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Researchers have been pursuing the development of such a... decades, in some cases spending hundreds of millions of ... engineering challenges. One device designed to help peop... condition is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval. It is kn...
Second Sigh

Internet censorship and surveillance are growing global
phenomena. ONI’s mission is to identify and document
Internet filtering and surveillance, and to promote and
inform wider public dialogue about such practices.

Non-Places, Placelessness

An individual is the only ethical integration point for ...
Our purpose is to catalyze a Personal Data Ecosystem whe ...
The Startup Circle - for startups committed to putti ...
1 Million People for Personal Data - gathers people ...
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Despite to the vast advances in capacity and capability ... the past two decades, the representation of users, their... and preferences in application software has changed litt... of modern personal computing and personal information ma...
In this pro

A few years ago I went to Spain for the first time, and ... surprised by how late is dinner. The first night I dined...
Solar time vs. standard time
Solar time vs. standard time
At the time I’m writing, near the winter solstice, Mad ...

Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) are emerging as a new pa... interaction with the digital world aiming at facilitatin... GUI-based interaction. Interaction with TUIs relies on u... skills of interaction with the real world [9], thereby o... promise of

We present a design concept of a tangible user interface... contents. A layer structure for image presentation and t... gestures are proposed to facilitate navigation in the di... collections. We describe how gestures support the photo ... the visual

The "relational mind" approach to the inner content of c... developed in terms of various control structures and pro... and their possible neurobiological identifications in br... leads naturally to a division of consciousness into a pa... active part

In case you missed it, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a flagship APA journal, published a study by Daryl Bem containing evidence for psi (precognition). I didn't really want to post in too much detail about this study (wh...

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is... exciting discoveries. Milne, A. A.

Remember the days before you could pull your smartphone ... and get instant directions from your current location to... world? It's kind of foggy for me, too.
In fact, I'm so used to relying on my smartphone that I ...
The answer is "yes," of course. B

So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to say…
You want a Dancer not a Scientist.

A review of the state of our knowledge regarding problem... it work? What is insight? How can we boost our creativit... problem solving performance?

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In certain situations animals can spontaneously solve pr...
Animals rarely solve problems spontaneously, yet certain ...
The University of Auckland research shows that such prob ...
“Crows and parrots have long been known to solve the s ...
... ings of

Browse all maps with options to filter by year, auth...
Listing of all current & past venues.
See what the exhibit entails, plus how to host it at ...
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cro ...

Flyfire, a project initiated by the SENSEable City Labor...
In its first implementation, the Flyfire project sets ou ...
With the self-stabilizing and precise controlling techno ...
Flyfire serves as an initial step to explore and imagine ...
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Welcome
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a gathering place for people w ...
instructions are always ambigu ...
... and in how one makes sense of life.

The atlas contains five maps which trace the territories...
The maps are:
– Public Authoring, Education & Learning
– Neighbourhoods & Communities
... – Robotic Feral Public Authoring

A new research paper published today in the Proceedings ... of Sciences demonstrates that men and women's brains con... different which, according to the authors, gives a "pote...
The study—one the largest of its kind with 949 individ ...
Using the d

I am interested in the role that elementary learning pro... behavior. It turns out that many such learning processes... that is, they occur without intention and without result... verbalizable knowledge. Thus it appears that many things...
To get an o

In the demo above and in the original article, the model... someone might know about characters inspired from the 19... Side Story", in which two gangs (the "Jets" and the "Sha... territory and overall dominance. Units, the activation l... represents

153 windows, 153 pixels. Two weekends ago, the front of ... lit up in a colorful display of the popular puzzler Tetr... screen spanned over 80 by 250 feet — making it the sec... in the nation. Appearing mysteriously on Friday night, t... the culmina