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A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment Conducted at Stanford University

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Life With Alacrity: Tracing the Evolution of Social Software

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"50 years on from CP Snow's famous 'Two Cultures' essay, is the old divide between arts and sciences deeper than ever?" Little from column A, little from column B.

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"In the new global world of censorware, we all live on Syria's internet, China's internet, filtered by companies whose first priority is to ensure that Beijing is happy with its work."

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"I do not necessarily wish to excessively extol the virtues and powers of the Internet troll; these persons are typically not quite so epic as they are a nuisance."

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“When political agendas are constantly changing, it’s a sign that politicians are copying each other rather than thinking for themselves.” The social sciences confirm another tautology.

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"Hack this: Why do so few African-Americans write science fiction, a genre whose close encounters with the Other---the stranger in a strange land---would seem uniquely suited to the concerns of A

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"The fact that you’re confronting this column on a web site devoted to space science and astronomy makes you roughly as rare as technetium."

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"Napster in 1999. MySpace in 2004. YouTube in 2006. Experts from the tech community look ahead to the innovations that will change how we work, play and communicate in 2007." In summation? W

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"Knowing lots of people reduces your headaches by a factor of 10 when you need to get something done. Requests from strangers don't get filled as quickly as requests from acquaintances or friends

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"Humans may have evolved altruistic traits as a result of a cultural “tax” we paid to each other early in our evolution, a new study suggests."

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"The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of all household wealth, according to a new study by a United Nations research institute." Feeling a bit guilty? So you f*cking shou

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"Consider this: [...] a resource already exists that may not only sound the death knell of archaeology, but also the opportunity to enable a greater depth and sophistication of anthropology than

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"Efthimiou takes out the calculator to prove that if a vampire sucked one person's blood each month -- turning each victim into an equally hungry vampire -- after a couple of years there would be

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"While working on a book project last month, I stumbled into an educated guess at that number, and it surprised even me. I once tried to make my own estimate [...] but that was a doomed task, sin

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"The feral city may be a phenomenon that never takes place, yet its emergence should not be dismissed as impossible." Heavy stuff, via Bruce Sterling.

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"From artificial intelligences dominating humanity to disgruntled Luddites engaging in violence, the poll looks more like an abandoned script by Michael Piller than a serious exploration of the f

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Does what it says on the tin - results not astonishingly surprising, either.

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