Chess Research
$1.3M NIH grant funds brain development, cancer research - Cornell Chronicle
Cornell Chronicle
In many cases, this involved understanding the three dimensional X-ray crystal structures of different Cdc42 complexes, taking advantage of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). More recently, a research associate in the Cerione ...
Best brain-stirring board games for every age - Chicago Parent (blog)
Chicago Parent (blog)
Chicago Parent (blog)
The concept is rather cute but after four minutes the game had concluded with no real strategy or skill involved. After repeated plays I started seeing chocolate-covered stars and knew it was time to do a little research and expand our board game horizons.
The Unbreakable Genius of Mark Zuckerberg - Popular Science
Popular Science
Popular Science
We can play chess on Mars.” Zuckerberg's long game isn't the chessboard, or even building out a virtual Mars—though he plans on being a part of that too. His driving vision is to connect our entire planet. For that reason, he pushed Facebook to buy ...
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How to Become an Expert at Anything, According to Experts - TIME
TIME
TIME
Whether you want to be a great public speaker, study for exams or improve your free throws, we're going to learn what methods research and experts recommend for becoming an expert at anything. ... They didn't start with the beginning of a chess game.
Here's why Apple and Samsung earn money on smartphones while others don't - Fast Company
Fast Company
Fast Company
A recent research report from Cannaccord Genuity showed Samsung and Apple are the only companies making any money from smartphone sales, reports ZDNet. Together the two companies nabbed virtually all of the profits from smartphones in the second ...
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Chess master turns 110 years old - CBC.ca
CBC.ca
CBC.ca
Nearly100 years of playing chess may have something to do with Zoltan Sarosy's ability to remember events that happened before the First World War. Sarosy turns 110 on Tuesday, and according to the Gerontology Research Group, that makes him the ...
Human brain, robot brawn - MoneyWeek
MoneyWeek
MoneyWeek
“Human and machine collaboration is something we've taken for granted since we first discovered how to make fire. For instance, a computer can beat a grand master at chess. ... Earlier in the month, researchers at the Walk Again Project in Brazil ...
Clubs & Meetings: Aug. 23-29 - The Daily Courier
The Daily Courier
The Daily Courier
Northern Arizona Genealogy Society free assistance with genealogy research, 1 to 3 p.m. the 2nd and 4th Thursday by appointment at Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St. 928-777-1500. Occupy Prescott, in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, meets 5 ...
Why Do We Judge Parents For Putting Kids At Perceived — But Unreal — Risk? - KUOW News and Information
KUOW News and Information
KUOW News and Information
In a conversation by email, the paper's authors (developmental psychologists Ashley Thomas and Barbara Sarnecka, and philosopher Kyle Stanford, all of the University of California, Irvine) were kind enough to answer a few questions about their research ...
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After Vanguard gains $550-billion ETF lead, Fidelity makes '... - RIABiz
RIABiz
RIABiz
“They're trying to pull a rabbit out of the hat here with ETFs,” says Ben Johnson, director of global ETF research for Chicago-based Morningstar Inc., referring both to Vanguard's proposed ETAF product he anticipates Vanguard will file in the near ...
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Meet the Team USA sports science guru transforming Everton FC - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
For head-to-head sports, including football, Vint is an advocate of the research of Hungarian physicist Arpad Elo. “We used a method originally developed to assess skill among international chess players (a USOC-modified version of the Elo method),” he ...
Halt and Catch Fire: The Most Relevant Show on Television--And Set in the 80s - Boing Boing
Boing Boing
Boing Boing
You see it in both Joe MacMillan, the IBM-expatriate turned mercurial entrepreneur, (played as expertly as a chess game by Lee Pace) and upstart programmer Cameron Howe (an unpredictable and edgy role perfectly cast with Mackenzie Davis), So I asked ...
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Halt and Catch Fire: The Most Relevant Show on Television - Boing Boing
Boing Boing
Boing Boing
You see it in both Joe MacMillan, the IBM-expatriate turned mercurial entrepreneur, (played as expertly as a chess game by Lee Pace) and upstart programmer Cameron Howe (an unpredictable and edgy role perfectly cast with Mackenzie Davis), So I asked ...
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Who Hacked The NSA? - Popular Science
Popular Science
Popular Science
But, before we can understand the significance of the leak, the mystery behind the identity of the Shadow Brokers, an eight-foot-tall alien, and the diplomatic chess game surrounding it all, we have to start with a report released in 2015. Last year ...
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Duturte should be cautious of game playing between major powers - Global Times
Global Times
Global Times
The new Philippine government has attracted a great deal of attention from the international community recently. President Rodrigo Duterte's recent comments on the country's foreign relations puzzled observers, and the Japanese media complained that ...
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Laura Trott: 'Girls are put off sport because they get embarrassed' - The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian
Studies have consistently proved that girls lose their self-esteem en route to adolescence; research from UN Women claims that at puberty, a girl's confidence drops at twice the rate of a boy's and that, at that time, 49% of girls drop out of sports ...
Farm tractors used to play massive game of chess | WPXI - WPXI Pittsburgh
WPXI Pittsburgh
WPXI Pittsburgh
HINOJOSA, SPAIN - A small town in Spain was the scene of a chess game played in a farm field, using tractors as chess pieces. 32 tractors took their positions ...
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Mirror Trades and Tax Tricks - Bloomberg
Bloomberg
(Amazon "said that the IP was perishable given the high failure rate of tech companies," and argued that U.S. authorities "had drastically underestimated the amount of research and development costs that should be attributed to" its Luxembourg ...
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The Dismal State Of The World Economy In 4 Charts And A Table - Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
Some of you will remember when Deep Blue beat the world's best chess player, Gary Kasparov, in 1997. (Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) AlphaGo beat the world's ... Monsanto also produces vegetable seeds and spends over USD181 million per year in ...
Moving from primary to secondary school: a parent's survival guide - Irish Times
Irish Times
Irish Times
Research shows that, in the hiatus caused by the move from primary to secondary school, “a high proportion of kids suffer educational progress deficit – something about the transfer from one set of educational parameters to another causes them to dip ...
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