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“The winners were samurai stealth game Chambara; action game Don’t Walk: Run, where three players compete as a film’s actors escaping the wrath of its world-controlling director; and Sagittarius, where players use a virtual reality headset to aim a crossbow from a moving chariot.” (via BBC News – Dare to be Digital video games in…
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beatonna: medievalpoc: Math and Science Week! aseantoo submitted to medievalpoc: Bhāskarāchārya [x], [x] Bhāskarāchārya / Bhāskara II (1114–1185) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. Among his many achievements are the following: 1. He was the first person to explain that when you divide by zero, the result is infinity. 2. He was also the first person…
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The Many Battles of Nina Simone
The Many Battles of Nina Simone shrinkrants: Claudia Roth Pierpont on how the struggle for civil rights shaped Nina Simone’s life and career, and on a controversial new movie, “Nina,” starring Zoe Saldana. It took her an hour to write “Mississippi Goddam.” A freewheeling cri de coeur based on the place names of oppression, the…
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How is P5JS different than Processing.js?
How is P5JS different than Processing.js? fyprocessing: The main goal of Processing.js is to execute Processing files in HTML5, but not necessarily to write native HTML5. It supports a mixed syntax of Processing and JavaScript, where the JavaScript is not really meant to be consumed by the end-user. Processing.js is a port of Processing to…
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Perhaps it was once the case that, during the four years of college, you could build a self by reading books. But things are no longer so straightforward, because we have an ambivalent relationship to the knowledge of the past. (We also have an ambivalent relationship to the arts. Time spent with art is as…