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Clive Thompson has a really interesting short piece on the rise of video game novels.

The latest Digital Storytelling Festival will be held in early October in San Francisco. If you’re interested in interplay between narrative and technology, I highly recommend this gathering.

Tom Friedman, writing from Singapore, explains how that tiny island city-state is infusing right-brain thinking into its schools with something called the

“Stable marriage can increase the financial prosperity of couples and improves the lives of American children, including those being raised by same-sex couples,” says a new Brookings study.

At least that’s what a founder of GolfPsych told that noted neuroscientific journal, Myrtle Beach Golf Magazine, in this intriguing article about the mental side of golf.

“A quirky or socially awkward approach to life might be the key to becoming a great artist, composer or inventor,” says new study. The research, carried out by two Vanderbilt University psychologists, offers the “first neurological evidence” that oddballs — those who aren’t mentally disturbed but who aren’t quite, uh normal — are more creative

That’s what Iconoculture calls Australia’s first certified-organic golf course.

Today’s Detroit Free Press has sidebar full of Conceptual Age factoids. The box o’ facts accompanies Desiree Cooper’s column and previews an event we’re doing next week in the Motor City.

A human resources study released today finds that 42% of Americans will spend part of the Labor Day holiday working. Why? Some people–nurses, police officers, and others–must be on the job. But for many others the reasons are different. “It’s not because of the boss,” says one of the study’s authors. “It is largely because

What would 1,000 Americans tell President Bush about Iraq if they could sit down with our commander-in-chief for 15 minutes? Gallup has the answer.