“None Escape — The Island of Doctor Moreau” is a new play by Robin Abrahams, based on the novel by H. G. Wells, directed by Elizabeth Ross. The play premieres Friday, March 14, 2025, at Unity Somerville, 6 William Street, Somerville, Massachusetts, with performances running through Saturday, March 29. TICKETS are now on sale. Robyn Williams, […]
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Computer games: Should they be taken seriously or unseriously?
That can depend, to quite a degree, upon whom you ask. “A serious game is a name given to computer software that tries to achieve just that. While some people think that serious games and games for learning are synonymous, digital games can be used for ‘serious’ purposes other than learning. Serious games can be […]
An analysis of CEO shirking (at the golf course)
CEOs of high-profile (e.g. S&P 1500) corporations are sometimes tempted to shirk their duties. One quite well-tried method of shirking is to leave the office for the day and play golf instead. Thus, as an observer, if you take the position that shirking might in general hamper business performance, an extrapolated question can be asked […]
Playtime for Thick-toed Geckos in Space
An unplanned uncollaring led to an unexpected play session in space. This study tells what happened: “Object play in thick-toed geckos during a space experiment,” Valerij Barabanov, Victoria Gulimova, Rustam Berdiev, and Sergey Saveliev, Journal of Ethology, vol. 33, no. 2, May 2015, pp 109–115. The authors, at the Research Institute of Human Morphology, Moscow, […]
