Math Genius: Play also helps to hone their numerical and mathematical skills. Children are able to grasp the concepts of math easily if started at an early stage. As a parent, it is your responsibility to develop this skill by engaging them in activities, such as counting the number of obj...
Interviews with ninety MacArthur Genius fellows found more than a quarter of them remembered creating intricate imaginary worlds in childhood while another 20 percent of the fellows report engaging in somewhat less elaborate worldplay. This is twice as high as the average population. It makes sense ...
Not in the ground of need, not in bent and painful toil, but in the deep-centred play-instinct of the world, in the joyous mood of the eternal Being, which is always young, science has her origin and root; and her spirit, which is the spirit of genius in moments of elevation, is...
When Simon McBurney set out to create a play about the fabled relationship between Cambridge mathematician G.H.Hardy and the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, he was immediately confronted by the question of how to engage the mathematics authentically.Undaunted by his own uneasiness ...
an alternative to the Euclidean geometry that welearn about in school, and a form that, over hundreds of years, manygreat mathematical minds tried to prove impossible.Sea slugs have at least the rudiments of brains; they generally pos-sess a few thousand neurons, whose large size has made th...
I’ve been thinking a lot about games lately. Well… if “thinking” is the right word for this. But it’s not just silly cartoons. It’s because my new book is all about mathematical games. It’s a friendly book. A yellow book. A tall book. In short: a Big Bird kind of book...
Will only resume my experience with each one in a phrase, I constantly shared impressions about them in my Monthly N2M Recaps. 9 | Stars - Exceeded expectations - True highlight, has that special something Evenfall [2023] : ➲ Impressive title from first time designer Stefano Di Silvio -...
A beautiful obituary of Ingmar Bergman from his relative (and detective novelist) Henning Mankell, with some insights into his genius that all players will recognise and glory in: Music, I believe, was always one of his main sources. The other I understand to be his childhood. Or, rather,...
This is yet another game about a boy who was turned into a goat who must convince the family cats to destroy an evil genius's machine before he can turn all of humanity into goats. Can't anyone come up with something original? All kidding aside, this is an incredibly unique theme in ...
It wasn’t long before some genius realized that if rocks could chase off hyenas, they could also kill game. Rocks weren’t very effective at the task, but these hominids developed a system that made up for that. It worked as follows: ...