March 2009
19 posts
So what is 2D Boy’s next title? According to a comment at the end of the...
– Ahahahahahahah
Imagine an RTS where you can send your units back in time to destroy your...
– A description of Achron, an upcoming experimental game presented in the incredibly-cool-sounding “Experimental Gameplay” session of this year’s Game Developer’s Convention, written up here by Simon Carless on GameSetWatch.
From an acoustical perspective, music is an overstructured language, which the...
– Basics - In One Ear and Out the Other - NYTimes.com
No wonder young people find mainstream journalism uninviting; it would almost be...
– The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers (Page 2)
Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending... →
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” —...
– Via Thor Muller’s twitter stream.
Grants generate more than scientific knowledge: they generate new researchers....
– Brilliant column by Olivia Judson on how to avoid “the Malthusian boom-and-bust cycle” of funding-then-not-funding science: Set up a “Research for America” foundation where young people — including those who do not plan to become scientists — can participate in...
The team demonstrated [that] individuals with extreme behaviors, or a greater...
– It’s The Network: Penn Researchers Examine Behavior, Consensus Building Influenced By Network Structure: University of Pennsylvania
Imagine a snowflake, which has a fraction of a gram, slowly falling down on to...
– Now that’s engineering.