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Their Miss Possible line of dolls combines the appeal of American Girl with the skill development of GoldieBlox. These young women have left Barbie so far behind. The first doll will be the childhood version of Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist whose research led to breakthroughs on radioactivity. The second in the…
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Do you think it’s a question of how much you balance that drive to achieve with being present and enjoying the moment? You know, it’s funny because I frequently get emails from young people starting out and asking, “How do I make a successful website or start my own thing?” And, very often, it’s tied…
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First Person Scholar organizes a Psuedo Game Jam!
Hi all, Please forward the following to anyone you think might be interested: First Person Scholar is Hosting a Game Jam! Well, not quite?it?s a pseudo game jam. It?s not located anywhere and you don?t have to program anything. We?re looking for written descriptions of the processes and procedures that make up a game. We…
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Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not…
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LR: A lot of the excitement behind the book was trying to use characterizations of information to start rethinking all these kinds of things you wouldn’t think of in terms of information. Information exists to be instrumentalized. I mean, you can think of knowledge as a thing that is instrumentalized, but information is the ur-form…