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Location: 304 North Fairbanks (near Thayer Dining, same white building as Tucker Found but different entrance). Time: 4-7pm Date: Tues, May 12th Join us for a TILTFACTOR OPEN HOUSE! ENCOUNTER our research with the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Values at Play, and the Games and Learning Institute! PLAY our...

In his recent book On Deep History and The Brain, Daniel Lord Smail looks at how humans are tied to pleasure and stress release on a biological level. He uses “psychotropic,” a term usually associated with drugs, to describe social and systematic effects on human...

Mary was recently interviewed for a new podcast interview featuring Tiltfactor along with Suzanne Seggerman. The discussion focused on games for change and is part of a cool series over at the Brainy Gamer. Everyone's preparing for the Games for Change festival in NYC --...

It is promising to know that the Internet is facilitating community involvement in scientific research on an international scale. Take a look at recent articles about toad research in Africa, mapping the solar system, and there is one programme called Feeder Watch out of Cornell...

Jonathan Zittrain visited us at Dartmouth today. He's a Professor at Harvard Law School and Co-Founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He spoke as part of a lecture series of interest to Tiltfactor at ISTS. In "Civic Technologies and the Future of...

Join us this Wednesday, April 29, 2009! Moore Hall, B03 4:30pm Tea @ 4:00 PM in the Foyer outside B03 Luis Von Ahn, a Computer Scientist at CMU, is giving a talk on "Human Computation" -- harnessing human brainpower to solve problems that computers currently do...

USC's Tracy Fullerton will be giving a talk this Thursday on "How We Play - Game Innovation and the Significance of Play." Thursday, April 23 Carson L01 4:30pm Fullerton is the EA Endowed Chair in Interactive Entertainment, USC. This lecture is part of...

This is from Neuroanthropology, a collaborative blog from Australia. Read from the scientific community how researchers have found concrete links between the income - achievement gaps that appear in academic environments. Yes, social disadvantage results in neurological disadvantage. As noted by Lehrer even back in...

Monday April 13th, 2009 4:30 pm "The Ludic Century - In the Future, Everyone Will be a Game Designer" Dartmouth Campus, Hanover NH in the room L01 Carson (attached to the Baker Berry Library) Game designer Eric Zimmerman kicks off our Spring 2009 Lecture series here...

Dartmouth's 2009 Summer Arts Festival is offering Student Fellowships for for use in artistic projects to be created and exhibited over the summer term. The deadline for proposals is May 1st 2009. Games, films and performances can all be proposed....