Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
As violent video games continue to become ever more popular and accessible, Tamar Gendler, chair of the cognitive science program and professor of philosophy, and other experts in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science, as well as gamers themselves, are debating whether pulling the trigger on your game console constitutes an immoral act. At what...
The city is closing half of its senior centers due to budget cuts, but it will add at least five new laptops at those that remain. At a meeting of the Board of Alderman Human Services Committee on Tuesday night, the eight board members present voted to apply to and accept a $10,000 grant from the Connecticut Department of Social Services to purchase 10 laptop computers...
The aim of a liberal arts education is to equip students with transposable skills useful in any career. The skills a liberal arts education emphasizes change based on the current state of society. The original skills were grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy. From those, we’ve kept grammar and logic and added requirements for science...
Study: Autistic children miss social cues According to a new Yale study, 2-year-olds with autism lack signs of attention to social cues that help newborn babies pay attention to other people. Published in the March 29 online issue of Nature, the study finds that, while non-autistic children pay attention to all human biological motion, autistic children only pay...
This past fall, Lisa Miller, a senior administrative assistant in the Yale College Dean’s Office, received an unexpected e-mail in her inbox. With a subject line reading “SEXUAL ERUPTION,” the e-mail announced a surprise get-together for the Yale women’s rugby team that night. Within 15 minutes, Miller replied. “Hello,” she wrote. “I don’t believe you...
Wedged in the corner of the Tower One Retirement Community’s first floor, room 100 is living up to its name: the “Activities Room.” Complete with a kitchen, multipurpose table and 14 computers, the room has taken on an additional role: technology center. Technology Across Generations, or TAG, is a computer tutoring program for seniors run by volunteers from the...
As Ira Glass ascended to the stage before a packed Law School auditorium, the audience erupted in enthusiastic applause. But as Glass, radio personality and the speaker for the Poynter Fellowship’s annual Gary G. Fryer Memorial Lecture, settled behind his desk, the entire auditorium plunged into darkness — and then, silence. “This is radio,” Glass said into his...
After six weeks of construction in Yale’s machine shop and practice in a high school gym, the Great Glass Elevator — a robot constructed from $8,000 worth of starter kit materials, plastic, metal bars and wheels — has finally come to life. It whizzes, turns, and even collects and dumps balls. The contraption is the Career High School robotics team’s entry in...
As part of a senior project supervised by electrical engineering professor Hür Köser, electrical engineering major Henrique Rocha ’09 has devised a mechanism that harnesses the energy generated by a stationary exercise bike at Payne Whitney to charge small electronic devices like iPods and cell phones. The green workout PRECOR bike, which was retrofitted with the...
Step aside, bloggers: Your days as the go-to reporters of the Internet are numbered. Twitter has shown itself to be a worthy, albeit unlikely, competitor to more traditional blog style news reporting. The power of blogs and other social news outlets has become ever more remarkable in recent years, particularly during Obama’s campaign and election. It’s become...
A gramophone sits on a laboratory table. It spins, becoming a turntable, boom box, cassette player. It’s smashed with a hammer, wielded by a disembodied hand. It is a CD player, hatching a first generation iPod, which slenderizes into a cellphone, blasting techno beats. Someone flicked on the lights. “You can see how they represent the process of media change,”...
Take heed, Apple Inc.: The compact disc has yet to surrender its final breath to the almighty iPod. Using a new metal that is stronger than steel but more malleable than plastic — called bulk metallic glass — Yale engineers have developed a process that will transform the manufacturing process of nano-devices — from computer memory to CDs and DVDs. “This is a...
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