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January 15, 2013

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5:55 PM | Una historia de la información

Una impresionante línea de tiempo (y un Capolavoro):From Cave Paintings to the Internet: Chronological and Thematic on the History of Information and Media de Jeremy M. Norman.via Sicrono.

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4:54 PM | Wikivoyage

The Wikipedia lot have created an international trip adviser that users write and edit. It has the almost nostalgic name of Wikivoyage and bills itself as offering free travel information around the globe. Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkWikivoyageRelated Posts:Goo.gl QR code link shortener22 website quality markersHow to fix WikipediaHey, you! Jump on to my cloud!Read Wikipedia during the SOPA blackoutPost from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkWikivoyage

January 14, 2013

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1:00 PM | A Vision on Doing a Good PhD

Doing a PhD represents several years of supervised training, developing oneself to become a researcher capable of independently contributing to, and participating in, a scientific discipline with the skills needed for a further career. Contributing to a scientific discipline means ...

January 12, 2013

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10:04 PM | In Mauritius, religious locations increase generosity

Several studies have found that subconsciously priming people with religious concepts can encourage them to be more altruistic.The strange thing is, this seems to work just as well on atheists. But most of these studies have been done in labs, and with Westerners. What about the real world? Back in 2009, Dimitris Xygalatas (at the Religion, Cognition and Culture research unit (RCC), Aarhus University, Denmark) spent some time conducting ethnographic research with the people of Pointe aux […]

January 10, 2013

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5:43 PM | La guía de la BBC para el futuro

Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years.

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5:21 PM | Adobe in denial over freebie CS2 downloads

Apparently: "You have heard wrong! Adobe is absolutely not providing free copies of CS2!" according to Adobe employee Don Isaacs on Adobes forums. What is true, says DigitalArts, is that Adobe is terminating the activation servers for CS2 and that for existing licensed users of CS2 who need to reinstall their software, copies of CS2 [...]Related Posts:PDF conversionOccupy FlashZombies, torrents, and FacebookFascinating tech talkLatest technology news and viewsPost from: David Bradley's […]

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1:07 PM | GEN | Magazine Articles: Mayans Give Big Data a Big Break

GEN | Magazine Articles: Mayans Give Big Data a Big Break

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9:42 AM | Sticky engagement

A fellow blogger has added a third-party newsfeed to the sidebar of his blog and was curious as to why it had only had three clicks from readers in as many days. I’ve embedded various sidebar widgets and wotsits over the years on several different sites. There may have been a time when they were [...]Related Posts:Mutual mass debating on the webEngaging or just visiting?One simple trick to boost Adsense earnings100 top sites full of bullMost of your web site’s visitors are not […]

January 09, 2013

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5:15 PM | Price Winning Research: Do children keep their mother from working?

“Do children keep their mother from working?” I used this title for a poster presented at a PhD conference, two years ago. The intentionally provocativeprovocative title, of course, spurred some discussion about the world being a little more complex than ...

Rense Nieuwenhuis, Ariana Need & Henk van der Kolk (2012). Institutional and Demographic Explanations of Women's Employment in 18 OECD Countries, 1975-1999, Journal of Marriage and Family, 74 (June) 614-630. Other: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.00965.x

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January 08, 2013

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7:19 PM | 2013: The year of the Internet of Things | MIT Technology Review

2013: The year of the Internet of Things | MIT Technology Review

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1:54 PM | Cada punto representa a una persona

En este mapa, elaborado con datos de los últimos censos en USA y Canadá, cada punto representa una persona:Census Dotmap, de Brandon Martin-Anderson.via Microsiervos.

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9:06 AM | Good, bad, ugly twitter bios

If your twitter bio looks like this and you follow me, I will not be following you back and may even block or report you for spam, depending on whether other aspects of your account fail in my twitter flowchart: “We are an online pharmacy that provides a comprehensive range of prescription and non-prescription medications.” [...]Related Posts:A few of my Twitter block wordsTo follow whom?Tenacious tech talk and Twitter twaddleIs it wrong to mention your twitter count?My most […]

January 05, 2013

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7:53 PM | That was the year that was 2012

So, how was it for you? For me, 2012 was quite a tough year, for personal reasons, which is why the blog has been a bit sparse of late. On the plus side, that means only 70 posts to recap this time! But that’s still quite a haul of great research into religion and non-belief, and one that shows some interesting changes in research focus. In particular, we’re now seeing more research than ever into non-belief, and also into the nuances of how particular ways of thinking are linked to […]

January 02, 2013

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12:31 PM | Diaspar 8 en el cyberespacio

Diaspar Número 8, Diciembre 2012. Especial Aliens.Se descarga gratis aquí.Ilustración de Gonzalo Palmer para la tapa de Diaspar 8.

December 22, 2012

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10:13 PM | Religious belief and religious involvement have opposite effects on support for democracy

One of the challenges with doing surveys is that the answers you get can depend on the order in which you ask the questions. For example, if you ask people about their religious beliefs, then their minds will be primed to respond to later questions in a way that fits with their beliefs. This is a problem for surveys, but it also offers a novel research opportunity, as a recent study by Ben-Nun Bloom and Gizem Arikan, political scientists at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has shown. […]

December 20, 2012

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2:40 PM | Influence.ME: Tools for Detecting Influential Data in Multilevel Regression Models

Despite the increasing popularity of multilevel regression models, the development of diagnostic tools lagged behind. Typically, in the social sciences multilevel regression models are used to account for the nesting structure of the data, such as students in classes, migrants ...

