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Feeling Anxious, Depressed? You Should Have Been Playing
Have you been feeling frustrated, stressed, down in the dumps? Maybe it’s because you spent too much time preparing for adulthood as a child, and too little time playing: Suicide rates quadrupled from 1950 to 2005 for children less than fifteen years and for teens and young adults ages 15-25, they
Is the future of design veering towards gaming?
Rhizome has a really great interview with Paola Antonelli, the MoMa’s Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design on MoMa’s new Talk to Me exhibit. The interview touched on a lot of really great ideas (what can QR Codes be used for besides selling people stuff, anyways?), but the rea
And the award for "Angry Birds-related Correction of the Year" goes to…
The New York Times! With the following note in their review of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of “Angry Birds,” a popular iPhone game. In the game, slingshots are used to launch birds to destroy pigs and their fortresses, not to shoot
Want change education? Capture a child’s imagination, Murdoch says.
Recently, Rupert Murdoch gave a speech at the Foundation for Excellence in Education Summit in San Francisco, and made some pretty great points. Let him tell you about math: Say I was trying to teach a 10-year-old about Bernoulli’s principle. According to this principle, when speed is high, pressure
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