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How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games

The responsibilities and challenges of programmed luck.

January 9, 2017

Is the Chinese Language a Superstition Machine?

How ambiguity in language can create unique taboos.

December 20, 2016

Why Christopher Hitchens Was a Hero to Scientists

The writer had a reverence for science and philosophy, and a conviction that both should be the basis of personal belief and ethics in society.

December 15, 2016

Video Games Are Changing the Hero

This is what happens when we can occupy our heroes’ bodies.

December 15, 2016

How We Got From Doc Brown to Walter White

The changing image of the TV scientist.

December 15, 2016

Will Lovelace and Babbage Save the Economy?

A fictional tale starring the inventors of the first computer.

December 15, 2016