Rense Nieuwenhuis, Manfred te Grotenhuis & Ben Pelzer (2012). Influence.ME: tools for detecting influential data in mixed effects models, R Journal, 4 (2) 38-47. Other: Link

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8:04 AM | Bit Torrent is not purely piracy

BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the popular file-sharing clients uTorrent and BitTorrent, is distancing itself from online piracy. BitTorrent Inc. emphasizes that their software has a wide range of legal uses and that the company doesn’t support those who use their tools to pirate. “We do not endorse piracy. We do not encourage it. We [...]Related Posts:Brits weigh anchor in the Pirate BaySolar-powered strap, non-profit Facebook, Windows 8WordPress plugin unblocks blocked sitesNet […]

December 18, 2012

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9:09 AM | Download your Instagram photos and delete your account

Facebook-owned retro snaps site Instagram has shot itself in the foot by adopting new terms of service (as of January 16, 2013) that implies it could sell your photos without your explicit permission and without you receiving a penny. There is, according to @JonSatriani a massive market for unique hipster tee-shirts with Instagram snaps on [...]Related Posts:IFTTT recipes for SkydriveFind your bliss on social mediaSnappy way to shuffle and share your social photosBlog to tweet to buzz to face […]

December 16, 2012

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11:40 AM | Museo de Internet

The Big Internet Museum.

December 15, 2012

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1:14 PM | Dropbox for iPad updated

The Dropbox app for iPad and iOS has been updated today, to Version 2.0. Dropbox is the popular cloud file sync service that is an essential app for many people. The most noticeable thing about the 2.0 update is that the app has a new design – including a new app icon. Other than that [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkDropbox for iPad updated

December 13, 2012

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6:25 PM | Is education the main reason why some countries are less religious?

There's no shortage of hypotheses for why some countries are religious and others are not. Sometimes it seems like everyone has a different idea - coming up with hypotheses is easy. It's testing them that's the tricky bit! Part of the problem is that you need a lot of data for a rigorous test, but many of the data we have are not very good. You can, if you look hard enough, pull out huge numbers of different datasets with information that might possibly be relevant, but how do you figure […]

December 12, 2012

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6:47 PM | BoxCryptor for Chrome plugin

Remember Boxcryptor? The program, available for various operating systems including Windows and Android can encrypt files that you synchronize with online storage solutions like Dropbox, Google Drive, Box and other cloud storage providers on the fly. It is an alternative to encrypting files and folders with encryption software such as True Crypt, especially since it [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkBoxCryptor for Chrome plugin

December 04, 2012

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7:35 PM | Do traditional Chinese death beliefs increase superstition and anxiety about death?

In the west, fear and anxiety over death can heighten the desire to cling onto traditional culture and beliefs, and people also often report being more religious. But what about in the East? In China and many Asian cultures, religion plays a role that is at once similar and different to the role played by the monotheisms popular in the West. So Shui Hung Wong of the University of Hong Kong set out to discover whether Chinese people who fear death were also more superstitious or had stronger […]

December 03, 2012

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6:27 PM | Your Brain on Alcohol – Explained

Here’s a wonderfully little video about what alcohol does to your brain. It is the latest in a sequence of short science videos made by ASAP Science. A previous video explained

November 30, 2012

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8:11 AM | Hiding your email from spammers

Is it worth trying to hide your email address from spammers and bots on your web page or will you end up getting spam regardless. Here are 9 ways to display your address on a web site and the associated volume of spam that arrived within a few days once bots had tried to pick [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkHiding your email from spammers

November 29, 2012

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8:10 AM | LastPass leads on security options

If you use the LastPass browser-based password manager for storing your logins securely, then you may not know that earlier this year they added a couple of new security options. The first is to restrict access to your account by country, which means that a random hacker or bot from abroad would not be able [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkLastPass leads on security options

November 25, 2012

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1:44 PM | Diseño

“Few people think about it or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere. / Poca gente piensa en eso o es consciente de ello. Pero no hay nada hecho por los Seres Humanos que no involucre una decisión de diseño en alguna parte.” Bill Moggridge (1943-2012), diseñador del primer Laptop.La frase, a pesar de su obviedad, me pareció genial (porque es absolutamente cierto que raramente pensamos en ello y cierta gente […]

November 21, 2012

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9:23 PM | I'm gonna wash that god right into my hair!

There's an interesting link between physical disgust and moral disgust. Not only do we pull the same faces in response to both, but there is evidence that washing your hands can make you make you feel better about past transgression, and judge the transgressions of others more harshly (Lee and Schwarz, 2011). Jesse Lee Preston and Ryan Ritter at the University of Illinois have previously shown that hand washing can reduce the sense of disgust felt by religious people towards atheism. Now […]

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10:42 AM | CPR for PCs

Your computer caught a lethal virus, or more likely you hit a dodgy download site and gave the virus to your computer yourself. Either way, you may be scuppered if you cannot even boot the PC…it needs digital CPR. The solution: Create a rescue CD, boot into a safe environment, and rid your PC of [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkCPR for PCs

November 20, 2012

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10:20 PM | Curiosity's Mars discovery called 'one for history books'

!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????Curiosity's Mars discovery called 'one for history books'