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Is Ageism In Tech An Under&The&Radar Diversity Issue? - Fast Company
Fast Company
Fast Company
Young people are just smarter. Why are most chess masters under 30? I don't know. Young people just have simpler lives. We may not own a car. We may not have family. ... Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and Stanford University fellow, led research that ...
Think Tyson Fury's views are offensive? Boxing is worse - The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian
This is not a sport but a sadistic spectacle performed by men raised on a diet of rage and survival instinct. So why all the shock at the champion's opinions? Wladimir Klitschko (left) is beaten by Tyson Fury for the world heavyweight title: 'To expect ...
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Bridge: More than a card game - Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Mind sports are divided into six types, including chess, GO, draught, and bridge, which is stated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the most sophisticated mind sport worldwide. Chess is classified as the second. Unfortunately GO, draught ...
50 underappreciated DOS games - Den Of Geek
Den Of Geek
Den Of Geek
Long before Harry Potter's deadly game of chess in the bowels of Hogwarts, we had Battle Chess. This is by far .... Where colonisation, military, research, planning and combat all come together in such a way as to feel like your brain is melting out of ...
DC community calendar, Dec. 10-17, 2015 - Washington Post
Washington Post
Chess for kids Master chess instructor guides you from learning the basics to advancing your level of skill. Thursdays at 5 p.m. Cleveland ..... Noon-4 p.m. National Archives, Microfilm Room, Research Center, 700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Free. 202-357-5000.
Cheerleading among safest high school sports, say Colorado School of Public ... - Medical Xpress
Medical Xpress
According to researchers, a total of 752 female cheerleader injuries occurred in 1,090,705 `athletic exposures,' or one athlete participating in one practice, competition or performance. Most happened during practice. "Cheerleading's overall injury ...
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Poker, Fantasy Sports and Chess - CalvinAyre.com (press release) (blog)
CalvinAyre.com (press release) (blog)
CalvinAyre.com (press release) (blog)
Poker, Fantasy Sports and Chess As I sit here in the club lounge at the InterContinental Hotel, located in downtown Montreal, I can't help but think about poker, fantasy sports and chess. Let me explain. My very first visit to the hotel was in the ...
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Alabama professor: There's a lot more skill than luck in fantasy sports (opinion) - Yellowhammer News
Yellowhammer News
As a sports media scholar who has conducted research on fantasy sports play, I find myself fielding quite a few questions from a variety of constituencies relating to the rapid explosion of daily, weekly and season-long fantasy games. Usually, it's the ...
Prince George's County community calendar, Dec. 10-16, 2015 - Washington Post
Washington Post
Chess club Eagle Chess Academy leads this class for all ages to learn or improve skills. 4 p.m. South .... 8:15-10:15 a.m. Patuxent Research Refuge, North Tract, Route 198 between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 32, Laurel. 301-497-5887.
News in the Humanosphere: Air pollution brings China to a grinding halt - Humanosphere
Humanosphere
Humanosphere
Growth in global carbon dioxide emissions is expected to slow for a second year running in 2015, in spite of economic growth, after typically rising by around 2 to 3 percent since the turn of the century, according to research. (Reuters http://yhoo.it ...
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Air Pollution Brings Beijing to a Halt - UN Dispatch
UN Dispatch
Growth in global carbon dioxide emissions is expected to slow for a second year running in 2015, in spite of economic growth, after typically rising by around 2 to 3 percent since the turn of the century, according to research. (Reuters http://yhoo.it ...
Why I think these 3 blue-chip shares are great buys now - Motley Fool Australia
Motley Fool Australia
CSL is a world-leader in the research, development and marketing for blood plasma products. Its products are used to prevent and treat complex disorders affecting many people throughout the world. ResMed Inc. (CHESS) (ASX: RMD) is also a leader in its ...
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'Big picture guy:' Late CPD founding director remembered - The Herald Journal
The Herald Journal
The Herald Journal
What started as a school for elementary-age children with disabilities would evolve into what it is today, blossoming from Fifield's leadership — a research center that provides resources to people with disabilities and their families and trains ...
How Australians Are Helping Computers Become Conscious - Gizmodo Australia
Gizmodo Australia
Gizmodo Australia
The chess-playing feats of Deep Blue are long outdone, replaced by the likes of IBM's WATSON, the world's best Jeopardy player, and Deepmind's deep Q-network, brain-inspired software that teaches itself to play computer games, so well in fact that it ...
The West Can Defeat ISIS – but What Comes Next? - Family Security Matters
Family Security Matters
Family Security Matters
French President François Hollande is making the rounds of the world's capitals, jet setting between London, Washington and Moscow with several meetings in-between. He is engaged in a full-throttle effort to convince leaders of a plain and simple plan.
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Food Cities The search for America's best food cities: - Washington Post
Washington Post
Washington Post
A surprise only to those who haven't tried it, the finest Indian food in the country seduces with its spices in a city that's home to just over 650,000 residents — and 2,000 restaurants. Downtown, the most daring example of avant-garde cooking this ...
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As I See It: 'Spotlight' shines on importance of investigative journalism - Main Line
Main Line
The Spotlight team uncovered a longtime practice by church leaders of simply moving around these men to other parishes like chess pieces instead of punishing them. But getting to the truth in a predominantly Catholic city was met with roadblocks every ...
Tribute to TV Padmakumar - Kaumudi Online
Kaumudi Online
Recently Mcgill University in Canada, which is rated as 21st among the best Universities in the world and 1st in Canada reviewed his book `Number Theory and Magic Squares` and awarded Ph.D for a research work on the game of Chess based on his ...
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Tribute to TV Padmakumar - Kaumudi Online
Kaumudi Online
Recently Mcgill University in Canada, which is rated as 21st among the best Universities in the world and 1st in Canada reviewed his book `Number Theory and Magic Squares` and awarded Ph.D for a research work on the game of Chess based on his ...
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Searching for Eureka: IBM's path back to greatness, and how it could change ... - Quartz
Quartz
Quartz
IBM spent $5.5 billion on research and development in 2014 alone, and unlike with some of the modern tech giants, there's no pomp and circumstance around each newly launched “project,” no elevation of designers to the status of demigods, no race to ...