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The 1950s Game That Glorified the Dangers of the Atomic Age Uranium Rush appeared in 1955, as prospectors flocked westward in search of the newly sought-after resource. A decade earlier, when...

Reality Is in the Eye of the Beholder Our perception of reality is a subjective lived experience, a virtual construct shaped by our senses, biology, and personal history.

By Shimon Edelman

When Teachers Dread Science, Students Suffer Adult anxieties about STEM can stifle children’s curiosity — but there are ways to break the cycle.

By Frank C. Keil

The Hyperloop: A 200-Year History of Hype and Failure Elon Musk's Hyperloop Alpha is another overhyped venture, recycling 200-year-old dreams and exaggerated claims of innovation.

By Vaclav Smil

Game Histories

The Game Histories series focuses on outlining a critical historical study of games by commissioning works from scholars and professionals whose interests in game history are astute and serious, theoretically multidisciplinary, exhibit acute attention to historiography and historical methodologies, and whose wide-ranging subject matter is exhaustively researched.

Series editor: Henry Lowood and Raiford Guins

Playing at the World, 2E: Three Pillars of Role-Playing Games by Jon Peterson is filled with unparalleled archival research from obscure fanzines to letters, drafts, and other ephemera. The second volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, this is the ultimate geek’s guide to the original RPG.

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