Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Last week I realised the internet wants to kill me. I wa... script in a small room with nothing but a laptop for com... conditions for quiet contemplation – but thanks to the... connection, I may as well have been sharing the space wi... marching ba

My attention span was never great, but modern technology... halved it again, and again and again, down to an atomic ... there's nothing discernible left. Back in that room, bom... and emails, repeatedly tapping search terms into Google ... good reason

The role of the internet in fragmenting the public spher... subject of some scholarly and journalistic interest, mos... Pariser's excellent The Filter Bubble, which shows how G... and other major actors filter our web searches, updates ... our user pr

The British public believe benefit fraud is a big proble...
The reality is very different. Last year, 0.7% of total ...
Indeed, welfare fraud is smaller than accidental overpay ...
In other words, if we wiped out benefit fraud tomorrow ⠮..
... people

The disclosure comes as a poll showed half of students i...
According to a survey of 1,026 students, published by th ...
Students are choosing universities where they can live a ...
Close to a third (27%) of poorer students choose univers ...
The survey

If the world raised £11bn, every child could go to scho... seem all that much when the UK government manages to rai... billions to rescue its banking sector?

Leading companies interviewed for a new Guardian series ... staff at a senior level to be computer literate, combini... with the ability to lead a team. But they face delays in... staff, or have to give new employees extensive training ...
Ian Wright,

Raspberry Pi device will 'reboot computing in schools'
A tiny computer called Raspberry Pi and costing £20 is ...

Young coders: ideas for change
Seven teenagers talk about how they got into coding and ...

Welcome to the real legacy of the coalition's fee rises:... mere consumers of an educational product, paying to rece... in a subject that the government is gambling on to provi... our job market will demand in years to come. Meanwhile u... into soulle

Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon.
Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ...
The study will examine the psychological impact of being ...

This year, both the North-west and North-east passages w...
Last month, the 74,000-tonne STI Heritage tanker passed ...
The north-east sea route, which links the Atlantic to th ...
Further evidence of dramatic change in the Arctic came l ...
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When 28,800 bath toys fell off a cargo ship in the Pacif... they began an incredible journey. While some washed up i... and Hawaii, countless others circumnavigated the globe. ... from his new book, Donovan Hohn follows the fantastic voyage

Local cycling federation and tourist organisation warn t... in the Danish capital can make riding intimidating

Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which e...
Frank Langella on Robot & Frank: 'I'd rather make love i ...
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Very early in my doctoral journey, I was fortunate to ex... moment when you know the decision you have made was the ... with the realisation that I was being paid, not very muc... nonetheless funded, to sit down every day, to read, thin...
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In the melee of the last days of the Labour government, ...
Think of George Orwell and W H Auden, of Laurence Olivie ...
But the BBC can't make them available to us, as it would ...
All this was set out in the Digital Britain reports that ...
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Why Facebook's Open Graph idea must be taken seriously
F8 conference reveals plans that would allow users to re ...

Two months ago I wrote a blog on "media gurus" who charg... promoting "free" as a business model. The blog drew some... responses, with Guardian contributor Cory Doctorow posti... accusing me of not understanding how giving work away fo... promotional

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics ... borrowing up to October 2010. The figures go all the way... 1940s. It seems that all the political parties have face... of debt through the years - as if the economic climate h... independent

Are most online data visualisations, well, just not very...
It's an issue we grapple with a lot - and some of you ma ...
Poor Wordle - it gets the brunt of it. It was designed a ...
In the last week alone, New York Times senior software a ...
... one qu

Content API
Select and collect content from the Guardian for reuse. ...

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

People walking on Old Compton Street in Soho, London
One part of the brain keeps track of the straight line d ...
Brain scans have revealed the workings of the brain's GP ...
Two areas of the brain appear to take turns as our inter ...
... identify how th

People like lists of things. They're everywhere on the i... any subject matter you can think of, odds are there's a ... Nowhere is safe. Even here, on the Guardian Science sect... most popular articles in recent months is a list. But wh... popular? We

From a duck to a skeleton to a robot dinosaur: scientist... fabulous kinetic sculpture, called On the Move, to demon... the concept of energy transfer. The Launchpad team at Lo... Museum and Engineered Arts Ltd created this cause-and-ef... events in a