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2014-02-15 09:28:23     What's that sucking sound? It's all the public money and private wealth being swallowed up by London | Aditya Chakrabortty | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...te-wealth-london-north-v-south

At the end of 2011, the IPPR North thinktank totted up a... spending on transport projects up till 2015. Londoners e... investment of £2,731 per head, far outstripping any oth... north-east received a measly £5 per head.

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2014-01-04 18:55:59     From cash machines to courgettes, the poor will pay more | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/co.../cash-machines-poor-pay-more

Lack of access to non-charging cashpoints is just one ex... dice are loaded against poor people in a free market

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2014-01-20 10:46:03     Britain is scared to face the real issue – it's all about inequality | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer

http://www.theguardian.com/...ty-threat-recovery-poverty-pay

It's inequality, stupid. It's inequality that is behind ... and the growth of the welfare bill. It's inequality prop... escalating demand for credit. It's inequality that has c... banking system and its still feral proclivities. It's in... provoked th

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2015-03-23 10:26:49     The strange new world of evidence-free government | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...ment-ministers-cost-cutting-pr

When ministers’ priorities are cost-cutting and short-... research into what actually works falls by the wayside ⮮. consequences

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2015-05-05 12:51:38     Better than GPS: a history of cartography in 12 amazing maps | David Shariatmadari | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...f-cartography-amazing-maps?...

Better than GPS: a history of cartography in 12 amazing maps
David Shariatmadari
David Shariatmadari
Smartphones may answer our navigation needs these days, ...

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2014-01-10 16:45:56     Localism is the cornerstone of environmentalism in the 21st century | Sarah Newton | Environment | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/...m-cornerstone-environmentalism

For me such localism is the cornerstone of what environm... about in the 21st century. Not the top-down imposition o... agenda, but the nurturing of people working as a communi... concerned by local environmental impoverishment come tog... and enhance

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2014-03-08 14:05:07     Dark thoughts: why mental illness is on the rise in academia | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional

http://www.theguardian.com/...ng-problem-pressure-university

But while anecdotal accounts multiply, mental health iss... little-researched and hard data is thin on the ground.
However, a study published in 2013 by the University and ...

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2014-03-06 07:30:43     There is a culture of acceptance around mental health issues in academia | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional

http://www.theguardian.com/...-issue-phd-research-university

I've seen PhD students with depression, sleep issues, ea... thoughts of suicide. Mental health in academia is an iss... addressed

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2015-03-23 10:31:28     Why the modern world is bad for your brain | Science | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...ized-mind-information-overload

In an era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter,... required to do several things at once. But this constant... taking its toll. Here neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin ex... addiction to technology is making us less efficient

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2014-09-25 07:56:51     How to build your own sustainable house | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional

http://www.theguardian.com/...inable-eco-house-wikihouse?...

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2014-03-17 16:13:28     Illuminating cities with sustainable smart lighting systems | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional

http://www.theguardian.com/...-smart-lighting-systems-cities

Illuminating cities with sustainable smart lighting systems
Lights that switch off automatically when streets are em ...
Share 501
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... a city-lighting system that's both sustainable and fun.

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2013-09-05 11:43:40     Nike+ FuelBand and Google Glass: what next for the 'quantified self'? | Technology | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/...d-google-glass-quantified-self

We're only just at the beginning of the 'quantified self... tracks movement, diet and other issues using gadgets

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2014-03-08 12:40:04     The perovskite lightbulb moment for solar power | Technology | The Observer

http://www.theguardian.com/...undant-solar-power-britain?...

If perovskites mean nothing to you read on, as they may ... impact on your future fuel bill.
If we could capture approximately 1% of the sunlight fal ...

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2015-03-23 11:11:04     'Overnight, everything I loved was gone': the internet shaming of Lindsey Stone | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...aming-lindsey-stone-jon-ronson

When a friend posted a photograph of charity worker Lind... Facebook, she never dreamed she would lose her job and h... years on, could she get her life back?

