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The gaming expert waxes nostalgic for the wireframe universe of the arcade game she loved most as a kid.
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The modern workplace is a crime against the human spirit. Deepening our understanding of what truly motivates people will make work more productive—and more playful.
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Those who think newspaper reading will be the dominant use of the iPad are fooling themselves, says Nicole Lazzaro. It’s going to be gaming—especially two-player gaming “like that Star Wars […]
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Nicole Lazzaro explains how she’s trying to reconcile fun gameplay with a social message. (And, as a bonus, drops a reference to nerd-film classic “The Powers of Ten.”)
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For years, video game culture has basically been a boys’ club. Nicole Lazzaro’s work will help change that trend forever.
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Based on the seven emotions we can identify in the face, researchers have identified the four factors that make for an addictive game.
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In the dazzling heat of the desert, gamer Nicole Lazzaro was struck by a vision of human fun throughout the ages.
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A conversation with the founder and president of XEODesign.
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Robert Kirshner hopes he can convince some of tomorrow’s Wall Street bankers to become astronomers instead.
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In order to make his greatest discovery, Robert Kirshner had to overcome his own intellectual prejudice—and his mother’s.
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It’s a back-of-the-auditorium kind of question, and scientists don’t have an answer for it yet. But they’re getting there, says Robert Kirshner.
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Not all nutty ideas are good science, says Robert Kirshner. But there’s a mystery in physics whose solution, when it arrives, will probably sound pretty weird at first.
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Robert Kirshner’s research into supernovae overturned decades of scientific assumptions about the universe, and how it is mysteriously expanding at a rapid rate.
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What’s floating around out there in the cosmological zoo? The Harvard astronomer describes the major objects visible via telescope and the naked eye.
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A conversation with the professor of astronomy at Harvard University.
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Malachy McCourt describes the worst career advice he’s ever received.
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After 55 years in New York City, Malachy McCourt reflects upon its evolution.
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The Irish author wonders what we can do about war.
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When Malachy McCourt ran for governor, he promised to change the name of the state.
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“He was the only smaller person that I looked up to,” says his younger brother Malachy.
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“My purpose in life always has been to avoid work,” confides Malachy McCourt. “And I hear people saying, ‘I work hard and I pay my taxes.’ Well, you’re an asshole.”
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The Irish, because they had nothing else to do, used language and glorious terms.
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Over there we’re Yanks, over here we’re Irish. My brother Frank and myself decided a long time ago that what we are is New Yorkers.
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In the US, they don’t let gays march, whereas in Ireland, gay people get prizes for being the most colorful group.
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A conversation with the Irish author and actor.
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Game changers that we see in mobile communication can really displace some of the need to move ourselves around.
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In the future, commuting to work will be rare.
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Why do we haul around ourselves in a vehicle that is 20 times our own weight because it’s got three, four, five, six, or seven empty seats?
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Geoff Wardle and Dave Meyers put together an organization that promotes openness and collaboration.
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