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Meet the Orthodox Star of Oscar-Nominated 'Son of Saul' - Forward

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 10:29

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Meet the Orthodox Star of Oscar-Nominated 'Son of Saul'
Forward
The process developed by the Germans was, in fact, chillingly effective. Shlomo Venezia, an Italian Jew who was one of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, once described it in his own testimony to the Holocaust Research Project: “The door was closed. Once ...

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Meet the Orthodox Star of Oscar-Nominated 'Son of Saul' - Forward

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 10:28

Forward

Meet the Orthodox Star of Oscar-Nominated 'Son of Saul'
Forward
The process developed by the Germans was, in fact, chillingly effective. Shlomo Venezia, an Italian Jew who was one of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, once described it in his own testimony to the Holocaust Research Project: “The door was closed. Once ...

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Understanding false memory - Illinois State University News

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 09:39

Illinois State University News

Understanding false memory
Illinois State University News
Professor of Psychology Dawn McBride has conducted years of research on why the memory works the way it does and the causes of false memory. She began researching the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) paradigm, which is used to study ... Without looking ...

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New York City Ballet Art Series Presents Marcel Dzama - Hyperallergic

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 09:30

Hyperallergic

New York City Ballet Art Series Presents Marcel Dzama
Hyperallergic
Following the highly acclaimed installations by FAILE, JR, and Dustin Yellin, New York City Ballet collaborates for the 2016 Art Series with Winnipeg native and Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist Marcel Dzama. Dzama will exhibit Art Series' first ...

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New York City Ballet Art Series Presents Marcel Dzama - Hyperallergic

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 09:25

Hyperallergic

New York City Ballet Art Series Presents Marcel Dzama
Hyperallergic
Following the highly acclaimed installations by FAILE, JR, and Dustin Yellin, New York City Ballet collaborates for the 2016 Art Series with Winnipeg native and Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist Marcel Dzama. Dzama will exhibit Art Series' first ...

Faces across the chess board – New Year tournaments, top prizes and new challenge - AL.com

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 08:06

AL.com

Faces across the chess board – New Year tournaments, top prizes and new challenge
AL.com
The Madison City Chess League's Winter Scholastic Chess Tournament was held on January 9, at Columbia Elementary, in Madison. Seventy students registered to play in both rated and non-rated sections. "Students ranged from kindergarten to high school ...

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Cotter student designs brain tumor-modeling program for neurosurgeons - Winona Daily News

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 07:31

Winona Daily News

Cotter student designs brain tumor-modeling program for neurosurgeons
Winona Daily News
Lee spent months preparing for a two-week internship at a private research firm in Chicago, where he developed a high-tech computer program designed to assist neurosurgeons and save lives. Lee's program took him two weeks of 12-hour workdays to create ...

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On Chess: Price of a chess set in time of war - 20 packs of cigarettes - St. Louis Public Radio

World Chess Hall of Fame - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 05:26

St. Louis Public Radio

On Chess: Price of a chess set in time of war - 20 packs of cigarettes
St. Louis Public Radio
On Dec. 12, 1941, less than a week after the attack at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attempted to take Wake Island, strategically located in the Pacific, but were thwarted by U.S. forces. Twelve days later, they returned with force and Wake Island was ...

On Chess: Price of a chess set in time of war - 20 packs of cigarettes - St. Louis Public Radio

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 05:26

St. Louis Public Radio

On Chess: Price of a chess set in time of war - 20 packs of cigarettes
St. Louis Public Radio
There is a scene in The Great Escape, the classic 1963 film about American and British POWs in a German camp, in which James Garner and Donald Pleasence discuss the art of forgery over a game of chess. The scene is brief and although chess is not the ...

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2015-2016 Lake County Leadership Team - Chicago Daily Herald

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 05:25

Chicago Daily Herald

2015-2016 Lake County Leadership Team
Chicago Daily Herald
Community service: Art class teacher for four years at Volo Bog Youth Art Guild; research intern at bird division of the Field Museum for two years; host for school's Veterans Day breakfast; logistics head for school's cancer fundraiser challenge, Hunt ...

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Honorable mentions: Northwest Suburban Leadership Team, 2015-2016 - Chicago Daily Herald

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 05:25

Chicago Daily Herald

Honorable mentions: Northwest Suburban Leadership Team, 2015-2016
Chicago Daily Herald
Community service: Worked as a research assistant for the Hospitalist Project at the University of Chicago; helped perform laboratory research in cancer pharmacogenomics at the University of Chicago; volunteered in Women and Infant Services at Alexian ...

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Redefining the Relationship of Man and Machine - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 02:09

Redefining the Relationship of Man and Machine
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
The spectrum of rapid recent advances runs the gamut from the kind of simple algorithmic intelligence it takes to win against a chess master, to the advent of thinking machines and IBM's neuromorphic chips (i.e. chips that attempt to mirror our own ...

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Galleries to Mount Joint Carolee Schneemann Exhibition - New York Times

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 02:00
Galleries to Mount Joint Carolee Schneemann Exhibition  New York Times

P.P.O.W. and Galerie Lelong will collaborate on that show. Also, the artist Marcel Dzama is designing sets and costumes for Justin Peck's new ballet.

Galleries to Mount Joint Carolee Schneemann Exhibition - New York Times

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 02:00
Galleries to Mount Joint Carolee Schneemann Exhibition  New York Times

P.P.O.W. and Galerie Lelong will collaborate on that show. Also, the artist Marcel Dzama is designing sets and costumes for Justin Peck's new ballet.

New York City Ballet Art Series Presents Marcel Dzama - Hyperallergic

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 02:00
New York City Ballet Art Series Presents Marcel Dzama  Hyperallergic

Following the highly acclaimed installations by FAILE, JR, and Dustin Yellin, New York City Ballet collaborates for the 2016 Art Series with Winnipeg native and ...

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