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A bloody fable - Arkansas Times
Arkansas Times
Arkansas Times
A 1982 John Carpenter movie (adapted from a 1951 Howard Hawks movie), "The Thing" is about an isolated Antarctic research station terrorized by an extraterrestrial that can take the form of any living creature it touches. Naturally the men begin to ...
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So You Want to Be a Dean? - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
I am done. After six years of founding and leading the School of Education and Social Policy at Merrimack College, I have returned to the faculty. In those six years I hired 17 faculty members, started seven academic programs, and worked with two ...
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So You Want to Be a Dean? - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
I am done. After six years of founding and leading the School of Education and Social Policy at Merrimack College, I have returned to the faculty. In those six years I hired 17 faculty members, started seven academic programs, and worked with two ...
REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts
Redlands Daily Facts
Chess club: Redlands Chess Club meets 2 to 5 p.m. every Friday at Redlands Community Senior Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Players of all ages are welcome, from beginners to experts. Chess boards and pieces are provided. Information: 909-798-7572.
Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
Sessions will include digital safety, file management and collaboration with Google Apps, research and personalized technology tools. Other sessions will take place on Jan. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Central Middle School, 9 Indian Rock Lane; Jan. 2 from 7 ...
Intelligence Isn't Black and White. There Are Actually 8 Different Kinds. - Big Think
Big Think
Big Think
New research demonstrates for the first time the domestic canine's ability to discern between positive and negative emotions in humans. 29 minutes ago; Share. Pinnochio .... A chess player would have spatial intelligence. A surgeon would have spatial ...
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Retirement Moves To Make This Year - The National Memo (blog)
The National Memo (blog)
The National Memo (blog)
Quinn also advocates a combination of immediate, fixed annuities within a fixed income strategy and a rising amount of stock index funds as retirees age (up to a ceiling that suits your risk tolerance), reflecting some new research showing that ...
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BlackRock makes major organisational changes - Funds Europe Magazine
Funds Europe Magazine
Funds Europe Magazine
Chess board BlackRock is combining its active equities strategies as part of far reaching changes to its global investments platform. The aim is to build more connectivity across regions, asset classes and strategies, and other plans include investing ...
REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts
Redlands Daily Facts
Chess club: Redlands Chess Club meets 2 to 5 p.m. every Friday at Redlands Community Senior Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Players of all ages are welcome, from beginners to experts. Chess boards and pieces are provided. Information: 909-798-7572.
In 'Chess Capital' of St. Louis, Game Takes Root in Poor Districts - Education Week (subscription)
Education Week (subscription)
Education Week (subscription)
Those who promote chess in schools say the game helps students with critical-thinking, complex problem-solving, and spatial skills. In a 2014 review of research on chess' educational benefits, William M. Bart, an education psychology professor at the ...
'Keep open mind to understand science' - Times of India
Times of India
Satish Wate, former director of NEERI, told students to keep their minds open when taking up science for higher education and research. "Science is like a game of chess. You cannot predict the moves that you will use during the game. It is while ...
6 named Schwarzman fellows - Harvard Gazette
Harvard Gazette
Harvard Gazette
Jeffrey helped draft the College's first honor code, serves on the Honor Council, and is a research assistant to former ambassador R. Nicholas Burns, who directs the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard Kennedy School. Now studying sociology and ...
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LIBRARY HAPPENINGS: Online collections perfect for winter storms - Wicked Local Weymouth
Wicked Local Weymouth
Wicked Local Weymouth
... for language instruction, LearningExpress Library for test prep, Morning Star Investment Research Center, National Geographic Virtual Library, The Boston Globe from 1872-1983, and Lynda.com—;the leader in online learning—coming in December ...
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Prattville community calendar - Montgomery Advertiser
Montgomery Advertiser
Montgomery Advertiser
Members of the community are invited to attend to research the records. Society members will be on hand to assist those who are not familiar with Alabama probate ... Let's Play Chess. Jan. 16 - MLK Classic at Frazer UMC - Montgomery. Jan. 18 - MLK ...
Tinder 'has secret desirability score for users' - Netimperative
Netimperative
Netimperative
Dating app Tinder is secretly rating the “desirability” of users with an algorithm… and it's not just a measure of attractiveness, according to research by Fast Company. Fast Company reports that this hidden 'Elo' score (a term used in chess to rank ...
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How deep learning algorithms are changing lives – and business - Information Age
Information Age
But that has all changed – and the consequences reach much further than the esoteric world of chess grand masters. Researchers at Imperial College London have created an artificial intelligence (AI) machine called Giraffe that has taught itself to play ...
Nerd is the Word: Tablets aid development in children - Northern Star
Northern Star
Northern Star
Research has found skills kids learn when they play a game or use an app on a tablet are seamlessly transferable to real life. For example, if a child can play a game of chess or complete puzzles on a device, they can simply transfer those skills to ...
Artificial Intelligence: Friend Or Foe Of The Middle Class And The Knowledge ... - Forbes
Forbes
Forbes
Musk, in an effort to help ensure that AI remains beneficial to mankind, has donated $10M to the Future of Life Institute to fund research into, among other things, existential threats, the alignment of AI and human values, AI-relevant policy, and more ...
Playboy Mansion for Sale—With One Tenant for Life - Realtor.com News
Realtor.com News
Realtor.com News
“Life estates go way back to the earliest roots of the common law, and they are great for providing for someone to live in his or her own home until death,” says David Reiss, research director at the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship at ...
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UnCommonwealth: Catching up with three standout Lexington children - Lexington Herald Leader
Lexington Herald Leader
Lexington Herald Leader
Zach will start another drug trial in 2016. He takes an art class and recently painted a piece that was auction at a fundraiser for the Progeria Research Foundation; Zach loves art. Zach's older sister, Brittany, recently graduated from the University ...