Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

At the end of 2011, the IPPR North thinktank totted up a... spending on transport projects up till 2015. Londoners e... investment of £2,731 per head, far outstripping any oth... north-east received a measly £5 per head.

Lack of access to non-charging cashpoints is just one ex... dice are loaded against poor people in a free market

It's inequality, stupid. It's inequality that is behind ... and the growth of the welfare bill. It's inequality prop... escalating demand for credit. It's inequality that has c... banking system and its still feral proclivities. It's in... provoked th

When ministers’ priorities are cost-cutting and short-... research into what actually works falls by the wayside ⮮. consequences

Better than GPS: a history of cartography in 12 amazing maps
David Shariatmadari
David Shariatmadari
Smartphones may answer our navigation needs these days, ...

For me such localism is the cornerstone of what environm... about in the 21st century. Not the top-down imposition o... agenda, but the nurturing of people working as a communi... concerned by local environmental impoverishment come tog... and enhance

But while anecdotal accounts multiply, mental health iss... little-researched and hard data is thin on the ground.
However, a study published in 2013 by the University and ...

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

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

Illuminating cities with sustainable smart lighting systems
Lights that switch off automatically when streets are em ...
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... a city-lighting system that's both sustainable and fun.

We're only just at the beginning of the 'quantified self... tracks movement, diet and other issues using gadgets

If perovskites mean nothing to you read on, as they may ... impact on your future fuel bill.
If we could capture approximately 1% of the sunlight fal ...

When a friend posted a photograph of charity worker Lind... Facebook, she never dreamed she would lose her job and h... years on, could she get her life back?

In the 20th century mass production revolutionised how w... fabric. Now new technology is taking textiles into new f... architecture and sport

Need a computerised toupee made of yak hair? Of course y...
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... One of the smart wig patent drawings

IT was the silence that made this voyage different from ...
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Not the absence of sound, exactly.
The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rig ...
... The birds were missing because the fish were missing.

The Art
Aurora 18×18 + Audio Interface Video
Here’s a video showing how Aurora 18×18 works with th ...
Aurora 9×18 mk2 will work the same way, except with onl ...
... will start shipping the kits as soon as I have the PCBs.

One of Europe's top hotels has admitted they had to pay ... Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack the... system, locking hundreds of guests in or out of their ro... was paid.

William Greider: Will It Matter That Janet Yelle...
Dave Zirin: Chris Kluwe, Aaron Rodgers and LGBT ...
John Nichols: Five Reforms to Make Democratic Po ...
A Look Back at the Year in Crazy, Part Two
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ABU DHABI // A dramatic fall in traffic accidents this w... directly linked to the three-day disruption in BlackBerr...
In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from averag ...

Eighteen-year-old Aaron VanMeer’s daily routine goes s... Get home from school, grab a snack and slide in front of... computer for his daily fix.
He’s just gotta log on to MySpace.com, the Web site wh ...

A MINING enthusiast has built his very own 150ft ironsto... his back garden.
John Wiggins has spent years making the perfect 19th cen ...
Despite being located just 15 feet underground, the mine ...

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

Can we just stop for a second and appreciate that in gro... people want to be good, and moral and right? For a shini... moment, the internet was at its moral best.

Captain Cyborg, aka Professor Kevin Warwick of Reading U... generally a harmless if somewhat tedious self-publicist ... 'experiments' pay his rent and provide the less critical...
Following the recent abduction of ten year olds Holly We ...
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More than one in five British consumers (22 per cent) ha... software in response to spam email, a study by Forrester... The study - sponsored by the Business Software Alliance ... substantial minority of punters are quite happy to make ... purchases a