Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

A scientific result is not truly established until it is... confirmed. This is one of the tenets of experimental sci...

It’s a typical tangle of tech acronyms. CPUs. GPUs. TP... it’s the subtext that matters. With cloud computing, c... Microsoft and Google and Amazon are driving so much of t... technology that those alternative chips will drive the w... apps and on

You will find many resources promoting learning styles a... element of teaching and learning. For example, they are ... (standard 4) and by ISTE (NETS-T). Review the resources ... set of slides. You can find more. Do not accept learning... because it

I was interviewed twice on the radio on Friday evening t... McDonnell’s new fiscal rule, once on LBC and the other... both cases the interviewers were quite explicit in stati... known that Labour always borrowed more than the Conserva... why the ele

You would need a strong head for heights and nerves of s... live in this vacation home built on the side of a cliff ...

Despite their prevalence, building standards really only... the last century. A major turning point in their wild pr... in the 1920s, when the German government made the then-r... standardize the size of office paper.
This seemingly bureaucratic move i

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

The question of when and how language first emerged is t... tremendous controversy – it has even been called ‘th... in science’. My work is on what information can be ext... vocalisations. It is a first step in understanding where... dictates th

Researchers at the Karadag Nature Reserve, in Feodosia, ... recorded two Black Sea bottlenose dolphins by the names ... having conversations consisting of sentences up to five ... The team says this shows dolphins have a language not en... from our o

More than 4,000 people died within six weeks of being fo... work”, the Department for Work and Pensions has admitted.
The figures cover the period between December 2011 to Fe ...
Of the total, 1,360 died after losing an appeal against ...

Early warning signals of the coronary heart disease (CHD... (sucrose) emerged in the 1950s. We examined Sugar Resear... internal documents, historical reports, and statements r... debates about the dietary causes of CHD and assembled fi... chronologic

The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play ... between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fa... instead, newly released historical documents show.
The internal sugar industry documents, recently discover ...

Nearly 50 years of scientific research on the complicate... between nutrition and heart disease may have been shaped... industry to shift the focus away from sugar and toward s... instead, according to internal industry documents releas...
The reason,

The HAT is a private and secure cloud-based information ... and data processing abilities. It’s your own microserv... can access your data and manage it from an easy-to-use d... hyperdata browser we call Rumpel™. With Rumpel, you ca...
If you are

Doarama™
is a 3D visualization engine for geolocated activities. ...

Frontiers for Young Minds provides a collection of freel... scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are... audiences by the input of their own young peers.

Every cognitive bias is there for a reason — prima... brains time or energy. If you look at them by the proble... to solve, it becomes a lot easier to understand why they... they’re useful, and the trade-offs (and resulting ment... they introd

Instead of a postal address or a recipient's name, the sender had drawn a map of where they believed the farm to be, together with the following, in English:
"Country: Iceland. City: Búðardalur. Name: A horse farm with an Icelandic/Danish couple and th

Slow Dance makes things move in ways you never thought possible. For all those who love mystery, beauty, and wonder.

We're a semantic technology company that instantly delivers deep insights from the world's data. Since 2009, we've amassed the world's deepest and most interconnected knowledge graph, encompassing 500 collections, 1 billion entities, 250 bi...

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

Mitchell is the second contributor to the Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project, for which 1,000 trees were planted two years ago in Oslo’s Nordmarka forest. Starting with Margaret Atwood, who last year handed over the...

the British Library came out with its own announcement o...
We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commo ...

q is a command line tool that allows direct execution of... on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files).
q treats ordinary files as database tables, and supports ...

IBM Research in Zurich has created the world's first art... stochastic phase-change neurons. IBM has already created... 500 of these artificial neurons and used them to process... brain-like (neuromorphic) way.

I watched in horror a promotional video for these glasses that showed how your whole field of vision of the real world could become a screen on which reminder messages spring up. The video portrayed the lifestyle of a hip female Brooklynite...

Sometimes coding rules are essential to use, especially... may depend on its correctness – code that is used ... airplane that you fly on, spacecraft that carries astro... or the nuclear power plant a few miles from where you li... the NASA’

When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want to show you where it might do the opposite.

Where does technology exploit our minds’ weaknesses?

I learned to think this way when I was a ...

Of course I said yes and said my rate would be £75 for the usage (I wasn’t sure on what to charge, so I checked with some professional photographers what the rate was. They all said between £75 and £90, so I went in at the lower end of...

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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