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Similar stories are playing out everywhere, where people are reclaiming not only old railroads, but also degraded urban waterways and obsolete roadways, reinventing all of the infrastructure in their lives.
Now, there was always an essential nugget of Carly in there, but the character and the story adapted to whomever was playing her.
We are always, constantly playing the zero sum game.
If you play a video game, you're playing against an AI.
There was all this merengue blasting, neighbors socializing on building stoops and animated conversations over domino playing.
She's sitting on the carpet in your living room playing with your daughter Marianne.
And people have been playing around with extra dimensions of space for a very long time, but it's always been an abstract mathematical concept.
And a month and a half later, I come back to Switzerland, and there he is playing with his own version.
This next one here, "Machine with Wishbone," it came about from playing with this wishbone after dinner.
This kind of work is also very much like puppetry, where the found object is, in a sense, the puppet, and I'm the puppeteer at first, because I'm playing with an object.
But I was interested to see what reaction we might get by gamifying the data in the way that we have, by using animation and playing on the fact that people have their own preconceptions.
I was very interested to see that we got something like a quarter of a million people playing the quiz within the space of 48 hours of launching it.
The best chess players spend a lot of time not playing games of chess, which would be their performance zone, but trying to predict the moves grand masters made and analyzing them.
The idea with bounded ethicality is that we are perhaps overestimating the importance our inner compass is playing in our ethical decisions.
Who wouldn't be enchanted by a young boy playing a piano piece with his feet, because his arms are atrophied?
They're not on the real field, but they're on a simulated field, and they're playing in the pregame season.
So I went over there and plopped down like I owned the place, and I'm playing, and all of a sudden, the boy next to me, he was wearing a white shirt with blue shorts.
Suddenly he stopped playing and he said, "Why are you so short?"
And I just kept playing.
About this time, I looked all around the circle I was in, and all the kids had stopped playing and they were all looking at me.
What role do you see it playing?
If you're like me and you believe in forwards and outwards, and you believe that the best thing about humanity is its diversity, and the best thing about globalization is the way that it stirs up that diversity, that cultural mixture to make something more creative, more exciting, more productive than there's ever been before in human history, then, my friends, we've got a job on our hands, because the inwards and backwards brigade are uniting as never before, and that creed of inwards and backwards, that fear, that anxiety, playing on the simplest instincts, is sweeping across the world.
My dad was outside mowing the lawn, my mom was upstairs folding laundry, my sister was in her room doing homework and I was in the basement playing video games.
Since that day, I think about that girl waking up in the morning, having breakfast with her family, who had seen the video, and then walking to school, meeting people that had seen her naked, arriving to school, playing with her friends, who had also seen her.
They describe the tears that they've shed for my son, and it makes my burden of grief just a little bit lighter knowing that it's shared with a 10-year-old watching a YouTube playthrough, or a doctor playing on his airplane with a smartphone, or a professor introducing Joel to her first-year philosophy students.
We would spend hours and hours playing tag with his older sister, Alexia, and when we said: "I caught you!" he would look around for us, and at that moment, I could feel he was alive.
It turns out that while listening to music engages the brain in some pretty interesting activities, playing music is the brain's equivalent of a full-body workout.
Playing a musical instrument engages practically every area of the brain at once, especially the visual, auditory, and motor cortices.
As with any other workout, disciplined, structured practice in playing music strengthens those brain functions, allowing us to apply that strength to other activities.
The most obvious difference between listening to music and playing it is that the latter requires fine motor skills, which are controlled in both hemispheres of the brain.
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