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Experience Time Warp With MIT’s New Special Relativity 3D Educational Game
Ever wonder what it would look like to travel at the speed of light? The folks at MIT’s education games lab have created a simple 3D simulator to teach the masses about the counterintuitive principles of one of physics’ most important concepts: special relativity. The professionally-designed, yet simple first-person game places users in a Lord [...]
Continue reading...Numbers game: America’s struggle to make math fun
Friday, April 13, 2012
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The inaugural Lure of the Labyrinth tournament, designed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, challenges kids to navigate an online monster lair by solving math and logic puzzles. Top scorers in the competition, which kicked off this month, can win tablet computers. DimensionU, an online game company, this week launched another national tournament, [...]
Continue reading...MIT crowdsources and gamifies brain analysis
Monday, February 20, 2012
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MIT wants to task thousands of people with analyzing a 0.3-millimeter slice of mouse retinal tissue. Using a new site called Eyewire, MIT will ask users to track a neuron’s path by coloring in each axon (tendril). In the future, MIT will roll out another “game” which challenges users to find the synapses. The end result [...]
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
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