Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no ... open-access journals.
On 4 July, good news arrived in the inbox of Ocorrafoo C ...
In fact, it should have been promptly rejected. Any revi ...

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Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

Some of that research went back a generation. It was in ... instance, that researchers discovered that aspects of vi...
Muller Lyer Illusion Comparison 3
Researchers found that Americans perceive the line with ...
More recently psychologists had challe

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

That proved bipedalism did not evolve on the savannah, b... not fossilise, it is hard to establish when the hominids... In 2006, Nina Jablonski, an anthropologist at Penn State... a book, Skin: A natural history, in which she proposed t... bipeds fina

In other fields, there’s an understanding of how common it is for our actions not to line up with internal goals. In economics, revealed preference theory says that what we value is better revealed by our behaviors than our judgements. ‮..

American culture worships creativity, but mostly in the ... people really don't like new ideas that sound entirely n... the experts that often have to approve them. The trick i... new ideas as old ideas—to make your creativity seem, w... creative.

Why Facebook's Open Graph idea must be taken seriously
F8 conference reveals plans that would allow users to re ...

Do they ever make sense?
I’m not saying that it’s impossible to be successful ...
Obviously free plans have worked well for companies like ...
We need to stop blindly copying them and start thinking ...
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Almost all British general practitioners use compute... consulting rooms, but most hospital doctors do not
Over 30 years, leaders of the general practitioner p ...
In hospitals computing was treated as a management o ...
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An identity built around making things—of being “a m... technology culture. There’s a widespread idea that “... things are simply different [read: better] than those wh...

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 ...
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A group of Chinese scientists published their research i... peer-reviewed, open-source journal on January 5. The stu... paper that looked at the biomechanics of the human hand....
One of the sentences read: “Hand coordination should i ...
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There is immense concern about economic inequality, both... scholarly community and in the general public, and many ... equality is an important social goal. However, when peop... the ideal distribution of wealth in their country, they ... unequal soc

It may seem like teens are always over-sharing without a... world where opting out of online culture is hardly an op... far more sophisticated view of privacy than adults give ...

I was recently in a discussion where one person quoted f... conference that as a UX designer you should always offer... desktop" route on a mobile website because users can't a... they want on a mobile. If this sounds a common problem t... somewhere i

In an era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter,... required to do several things at once. But this constant... taking its toll. Here neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin ex... addiction to technology is making us less efficient

The allure of the doctrine of time management is that, o... might finally be under control. Yet work in the modern e... for its limitlessness. And if the stream of incoming ema... Inbox Zero can never bring liberation: you’re still Si... boulder up

Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We...
by Maria Popova
“Time perception matters because it is the experience ...
Given my soft spot for famous diaries, it should come as ...
That’s precisely what acclaimed BBC broadcaster and ps

What follows may just seem to be a story about one cours... university, but it has important ramifications, not only... national debate about economics education, but for econo... politics itself. We, the Post-Crash Economics Society at... Manchester,

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There are currently a million ways to embed distinct sni... and functionality on web pages. The most common two are ... and some form of javascript syndication (you put this sc... we'll document.write some stuff on your page). In the XM...
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DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured info... Wikipedia and to make this information available on the ... allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedi... other datasets on the Web to Wikipedia data.

WikiCFP is a semantic wiki for Calls For Papers in scien... fields. There are about 50,000 CFPs on WikiCFP. Over 100... use WikiCFP each month.

Creole is a common wiki markup language to be used acros... It's not replacing existing markup but instead enabling ... transfer content seamlessly across wikis, and for novice... contribute more easily. Creole will create a community o... developers

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