Gaming

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Talks about Gaming

5:57 Under 6 minutes

Cosmin Mihaiu

Physical therapy is boring — play a game instead

Posted May 2015
5:40 Under 6 minutes

Shimpei Takahashi

Play this word game to come up with original ideas

Posted Mar 2015
11:48

Alex Wissner-Gross

A new equation for intelligence

Posted Feb 2014
7:18

Jane McGonigal

Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling?

Posted Nov 2013
18:42

Paola Antonelli

Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA

Posted May 2013
17:57

Daphne Bavelier

Your brain on video games

Posted Nov 2012
13:23

Read Montague

What we're learning from 5,000 brains

Posted Sep 2012
19:30

Jane McGonigal

The game that can give you 10 extra years of life

Posted Jul 2012
9:23

Brenda Romero

Gaming for understanding

Posted Apr 2012
16:41

Gabe Zichermann

How games make kids smarter

Posted Nov 2011
4:46 Under 6 minutes

Philip Zimbardo

The demise of guys?

Posted Aug 2011
19:50

John Hunter

Teaching with the World Peace Game

Posted Apr 2011
12:30

Ali Carr-Chellman

Gaming to re-engage boys in learning

Posted Jan 2011
16:28

Tom Chatfield

7 ways games reward the brain

Posted Nov 2010
18:00

Ze Frank

My web playroom

Posted Oct 2010
12:02

Seth Priebatsch

The game layer on top of the world

Posted Aug 2010
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Exclusive articles about Gaming

Why video games shouldn’t freak parents out

An advocate for educational video games realizes that our kids might actually learn more from Civilization, Minecraft, Call of Duty and World of Warcraft. Everything changed at ...