An examination of the contributions that can be made by the field of non-mechanistic cybernetics (as elaborated by Gregory Bateson and Anthony Wilden) to a theory of videogames that views them as complex open systems in dynamic relation to players. Bateson, observing animal play, suggests that the playful nip has a complex relation to the earnest bite. This paper contends that the relation of p...

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1. INTRODUCTION: MAKING MONEY. With a title like this, one might expect to find described here some unsolved problem assigned a decidedly paltry bounty by a strapped mathematical institute, or perhaps a pet question from an eccentric, but thrifty, individual. Indeed, this is an article about how to make money, but it is not at all about some scheme to earn income. Rather, it concerns how actual...

1 United States and European Students’ Social-Networking Site Activities and Academic Performance Aryn C. Karpinski, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA Paul A. Kirschner, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands Anthony V. Shreffler, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA Patricia A. Albert, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA Carrie A. Tomko, Kent State University, Kent, O...

“Mr. Turnbull had predicted evil consequences, . . . and was now doing the best in his power to bring about the verification of his own prophecies.” ANTHONY TROLLOPE _____________________________ A lecture given at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in Summer 1953, as part of a course on Developments and trends in contemporary British philosophy, organized by the British Council; originally published under...

From the *Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of medicine and New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111; the *Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02152; the OLaboratory of Medical Biochemistry, Rockefeller University, New York 10021; and the Departments of U Pharmacological Science and ~Medicinal Analytical Chemistry, Genentech, Inc., South ...