Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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...
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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

Estimates for the human brain range between 10 billion a... imprecision in these estimates is due almost entirely to... the number of granule cells in the cerebellum, a problem... traced back to a study by Braitenberg & Atwood (1958). M...
[A revisio

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.

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.

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)

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 ...
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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

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 ...

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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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 ...

The genetic underpinnings of psychosis are elusive and d... hundreds of common genetic mutations scattered throughou... that each bump up by just a tiny bit the risk of develop... illness like schizophrenia. Many people carry some set o... most don't

Is it possible to put some order into our thoughts about... memory, perception, and the like? Hardly a day goes by w... in-depth article wondering whether computers can be cons... universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a u... human being

In 2007 in my lab at Berkeley, Tamar Kushnir and I disco... preschoolers can use probabilities to learn how things w... lets them imagine new possibilities. We put a yellow blo...
Then we gave the children the blocks and asked them to l ...
We also did

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of...
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... That is, some of us do. Others use data.

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of...
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Horacio Salinas for The New York Times
Readers' Comments
... That is, some of us do. Others use data.

Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists... to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or... “ism” and start exploring how technology is changing... of the liberal arts. This latest frontier is about metho... powerful te

However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumb...
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Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :)
... and expands on what is known about how mood fluctuates.

A businessman laments that he no longer has colleagues a... doesn’t stop by to talk; he doesn’t call. He says th... want to interrupt them. He says they’re “too busy on... But then he pauses and corrects himself. “I’m not te...
A 16-year-o

Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, bored... makes people more generous to strangers and more toleran... Couples feel closer and look happier when they’re shar... memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nos... feel warmer

Research shows that our intuition is wrong. We can focus... that we can’t may not be a phantom. Paying attention r... ability but desire. Technology may snuff out our desire ...

If the data is any indication, most of us use our phones... think: Participants estimated an average of 37 uses thro... (anything that turns on the screen, from hitting snooze ...
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If you are awake for 16 hours, turning o

While the name of our process is %u201Cswitch sessions%u... the more general approach to creative collaboration idea... of starting from a blank slate and working together to c... final product, we document some idea seeds. These have n... advantages.

How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn ...
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At the height of the Harry Potter novels’ popularity, ...

For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of Psychology i... Psychiatry at the University of California at San Franci... his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago... University. He received his Ph.D. from Adelphi Universit...
His interes

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