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nprfreshair: David Suchet has been playing Belgian detective Hercule Poirot since 1989. After a 13-season run, Poirot, the mystery series based on Agatha Christie’s novels, has come to an end. The series is now on Acorn TV, streaming online. David Bianculli reflects on the long-running show: But since these are, absolutely, the last TV episodes…
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We hope you Lefties are celebrating today.
We hope you Lefties are celebrating today. per sinister! nprchives: Happy Left Handers’ Day! NPR’s reporting on left-handedness covers two main topics: the causes of left-handedness and successful people who are left-handed (mostly presidents and baseball pitchers). This story, from a special series, Science Outside of the Box, takes an…
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Choice, Texas (hat tip to Jennifer deWinter)
Hello all, I just wanted to draw your attention to the empathy game Choice, Texas made my Carly A. Kocurek, Allyson Whipple, and Grace Jennings. If you haven’t had a chance to play this game, it’s a frickin brilliant (and depressing) exploration about the choices that women make in their communities, families, and within themselves…
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When we finally moved to the beach to start our own company, Disparity Games, we did it with the same AAA attitude. We would maintain a clear separation between work and home life. There would be set hours for working and there would be time for family. This has spectacularly failed to work. (via Making…
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Abstract The meritocratic norm—the belief in total personal responsibility for one’s successes and failures—tends to be reinforced by video games that allow players to take control of powerful, independent characters who exert enormous influence on the game world. This essay uses Real Lives as an example of a game that leads players to see the…