Recent Posts
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Sandbox Summit Advisory Board Announced
Drawing from a variety of fields, the roster of accomplished professionals includes academics, educators, policy makers and toy developers.
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Podcast: “Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly”
A conversation between Yochai Benkler and Cass Sunstein, two of the most thoughtful and influential writers on the promise and the perils of the Internet Age.
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Cosmos Incognito: Vera Rubin Shines Light on Dark Matter
Vera Rubin and the irrefutable evidence she gathered to persuade astronomers galaxies spin faster than Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation allows.
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Podcast: Gregory Anderson, “The Show Business High Wire Act: Walking the Tightrope Between Studio Filmmaking and Independent Production”
Gregory Anderson, creator of Stomp the Yard, has been called a trailblazer for independent film distribution.
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Podcast: “Slightly More Than Expected from a Band of Novelists: On How and Why a Group of Writers Called Wu Ming Set to Disrupt Italian (nay, European) Literature and Popular Culture (and then Came to Boston to Brag About It)”
Wu Ming 1 is a founding member and representative of the Wu Ming Foundation, a collective of writers from Italy.
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Henry Jenkins to speak at Games for Change conference in NYC
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Chris Crawford (original founder of the GDC), Prof. Henry Jenkins (MIT), and Prof. James Paul Gee (University of Wisconsin-Madison) are all confirmed speakers for the upcoming Games for Change NYC conference, to be held June 3 and 4.
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Neon Signs, Underground Tunnels and Chinese American Identity: The Many Dimension of Visual Chinatown
What is Chinatown? Is it an imaginary construct, a real location, or a community?