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"Computerised directions are all about getting you where you need to be in the most efficient way possible," Shepard explains. "It's the engineer's approach -- just keep optimising. But why aren't we asking these systems to make our journeys more enjoyable, or more interesting? Devices are always giving us instructions -- telling us what to do. What happens if they give you instructions which are impossible?" Or unwise.

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Arctic Opening: Opportunity and Risk in the High North | Chatham House: Independent thinking on international affairs
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BBC Nature - Whales can adjust their hearing
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Humanity's Best Friend: How Dogs May Have Helped Humans Beat the Neanderthals - Megan Garber - Technology - The Atlantic

"It could be, Shipman suggests, that dogs represented even more than companionate technologies to Paleolithic man. It could be that their cooperative proximity brought about its own effects on human evolution -- in the same way that the domestication of cattle led to humans developing the ability to digest milk. Shipman points to the "cooperative eye hypothesis," which builds on the observation that, compared to other primates, humans have highly visible sclerae (whites of the eyes)."

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All You Happy Assholes Make Me Want To Kill Myself, Statistically Speaking | Motherboard

"More people commit suicide in locales that self-identify as “happy.” Like Utah, which is full of happy jerks being athletic and having great diets and a fulfilling spiritual life."

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Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me (Chris Cunningham Remix) [Full 3 Screens HD] - YouTube

Gil Scott Heron x Chris Cunningham > < full screen, lights off, sound up

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Get your eagle on: annual Awesome Saturday, NXG's back-garden microfestival, in full effect

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Experience: I've been to the quietest place on Earth | Life and style | The Guardian

"The presence of sound means things are working; it's business as usual – when sound is absent, that signals malfunction. On 9/11, despite being out of mobile phone reception, a huge number of hikers abandoned their walks. They hadn't heard about the terrorist attacks; they were just spooked by the lack of aeroplane noise and sensed something was wrong."

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Happy first birthday to New Cross Learning @nxpl ! Congratulations and thanks to the volunteers who made it happen

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Untitled (http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/155766)

Elsewhere: The Shard has started beeping > #ominous

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Short Sharp Science: Launch scrub hits first commercial ISS mission

Try again Tuesday? RT @newscientist: Last minute engine anomaly scrubs SpaceX launch:

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Harry Beck's ur-map of the Tube, @ltmuseum 's glorious Mind the Map exhibition #museumsatnight >

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Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived - The Oatmeal

#Tesla4eva, #EdisonNeva MT @DrMichaelBrooks RT @Crispian_Jago: Why Tesla is the greatest geek ever & Edison is an ass

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(404) http://bit.ly/MqOR5Z/

Facebook IPO? "[It] hasn't proven - at all - that it can monetize its creepy, giant pile of user-supplied data" >

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sumit | This Is My Jam

“Fatal Attraction” by Mark Stewart is my new jam. ♫

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Short Sharp Science: How to send a letter to the International Space Station

Snailmail addresses in space >

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Phineas Gage brain pathways mapped for the first time - health - 17 May 2012 - New Scientist

Modelling the hole in Phineas Gage's head >

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The Listening Machine

Lovely twinkly music generated from 500 Twitter users' activity @listenmachine: Listening and making your music, live.

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The power of cool: Whatever became of Starlite? - tech - 16 May 2012 - New Scientist

Why did the inventor of Starlite, a fireproof wonder material, never reveal its secret? > < a riveting @rifish yarn

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The Hamlet of Shellness, Isle of Sheppey

A bit about the strange little town at the eastern edge of the Isle of Sheppey

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(500) http://areweoutofdroughtyet.com

I think it's about time the UK water companies teamed up to create

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Ran out of road. Grey sea, white sky; red forts on the horizon

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Beyond the maze: Blinky's haunting the estuary now #boo! >

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Coudal Archives Stuff About Stanley Kubrick
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'Ligeti? That's not scary, Dad' | Music | The Guardian
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Peruvian recipes from Ceviche London
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sumit | This Is My Jam

Always fond of Deller's musical projects > < but his 3D film of murmurating bats was amazing too >

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The Quietus | Features | Three Songs No Flash | "Retro Monumental Avant-Garde": Laibach Live At Tate Modern

"Laibach are born out of what they are made of - cement - and hold no respect for taste or the market. Not only are Laibach an extra-state entity, they're a collector-proof art construct and label-drop-resistant band. They survived and adapted and redeployed for post-Tito, post-Yugoslav, post-Communist and now, perhaps, they offer new thoughts as we stand teetering on brink of a post-capitalist and possibly post-Euro world."

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My first tag #ineptitude

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White Rabbit, Red Rabbit

Last tweet deleted for fear of spoiling @soleimanpour 's #whiterabbitredrabbit. For future actors, not audiences...

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Ivor the Engine: Mrs. Porty's Foxes Episode Trivia - TV.com

DVD time with small child. Startled to discover that Ivor the Engine was a hunt saboteur >

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Politically correct lodging >

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Why do you never see baby pigeons? | Notes and Queries | guardian.co.uk

Why do you never see baby pigeons? You do in Hove

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Shackleton's Gaberdine:

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Indian wedding has taken over the hall of Dulwich College. The empire strikes back >

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sumit | This Is My Jam

'Cause you can't, you won't, and you don't stop. Dammit. #ripMCA ♫

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Inside the Pocket-Sized, Dystopian Internet of North Korea | Motherboard

"A nuclear nation with no stable internet access" and a child army of cyberwarriors: N Korea's pocket internet >

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Human nature: Six things we all do - New Scientist

RT @newscientist: Can you guess the six things we all do? #HumanNature

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The Shard: the view from Europe's tallest building

"So is it worth it? You might say that it depends whether you think London is more like a novel or a painting, about cracking stories and crazy contrasts or about harmonious compositions."

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Joe’s Luck: The World’s Longest Literary Remix - GalleyCat

I'm on page 31-32

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