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Early research on online self-presentation mostly focuse... constructions in anonymous online environments. Such stu... individuals tended to engage in role-play games and anti... behaviors in the online world. More recent studies have ... performance

In certain situations animals can spontaneously solve pr...
Animals rarely solve problems spontaneously, yet certain ...
The University of Auckland research shows that such prob ...
“Crows and parrots have long been known to solve the s ...
... ings of

Science Exchange is an online marketplace for science ex... is to make it easier for researchers to access core reso... institutions. Our first product, ScienceExchange.com bri... research scientists looking to outsource experiments wit... at core fac

Browse all maps with options to filter by year, auth...
Listing of all current & past venues.
See what the exhibit entails, plus how to host it at ...
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cro ...

Science Toys
Make toys at home with common household materials, often ...

It has become increasingly common for sponsors of resear... in the UK) to mandate that the publications from that re... access’ that is, available freely to anyone who wants ... – public money has funded this work and it was ridicul...
Yet public

JXTA Search is a distributed search system, designed for... networks
and web sites.

And, in many ways, the search battle is bigger than beat... Microsoft is carving its path in the next generation of ... one in which search becomes a platform, not a feature.

Getting ever closer to the Matrix: Augmented Projectors ...
Posted by Janet I. Tu
On Monday, we wrote about what Microsoft is dubbing the ...
Today, Steve Clayton, who highlights interesting company ...
In the video above, Clayton highlights a project b

Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free extension of MediaWik... wiki-system powering Wikipedia – that helps to search,... browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content. While tr... contain only texts which computers can neither understan... SMW adds se

Flyfire, a project initiated by the SENSEable City Labor...
In its first implementation, the Flyfire project sets ou ...
With the self-stabilizing and precise controlling techno ...
Flyfire serves as an initial step to explore and imagine ...
... lop new

Welcome
... Serendip is
a gathering place for people w ...
instructions are always ambigu ...
... and in how one makes sense of life.

If you need to maintain a bibliography in bibtex format ... Web page to publish this list of publications, then bib2... solution for you.
bib2html enables to add bibtex entries formatted as HTML ...

Americans have a really distorted view of how wealth is ...
This chart is from a paper called "Building a Better Ame ...
The top row shows the actual distribution of wealth in A ...
Below that, the "Estimated" rows show how different grou ...
... g of ho

Apache Shindig, a word meaning party, was originally sta... 2007 as a reference container for hosting OpenSocial com... any website. Originally a port of Google's iGoogle gadge... Brian McCallister's PHP code, Apache Shindig through off... and showed

Trajectory-based interactions, such as navigating throug...
moving in 3D worlds, are becoming common tasks in modern ...
performances in these tasks cannot be successfully model ...
applied to pointing tasks. Therefore we explore the poss ...
... ste

SIMILE Widgets
Free, Open-Source Data Visualization Web Widgets, and More
This is an open-source “spin-off” from the Simile pr ...

Piggy Bank is a Firefox extension that turns your browse... platform, by allowing you to extract data from different... them together.
Piggy Bank also allows you to store this extracted infor ...

Piggy bank runs scrapers it grabs from arbitrary third p... formal technical, as well as social rituals and supporti... mechanisms for controlling the risk this creates.
Formal technical mechanisms certainly means finding a wa ...
Social mechinisms (and

SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital ... schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services... is that the collections which must inter-operate are oft... across individual, community, and institutional stores. ... to provide

Reading mail from Thunderbird
You'd think that reading mail in Thunderbird ought to be ...
First, there is no object which corresponds directly to ...

Over the past few months it’s become clear to me exact... jQuery is an exceptionally clever piece of engineering. ... encapsulates an extraordinary range of common functional... a clever plugin API for any functionality not included b...
Most introd

You need to teach people to know themselves and how to m... integrity of themselves on all levels, you need to teach... about thinking, how to collect, filter, collate, process... massive knowledge resources that they will have given to... and how to

Siri Technology
A New Interaction Paradigm
Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) represent the next ge ...
Siri is the first mainstream consumer application of a V ...
... utation in the cloud and small computation in the field.

“My name is Erasto B Mpemba, and I am going to tel... discovery, which was due to misusing a refrigerator.”
With those words, Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba entere ...

On-demand JavaScript :: IE6/7 and Firefox 2.x
Last year, there was a lot of talk about on-demand JavaS ...