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- Deductive approach to explanation I stumbled across the flow chart above in the opening chapter of Elementary Statistics for Geographers (1996, Guilford Press). The diagram...
- UK Radioplayer — UX/Design Guidelines Radioplayer is a partnership between the BBC and UK commercial radio , to provide radio audiences with easy online listening and to impro...
- New music: The Man Who Died In His Boat by Liz Harris’s Grouper Grouper (Liz Harris), Brisbane, October 2012. (via Flickr ) Liz Harris has a knack of creating stripped-down, unpretentious music that i...
- Music video: CFCF’s ‘Beyond Light’ CFCF, Beyond Light , 2013. Video directed by Derrick Belcham and Ruby Kato Attwood. Creative director Derrick Belcham and artist Ruby K...