You’ve been extremely helpful, so bugger off: What started out as a routine study of group behavior ended up turning a bit surreal. According to the authors of a new paper, they started out trying to find out how long a group …
Via Sean Bonner’s tumblr, no idea where it’s from.
Update: This photograph was taken by Carlton Reid, and the stencil street art it documents is the work of Peter Drew of Adelaide, Australia.
Whenever a game is previewed, a writer is going to ask about the length. Whenever the length of a game is given in a review, there is bound to be someone in the comments wailing about the state of modern gaming, and it’s always t…
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Alex Halderman: Indian E-Voting Researcher Freed After Seven Days in Police Custody
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Ed Felten: It’s Time for India to Face its E-Voting Problem
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Sent to me by my sister–a first, I think–is a neat animation that fronts a talk on the subject of human empathy. I must admit that I’ve always felt that the human instincts of aggression (based in a strong sense of self-preservation) are more fundam…