education
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Japan’s Oddest English Book Is Still Wonderfully Strange
6For students in Japan, it sometimes seems like many are only studying English to pass tests. What fun is that?
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SimCity Mod Tries To Make Game Useful
Educational outfit Glasslab Games have taken Maxis’ misguided SimCity and tried to wrestle something genuinely useful out of the thing.
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Play Video Games And Become An Awesome Surgeon
We know games aren’t the bane of healthcare providers everywhere. Games can do you some physical and mental good, in moderation. But training you to be a pro-surgeon? That’s a bit of a new one to me. Turns out that wielding a controller could make you more proficient at holding a scalpel, saving lives and…
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Teens Step Up To Launch Portal 2’s Space Core
Last week, my misidentification of a laser engraving on a space part suggested the wrong personality core from Portal 2 was symbolically being flown to space (a fate echoing the game’s story.) A team of 18 teenagers from Nevada stepped in to restore order, and properly send the Space Core — or, well, a plushy…