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...It’s so much more personal than that,” Ferguson says. In their presentations, Ferguson and Kroiter gave the animation students a chance to try their hands at the innovative medium. While students tended to keep their drawings simple, the accessibility and intrigue of the tool were demonstrated in spades. Upon trying it himself, this reporter couldn’t help but be reminded of the Nintendo Wii—using a wand in space to accomplish things on screen. “The Wii uses different technology,” Kroiter explains...
...serious learning disability to the mere flick of a neural switch and because, by doing so, it holds out a tantalizing possibility that one day a cure may be as simple as flicking that switch in reverse. Cohen Kadosh hopes the result will allow scientists to develop a diagnostic tool for dyscalculia based on neuroimaging. Identifying children with developmental dyscalculia would let parents intervene earlier to teach important math concepts, just as they can intervene today to help dyslexic children read better...
...they can find themselves in political hells caused, in part, by their emotional maladroitness. John Quincy Adams, historian, poet and translator, was one of the smartest Presidents ever, but he constantly knocked heads with a hostile Congress and then failed to be re-elected. Acting is a necessary tool, increasingly so in a democratic age when the audience is 300 million and candidates turn up regularly on TV talk shows. We, the voters and critics, must be responsible for deciding whether the performer is also wise and good...
...festival is Hillywood: "It is extremely important that we reach the rural areas, not only the urban middle class," he says. "In a country where 80% of the population can't read and write properly [the government estimates illiteracy at around 24%] movies can be an important tool to bring education to the people...
...raided Father Ly's diocese office and several homes in Hue over the lunar new year in February, they seized eight computers, nine cellphones and 147 SIM cards as well as 200 kilograms of documents denouncing one-party rule. "Their crime is damaging national security and serving as a tool of overseas reactionary and hostile forces against the government of Vietnam," the prosecutor told the court. The defendants had no lawyers present, but at least one didn't deny the charges. "For the country and the people of Vietnam, I will continue to fight for democracy," said the Progression Party...