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Daily Mail: The Viking family buried with their favourite board games: Playing pieces were thought to entertain the dead in the afterlife.
Archaeologists have found board games at 36 Viking burials across Europe They were buried alongside Viking warriors but also with families Experts say it signifies the persons skill in the game and as a
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C/Net: Sense of the stars: New telescopes poised to unlock the universe
Advances in technology over the last 20 years are giving birth to a new generation of telescopes that will open up the skies. By Michelle Starr: “For nearly as long as we’ve walked the
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Baen: A Quantum of Consciousness
By John Lambshead “Every so often a new development in digital hardware or software is heralded as the beginning of artificial intelligence. And every time, I look at it and see a machine –
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War History Online: THE LOST BATTALION: HOW A PIGEON SAVED 200 LIVES IN WW1
“Major Charles Whittlesey knew the situation was desperate. Twenty-four hours earlier, on 2 October, 1918, he and his men had been ordered to advance againstheavily fortified German positions in the Argonne Forest in Northern
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HISTORIC 2ND KERNSTOWN – An-After-Action Report
By Claude Whalen: [Editor’s Note: Claude Whalen is the designer of the upcoming Revolution Games “First and Second Kernstown” in their “Blind Swords” series. He was also one of the main playtesters for Revolution’s
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Smithsonian: A Cutting-Edge Second Look at the Battle of Gettysburg
New technology has given us the chance to re-examine how the Civil War battle was won and lost By Anne Kelly Knowles; Interactive by Esri; Cartography by International Mapping “The technological limits of surveillance
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LoGM – Kickstarter Basics: Marketing
Published on Jun 17, 2016 “So you have a game, are planning a Kickstarter, got a review, but have no idea how to market your project? This video is for you!” – League of
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League of Gamemakers: Patients, Protections, and Boardgames – Part I
By Tom Jolly IN THE GAME INDUSTRY, COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARKS, AND PATENTS DON’T WORK. WE NEED SOMETHING ELSE. “Recently, a federal court in Texas handed down a judgment that game mechanics aren’t covered by copyright
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Brilliant Maps: Zone Rouge: An Area of France So Badly Damaged By WW1 That People Are Still Forbidden To Live There
“While WW1 ended nearly a century ago, its scars can still be found across Northern France and Belgium. Zone Rouge (French for Red Zone) is perhaps the ultimate example of this. At the end
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