Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Over the past few years, one of the most important shift... world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semicl... that use the Internet for transport but not the browser ... It’s driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model ... computing,

Fresh out of Harvard in 2005, Leila Janah landed a job a... consultant. One of her first assignments took her to Mum... traveled by auto-rickshaw to a sleek outsourcing center ...
“There aren’t any unions for online workers. They ha ...
Janah, 32,

Most of us don't even realise it, but the home pages for... heavyweights such as Amazon, Facebook and YouTube have c... recognition since they launched.
Likewise, most of us don't remember that Google once had ...
With their plain colour schemes and emp

We believe that the easiest way to change people's behav... is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory.

The ability to describe, assign and attribute certain me... referred to as Theory of Mind. This topic has been exten... the field of autism, where deficits in social interactio... characterize this disorder are thought to be due to a la... Mind. Howev

I've seen PhD students with depression, sleep issues, ea... thoughts of suicide. Mental health in academia is an iss... addressed

TEG is an acronym for ‘thermoelectric generator’. A ...
When heat is applied to the hot side of a TEG, electrici ...
Can you really generate that much electricity from waste ...
You may be surprised just how much you can! Here is a sm ...
... solar h

Here’s how chains are assembled

These heat maps reveal where we feel love, anger, shame ...
Image Credit: Pnas.org
December 31, 2013 7:57 AM
Rebecca Grant
... what we feel and the physical sensation of that feeling.

Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz. Click here or on a photo t... slideshow: http://yhoo.it/GlassCabinPhotosBuilding the h... and hard,” Horwitz said. “Looking at it now, it’s ... insane. It’s huge. …“The house is an experience at... Olson said.

It was the fall of 1998, and Schaefer was about to leave... job in the linguistics department at Uppsala University,... Stockholm. Hock announced that he had a going-away prese...
She was a little surprised—a parting gift seemed an od ...
Schaefer op

TheyWorkForYou lets you find out what your MP, MSP or ML... name, read debates, written answers, see what’s coming... and sign up for email alerts when there’s past or futu... someone or something you’re interested in.

This is a place to share digital designs that can be mad... physical objects. Let's create a better universe, together!

Zoom
eStarling is Back and Better than Ever
You may remember the unique eStarling Wi-Fi enabled phot ...

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

Between 1974 and 1979, residents of a small Manitoba cit... be subjects in a project that ensured basic annual incom...
And for five years, poverty was completely eliminated.
The program was dubbed “Mincome” -- a neologism of ⠮..
The project’s o

On March 21, 2011, my MacBook was stolen from my apartme... I reported the crime to the police and even told them wh... they couldn't help me due to lack of resources. Meanwhil...
Update: (May 31, 8:37 PM PST) ARRESTED! An Oakland polic ...
Update: (Ma

The anatomy of the twitter-storm that cost media PR pro ... job.

Elecom has debuted a wireless projection keyboard that c... mobile device via Bluetooth.
The slick futuristic device could be the perfect choice ...
This keyboard is a wireless projectionStill, if you're a ...

Grace Choi, a Harvard Business School grad (and our new ... earth) debuted her new 3-D printer that not only PRINTS ... in any color you could possibly want. Simply by grabbing... from a photo and hooking the small device up to your com... endless sup

The paper, updated this month, by economist Xavier Gabai... University, integrates behavioral economics findings int... a New Keynesian macroeconomic model—one that includes ... decisionmaking and markets that aren’t perfectly compe... the kind of

For those of you who remember life before the Internet, ... from the early to mid '90s, access made serious leaps fr... government and research facilities to the home. By 1996,... million people around the world were using the Internet,... million of

Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan
undefined
Chris Ayres in Los Angeles
Click here for a slideshow of the history of computers
... eo game,” he told The Times in an exclusive interview.

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 ...

Last spring, a young biologist tried to buy a copy of a ... out-of-print reference work, Peter Lawrence’s The Maki... offered 15 used copies at reasonable prices – and two ... cheapest of which was $1,730,045.91, plus $3.99 shipping.
Michael Eisen,

Whichever way they sliced the data, Azoulay, Manzo and Z... that the more open-ended, risky HHMI grants were funding... important, unusual, and influential research. HHMI resea... no better qualified than their NIH-funded peers, were fa...
The HHMI re