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In ‘Chess Capital’ of St. Louis, Game Takes Root in Poor Districts - Education Week
In 'Chess Capital' of St. Louis, Game Takes Root in Poor Districts - EdWeek
In 'Chess Capital' of St. Louis, Game Takes Root in Poor Districts - Education Week
In 'Chess Capital' of St. Louis, Game Takes Root in Poor Districts - Education Week
Dozens of new after-school chess clubs have recently launched in the St. Louis region's most challenged schools.
Amy Sedaris' newest character? An artist from Winnipeg - CBC.ca
Amy Sedaris is Marcel Dzama in a new digital installation created for the New York City Ballet's Art Series by, well, Marcel Dzama. Watch a preview!
Amy Sedaris' newest character? An artist from Winnipeg - CBC.ca
Amy Sedaris is Marcel Dzama in a new digital installation created for the New York City Ballet's Art Series by, well, Marcel Dzama. Watch a preview!
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
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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
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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
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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 ...
Local chess community comes together for one of its own - Fairfaxtimes.com
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Fairfaxtimes.com
... of players in Virginia and among the top 5 percent of all female players in the country, according to the U.S. Chess Federation, while Andrew helped the Greenbriar West K-5 team win a team title at the 2014 Virginia Scholastic Chess Championships.
Fauquier County community events - Washington Post
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Genealogical research help Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Trust volunteers help visitors. Mondays 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Tuesdays ... Chess Club Mondays 6:30-8:30 p.m. Warrenton Library, 11 Winchester St. Chessboards appreciated. 540-422-8500. Free.
Can the Great Powers Maintain Their Grip on Global Affairs? - World Politics Review
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World Politics Review
Wherever you look these days, unhappy regional powers and even some weak states are demonstrating a startling degree of contempt for the supposed masters of the international system. In the past two weeks, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies have ...
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Mercedes Got An MIT Prof To Explain Why Intelligent Cars Won't Take Over The World - Jalopnik
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Jalopnik
Mercedes really doesn't want you worrying about their new Car-to-X technology on their E-Class, so they brought in a researcher from MIT to tell the rest of us that robots won't take over the world and enslave mankind. I attended the U.S. debut of the ...
2016 winter-spring movie sneak previews - Miami Herald
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April and the Extraordinary World. Ten years after her scientist parents were abducted, a Parisian woman carries on their secret research and gets pulled into a vast conspiracy. With Marion Cotillard. Directed by Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci ...
Grandson of Vilna Rabbis Wins Prestigious Science Award - Haaretz
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In one part of his research, Golomb's work underlies the process called CDMA, or Code Division Multiple Access, which allows hundreds of thousands of cell phones in the same city to communicate at the same time. Among “recreational mathematics ...
Math Genius Grandson of Vilna Rabbis Gets Major Science AwardForward
Grandson of Vilna rabbis honored for scientific workThe Times of Israel
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12 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before January 15 - Observer
What to do in the art world this week, from Marcel Dzama to William Kentridge.
Will robots knock out Israel's best jobs? - The Times of Israel
The Times of Israel
The Times of Israel
Just as a computer can beat the best human at chess, algorithms can now drive cars, do your taxes and even diagnose cancer more successfully and with fewer errors than humans. Even though Internet theorist Jaron Lanier has argued in the past that ...