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.
