Greetings, gamers! Do you like your games nonviolent or raw? If you’re a minor, you may not have a say. A series of California bills could make it illegal to sell violent video games to those under the age of 18. Today, the Supreme Court discussed the merits of this …

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Greetings physicists, Here’s a fine images series you may want to share with your students – images of Unpopular Science drawn by Christoph Niemann. Make it a graphical day! –Dave

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A great man speaks

25 October 2010

Greetings, scientists! Today, by way of a truly great re-invention developed by GE engineers, I post to you the voice of Edison. Like many of you, I was raised by parents who revered his work. By age 12, I was gathering electrical refuse from the streets to “invent” my own …

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Greetings, readers! I think you’ll be interested in the work of Daniel M. Oppenheimer’s work on fluency and disfluency (fluency is the “… the subjective experience of ease or difficulty with which we are able to process information” (Oppenheimer, D., 2008)). Put simply, Oppenheimer et al.  suggest the increased mental exercise …

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Greetings, private netizens! We’ve all read about Facebook’s privacy issues, and we all want for Facebook to protect our private semi-public personal information lives. The debate has raged back and forth, most recently with the revelation that Facebook’s commercial applications were leaking data to advertisers. We push, and Facebook gives a …

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