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Is Firewatch A Larp?
gamedesignerben: This is an analysis of Firewatch’s form. While specific details of the main story won’t be mentioned, I will be talking about the beginning and ending of the game. So: spoiler warning. Campo Santo’s game Firewatch has been out for a couple of weeks now, and seems to be performing well enough to ensure…
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It should not be rare to have graduate students in science and engineering in literature, philosophy, and history of science courses. It should be the norm. It is in the augmentation of possibilities — the things we never knew existed — where remarkable opportunities exist at the intersection of engineering and humanities. The possibilities are…
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gjmueller: Tracking Online Education in the United States, 2015 You can read the report on the survey here, and below are some of its key findings: The percentage of academic leaders who said online learning was critical to their institution’s mission dropped from 71 percent, in 2014 — the highest ever — to 63 percent.…
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I might not notice these slightly fascist tendencies if I were sharp-sighted, fit, properly trained to the modern OS and also young and therefore unable to personally remember a looser, more democratic regime of computational life. But I will never be a marathon runner, and it seems odd that a computer technology is confronting us…
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Zhang Huan’s Poppy Fields
Zhang Huan’s Poppy Fields Chinese artist Zhang Huan’s paintings, entitled, “Poppy Fields” are intended to evoke the idea of liberated souls who have undergone the sky burial process that he discovered while traveling through Tibet. Source: ARTINFO PUBLISHING VIDEO Blogging here to keep for reference: “who are other artists who are working with images of poppies…