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Virtual Perception and Paranoia
Daniel Freeman, a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, is leading a project that uses virtual public transportation to understand the nature of paranoia and social perception. ...
Biomorphology and Water Sustainability
Andrew Parker, a zoology faculty member at the University of Sydney, built his career exploring ways to model optical technology on the evolutionary adaptations seen in the eyes of animals. He has turned his interest in ...
Reconstruction
Before starting a PhD program I worked for a couple of years as a museum director at a site dedicated to river life, agriculture, and the socio-political world of the mid nineteenth ...
New to the Collaborative
Greetings all, I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone. Originally from outside Chicago, I came to the east coast first to work at Brown University, and then to pursue Graduate Studies ...
The New Ghost Map
In the 1850s, efforts to control a severe cholera outbreak in London led to the birth of modern medical geography. A careful examination of the effects of the disease, which included tracing its ...
Ask a Collaborative Expert
IdeaConectionhelps companies develop new concepts and engage in research without the necessity of maintaining permanent research and development staff. Customers present a problem and set a payment amount, researchers who have ...
Quantifying Culture
The Urban Institute's Arts and Culture Indicators in Communities Project created a way of describing an area's cultural infrastructure in quantifiable terms, allowing policymakers to see the effects of artistic development on ...
Science and the “Protected Commons”
Australian non-profit CAMBIA promotes research and technological collaboration in the life sciences as a means of nurturing innovation and making current research more widely available to developing communities. The group's
Bioculture
Terralinguaconceptualizes ecology and conservation in broad ways, incorporating human cultures and languages into its vision of biological and environmental diversity. Rather than viewing the human relationship to nature as one that ...
Punditry, a Spectrum Thereof
Lying in Ponds tries to quantify political writing by rating popular authors and analysts according to the tone and context in which they use key terms. Staff members download columns and flag ...
It’s a Small World
Nikon's Small World Competitionhighlights the beauty of the world under the microscope by inviting researchers from a wide range of disciplines to submit their best microphotography. Images are judged based on both ...
Tom Paine in PDF
Diffusion provides a way for researchers and artists to share low-cost broadsides and pamphlets through templates for PDF documents. While sharing PDF files is not exactly new, Diffusion consciously chose to present each ...
Five Million ‘Thank You’s from Recycled Canvas
Recycled Canvas, our recycled research wordpress theme that collects data about its users, has been around for a pretty long time now. We've collected an incredible amount of data. We've had ...
Reconstructing Perspective
An experimental program at Antietam National Battlefield used contemporary sketches and photos, as well as modern remote sensing technology and design software, to study elements of the site. According to ...
Collaborative Conversations: Leonardo Bonanni
It is often difficult to capture the kind of conversations we have here at at the collaborative. This is an attempt to do that, in a quasi journalistic style. It does fail ...