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Louis-Philippe Morency, Principal For SIMSENSEI, Netexplo 2014 Laureate

by Minter Dial | Apr 18, 2014 | Minter Dialogue, Podcast

Minter Dialogue Episode #99 This interview is with Louis-Philippe Morency, one of the Principal Investigators on the SimSensei project being run at USC. SimSensei was one of the top ten award winners at this year’s Netexplo Forum. Louis-Philippe, was voted...

Is your name scrabbled? Do you have a mind-scrabbling name? See what your name say about you!

by Minter Dial | Feb 27, 2013 | Branding

I have a few Polish friends whose names stand out as exceptional point scores for Scrabble. At least, that is, if you can find a way to throw in a few extra zzz’s into your word. My own name (N Minter Dial) is rather uninteresting from a Scrabble perspective in...

Why do we get sleepy?

by Minter Dial | Jun 4, 2010 | Health

One of my favourite topics and an under-discussed area in current life is sleep. Over-discussed in day-to-day life and clearly missing in solutions: being tired. Especially on Friday’s, like today, you hear the inevitable sounds of relief of the upcoming weekend...

V for Victory or V for V Painful? Obama and Michelle see things differently….

by Minter Dial | Sep 21, 2009 | Politics, Sports

This photograph from the UK’s Guardian newspaper (17 Sept 2009) caught my attention initially for the curious position, in the foreground, of the unfortunate person on the receiving end of a flip in a judo exhibition. Then I zeroed in on President Obama and...

Tetris helps in trauma therapy — But what about kids’ memories?

by Minter Dial | Jul 30, 2009 | Education

Via Sciences Humaines, a very insightful and thorough French magazine, I read [this article in the aug-sept 2009 issue] about how the video game, Tetris, has been identified as helping trauma victims recover. A study* by scientists at the University of Oxford...