The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas. (30 Mar 2021, feed from Knowable Magazine) Anyone who has ever chucked a tennis ball in the general vicinity of a border collie knows that some animals take play…
(21 Nov 2020) The National Museum of Taiwan Literature (NMTL) on Friday (Nov. 20) has announced its upcoming online game “1940,” which gives players the thrill of saving the world in the future. The museum unveiled “1940” in the southern city of Tainan, saying the two-year project will be available for download next year. The…
(13 April 2018) With Talk to Books, Google provides an entirely new way to explore books. You make a statement or ask a question, and the tool finds sentences in books that respond, with no dependence on keyword matching. In a sense you are talking to the books, getting responses which can help you determine…
(4 May 2015) A card game to help teach (UK) copyright was developed by Chris Morrison, Naomi Korn and Jane Secker for a SCONUL seminar. The material to create the card game is available on the repository JORUM under a creative commons (CC-BY-NC-SA) license. There are instructions for tutors, a file of the cards to…