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The game designer is most interested in the “social fabric component” of games, and how interactions with other people can become increasingly interesting over time.
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Communication is key for effective parenting. The simplest and biggest thing a parent can do with a child is to sit down and play with them.
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The professor found that the unusual problems presented by game design taught students how to engage an audience.
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The designer founded a school in New York that organizes its curriculum around gaming and digital culture.
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The game designer was tasked with creating games to be played very, very slowly. When the last fax (ever) is sent, someone will be a big winner.
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A conversation with the game designer and founder of the Quest2Learn school.
Daniel Wilkinson and Nik Steinberg write that the U.S. embargo of Cuba must end, but that it is naive to think that the Caribbean country's government will suddenly reform as a result.
Detroit intends to take advantage of warm weather and new federal funding to demolish some 3,000 buildings by the end of September in order to "right size" the city.
There is a "peculiarly Japanese profession—part-private investigator, part-prostitute—whose function is the direct opposite of a dating agency: they break apart human relationships.
"There isn’t a wholesale rejection of capitalism" among the American public, says Nouriel Roubini, "but I think there was a greater faith 10 years ago in an unfettered, laissez-faire market economy."
Several courageous Muslim feminists are challenging conservative male interpretations of Islam. "These women are quietly working within the culture, rather than against it."
"Raw milk is one of those issues that riles people," writes Corby Kummer. He looks at legislation in Massachusetts requiring that unpasteurized milk be bought directly from farms.
A study has found that by 2080, global warming could result in one-fifth of the world's lizard species becoming extinct.
Scientists have figured out how independent, programmable nano-scale robots can be made out of individual molecules—with the robots’ actions programmed into their environment.
"The most frustrating thing about Facebook's privacy policy is that it's always changing," writes Farhad Manjoo. The company should better respect users' desire for privacy going forward.
America and Greece have lately been running large budget deficits, roughly comparable as a percentage of G.D.P., notes Paul Krugman. Yet markets treat the countries very differently.
“Every generation is born to this same anatomical legacy; how they then fashion it with clothing is, in miniature, the story of culture,” argues Susan J. Vincent in her sweeping […]
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Global warming isn’t going anywhere. We have to face up to that.
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We should be focusing on making solar panels, windmills and other green energy sources so cheap that everybody will want to buy them.
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Responsible behavior by individuals is good, but we need to reform our systems and societies to address our global problems.