Archive for October, 2007
07-10-29
Tags:psychology Teaching Two particularly striking ones. 1st prize - © 2007 Kingdom, Yoonessi & Gheorghiu
One from http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com, winner of this year’s Best Visual Illusion Contest.
And the next from; by way of Kevin’s blog; the original source […]
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07-10-17
Tags:Computing Education Watch List StarLogo TNG released Beta 1 today. It’s multi-agent, 3D logo with graphic syntax. Hard to describe, but it’s supposed to be intuitive to children.
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07-10-16
Tags:OddsnEnds Neat.
The Bouncing Jet: A liquid stream bouncing off a moving liquid bath
Figure 1. A falling liquid stream rebounds off a deep bath of the same silicone oil.
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07-10-15
Tags:Research Watch List I am on ASL’s email list and got this today. Don’t think I will be watching, but maybe you will.
Dear Gary:Sharing eye tracking research, even if it’s not in your specific discipline, can always be interesting.
That’s why we’d like you to be aware that ASL’s Mobile Eye takes to the football field […]
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07-10-15
Tags:Paperville Research A Bibliography on Writing and … - Google Book Search
This bibliography provides information on research about writing and written language in the late 20th century. It contains a selection of some 27,500 titles and covers literature in all scientific fields relating to writing. Emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary organization.
Published 1996 […]
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07-10-11
Tags:OddsnEnds Watch List
AppleInsider cites holiday wishlists based on a survey by Solutions Research Group. Chek your list and see how far out of touch you are with Mainstream America.
But if you look carefully, you might notice that the survey unearths a hidden gender: Neither men nor women have the "Blu-ray/HDDVD" on their top-10 list, […]
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07-10-08
Tags:English Linguistics OddsnEnds Ok, I need some help with English.
I desperately wish to affectionately express my appreciations to GNU AWK, a wonderfully simple yet life-savingly useful little program for text file processing. Now you see the pattern of my personal a-dver-buse, and hence my question above.
No, I don’t mean to say "the […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 1
07-10-08
Tags:Research Teaching Matthew Nisbit & Dietram A. Scheufele have a cover story for The Scientist on Framing science communication. It starts with a quote from Larry Page, Google Co-founder, that "science has a serious marketing problem." Here’s the take home message: Tailoring communication efforts to fit with publics […]
The Scientist : The Future of Public Engagement
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07-10-07
Tags:OddsnEnds I think this is the article with a higher impact-factor / time-to-write of the history of science (toke 30 mins of research, discounting of course the 10 hours of intensive videoplay) A note by Julio Bonis Sanz, MD., who self-nominated to the Improbable Research’s Ig Nobel prize. Oh, how I wish I could write a […]
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07-10-07
Tags:Linguistics OddsnEnds Posted this to the Eggcorn Forum. From: Main Page - The iPhone Dev Wiki We are pround to announce a new public release version of our anySIM software. This new version 1.02 fixes a lot of bugs regarding the timing and false fail report issues. For now, this version of anySIM should unlock […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
07-10-03
Tags:evolution Linguistics Paperville statistics Linguistics (and […]
Babel’s Dawn: Was the First Language Tonal? starts with 3 maps aimed to show how the distribution of tonal languages coincides with the distribution of 2 genetic structures (distributions of alles in a population, I think). It’s based on a recent PNAS paper by Dediu & Ladd.
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07-10-02
Tags:Computing Paperville Research Carol Whitney has a number of Publications on the SERIOL model of word recognition, which emphasize on the problem of letter position encoding. The Internet Archive has a video of her talk back in 2006 on this topic at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley .
Relevant […]
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