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PaperShip for Mendeley.

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NVivo 10 Playing (Quite) Nicely On A Mac

From the outset, this isn’t a beginner’s guide. It’s pretty complicated to get this up-and-running: but, it could be worth it. The fact is that NVivo 10 doesn’t work very nicely on a Mac (using VirtualBox and a copy of Windows 7 Professional). (You could, of course, use Boot Camp but I like being able to switch between Mac and Windows. Things will also change when NVivo 10...

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AdFreeFacebook

Do you get tired of seeing inappropriate advertisements on Facebook? Me, too. So, here’s a way to remove them (if you use Google Chrome): Install the Stylish Google Chrome Extension In the Extension, click ‘Write new style’ Give the style a name e.g. AdFreeFacebook and make sure it’s enabled Add the following code div.ego_column { display: none; } and ensure that the...

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Amazon Wish Lists, ScraperWiki and IFTTT

Recently, I purchased a few items from the Amazon Kindle Store because they had been reduced to less than £1.50. I thought to myself: “I wonder if there’s a Web service that could alert me when other such items on my Amazon Wish List are reduced to less than £1.50?” There are, indeed, Web services that do such things: camelcamelcamel and Chintzee. However, these Web services do...

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Marketing Eight Hidden Needs

Eight ‘hidden’ needs that marketers use to get you to buy their products: Selling emotional security Selling reassurance of worth Selling ego-gratification Selling creative outlets Selling love objects Selling sense of power Selling a sense of roots Selling immortality. Thanks, Vance Packard!

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Scientists vs. psychics

This is a short post and focuses on an article I picked up from the BBC earlier today. (It’s also on the Guardian website, too.) The article reports on how scientists have attempted to ‘debunk’ ‘psychics’ by designing an experiment to test two people’s ‘psychic’ abilities. Two quotes from the article intrigued me. The first is the reaction from one...

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Cinemetrics: a visual fingerprint for movies.

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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....

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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.

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“How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And...”

– Simplicity by Emily Dickinson.

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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.

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“The inherent difficulty of conveying the use of a technology directly through...”

– Lucy Suchman on the design of artifacts.

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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 &...

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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...

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