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The problem with the toy-movie connection, say child development experts, is that it's helping to speed a gloomy trend that has been developing for decades?the creative death of playtime. "The most imaginative play takes place when children have gaps in information that need to be filled," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Figurine to the Big Screen | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

Though drawings featured prominently in Galileo's work, his role as artist and draftsman has until now been little more than a footnote in accounts of his life. The native of Pisa, Italy, born in 1564, would eventually be celebrated (and castigated) for his controversial celestial discoveries, his advocacy for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galileo's Moon View | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

Hard boiled Wonderland and End of the World, 1985 A sci-fi tale set in the Tokyo of the future amid a technology war. In alternating chapters, the unnamed protagonist, the sole survivor of an experiment to implant decoder chips in humans, fights to reunite his mind and shadow. Winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By the Book | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

Every business has its growing pains. But as companies explore why their expensive virtual outposts remain largely empty, Second Life has other, potentially more serious, issues. Governments are scrutinizing the four-year-old site as a possible haven for tax-free commerce, child-porn distribution and other unsavory activity. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Life's Real-World Problems | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

So they used genetic engineering to create a mouse without this crucial gene and devised an experiment to test the hypothesis. The mice were guided into a box where they would get a mild foot shock; they would react by freezing. Then they were guided into a very similar box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explaining Déjà Vu | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

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