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2015-03-10 11:29:40     3D knitting: after 8,000 years a new dimension in weaving and spinning | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...-weaving-spinning-printing?...

In the 20th century mass production revolutionised how w... fabric. Now new technology is taking textiles into new f... architecture and sport

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2015-03-23 11:20:03     Will.i.am: 'Eventually 3D printing will print people' | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...printing-will-print-people?...

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2015-05-26 07:15:50     Facebook 'tracks all visitors, breaching EU law' | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...sitors-breaching-eu-law-report

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2013-11-29 18:43:15     Is Sony's 'smart wig' even more absurd than Google Glass? | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/te.../sony-smart-wig-google-glass

Need a computerised toupee made of yak hair? Of course y...
Beta
Share 1041
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... One of the smart wig patent drawings

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2014-01-10 16:43:54     The ocean is broken | Newcastle Herald

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/18.../the-ocean-is-broken/

IT was the silence that made this voyage different from ...
See your ad here
Not the absence of sound, exactly.
The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rig ...
... The birds were missing because the fish were missing.

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2012-04-01 20:52:44     » The Art The LED Artist

http://www.theledart.com/blog/archives/category/the-art

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.

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2014-06-17 07:36:14     Bookshops of the Future: Where Physical and Digital Co-exist.

http://www.theliteraryplatform.com/...-and-digital-co-exist/

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2017-01-29 19:50:37     Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms - The Local

http://www.thelocal.at/...-hackers-as-guests-locked-in-rooms

One of Europe's top hotels has admitted they had to pay ... Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack the... system, locking hundreds of guests in or out of their ro... was paid.

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2014-01-10 16:50:04     The Coming ‘Instant Planetary Emergency’ | The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/...ing-instant-planetary-emergency

William Greider: Will It Matter That Janet Yelle...
Dave Zirin: Chris Kluwe, Aaron Rodgers and LGBT ...
John Nichols: Five Reforms to Make Democratic Po ...
A Look Back at the Year in Crazy, Part Two
... entists predict i

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2011-10-23 07:58:44     BlackBerry cuts made roads safer, police say - The National

http://www.thenational.ae/...uts-made-roads-safer-police-say

ABU DHABI // A dramatic fall in traffic accidents this w... directly linked to the three-day disruption in BlackBerr...
In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from averag ...

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2006-07-06 20:56:42     The siren call of MySpace.com | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news.../5445273p-4915999c.html

Eighteen-year-old Aaron VanMeer’s daily routine goes s... Get home from school, grab a snack and slide in front of... computer for his daily fix.
He’s just gotta log on to MySpace.com, the Web site wh ...

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2012-11-27 10:20:53     Mining enthusiast creates his own replica in his garden (From The Northern Echo)

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/...n_replica_in_his_garden/

A MINING enthusiast has built his very own 150ft ironsto... his back garden.
John Wiggins has spent years making the perfect 19th cen ...
Despite being located just 15 feet underground, the mine ...

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2013-03-06 00:42:37     Can humour make students love statistics? - Vol. 22, Part 3 ( March 2009)

http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/ar.../archive_home.cfm?...

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

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2012-11-15 08:06:41     Sometimes mob rule works | Article | The Punch

http://www.thepunch.com.au/arti.../sometimes-mob-rule-works/

Can we just stop for a second and appreciate that in gro... people want to be good, and moral and right? For a shini... moment, the internet was at its moral best.

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2008-11-24 12:22:33     Cap Cyborg to chip 11 year old in wake of UK child killings • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/09/02/cap_cyborg_to_chip/

Captain Cyborg, aka Professor Kevin Warwick of Reading U... generally a harmless if somewhat tedious self-publicist ... 'experiments' pay his rent and provide the less critical...
Following the recent abduction of ten year olds Holly We ...
And guess w

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2006-03-21 13:23:18     One in five Brits 'buy software from spam' | The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004.../spam_buyers_survey_bsa/

More than one in five British consumers (22 per cent) ha... software in response to spam email, a study by Forrester... The study - sponsored by the Business Software Alliance ... substantial minority of punters are quite happy to make ... purchases a

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