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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Used for Fraudulent Activities – ReadWriteWeb
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk has fallen prey to social media spammers and it is now full of requests to spam bookmarking services for pennies per link. Although these HITs …
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The video of my Reboot10 talk (in Copenhagen, June 2008) has been posted! I also summarized the talk in a previous post.
Birds are indeed interesting creatures—and they may have more connections to human cognition than previously thought.
In addition to self-recognition, some birds like Cockatoos may have a “sense of rhythm [that] help[s] explain how the [human] brain relates to music”: Snowball’s Chance.
Two things struck me about this story: one is that Snowball, the dancing Cockatoo, had [...]
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Boxplots in Excel
Although this site is from the mid-1990s, it is a great how-to for creating your *very own* box plot in Excel!
10 great places to be steeped in tea, tradition and comfort
Top tea shops in the US.
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In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
Cockatoo’s extremely rare sense of rhythm may help explain how the brain relates to music
This is an awesome story of a neuroscientist who discovered Snowball, the Internet famous cockatoo whose favorite song is “Everybody” (Backstreet Boys). Scientist Patel theorized that “only certain types of brains can achieve musical [...]
