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Games are bigger, splashier and more thorough, but they have made no progress on the fundamentals. It’s like watching the evolution of sailing ships: they grew bigger, faster, sleeker, but nobody had an inkling to put an engine in one of them. Chris Crawfordhttp://kotaku.com/30-years-later-one-mans-still-trying-to-fix-video-gam-1490377821 (via notgames)
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thisistheverge: Play classic video games in style with OpenEmu for Mac The world has no shortage of video game emulators, but many can be painful to use — many reflect their hacker origins with equally hacky interfaces, and you’d need a vast collection of different emulators to properly relive your childhood. By contrast, OpenEmu is…
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deicaffecorretti: La notizia è che Eco giochi a space invaders, proprio come facevo io a 5 anni. http://doppiozero.com/materiali/speciali/tavoli-umberto-eco Umberto Eco
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Grief occurs widely in other social mammals and in birds, for example after loss of a parent, offspring, or mate,” the British psychologist John Archer wrote in his 1999 study, The Nature of Grief. It occurs in other animals, including human animals, because we all love—that ill-defined emotion and strange force that we only hesitantly…
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tedfromtheinternet: FDR: America’s hippie president (at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial)
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theatlantic: ‘We Are Creating Walmarts of Education’ Universities in South Dakota, Nebraska, and other states have cut the number of credits students need to graduate. A proposal in Florida would let online courses forgo the usual higher-education accreditation process. A California legislator introduced a measure that would have substituted online courses for some of the…
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theatlantic: Alan Turing’s Body On Christmas Eve, Queen Elizabeth II pardoned the computer scientist Alan Mathison Turing. Nearly all of the modern world is constructed on Turing’s accomplishments. He helped crack Germany’s “Enigma” code in World War II, contributed two important proofs to mathematics, and established foundational concepts in computer science and artificial intelligence. Without…
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laughingsquid: Uncovered Books App Helps You Choose a Book by Its Content by Hiding All Other Details someone made an app of Deleuze’s library!