Sad Doggy Says: People Who Confuse Correlation and Causation Are More Likely to Accept Schlocky Science Journalism

Somehow I don’t expect to find this story hyped up on TV news shows… but if a similar study proposed any sort of connection that made video games look bad, that would be another story. Using complex actuarial tables and adjusting for smoking, waist circumference, dietary quality, exercise habits and other variables, the scientists were…

Classroom Project: Students Get 1 Hour to Propose, Shoot, Edit, Publish Documentary

Students created this in 60 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drU6n2nDfxo Other student projects (see links at bottom of page): http://blogs.setonhill.edu/el200/2012/09/18/videography-ex-2/ Similar:Hypertext as a Teaching Tool — Brown University Poetry Classroom 1974Annie Sullivan on teaching: The Declaration Of Independence, 240 Years Later (NPR)Your Brain Does Not Work Like a ComputerDress Rehearsal for Laurel Ballet "Alice in Wonderland"Email Tips: Top 10…

DNA has a 521-year half-life

By comparing the specimens’ ages and degrees of DNA degradation, the researchers calculated that DNA has a half-life of 521 years. That means that after 521 years, half of the bonds between nucleotides in the backbone of a sample would have broken; after another 521 years half of the remaining bonds would have gone; and…

Rocky Horror Show Live 2012 — Stage Right Greensburg

Throw toast at the actors and get spaced out on sensation at the Stage Right Theatre Company’s Halloween show, The Rocky Horror Show — Live. I put this promo together from video I took at the yesterday’s first rehearsal. Clips include Science Fiction Double Feature, The Time Warp, Dammit Janet, and more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWGMLL-asg Similar:York Plays…

Free Game Friday: Text-Based Games

2012 Interactive Fiction contest we’ll be featuring text-based games in this week’s Free Game Friday roundup. Not all of this week’s games come from the competition, but they all feature the written word as their main gameplay mechanic. We also didn’t have space to feature all the great games in the competition, so here’s a…

“Chores” — Clip from Snow White: The Musical (Stage Right Greensburg, Sept 2012)

Here’s what it sounded like at our first rehearsal, after learning the parts for about 40 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3xLg9KuiI Here’s how it looked opening night, two weeks later (I’m the surly guy in the white hat): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1bXEF8B4wY Similar:York Plays 2025: Five cameras, adding up to ~100 hours of footage.I may have mentioned that I have a…

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Text, Speech, Machine: Metaphors for Computer Code in the Law : Computational Culture

On my to-read list once I post midterm grades. As computer software has become increasingly central to commerce and creativity, lawmakers have retrofitted it into preexisting legal regimes to regulate its production and distribution. Currently in the United States, software is eligible for protection under patent law, copyright law, trade secret law and the First…