Articles Tagged with #kidstoday
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Personal Essays
Cheater Cheater
Everyone remembers their first, especially English professors. A professor confronts a student he busted for cheating—and who caused him to completely rethink plagiarism.
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Opinions
Standard & Poor
Accountability in education is here to stay—but you try creating tests that equally suit Texans and Hawaiians.
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Personal Essays
From Cover to Cover
Music connects to memories, and so do album sleeves. From ELO’s spaceship to Róisín Murphy’s see-through top, the covers that made one writer a fan.
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Opinions
A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families
Thousands of different Lego exist, yet when your seven-year-old asks for “a clippy bit,” you know exactly what to hand him. A breakdown of the atoms of a Lego universe.
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Consoles I Have Known
Second Place Is First to Lose
The current war between console makers is bloody, and sides must be chosen. A look toward the next generation.
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Personal Essays
The Dream Vacation
When appointments and schedules get in the way of travel plans, it’s easy to think of the summer as a lost cause. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Consoles I Have Known
Tilt
A look back to the dot-com boom years when money grew on trees, dreams were cast, and happiness could be delivered via Urbanfetch.
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Spoofs & Satire
A Mnemonic Guide to Remembering New Planets
Memorizing the newly assigned 11 planets may be tough for anyone who’s already graduated fifth grade.
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Consoles I Have Known
Praystation
Discovering Chinatown’s black market for gaming, and risking your dating life and career for long nights of back-alley entertainment.
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Consoles I Have Known
Three Thousand Head-Butts
Strong men also play video games. The story of how a young depressed man became a bear, dragon, tiger, and man-wolf.
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Consoles I Have Known
The Most Competitive Man Alive
Recounting lessons from a first Nintendo, particularly as taught by the highs and lows of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out.
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Consoles I Have Known
A Very Weird and Blocky Future
How many video games does it take to make a man? An epic new series traces a man’s life in gaming systems. Part one: paddles to jump-start your heart, and the end-all, be-all red fire button.