Chess Research
An overdue New Mexico celebration - Carlsbad Current-Argus
Carlsbad Current-Argus
Carlsbad Current-Argus
David Thomas is a careful historical researcher combining a background in history and competition chess. What David learned as a chess master translates to his history research. He researches history like it is a chess match. There are many parts of ...
On Cognitive Doping in Chess (and Life) - The Atlantic
The Atlantic
The Atlantic
A collaborative experiment from researchers throughout Germany and Sweden led by psychiatrist Klaus Lieb at the University of Mainz found that two prescription medications improved chess-winning rates: modafinil (sold most commonly as Provigil) and ...
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Valeant - It's Not a Game of Chess Part II - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
"Biovail, over several reporting periods in 2001 and 2002, improperly moved off its financial statements and onto the financial statements of a special purpose entity approximately $47 million in expenses incurred in the research and development of ...
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Scientists Want Someone To Solve This Chess Problem & Unlock The Key To Human Consciousness - Collective Evolution
Collective Evolution
In an effort to solve these questions and put an end to the human consciousness/AI debate, a team of scientists is asking people to solve an incredibly difficult chess game that even computers cannot seem to crack. ... the chess game that no computer ...
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Chess Club holds hair cut fundraiser for cancer research - WSET
WSET
(WSET) -- The Roanoke Chess Club is holding a fundraiser for cancer research until 8 p.m. Friday. It's for the St. Baldrick's Foundation at the Sports Clips in Roanoke. Last year, Lee Hadden raised $500 just on his own. This year, he teamed up with his ...
Valeant: It's Not a Game of Chess- Part I - Nasdaq
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These are traditional pharmaceutical companies that spent billions of dollars on research and development to come up with blockbuster small molecule drugs such as Lipitor and Crestor, although now almost all of them have made inroads into biological ...
Chess club event supports childhood cancer research - Roanoke Times
Roanoke Times
Roanoke Times
The Roanoke Valley Chess Club is the oldest operating chess club in Virginia and is affiliated with the U.S. Chess Federation. The chess club works to bring and sustain chess activities to the region by holding regular events such as U.S. Chess ...
Commentary: Turning checkmate into checks - St. Louis Business Journal
St. Louis Business Journal
St. Louis Business Journal
Chess teaches valuable lessons for developing students like problem solving, critical thinking, spatial awareness and goal setting. Combined with a longitudinal research study, I am convinced we will reinforce the belief that chess molds the ...
Valeant: It's Not a Game of Chess- Part I - GuruFocus.com
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These are traditional pharmaceutical companies that spent billions of dollars on research and development to come up with blockbuster small molecule drugs such as Lipitor and Crestor, although now almost all of them have made inroads into biological ...
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Could use an ape playing chess - Arizona Daily Sun
Arizona Daily Sun
Arizona Daily Sun
Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson) is disappointed that his command of a helicopter squadron in southeast Asia is almost finished, and researcher Bill Randa (John Goodman) sees his final chance to ring some research funds—and a military escort—out ...
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A new study reveals that certain drugs may make you smarter than we thought - South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
The researchers selected 40 above-average chess players for the study. All were men, with an average age of 37 and an average IQ of 127.7. The group had an average Elo rating (a rating system for chess skill) in the 1670s, which puts them significantly ...
Ambitious first-year students catch the research bug - Cornell Chronicle
Cornell Chronicle
Cornell Chronicle
Graduating a year early from Lansing High School, just outside of Ithaca, Campello contacted Cornell physics professor Jim Alexander, who connected him to staff at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). They gave him a tour, and Campello ...
DeepMind research brings strong AI one step closer - The Engineer
The Engineer
The Engineer
However, if you asked AlphaGo to take on Gary Kasparov in a game of chess, it would have to start learning that game from scratch, permanently leaving behind its enormous Go knowledge. This is known in cognitive science as catastrophic forgetting, and ...
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Scientists Need You to Solve This Chess Problem and Find the Key to Human Consciousness - ScienceAlert
Daily Mail
ScienceAlert
Obviously, a little chess puzzle alone isn't going to reveal the key to human consciousness, but it's an intriguing approach to what seems like an impossible question, and we're pretty damn curious to see what the researchers make of the public's ...
Does quantum theory explain human consciousness? | Daily Mail ...Daily Mail
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Scientists need you to solve this chess problem to help find the key ... - ScienceAlert
ZME Science
ScienceAlert
Consciousness is the most important quality of a human being, but scientists have struggled for millennia to explain it - where does it come from, and how does it ...
Scientists ask the public's help in getting to the bottom of ...ZME Science
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Scientists need you to solve this chess problem and find the key to ... - ScienceAlert
Daily Mail
ScienceAlert
Consciousness is the most important quality of a human being, but scientists have struggled for millennia to explain it - where does it come from, and how does it ...
Does quantum theory explain human consciousness? | Daily Mail ...Daily Mail
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CHESS Knights earn pair of bids to compete in out-of-state robotics contests - My SSnews.com
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11 picked up yet another STEM Research Project Award at the Greenville Vex IQ Crossover Middle School Tournament. On March 4, the CHESS Knights team won a Design Award at the North Texas Vex IQ Worlds. They will be competing in Kentucky against ...
Northwest Kidney Centers invests $15M in Center for Dialysis Innovation - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) (blog)
Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) (blog)
Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) (blog)
How a love of chess and an English degree turn into a career in Medical research. Courtesy of UW. “We are incredibly grateful to Northwest Kidney Centers for the gift to launch the Kidney Research Institute in 2008, and now for such a significant boost ...
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Olivia Newton-John to perform at Adler May 13 - Quad-Cities Online
Quad-Cities Online
Quad-Cities Online
Also in 1992, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which she has beaten. It led her to partner with Austin Health to create the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in her hometown of Melbourne, Australia. After about 10 years of ...
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Trying to stop or at least slow dementia - Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Bee
Tell your friends and associates that you have dementia, or write a column about it, and be prepared for a well-intentioned bombardment of possible remedies: Eat cashew nuts, cook with coconut oil, drink ginger root and turmeric tea, play more pingpong ...
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