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How musical are you? ← the test. The BBC is teaming up with researchers at Goldsmiths University of London to find out whether personality or practice creates great musicians.
posted on Jan-11-11 at 1:25 AM

"The whole endeavour of the consciousness studies community is absurd – they are in pursuit of a chimera" - Peter Hacker on philosophy
posted on Oct-25-10 at 4:30 AM

Classical Music’s New Golden Age
posted on Jul-21-10 at 7:27 AM

How Britain has changed since 1997
posted on Jul-10-10 at 12:54 AM

Information is beautiful : 30 examples of creative infography
posted on Jun-15-10 at 6:59 AM

Searching for Saddam : how the U.S. military used social networking to capture the Iraqi dictator
posted on Feb-26-10 at 8:04 AM

"..when a victorious chief minister openly admits that he himself approached the leading newspaper of his state with money for “positive stories” after learning that the newspaper had signed a “package deal” with his rivals to print negative stories, you had better sit up and take urgent notice"
posted on Feb-12-10 at 9:54 PM

In search of the world’s hardest language
posted on Jan-3-10 at 10:16 PM

Would it be inherently evil if there were not 6,000 spoken languages but one?
posted on Oct-29-09 at 9:46 PM

The Dark Knight - On Sir Allen Stanford
posted on Apr-29-09 at 12:27 AM

Classical Music at the European Archive. Free and legal lossless downloads of out-of-copyright recordings. Formats include WAV, FLAC, MP3 & Ogg.
posted on Mar-9-09 at 11:17 AM

The Gramophone Archive is a (free) searchable database containing every issue of Gramophone from April 1923 to the latest issue.
posted on Feb-15-09 at 8:55 AM

The Tax Gap - "The Guardian will examine the extent of tax avoidance by big business, day-by-day over two weeks. We are naming more than 20 major British companies, and analysing their secretive tax strategies to ask: are they paying their fair share?".
posted on Feb-4-09 at 7:23 AM

Journalism and complex public issues - a British newspaper editor's travails
posted on Jan-17-09 at 10:21 PM

What Will Change Everything? - the 2009 Edge Annual Question
posted on Dec-31-08 at 10:10 PM

Anatomy of a Meltdown - Ben Bernanke and the financial crisis (in one page)
posted on Nov-24-08 at 6:47 AM

Rethinking Public Opinion - the immense importance of public opinion polling in American politics, and the under-reported problems at the heart of the enterprise, combine to call for a serious critique of the polling industry, its assumptions, and its method
posted on Nov-8-08 at 3:26 AM

Sustainability of Digital Formats : a repository of mostly technical information about digital content file formats related to storing images (moving and still), text, sound and websites
posted on Aug-29-08 at 11:52 PM

Truth's Caper : essay by Simon Blackburn on Sokal's Hoax.
posted on Aug-18-08 at 1:22 AM

For the first time in the Indian state of Maharashtra, life sentences were meted out based on the findings of Brain Electrical Oscillation Signature(BEOS) profiling.
posted on Jul-21-08 at 6:42 AM

An unprecedented five consecutive years of stagnant funding for the National Institutes of Health is putting America at risk - a few prominent research institutions get together to voice their concern over flat funding of the National Institutes of Health over the past 5 years, in their report The Broken Pipeline (pdf). Bloggers comment [1, 2, 3].
posted on Mar-14-08 at 3:46 AM

The George W. Bush Presidential Library : visualizations
posted on Mar-4-08 at 12:39 AM

The Checklist - "If a new drug were as effective at saving lives as Peter Pronovost’s checklist, there would be a nationwide marketing campaign urging doctors to use it" [single page]
posted on Jan-2-08 at 6:14 AM

What have you changed your mind about? Why? - the latest installment of The Edge Annual Question
posted on Dec-31-07 at 11:56 PM

TheDataWeb - a network of online data libraries on topics including census data, economic data, health data, income and unemployment data, population data, labor data, cancer data, crime and transportation data, family dynamics, vital statistics data
posted on Dec-26-07 at 7:03 AM

Twilight of the Books - What will life be like if people stop reading?
posted on Dec-18-07 at 8:03 AM

Essential Video Resources - primers, guides and links for the video editor and technician
posted on Dec-14-07 at 12:25 AM

Blue Vertigo | Web Design Resource Links
posted on Nov-21-07 at 11:53 PM

MindPapers - David Chalmers organizes, streamlines and expands his collection of papers related to mind and neuroscience.
posted on Oct-25-07 at 6:11 AM

Using Color In Information Display Graphics - a resource from NASA, "intended to help designers who are not color experts find usable color designs" [via]
posted on Oct-4-07 at 8:24 AM

Wiki City Rome - "anyone with an Internet connection will be able to see a unique map of the Italian capital that shows the movements of crowds, event locations, the whereabouts of well-known Roman personalities, and the real-time position of city buses and trains."
posted on Sep-7-07 at 10:22 PM

Where the Engineers Are - "To guide education policy and maintain its innovation leadership, the United States must acquire an accurate understanding of the quantity and quality of engineering graduates in India and China."
posted on Aug-24-07 at 2:01 AM

pronunciationguide - for aspiring classical radio announcers
posted on Aug-16-07 at 5:34 AM

Do You Taste What I Taste? - The first of Slate's 3-part series on the physiology of taste [parts 2, 3]
posted on Jul-15-07 at 9:24 PM

Recursion and Human Thought - Why the Piraha don't have numbers
posted on Jun-13-07 at 11:00 PM

Body Symmetry and Intelligence
posted on Apr-18-07 at 12:30 AM

Magic Ink - Information Software and the Graphical Interface
posted on Apr-7-07 at 11:14 PM

What's the Trouble? - "How Doctors Think"
posted on Mar-21-07 at 11:06 PM

Neurolaw - The Brain on the Stand
posted on Mar-11-07 at 6:06 AM

Belief and knowledge - a primer on science communication
posted on Feb-26-07 at 6:51 AM

Dictionary of Disorder - shaping the DSM
posted on Jan-13-07 at 11:48 AM

Water footprint - "of an individual, business or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual, business or nation"
posted on Jan-11-07 at 1:09 PM

Open Secrets - the trouble with Enron
posted on Jan-2-07 at 9:19 AM

Obesity and Diabetes - another free supplement by Nature
posted on Dec-15-06 at 2:34 PM

Cost of Government Day - "n. the date of the calendar year, counting from January 1, on which the average American has earned enough in cumulative gross income to pay for his or her share of government spending (total federal, state, and local) plus the cost of regulation."
posted on Dec-3-06 at 10:55 PM

Journal of Visualized Experiments is an online research journal for publishing visualized (video-based) biological experiments
posted on Nov-29-06 at 1:50 PM

Diary of a Collapsing Superpower - "Seventeen years ago, the Berlin Wall fell, and two years later the Soviet Union broke apart. More than 1,400 minutes published earlier this month in Russia from meetings that took place behind the closed doors of the Politburo in Moscow read like a thriller from the highest levels of the Kremlin. They reveal Mikhail Gorbachev as a party chief who had to fight bitterly for his reforms and ultimately lost his battle. But in doing so, he changed the course of history and helped bring an end to the Cold War."
posted on Nov-28-06 at 7:48 AM

Andras Schiff's lecture-recitals on Beethoven's piano sonatas
posted on Nov-1-06 at 6:30 PM

Neuroscience Gateway - "a comprehensive source for the latest research, news and events in neuroscience and genomics research"
posted on Oct-2-06 at 4:27 PM

Reviewing peer review.
posted on Sep-26-06 at 10:49 PM