Creating bacterial ‘fight clubs’ to discover new drugs
“Creating bacterial “fight clubs” is an effective way to find new drugs from natural sources.” That is the conclusion of…
Do Fruit Flies Have Emotions?
“For us, that’s a big step beyond just casually intuiting that a fly fleeing a visual threat must be ‘afraid,’…
Deep: a video game for calm, deep breathing
“New methods for treating anxiety, trauma and mental illness are emerging at the intersection of games and therapy.” – Laura…
OpenWorm
“OpenWorm is an open source project dedicated to creating a virtual C. elegans nematode in a computer.” openworm.org Via Boing…
Surgeon Simulator 2013
Surgeon Simulator 2013 @ Steam Greenlight Via Boing Boing: Bossa Studios created the surgery game “Surgeon Simulator 2013” in a…
Lessons in Building Information Modeling Adoption
“The whole process becoming like a video game design with everyone together working around one work space for a true…
Traffic Mimes
“The people of Bogota were more concerned about social disapproval than traffic fines, and so mimes [were hired] to playfully…
Caspian Learning Launches Simulation-Focused Web Deployment Tool
Caspian Learning is now offering development tools for web-based simulations, including first-person over-the-shoulder view in 3D worlds: Simulations and serious…
The Predictioneer’s Game
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, author of The Predictioneer’s Game, describes his game theory method as “a way of evaluating how…
Empowering Africa
Urgent Evoke is “a crash course in saving the world” … Online game seeks to empower Africa Game designer Jane…