January 2012
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Jan 12th
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ifttt
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any geek tools so it’s great that I’ve found a new one! The premise of ifttt is simple: if [this] then [that]. For example, If the weather tomorrow is going to be rainy then send me an email, or a tweet, or an text message. By adding various channels such as Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc. you can open up a wealth of possibilities....
Jan 2nd
December 2011
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Dec 27th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 2nd
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November 2011
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Nov 30th
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Nov 30th
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“If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain; If I can ease...”
– A poem by Emily Dickinson.
Nov 18th
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“How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And...”
– Simplicity by Emily Dickinson.
Nov 16th
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Nov 11th
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“In the world of imagined communities, the struggle for survival is a struggle...”
– Zygmunt Bauman on postmodernity. This quote was published in 1992 and isn’t it amazing how much he got right? In particular, the hijacking of planes, mass marches and city riots.
Nov 2nd
October 2011
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Oct 30th
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“The inherent difficulty of conveying the use of a technology directly through...”
– Lucy Suchman on the design of artifacts.
Oct 29th
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Oct 28th
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What Scientists Do
Here’s two summaries from two scientists on what scientists actually do: Formulate theory, do experiment, show hypothesis wrong then use data from last experiment (and all the ones before) to formulate new theory We observe, we hypothesise, we test to break… We start from where we are and work outwards… But scientists do not work TO norms & values; we work WITH norms &...
Oct 25th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 9th
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Oct 4th
September 2011
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A New Season
After three years of study and three years of work I have officially left the University of Leeds to pursue an MPhil/PhD at the University of Sheffield. (Yes, by the end I will have studied at all three White Rose universities given I’m also studying for an MA at the University of York.) As I continue to move from being an undergraduate in a science-related discipline to a postgraduate in an...
Sep 28th
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Sep 22nd
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Sep 17th
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Sep 2nd
August 2011
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Aug 18th
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July 2011
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Jul 26th
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Jul 26th
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June 2011
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Jun 29th
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Jun 2nd
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Jun 1st
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May 2011
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May 28th
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Google Correlate [sic] →
Though, Google Arbitrary Associations just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
May 25th
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May 25th
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May 24th
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“If you can make an engineer understand why a processor needs to work without a...”
– Genevieve Bell, an Australian-born anthropologist and researcher at Intel, gives ten visions for the future. More of the same?
May 5th
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May 3rd
April 2011
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Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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Playing With Department Of Health Statistics
Recently, the Department of Health released a leaflet entitled “Working together for a stronger NHS” that emphasised the fact that 95% of people want more choice over their healthcare. Interesting, I thought. The data is from the British Social Attitudes 25th Report published January 2009. Looking at the data from the survey (2007), I found that it contained multiple questions about...
Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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