Chess Research
Three Reasons You Should Get High - PsychCentral.com (blog)
PsychCentral.com (blog)
PsychCentral.com (blog)
For others the high comes in less obvious ways – when the arc of the story comes together effortlessly and the words just fall onto the page, when the colors all combine seamlessly on the canvas, and when immersed in a challenging game of chess ...
Martin Shkreli, the Bad Boy of Pharmaceuticals, Hits Back - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
Most recently, he live-streamed hours of himself at his desk, talking to co-workers and viewers about medical research and investments and tapping at his computer (action high point: hair-twirling). Last month, he and a group of investors took a large ...
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Best Books: Here's what we liked in 2015 - STLtoday.com
STLtoday.com
STLtoday.com
Blume, the much-loved author of classics such as “Are You There God? It's Me Margaret” uses her own childhood and meticulous research to recreate a pivotal time in the country's history with her typical brilliance at knowing how a teenage girl would ...
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Scientists say left-handed people may be smarter in one key way - Business Insider
Business Insider
Business Insider
As is so often the case with social science research, the frustrating answer is "it depends." But there are certain cognitive domains where left-handed people ... In the paper, Coren notes that his results might help explain why lefties are more common ...
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How Facebook's AI Researchers Built a Game-Changing Go Engine - MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
These machines search through all possible moves to find the strongest. While this brute force approach works well in draughts and chess, it does not work well in Go because of the sheer number of possible positions on a board. In draughts, the number ...
UMaine Cuts Tuition Price To Lure Connecticut Students - Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
The folks from Downeast are offering Connecticut high school seniors a deal they might not want to pass up: Go to the University of Maine next fall for the same price as this year's in-state rate at UConn. That's right. Like all public universities ...
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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 ...
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Using Card and Board Games to Keep Minds Sharp - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
While many older people are attracted to mind challenges and computer games, others like Mr. Wieder embrace competition in tried-and-true games like bridge, poker and chess. ... Research released in 2014 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found ...
PW Picks: Books of the Week, December 7, 2015 - Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly
The plot is almost secondary, though there is an excess of it: a cross-country chess tournament tour with Eli, a prodigy and Maloney's “redneck Virgil”; an attack on a suburban house involving a hot air balloon; and a game of wits with a blind bounty ...
Strategies of the Artificial: The Machine View of Strategy and its Consequences - Kings of War
Kings of War
Today's leading microcomputer chess programs, which have drawn matches with the best human players, have sophisticated search algorithms and attempt to use more chess knowledge but still generate hundreds of thousands or millions of chess moves per ...
Jessica Jones season one recap: we need to talk about Kilgrave - The Guardian (blog)
The Guardian (blog)
The Guardian (blog)
... personal bottle episode, Jessica could drill into his past, reviewing archive footage of a shivering 10-year-old undergoing invasive brain biopsies and cerebral spinal fluid extractions at the University of Manchester, in a presumably unsanctioned ...
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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, ...... Anyone interested in genealogy research is welcome to attend. Information: www.yvgs.org; ...
The Best Books of 2015 - Reluctant Habits
Reluctant Habits
Reluctant Habits
Most my reading this year was devoted to research for several projects and to dead authors — in particular, just about everything ever written by Henry Green, a good chunk of Penelope Fitzgerald, and many volumes of the great Iris Murdoch, whose ...
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Are Women's Brains Really Different From Men's? Nope, Says Study, So The ... - Bustle
Bustle
Bustle
Of course you don't, because you have probably always known that kind of reductive pseudoscience was BS — and now actual science has proved it According to new research, men and women have basically the same brains. The only difference is that men's ...
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CHESS the Musical featured as rarely staged classic in Long Beach by Art-In ... - California Newswire
California Newswire
California Newswire
LONG BEACH, Calif. /California Newswire/ — It's the early 1980's and the radio is blasting a catchy tune about a Chess game in Bangkok, "One Night in Bangkok." The song sounds part disco and part "I have no idea." With further research we find out it ...
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Designs for Living: TCG's Fall Forum Laid Plans and Shared Strategies - American Theatre
American Theatre
Krippendorf explained that he approaches strategic planning like a game of chess. Chessmasters, he said, don't think of option one, two, or three to outmaneuver their rival—instead they choose option four. ... Schulenburg presented a carefully ...
ESEA Rewrite Passes House, Heads to Senate - The Heartland Institute
The Heartland Institute
The Heartland Institute
Joy Pullmann. Joy Pullmann is a research fellow on education policy for The Heartland Institute and managing... (read full bio) · EMAIL. | TWITTER ... When will Republicans learn to play political chess? SOURCE: Daily Signal, Education Week, House ...
Panel to Highlight International Graduate Student Research - UMass News and Media Relations
UMass News and Media Relations
UMass News and Media Relations
Students' international research and training was supported through the Department of Anthropology's European Field Studies Program and the NSF-funded Culture and Heritage in European Societies and Spaces (CHESS) program in collaboration with the ...
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 ...
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Valeant: We Share JPMorgan's Conservative Optimism Into 2016 - Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
The focus will shift back to the company's fundamentals focus in time, with the December 2016 Investor Day being a first step in the process, Schott tells investors in a research note detailing the pushback he's received on his Overweight stock rating ...
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