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Virtual Reality

Video game experience, gender may improve VR learning

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Students who used immersive virtual reality (VR) did not learn significantly better than those who used two more traditional forms of learning, but they vastly preferred the VR to computer-simulated and hands-on methods, a new Cornell study has found. "We didn't know exactly what we were…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Pikachu

Cartoon Eggs

March 25th, 2020 | Inspiration | Japanese food artist Etoni Mama turns boiled and fried eggs into classic Disney and other beloved cartoon characters. Eggs shaped and manipulated to look like Winnie the Pooh and Pikachu. Also check out: Breakfast Food Art Read More

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Berlin Wall

Was COVID-19 Created To Distract Us from a Doomsday Asteroid?

As governments fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Snopes is fighting an “infodemic” of rumors and misinformation, and you can help. Read our coronavirus fact checks. Submit any questionable rumors and “advice” you encounter. Become a Founding Member to help us hire more fact-checkers. And, please, follow the CDC or WHO for…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Catalonia

Rooftop outings and nightly celebrations for brave medics: Life in Barcelona’s lockdown a ‘new normal’

By Andrew Burden Updated March 26, 2020 08:55:47 Confined to our apartment in Barcelona — a city in lockdown — every day we look at the numbers on those terrible graphs, and hope Australians will take advantage of the critical head start they have.We moved from Brisbane to Barcelona almost…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Hrant Dink

Mysterious 5,000-year-old sword discovered in Venetian monastery

A doctoral student in Italy discovered an ancient 5,000-year-old sword in a Venetian monastery.The student, Vittoria Dall'Armellina, was visiting the San Lazzaro degli Armeni Museum on an island in the Venetian lagoon when she spotted a small sword in a display cabinet among a number of medieval items.LiveScience reports that…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

VR

Video game experience, gender may improve VR learning

Students who used immersive virtual reality (VR) did not learn significantly better than those who used two more traditional forms of learning, but they vastly preferred the VR to computer-simulated and hands-on methods, a new Cornell study has found. "We didn't know exactly what we were going to see," said…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Joe Biden

Biden calls Trump’s Easter back-to-business goal ‘catastrophic’

(Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Wednesday that potential efforts by President Donald Trump to re-open American businesses in time for the Easter holiday could be “catastrophic.” The governors of at least 18 states, including New York and California, have issued stay-at-home directives affecting about half the…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Global Warming

Great Barrier Reef Has Third Major Bleaching Event in Five Years

Branching staghorn coral, acropora, is completely bleached during the 2017 coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef. Picture was taken on Pixie Reef. Brett Monroe Garner / Moment / Getty Images The Great Barrier Reef, a natural wonder that once teemed with life, just experienced a major coral bleaching…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Putin

Putin Delays Vote That Could Help Keep Him In Power

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bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Iran Liberalism

Sorry, AOC: Donald Trump Can’t Give Iran a Sanctions Pass for Coronavirus

Nine members of Congress, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and progressive standouts such as Alexandria Oscario-Cortez Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley, signed a letter on Monday calling on the U.S. government to loosen or lift sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran. “Sweeping U.S. sanctions have also harmed…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Video game experience, gender may improve VR learning

Cartoon Eggs

Was COVID-19 Created To Distract Us from a Doomsday Asteroid?

Rooftop outings and nightly celebrations for brave medics: Life in Barcelona’s lockdown a ‘new normal’

Mysterious 5,000-year-old sword discovered in Venetian monastery

Video game experience, gender may improve VR learning

Biden calls Trump’s Easter back-to-business goal ‘catastrophic’

Great Barrier Reef Has Third Major Bleaching Event in Five Years

Putin Delays Vote That Could Help Keep Him In Power

Sorry, AOC: Donald Trump Can’t Give Iran a Sanctions Pass for Coronavirus

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