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Even Avatars Are Racist?

12:17 PM, September 12, 2008 | Comments (16)
Now that Americans are hanging around virtual worlds almost as much (it seems) as the real one, research on how we behave in places like Second Life and how things like our choice of avatar spills over into the real world is heating up. As I described...

Why You Can't Swat a Fly

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There's a Peasant Under My Van Gogh!

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  • Doggie See, Doggie (Sometimes) Do

    Paul Waldschmidt | Apr 30, 2007 02:06 PM
    If babies imitated everything they saw and heard, you certainly wouldn't want them hanging out with other babies; the whole lot would reinforce each other's worst behavior and unintelligible babbling. No, what you want is for the kid to imitate the speech... More
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  • (Not Quite So) Lonesome George

    Paul Waldschmidt | Apr 30, 2007 11:33 AM
    I kind of doubt that Lonesome George, the giant Galápagos tortoise who geneticists believe is the last survivor of his species will view this as good news for his social life, but conservationists are ecstatic. No, they have not found another member of... More
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