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...bring together enthusiasts. To these aficionados, Tetris is not just a game invented in Soviet Russia with catchy music and falling blocks. The Society’s constitution describes Tetris as a game that “presents a challenge in precision, timing, advanced planning, strategy and abstract spatial reasoning.” It may sound geeky and a bit too math-oriented, but that’s exactly how the society likes it. Rennard admits, “Tetris is pretty dorky, I won’t say it isn’t. But there’s something...
...Grandpa built. With this in mind, I enrolled in elementary Vietnamese this semester. I stumble over words and mix up tones, sounding more like a cat in heat than a native speaker. Fortunately, I know in time it will prove worthwhile. Before visiting Vietnam, the country existed as some abstract place that belonged to my mother. But now I know a part of it is mine. When my friends ask, “What are you ever going to do with that class?” I don’t second-guess my intentions. I’ll return...
...Basically, you don’t come in and, for some abstract idea, quash ongoing campaigns that are already showing signs of success,” he says...
...About It. This philosophy--championed most famously by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget--explains the near ubiquity of counting rods and beads, known in academic circles as manipulatives, in most grade-school classrooms. As kids approach adolescence, however, they may be ready for slightly more abstract methods of learning, and computers may offer just what they need...
...monumental canvas invites you to stare until your soul merges with its utter blueness. Barnett Newman painted Ulysses in 1952, after the failure of his first two solo shows. But instead of making his art more accessible - his paintings had been criticized as "nearly blank" - he traveled farther into abstraction. Ulysses and its companions, the inkier Day Before One (1951) and the sable Prometheus Bound (1952), strike the viewer with the primeval and inexplicable force of Stonehenge monoliths. These works need to be seen to be believed. "There is no substitute for the personal experience of these paintings," says...