Here’s a cool video of differently mobile Lego Technic robots crossing differently simulated terrains. That spiderbot is creepy.
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Lego robots crossing different terrain challenges
Here’s a cool video of differently mobile Lego Technic robots crossing differently simulated terrains. That spiderbot is creepy.
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The Smithsonian and what is history
The nation’s museum, The Smithsonian, becomes another front in the war on truth. But even as the social history approach remade American museums, most Americans cling to an understanding of history that prioritizes the very things the social historians criticized. According to a 2021 survey of attitudes to history, conducted by researchers at Fairleigh Dickinson…
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Harry Potter and the Problematic Author
Maia Kobabe illustrates the issues around Harry Potter’s author, J.K. Rowling. All that fame and fortune, and backing transphobia is what she decides to do.
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The story of Oregon Trail, the game
If you went to school in the 80s and 90s, you most likely played the game Oregon Trail. It influenced video gaming in numerous ways, such as naming your companion characters. Fifty years after it was created, The Oregon Trail’s legacy remains powerful and, in many ways, surprising. Hundreds of millions of players have attempted…
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Who gets to participate in fandoms?
Fandom can be a fun way to share camaraderie and community, but they can also be toxic in a myriad of ways. In 2020, fandom thrived. We saw people return to their old fandom favorites like Twilight or Sherlock, play so much Animal Crossing and The Sims, and fall down the BTS rabbit hole (leading…
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Video games bleeding into real life
The term Game Transfer Phenomenon, or GTP, was first coined by Angelica Ortiz de Gortari, a psychologist at the University of Bergen in Norway. She first proposed the concept a decade ago while working on her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Mark Griffiths, head of Nottingham Trent University’s International Gaming Research Unit. Ortiz de…
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Vehicles shaped like food
Would you drive an almond, a hot dog, or a potato?
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368 Chickens
368 Chickens is a deceptively simple, addicting tile matching game. In a 6×6 grid, you attempt to create matches of three or more of four different chickens. My best score in 71.
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Cheap consumer goods defeated communism
Amanda Mull makes the case that post WWII style capitalism with affordable consumer goods defeated communism. And for the better part of the last 60 to 70 years helped American companies maintain that power. The tarriff war will likely end that.
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Editorial Negligence
In high school, a prerequisite for being on the newspaper staff was talking the journalism class. A lesson that stuck with me was the concept of editorial discretion–being able to judge something as (news) worthy and including it in your coverage. Editors hold tremendous sway, even in a dying industry, to determine what enters the…