games

Does It Mean A Thing If It ‘Ain’t Got Pink Bling? Gender Differences, Toys And The Psychology Of Color

by podblack on February 13, 2010

Before I begin – thanks to everyone who has been waiting for the Token Skeptic podcast to come out – I strongly recommend you check out the Princess Scientist Podcast while you’re waiting over the next twelve hours or so for me to post up the ‘missing episodes’! As Mur Lafferty, podcaster, author and continual [...]

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Why Are There So Few Female Chess Grandmasters?

by podblack on December 25, 2008

Scienceblogs ‘Not Exactly Rocket Science‘: Three years ago, Lawrence Summers, former president of Harvard University, claimed that genetic differences between the sexes led to a “different availability of aptitude at the high end”. His widely derided led to his dismissal, but is views are by no means uncommon. In the same year, Paul Irwing and [...]

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How Not To Get Killed By An Impossible Triangle

by podblack on November 10, 2008

The Impossible Triangle (1999) Artists: Brian MacKay & Ahmad Abas. [Claisebrook round-about] ‘The Impossible Triangle is a geometric phenomenon, that when viewed from a specific position creates the illusion of a perfect triangle’. – City of Perth Sculpture and Art Pdf. ‘I heard that if you get in a position to see it properly, you’ll [...]

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Little Kitten – Teaching Kids To Roleplay Is Only Natural

by podblack on September 29, 2008

Great article and something I saw being encouraged at Dragon*Con! From Wired: It is one of the key ways in which children learn. Ok, so it isn’t all dice, paper and miniatures, but children have been creating their own RPGs forever. They don’t even use dice. All the early childhood development professionals know this only [...]

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Dungeons And Dragons – Or Mazes And Monsters?

by gazza666 on July 14, 2008

The following post is for On The Shoulders of Giants — if you’re interested, my earlier entry is here! Traditional board games (such as chess, checkers, Scrabble, Parcheesi) have involved no role-playing on the part of the players, and some have involved a very minimum amount of role-playing within a board setting (such as Monopoly, [...]

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Little Kitten – TED Does Spore

by podblack on May 29, 2008

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