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What Science Says About Quitting While You're Ahead - Knowledge@Wharton
Knowledge@Wharton
Knowledge@Wharton: Of course, a chess game isn't exactly a five-minute venture that people are going to be doing. Green: This is blitz chess. The games last between six and 30 minutes. And this person, presumably, is playing many of these games ...
Computers outperform lab rats in detecting toxic chemicals - EurekAlert (press release)
EurekAlert (press release)
Dr. Thomas Hartung, Chair for Evidence-based Toxicology at Johns Hopkins University, wants "to help end toxicological ignorance", asserting that "we will not succeed if we continue using antiquated methods like animal testing, which has been in use ...
Chess Sales Market News and Growth Opportunities 2018 to 2025 - Insider Tradings
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Insider Tradings
Global Chess Sales Market Research reports 2018 tracks the major market events including product launches, technological developments, mergers & acquisitions, and the innovative business strategies opted by key market players. Along with strategically ...
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John Harris: Why 'chess on ice' makes such gripping TV - The Scotsman
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The Scotsman
Marge and Homer Simpson took to the ice in The Simpsons in 2010 ahead of the Olympic Games in Vancouver and helped take curling to a wider audience. Four years earlier, the website of US Curling crashed as so many people attempted to access the site ...
An expert explains why curling is so gripping to watchiNews
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Global Chess Sales market to grow as Global Chess Sales heats up - NB Post Gazette
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Questale released a detailed assessment of trends in Global Chess Sales market. The research report includes diverse topics like total market size, key market drivers, challenges, growth opportunities, key players etc. We have also covered key market ...
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Pace-of-game rules changes coming for 2018, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred says - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Manfred mentioned not only MLB's own research but that of one of the league's broadcast partner that revealed fans' displeasure with length and pace of games. Last spring, former Pirate Gerrit Cole, then the team's union rep, said the league had data ...
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US Chess Champion Dies at 79 - Afro American
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Afro American
Dunbar was also home to Kenneth R. Clayton, the first African-American, and probably the youngest at 24, U.S. Amateur Chess Champion. Clayton died in December at the age of 79. “He's an individual who was given a chess set as a graduation present from ...
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US Chess Champion Dies at 79 - Afro American
Afro American
Dunbar was also home to Kenneth R. Clayton, the first African-American, and probably the youngest at 24, U.S. Amateur Chess Champion. Clayton died in December at the age of 79. “He's an individual who was given a chess set as a graduation present from ...
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Biathlon Explained - Southwest Times
Southwest Times
Even curlers are sliding both themselves and their stones, but we're not going to talk about curling because the Research Department's friend Alexis, who is from Maine (the Curling State) has convinced it that curling is like frozen chess. We would ...
Student research helps prepare Cornell lab for brighter X-ray beams - Hillsdale Collegian
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Hillsdale Collegian
“As the particles pass through deflecting magnetic fields, X-rays are emitted and these are used for X-ray research at Cornell,” said Michael Billing, an accelerator physicist at Cornell and Salo's research supervisor. Salo worked in the Wilson ...
Will Lebanon be the Next Energy War? - Center for Research on Globalization
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Center for Research on Globalization
A new geopolitical confrontation is shaping up in the Middle East, and not only between Israel and Syria or Iran. Like most conflicts there, it involves a fight for hydrocarbon resources—oil and gas. The new focus is a dispute between Israel and ...
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A Very Nice Chess Board Of Cannabis Assets: Part One Of An Exclusive Interview With CannaRoyalty CEO Marc Lustig - PotNetwork (blog)
PotNetwork (blog)
PotNetwork (blog)
In an overcrowded field of cultivators vying for maximum yield, CannaRoyalty Corp. (CSE:CRZ) (OTCQX:CNNRF) is noteworthy for their rich tapestry of diversified holdings in the cannabis sector. It is a unique long-term strategy in an industry riddled ...
Australian Securities Exchange looks to artificial intelligence and big data analytics - ZDNet
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ZDNet
The datacentre upgrade is expected to take two to three years and cost around AU$20 million to AU$25 million. The ASX announced in December that US-based blockchain firm Digital Asset would be responsible for replacing its Clearing House Electronic ...
ASX Ltd Just Reported Profit Growth Of 5%Rask Media
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Where the heart is - Mountain View Voice
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Mountain View Voice
Yalom, who's lived in Palo Alto since 1962, said she's had three different, albeit related, careers: one as a professor of French language and literature; one as a feminist scholar and director of what is now Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender ...
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A top psychologist says there's only one way to become the best in your field — but not everyone agrees - SFGate
SFGate
SFGate
In the years that followed his defeat at the hands of his classmate, Ericsson found himself less interested in improving at chess and more interested in learning how people improve at anything. Today, Ericsson is a professor of psychology at Florida ...
CHESS Conference set to take place Saturday - Gannonknight
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Gannonknight
“The English TAs decided to match the theme this year because we thought the theme was appropriate, because in recent years people of all kinds are coming together to overcome all manners of challenges, locally, nationally and globally,” she said ...
Humans could soon be playing pictionary with computers - Research Matters
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Research Matters
Researchers at Department of Computational and Data Sciences at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed the first computational model aimed at Pictionary- an image based word guessing game. In 1997, Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer ...
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Human could soon be playing pictionary with computers - Research Matters
Research Matters
Research Matters
Researchers at Department of Computational and Data Sciences at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed the first computational model aimed at Pictionary- an image based word guessing game. In 1997, Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer ...
ASU Associate Professor Gary Moore recognized nationally as exceptional mentor - ASU News Now
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ASU News Now
He received his doctorate from ASU under Ana L. Moore in 2009 then spent two years as a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Energy Fellow at Yale University working with Gary W. Brudvig and Robert H. Crabtree before starting an independent research career at ...
How can New Jersey close its infant mortality gap? - NJTV News
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NJTV News
Research has shown us that higher housing segregation contributes to poorer schools, poorer access to health care, poor birth outcomes and more violence in communities,” said Dr. Denise Rodgers, vice chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences ...