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Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scruti... not merely the last one

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303145733.htm

We enable public displays to be used as a powerful mediu... people with the places they care about

Many experts believe our brains aren't prepared for the ... bundle of digital distractions that we are bombarded wit... feeling sluggish and ultimately less productive. What we... very 21st Century problem.

416.2 terawatt hours of electricity world’s data centr... was far higher than UK’s total consumption

No UI is the New UI
On the rise of UI-less apps and why you should
care about them as a designer.

test scores in my visual-communication course have gone ... laptops the boot a year ago. Now I coach students on how... longhand to help those who have not used that muscle muc... convinced that while laptops have a lot of good uses in ... taking is n

This post is a collection of my notes on Human-Computer ... It is not intended to be a comprehensive guide or a syst... a collection of useful articles, links, videos, books, w... during the last years and that I have been using during ... I think the

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/494559/The-Slow-Death-of-Bookmarklets

The altered language significantly weakened the stance that browsers should bypass Content Security Policy for user-supplied add-ons, and suggests that providing the capability for users or add-ons to modify the Content Security Policy is o...

The increased implementation of Content Security Policy (CSP) in websites has been heralded as "The End / Death of Bookmarklets". I created a solution in 2015 that resurrects the ability to use (library-based) bookmarklets on CSP and https:// websites usi

Carbon concentration up counter

Perhaps four-fifths of the data that have been released ... particularly useful, reckons Joel Gurin of the Centre fo... Enterprise, a think-tank in Washington. America’s cach...
Searching open-data portals is often an arduous task. Wo ...
Gavin Stark

Wendell’s science fair project consists solely of a tr... display board covered by a white sheet that displays cur... options. Patrons can view the display board for 15 minut... $39.95 one-time fee, or they can purchase a subscription...
Tommy says

The first reaction of many people to uncertain math is to use the same techniques as for certain math. They would either imagine each unknown as an exact mean, or take ‘worst case’ and ‘best case’ scenarios and multiply each one. Th...

The origins of Auld Lang Syne
Various experts talk about the history of the lyrics for ...
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The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ...
The glitch?
They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...

Nick Heyward, who manages the UK Power Networks project,... electricity grids need to balance supply and demand at a...
"One solution could be to add capacity to the existing g ...
Storage systems like SNS offer the ability to export ene ...
Mr Heyward

As an expert reviewer, it is sometimes necessary to ensure a paper is rejected. This can sometimes be achieved by highlighting improper statistical practice. This technical note provides guidance on how to critique the statistical analysis of neuroimaging

When new drugs are put on the market, clinical trials de... they perform better than inactive pills known as "placeb... that over the last 25 years the difference in effectiven... drugs and these fake ones has narrowed - but more in the... Are America