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Most scientists and scholars agree that perpetual motion violates either the first or second law of thermodynamics or in fact breaks both of them. Some devices which don’t break these laws but get their energy from an obscure source have been called perpetual motion machines, but really aren’t.

Interactive philosophy tests and activities designed to tell you what you don't want to know about yourself.

Popular songs about science include those that either contain the word “science” in their titles or among their lyrics, or mention science-related theories or terminology. Sometimes it’s surprising what words turn up where.

Commissioned by On The Move to creative industries environmental experts Julie’s Bicycle, the Green Mobility Guide offers practical recommendations for professionals across the performing arts, case studies and resources...

Emory University scientists studying teenagers listening to new music have discovered tell-tale brain responses that could help predict a song's commercial success.

In the light of this research the following understanding of creativity can be offered. It can be seen as an activity whereby products, processes or ideas are generated from antecedent conditions through the agency of someone, whose knowledge to do so comes from somewhere and the resultant...

Earlyarts is the largest professional development network for people working creatively with children and families in the arts, cultural and early years sectors.

A place to exchange ideas on how to make research funding more efficient. For background, see these previous discussions on a study of the costs of peer review at the Canadian NSERC and about Fantasy Science Funding.

The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an inter-national, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal for the identification, publication and dissemination of artistic research and its methodologies, from all arts disciplines.

Using Correlate, you can upload your own data series and see a list of search terms whose popularity best corresponds with that real world trend.

Participez à l’inventaire ludique multimédia géolocalisé de la biodiversité sur le site les Taxinomes

In the continuing drive to make papers as accessible as possible, NPG is now introducing a 'creative commons' licence for the reuse of such genome papers. In particular, users are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the contribution, provided this is for non-commercial purposes...

Pour éviter un état des lieux chiffrés et fastidieux j’ai choisi de rester dans le champ sémantique religieux dont les réseaux sociaux sont friands : « évangélisation », communauté », « conversion »… et j’ai tenté de décliner un état des lieux sous forme de « 7 péchés capitaux ».

L'objectif principal de l'ARCES est de promouvoir la fonction communication dans l'enseignement supérieur, c'est à dire d'encourager la création de postes pleinement consacrés à la communication au sein des universités, des écoles de commerce et des écoles d'ingénieurs.

Science as a public enterprise: opening up scientific information will look at how scientific information should best be managed to improve the quality of research and build public trust.