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Why now is the best time to travel the world

April 30, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

Five Reasons Why There’s Never Been a Better Time Than Now to Travel the World.
Matthew Scott, expeditionportal.com

If reading about the glorious expeditions of yesteryear such as the famous Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition has you yearning for a serious overland trip, don’t worry, it’s act …

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Humanity’s deep future

March 8, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

Omens
Ross Andersen, aeonmagazine.com

Sometimes, when you dig into the Earth, past its surface and into the crustal layers, omens appear. In 1676, Oxford professor Robert Plot was putting the final touches on his masterwork, The Natural History of Oxfordshire, when he received a stran…

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Engineering language is the key to branding across culture

November 8, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Need Branding That Transcends Cultures? Invent Your Own Language
By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

A thoughtful identity gives a multinational disease research network a new way to communicate.

Oxford University’s Clinical Research Unit is an 11-year-old network of groups that cooperate to track and prevent infectious diseases, fro…

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Ninjawords – a really fast dictionary

August 25, 2007 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Ninjawords – a really fast dictionary.

Sometimes you need to know the meaning of a word, and you need to know it two-tenths of a second faster than any other dictionary site can get it to you. And that’s why Ninjawords is there. Like a ninja, it is smart, fast, and accurate.

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