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Theme : technology
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The way to go
James Wilsdon reviews three new books on death and aging.
from : jameswilsdon
4th March 2008
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Digital Leap
The Post Office's campaign follows the publication of a report from think tank Demos, which cites digital exclusion from technology such as the Internet as a major social problem, particularly among the over-50s.
from : charlieedwards
28th February 2008
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Nalini P. Kotamraju
Homepage of sociologist Nalini P. Kotamraju
from : petebradwell
27th February 2008
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Q&A: "Britain should unleash mass collaboration with India"
The Atlas of Idea, a series of four reports published by Demos, a UK think tank, looks at the pace and scale of scientific innovation in India, China and South Korea. James Wilsdon, science and innovation head, Demos, and Kirsten Bound, author, India: The Uneven Innovator, spoke to Narayani Ganesh in Delhi recently:
from : kirstenbound
3rd December 2007
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Atlas of ideas: Where India features prominently
India may have strengths like democracy, diversity, demography, interdependence and role models, but it can't become a global research giant unless it harnesses the strengths. By conventional metrics such as numbers of patents, the centres of innovation worldwide are the United States, Europe and Japan. Yet, two researchers from the influential British think tank Demos argue that the world’s future innovation hotspots are...
from : kirstenbound
26th November 2007
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The synthesizer
Demos has this morning hosted a round table with Craig Venter, controversial human genome projecteer and now spearhead of the next Next Big Thing: Synthetic Biology (or Synthetic Genomics if you prefer). Venter was engagingly open about the possibilities and pitfalls of Syn Bio, which promises to combine engineering with biology to design new lifeforms. He pointed to the possibilities of energy and fuel generation from new organisms and warned us that, if an innovative Siberian happened upon...
from : jackstilgoe
23rd October 2007
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People Power?
A Demos and Greenpeace workshop for European NGOs and others to share and learn from experiences of public participation in issues involving science.
from : jackstilgoe
17th October 2007
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Lips don't lie?
It's with interest that I read Birmingham County Council has introduced telephone lie detector tests, sorry voice stress tests, for claimants calling their benefit office. Whilst on the face of it, this seems to have purported benefits (apparently Harrow Council has saved £110,000 in three months during a pilot scheme), I wonder at what costs?I would think such measures begin to subtly change the dynamics of the claimant-staff interactions (already quite fraught one would imagine),...
from : faizalfarook
9th September 2007
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Enriching art via cell phone
In Baltimore, museums are using mobile phone technology to deliver information to visitors in a way that both uses a platform with which they are already comfortable, and a means of enabling people to share hteir opinions with each other.
from : samjones
16th August 2007
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Children's experiences of technology outside the classroom way ahead | E-learning | EducationGuardia
Children have been quick to grasp the joys of new technology. Why are schools lagging so far behind, ask David Puttnam
from : tomrichardson
8th May 2007
