I was in a meeting very recently. In a discussion on promotional material bookmarks were suggested. Some thought that this would not exude a high tech image. One wag referred to them as “anti-social bookmarks” with a wry smile. The bookmarks idea did have a nice ring to it though. It’s retro and bookmarks are [...]
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I’ve been hearing about educational institutions strategically “building a presence in Second Life”. They are sceptical about SL but worried about being left behind if it takes off. There are big technical barriers to SL uptake: fast machines needed, fast broadband needed, the need for a client plugin, proxy server access issues etc. [...]
Via iAlja on twitter I heard about the TED talk on crows by Joshua Klein. I am fascinated by crow intelligence and I found this talk incredible.
It shows a very cool video of a Caledonia crow fashioning a wire hook to use as a tool. It talks about crows who follow Swedish fishermen to steal [...]
A great piece of social entrepreneurship from Irish award winning writer, former teacher and general all-round ledged, Roddy Doyle is about to launch. It is called Fighting Words and is creative writing centre for kids and teachers. The idea is that writers will be in the centre to help kids learn to write and also [...]
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There are not two sides to every story. Sometimes there is only one:
Smoking is bad for you
Climate change is happening, caused by human activity
Both these one-sided stories started out with two sides.
On the other hand some stories do have two sides but you only hear one. Probably because the [...]
The economist this week reports a study which found that the black rat actually comprises several distinct species. Apparently this will be useful for devising better rat eradication strategies.
It is the brown rat that is used by scientists. Mice are used in genetic research but rats are often used in experiments into things like learning. [...]
