Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La sociét... (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer cu... examines the “Spectacle,” Debord’s term for the e... manifestatio

Number of Neurons in a Human Brain
The Physics Factbook%u2122
Edited by Glenn Elert -- Written by his students
An educational, Fair Use website
... brain has more than 100 billion neurons" > 100 billion

oundary objects 'have different meanings in different so... their structure is common enough to more than one world ... recognizable, a means of translation' (Star and Grieseme...

Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was no... man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of l... solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon,...
In In The Land of Invented Languages, author Arika Okren ...
A truly ori

They believe that certain groups of people are inherentl... others. They write books about how rape is a natural par... evolution. And now, with another scandal rocking the wor... psychology, we can officially welcome a new breed of mad...
Evolutionar

I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted — one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia.

These technologies, BCI and CBI, can be combined to real... non-invasive, computer-mediated brain-to-brain (B2B) com... subjects (hyperinteraction).

In their book, Idealized Design: How to Solve Tomorrow's... (Wharton School Publishing), authors Russell L. Ackoff, ... Herbert J. Addison build upon a simple notion. They argu... get to the best outcome is to imagine what the ideal sol...
Idealized d

Freedom is an application that disables networking on an... up to eight hours at a time. Freedom will free you from ... the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or creat... your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your ne...
Freedom enf

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map un... when young Kiberans created the first free and open digi... own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete ... community information project.

I have been enjoying Adam Hochschild’s To End All Wars... Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, which covers the Briti... War I. My favorite section details how the British resp... turned out they had a drastic shortage of binoculars, wh...
The Germans

I work on higher-order cognitive operations that disting ...

I work on higher-order cognitive operations that disting ...

# Medevec, V., & Gilovich, T. (1995). The experience of ... and why? Psychological Review, 102(2), 379-395.
# Medevec, V., & Gilovich, T. (1994). The temporal patte ...

A 2014 study found that readers of a short mystery story... significantly worse at remembering the order of events t... the same story in paperback. Lead researcher Anne Mangen... Stavanger University concluded that "the haptic and tact... Kindle does

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Leonardo Sample Articles
Electric Body Manipulation as Performance Art: A Histori ...
by Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha (Leonardo Music Journa ...
Sculpting Ionized Plasma
... by Victor Margolin

Leonardo was founded in 1968 in Paris by kinetic artist ... pioneer Frank Malina. Malina saw the need for a journal ... as an international channel of communication between art... emphasis on the writings of artists who use science and ... technologie

Poyozo gives you your own data back by downloading the i... currently giving to the web on to your own computer. You... importing your data from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, ... Calendar, any email service, any RSS feed, Flickr, Wesab... Skydeck, Do

Opera 'is music for the heart'
Pavarotti
Listening to Pavarotti sing the Nessun Dorma could help ...
Listening to the right kind of music can slow the heart ...
... lood pressure, while slower-pace music does the reverse.

Waiting for the next e-mail or internet "hit" means we a...
I put down my pen, opened my laptop to write this, and i ...
Then my smartphone rang - it had the e-mails too. Withou ...
I automatically replied to my colleague, and clicked on ...
... tion, b

Stillness, meditation, reflection, silence. Radio docume... Hall goes in search of refuge from the noise and bustle ... world, looking for moments of peace amid the hurly-burly...

On display, I spotted a book written by one of the Briti...
It was entitled Kansha - The Land of Maybe - which it se ...
Back at the airport I told Magni Arge, the chief executi ...
"Kansha means more than maybe," he explained.
... and respecting their a

On display, I spotted a book written by one of the Briti...
It was entitled Kansha - The Land of Maybe - which it se ...
Back at the airport I told Magni Arge, the chief executi ...
"Kansha means more than maybe," he explained.
... and respecting their a

In 2005, the artificial intelligence researcher at the M... Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab set out to under...
"We wanted to understand how minds work and how they dev ...
It was a big task and one that years of research by scie ...
But now, Pr

Artists are lighting up London's South Bank with 1200 wi... as part of a digital arts festival.

Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have ... the mind works.
Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought ...
Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and ...
It could be this uninhibited processing that allows crea

Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have ... the mind works.
Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought ...
Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and ...
It could be this uninhibited processing that allows crea