15 MAY 2015 by ideonexus
Know Your Players
ACTING
Players who enjoy acting like getting into character
and speaking in their characters' voices. Roleplayers
at heart, they enjoy social interactions with NPCs,
monsters, and their fellow party members.
Engage players who like acting by ...
giving them opportunities to develop their characters'
personalities and backgrounds.
allowing them to interact regularly with NPCs.
adding roleplaying elements to combat encounters.
incorporating elements from their characters' backgrounds
into yo...Folksonomies: roleplaying
Folksonomies: roleplaying
16 JUL 2013 by ideonexus
DNA Divergence is in How You Count
It’s a common misconception that chimp DNA
differs from Homo sapiens sapiens genes by only a
single percent, but this number is apocryphal. In actuality,
the degree of similarity of human and chimp
genetic code depends mostly on how you count.
Since all complex organisms from Earth possess
great swaths of junk DNA inherited from a distant
common ancestor, there tends to be startling similarity
between many organisms. Sure, humans are like
chimps—but they’re also like flatworms and fruit...Folksonomies: dna genetic drift
Folksonomies: dna genetic drift
There's much more to the differences between Chimps and Humans than counting genes.
23 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
Cultural Impacts of Easy Access to Pornography on the Int...
The Internet is awash with sex. In a few hours, an innocent can see more of the pleasures and perversions of sex, in a greater number of close-up couplings, than a eighteenth century roué could experience in a lifetime devoted to illicit encounters. The Internet is the greatest sex education machine — or the greatest pornographer — that has ever existed. Having spent time teaching at a Muslim university, where the torrent of Internet sex was a hot topic, I would not underestimate its imp...What are the cultural and emotional impacts of the flood of pornography to people accessing the Internet?