns-of-poorer-nations.html#...

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/Channels/techie/open data

2007-01-03 16:48:10     Just can't get e-nough - being-human - 20 December 2006 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-.../mg19225831.200

Then there are photolog sites like Flickr. While most of... die than be caught surreptitiously browsing through some... there need be no such qualms about the private pics peop...
“Photolurkers spent most of their time online flicking t ...
Email is an

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2009-08-18 10:43:51     Mark Cuban Is a Big Fat Idiot—News Will Stay Free

http://www.newser.com/...diotmdash3bnews-will-stay-free.html

People who go to aggregator sites don’t really click t... original story. But he misses the profound and game-chan... that fact: They don’t want to read the original story.... changed on the Internet, where information comes faster ...
Oh, yes, an

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/Channels/digital economy/link economy

2013-10-08 09:46:58     Remembering to forget | UTS News Room

http://www.newsroom.uts.edu.au/news.../remembering-to-forget

Van den Hoven believes we need to delete more. “A lot ... think forgetting is a bad thing, that it’s a bug of hu... not. Forgetting is a side-product of a successful memory.”
And that, she says, is one of the project’s aims. “W ...

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/Channels/cognition and art/slow and time
/Channels/HCI stuff/photolurking

2010-01-06 12:48:41     New Statesman - Will Self on Charles Maclean's St Kilda: Island on the Edge of the World

http://www.newstatesman.com/200011270045

The St Kilda that Maclean describes is a tiny world, whi... much above 200 inhabitants. They spoke their own dialect... littered with Norse archaisms. They lived off the fruits... most notably the teeming seabirds - puffins, fulmars and...
With its ow

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2012-09-28 10:13:13     New Statesman - Tax avoidance isn't a left or right issue, it's a cancer eating our democracy

http://www.newstatesman.com/...s-cancer-eating-our-democracy

Topshop pays 140 times as much tax as Google, despite be... less profitable business.

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/Channels/digital economy
/Channels/economy and politics

2015-04-06 11:54:42     The Horror of Amazon’s New Dash Button - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/...orror-of-amazons-new-dash-button

Amazon’s new Dash Button, which will allow shoppers to... used domestic products like laundry detergent or paper t... click of a real-life button, is not a joke. Many people ... mostly because the announcement came the day before Apri... also becaus

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/Channels/digital economy

2015-08-17 07:08:16     The Truth Wears Off - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201.../the-truth-wears-off

Although many scientific ideas generate conflicting resu... falling effect sizes, they continue to get cited in the ... standard medical practice. Why? Because these ideas seem... make sense. Because we can’t bear to let them go. And ... decline eff

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2013-12-17 15:16:17     The Mission to De-Centralize the Internet : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/...o-decentralize-the-internet.html

internet-290.jpg
In the nineteen-seventies, the Internet was a small, dec ...
This is not the Internet we know today. Nearly two decad ...

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2014-05-27 23:48:35     Antoine Bruy's 'Scrublands' : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/...antoine-bruy-scrublands.html#...

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/Channels/just lovely

2006-04-14 00:10:24     Welsh Alphabet

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/ngfl-f.../alphabet.htm

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2007-09-16 20:45:40     Ning - Create your own Social Networks!

http://www.ning.com/

Get Your Own Social Network!
Ning is the only online service where you can create, cu ...

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/Channels/techie/Web2.0

2014-06-25 15:09:23     ANSI/NISO Z39.88-2004 (R2010) The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services - National Information Standards Organization

http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/pro.../details.php?...

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2012-04-04 10:43:03    

http://www.niso.org/kst/reports/standards/kfile_download?...

The OpenURL Framework Standard defines an architecture for creating OpenURL Framework Applications. An OpenURL Framework Application is a networked service environment, in which packages of information are transported over a network. These ...

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/Channels/techie/open data

2016-09-26 14:33:38     Alternative Metrics Initiative - National Information Standards Organization

http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/

This project is an important step in the development and... assessment metrics, which include usage-based metrics, s... references, and network behavioral analysis. In addition... explore potential assessment criteria for non-traditiona... such as dat

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/Channels/research methods/metrics and altmetrics

2006-07-02 09:29:29     AVL tree

http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/avltree.html

AVL tree
(data structure)
Definition: A balanced binary search tree where the heig ...

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2006-07-24 22:06:15     k-d tree

http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/kdtree.html

k-d tree
(data structure)
Definition: A multidimensional search tree for points in ...
See also binary search tree, adaptive k-d tree, point ac ...
Note: After [GG98]. Robert Keith Oswald (rko9h@virginia. ...

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2005-01-06 16:47:41     bluefish

http://www.nobodaddy.org/portfolio/bluefish.htm

luefish is a surveillance system which tracks the prese... devices, and their users.
Bluefish constantly scans for Bluetooth-enabled devices, ...
Over time, a profile is built for each discovered device ...

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2012-02-08 09:32:23     Microsoft's App Was Made For Walking — But Is It Racist? : NPR

http://www.npr.org/...-made-for-walking-but-is-it-racist?...

Microsoft is under fire this week over a patent it was g... dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS devices. The n... to help pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods, bad weat... terrain by taking information from maps, weather reports...
The word "g

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/Channels/HCI stuff/mobiles

2013-03-14 07:07:59     Wanna Play? Computer Gamers Help Push Frontier Of Brain Research : NPR

http://www.npr.org/...s-help-push-frontier-of-brain-research

Enlarge image
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 ...

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/Channels/HCI stuff
/Channels/techie/collective intelligence

2015-04-23 09:44:09     Student Course Evaluations Get An 'F' : NPR Ed : NPR

http://www.npr.org/bl.../student-course-evaluations-get-an-f

In universities around the world, semesters end with stu... similar surveys about their experience in the class and ... teacher.
Student ratings are high-stakes. They come up when facul ...
Recently, a number of faculty members have been publishi ...

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/Channels/education/Higher Ed.

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