
A group of researchers recently reported that they were able to determine the mass of a supermassive black hole by mapping out a disk of gas swirling around it. In this video I discuss this result and how it connects to the game On Tour.
Playing games in my free time…and when I should be doing other things
A group of researchers recently reported that they were able to determine the mass of a supermassive black hole by mapping out a disk of gas swirling around it. In this video I discuss this result and how it connects to the game On Tour.
We created beautiful sculptures by stacking pieces of junk in Junk Art, the next game in our A-Z game shelf play-through.
Why is Mendeleev’s table the one we credit for finally bringing the elements together? He wasn’t the first to try, so what was different about his attempt?
We carefully pulled blocks from an unsteady stack in Jenga, the next game in our A-Z game shelf play-through.
We tried to break tiles out of the pack in order to get ours off the board in Isolate, the next game in our A-Z game shelf play-through.
A little while ago I wrote about space as a theme in games, and how one compelling reason to use it as a them is […] Read More
We laid tiles to create strings of symbols in Ingenious, the next game in our A-Z game shelf play-through.
This year – 2019 – has been named the International Year of the Periodic Table to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the development of this tool that is used across the sciences. I discuss how an astronomer sees the periodic table and how it connects to the game Century: Golem Edition (or Century Spice Road).
We repaired, combined, and deconstructed crazy machines in a dream factory in Imaginarium, the next game in our A-Z game shelf play-through.