Media Coverage
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GamesIndustry International
Will Wright: Games "falling way short" as a medium
GamesIndustry International and ArsTechnica reported on a lecture given by Sim City designer Will Wright as part of the UCSC Arts Division Lecture Series "Engaging the Mind," where he discussed the current state of games and the recent Sim City Online launch.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Laurie R. King and three other crime novelists explore the links between fiction and faith
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about alumna author Laurie King and her participation in UCSC's annual Noel Q. King Lecture Series, named after the renowned campus religion scholar, who was also King's husband.
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National Geographic
African Clawed Frog Spreads Deadly Amphibian Fungus
Biologist Marm Kilpatrick, an expert on wildlife disease ecology, was quoted in a National Geographic story about the spread of a deadly fungus that has been wiping out amphibian populations around the world.
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Scientific American
Saturn is Shaking its Rings
Astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a Scientific American story, also published on Huffington Post, about the discovery that waves in Saturn's rings are caused by seismic motions in Saturn's interior.
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Gamasutra
Time to move on from the gameplay vs. story debate
Game news site Gamasutra gave in-depth coverage to the talk by computer scientist Michael Mateas, director of the Center for Games and Playable Media, at the center's Interactive Storytelling Symposium.
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Salon
Why are men still proposing?
Salon mentioned UCSC graduate student Rachael Robnett's study in an article on attitudes regarding marriage proposal traditions.
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Slate
Are dairy producers trying to sneak artificial sweeteners into our milk?
The online magazine Slate reached out to sociology professor Melanie Dupuis for comment in an article on moves by the dairy industry to put sweeteners into milk.
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CBSNews.com
Breaking up in the digital age is difficult, study says
A study by psychology professor Steve Whittaker on how break ups unfold in a digital age was featured in international news outlets from CBSNews.com to publications in Great Britain, India, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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Venture Beat
Warren Spector wants game designers to work on non-combat A.I.
VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi filed three stories from the Interactive Storytelling Symposium organized by the Center for Games and Playable Media, including one on keynote speaker Warren Spector, another on CGPM's game designer in residence Brenda Romero, and the third on Disney Imagineering creative director Asa Kalama.
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New Scientist
App helps blind photographers take the perfect snap
A smartphone camera app to help blind and partially sighted people take photos, developed by computer science graduate student Dustin Adams and others in the Interactive Systems for Individuals with Special Needs Lab, was the subject of stories in New Scientist magazine, Digital Trends, Tech Hive, and Hot Hardware.
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Financial Times
Time is money when it comes to microwaves
Astrophysicist Greg Laughlin and physicist Anthony Aguirre teamed up with a Stanford law professor to study the use of microwave communications for high-frequency trading in financial markets, and their findings are reported in an article in the Financial Times.
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Red Orbit
Picky Eating Drove Saber-Tooth Tiger To Extinction In Last Ice Age
Paleontologist Justin Yeakel was quoted in coverage of his research on the Pleistocene predators of the mammoth steppe, including stories from Red Orbit, Field & Stream, Science 2.0, eScienceNews, and PhysOrg.