Discourse Chronicle

Andreas Wieslander’s bachelor thesis, entitled “IN REAL GAME,” is “a project about marketing games through live performances, in order to focus on the games feel, rather than its graphics and sfx.” He has chosen the infectious beats and charms of the PlayStation classic Parappa the Rapper to illustrate this concept. They act out the roles […]

category: Gaming, Humor, Pedagogy, Poetry, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology    

Take Skyn, which makes colorful laptop covers that can be reused on multiple laptops. Skyn’s co-founder, Letitia Lucero, was looking for a colorful laptop a few years ago, but couldn’t find anything she liked. After experimenting with materials in partnership with her husband, Miguel, they discovered a type of plastic that stood up to the […]

category: Popular Culture, Technology    

The report, in February’s Anesthesia & Analgesia, doesn’t discount concerns that wireless communications can interfere, electromagneticly, with medical devices like life-support ventilators, monitoring equipment and intravenous infusion pumps. The risk of crossed wires occured 2.4 percent of the time during research. But that rate was much lower than the 14.9 percent risk of medical error […]

category: Technology    

Six viruses have already been shown to produce obesity in animals, but University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have now shown that a human virus can cause obesity in chickens, a strong suggestion that it could make people fat, too. The findings, which implicated a type of adenovirus, were released by the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative […]

category: Health    

With a certificate to teach several high school science subjects, recent University of Texas graduate Steve Sinski is getting the kind of attention usually reserved for the football players on campus. […] “You have to want to (teach). They’re not paying teachers like the glamorous research jobs,” said Sinski, who had thought he’d follow his […]

category: Pedagogy    

Thanks for submitting an abstract to this year’s graduate student colloquium, Cultural Collisions. Your paper – “Superman’s America: Audience, Reception, and President Lex” – has been enthusiastically accepted! Please keep an eye out for a more detailed program in the near future. [Acceptance into “Cultural Collisions” fills my conference card for this academic year. I […]

category: Acceptances, Life    

Broadband subscribers are far more valuable to AOL than dial-up subscribers for a host of reasons, Redling said. “Customers stay with us longer when they move to high speed,” he explained. “And with advertisers, we’re seeing such a move into rich media on our sites, so high speed opens the way for many more opportunities.” […]

category: Popular Culture, Technology    

Tiffany is suing eBay for allowing sellers to list and sell counterfeit Tiffany items on the site in America according to an article in the New York Times. The newspaper suggests that if Tiffany wins its case, not only would other lawsuits follow, but eBay’s very business model would be threatened because it would be […]

category: Popular Culture, Technology    

Flags at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and nine other NASA installations across the country were lowered to half-staff to honor the 17 astronauts who perished in the 2003 Columbia breakup, the 1986 shuttle Challenger explosion and the 1967 Apollo 1 launchpad fire. […] Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, […]

category: Technology    

[From Beth Davies. The elite attitude portrayed in this comic strip is not exclusive to comics as art, but also comics as a valid subject for academic study, which is a struggle all of us wade through. Navigating the minefield is difficult, as I remember last semester, when I was talking to a professor and […]

category: Comics, Popular Culture