"Nevertheless, this research helps to explain the importance of indifference in a partisan age. ...It's the people who don't know very much who make democracy possible."

"The discovery process is remarkably social, and the social interactions come in amazingly diverse forms....People who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly."

"'I confess that I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.'"

"Embedded memories and conspiring brain regions, scientists now believe, are the true source of ad-hoc creativity." from Seed.

"Archaeoacoustics is the discipline that explores acoustic phenomena encoded in ancient artifacts. For instance, theoretically a pot or vase could be 'read' like a gramophone record or phonograph cylinder for messages from the past." from Wikipedia.

"...research results such as eye-tracking studies, reports, analytics, and usability surveys..."

"Don’t miss out on invaluable user feedback. Connect with your users to test your designs online and over the phone. There are no excuses." from A List Apart.

Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold. from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox.

In an age of classroom multitasking, scholars probe the nature of learning and memory. from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Get a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so. from USDA Economic Research Service.

"Our findings suggest that students are vulnerable to evaluative letters presented before a task, and support years of research highlighting the significant role that nonconscious processes play in achievement settings." from PubMed.

"To investigate the neural substrates that underlie spontaneous musical performance, we examined improvisation in professional jazz pianists using functional MRI." from PLoS ONE.

Concerts from the Library of Congress, 2008-2009. Presented by the Library's Music Division and the Science, Technology and Business Division.

The Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results (JSUR) is an open-access forum for researchers seeking to further scientific discovery by sharing surprising or unexpected results. These results should provide guidance toward the verification (or negation) of extant hypotheses.

Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes sociology interesting and relevant to anyone interested in how society operates. It is a publication of the American Sociological Association, edited by Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen at the University of Minnesota.

Your personal library of research.

The results of a new survey on satisfaction—at home and at work—may surprise you.

The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Spending hours on the net isn't only changing the way we work, shop and socialise. A leading neurologist says it is subtly re-wiring the way we think and behave – often for the better.

DeepDyve is the largest online rental service for scientific, technical and medical research.

Despite its preoccupation with hygiene, America’s dirty secret is that it is one of the most dangerous places in the developed world to eat. from the economist.

From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues. From Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox.

Researching Electromagnetic Radiation and Health Effects

ResearchBlogging.org is a system for identifying the best, most thoughtful blog posts about peer-reviewed research.

The Mind and Life Institute is dedicated to fostering dialogue and research at the highest possible level between modern science and the great living contemplative traditions, especially Buddhism. It builds on a deep commitment to the power and value of both of these ways of advancing knowledge and their potential to alleviate suffering.

At EWG, our team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and our own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions.

a small but growing body of research suggests that barefoot is the way to run. from wired.

a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study, research, criticism, and application of media ecology in educational, industry, political, civic, social, cultural, and artistic contexts, and the open exchange of ideas, information, and research.

Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. a Google Research Publication.

The Times has great data on the words that send readers in search of a dictionary.

user experience and human factors research.

to facilitate the systematic development of the scientific body of knowledge in the field of information architecture.

to foster an on-going public dialogue and to create a durable record of how the rules of cyberspace are being formed.

analysis of academic library organizational culture, patterns, and processes.

zoetrope and access to temporal information. from technology review.

by nigel shadbolt and tim berners-lee. from scientific american.

from technology populism to IT ecosystems. from readwriteweb.

the phenomenon of simultaneous discovery. by malcolm gladwell, from the new yorker.

can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?

START, the world's first Web-based question answering system, has been online and continuously operating since December 1993.

in place of a closed, privileged and costly system.

principles, heuristics, and approaches. from smashing magazine.

recognition is algorithmic.

good summary.

digitization and its discontents.

excellent instructions.