Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Life Found in Mud Under Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake

Researchers have found signs of life in mud pulled from the bottom of an ice-covered lake in Antarctica.



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Interview with Light-bot Creator Danny Yaroslavski - Gamasutra (blog)









Interview with Light-bot Creator Danny Yaroslavski

Gamasutra (blog)

In my last post, I mentioned Light-bot was the best I'd seen in the category of purely puzzle-based "games that teach programming" (a genre which needs a better name -- proposals welcome in the comments!). After that, the creator reached out to let me ...





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This Is the Most High Tech Music Video Ever

Interactive technology allows users to manipulate a music video's visual content with a smartphone. Continue reading →



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Play The Room. Seriously, Go Download It Right Now [Review] - Cult of Mac








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Play The Room. Seriously, Go Download It Right Now [Review]

Cult of Mac

Stepping back, this is an escape game, a subset of the point-and-click adventure genre which is about about finding oneself locked in a room and having to search around and solve puzzles in order to, you know, escape. You can play a bunch of them for ...





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DNews: iPhone 5S: How Fingerprint Scanners Work

Fingerprint scanners -- they're perhaps the most significant security feature ever to be used on a cell phone. How do they work and are they really as safe as they sound? Anthony has the answers.



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Pledge of Allegiance Didn't Always Include God

The Pledge of Allegiance is only 31 words long, and it might lose two of them in public schools in the state of Massachusetts. Continue reading →



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Oh Snap! Dino-Era Croc Jaws Filled Many Roles

One of the secret to dino-era crocs' success may have been the animals' evolutionarily adaptable jaws. Continue reading →



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