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Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | The Guardian
the performance was largely similar, except when it came to the timing of events in the story. “The Kindle readers performed significantly worse on the plot reconstruction measure, ie, when they were asked to place 14 events in the correct order.” via Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | […]
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If you pay them money, partisans will tell you the truth
“Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth and Jason Reifler of Georgia State found that Republicans presented with news articles pointing out that there were no WMDs in Iraq were more likely to say that such weapons were found than Republicans who didn’t read those articles. [..] Answering incorrectly, under this view, is just a way to register an […]
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Mark Regnerus Admits His ‘Family Structures’ Study Wasn’t About Gay Parenting | ThinkProgress
“Regnerus’ study was not about parents who openly identify as gay or lesbian. It was not about same-sex couples in long-term relationships raising children together. Regnerus even admits “this is not about saying gay or lesbian parents are inherently bad,” because he knows has no foundation on which to make such a claim. This was […]
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DARPA Creates Machine Which Extinguishes Fires With Sound – Slashdot
DARPA has made a interesting advancement in the field of fire suppression. Using two speakers arranged on either side of an open liquid fuel flame, an acoustic field was emitted and engulfed the fire. ‘The sound increases air velocity, which then …
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Our unique approach to research – Official Google Blog
googleblog.blogspot.com “Overall, our success in the areas of systems, speech recognition, language translation, machine learning, market algorithms, computer vision and many other areas has stemmed from our hybrid research approach. While there a…
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What Facebook Knows – Technology Review
via technologyreview.com “He found that our close friends strongly sway which information we share, but overall their impact is dwarfed by the collective influence of numerous more distant contacts???what sociologists call “weak ties.” It is our div…