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NEWS ABOUT: classics

classics stories: 5 news summaries
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Tetris Creators Want It in the Olympics

They dream of world connected by 'universal language' of game

Jun 13, 09 1:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - As it celebrates its 25th anniversary, Tetris is still selling like wildfire, so you’d have to forgive the men behind it a little arrogance. Creator Alexey Pajitnov and Blue Planet CEO Henk Rogers want Tetris to be an Olympic sport, they told CNN, and no, they’re not joking... More »

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Nintendo • video games • Olympics • classics • Tetris

 How Tetris Fell Into Place 


Jun 2, 09 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alexey Pajitnov was supposed to be an artificial intelligence researcher for the Soviet Academy of Sciences, but when he got his first computer 25 years ago, he used it to write games. He tweaked and translated mathematical puzzles he’d always loved, and one stood out right away. “The... More »

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Nintendo • video games • classics • Game Boy • Tetris

The Not-So-Bookish
Savor Twit Lit


May 12, 09 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Consumers short on time and even shorter on attention spans are turning to 140-character summaries of Great Books on Twitter, reports the Telegraph. Classics have been "distilled" into prose Twitterers can read in the time it takes to sneeze. Waiting for Godot? No problem: "Vladimir and Estragon... More »

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English literature • Samuel Beckett • Twitter • classics • tweet • Lady Chatterly's Lover • DH Lawrence • Jay-ZTV

 'Sexy' Classics We 
 Say We've Read 

We think fibbing about reading classics makes us appear intelligent, 'sexier'

Mar 5, 09 8:36 AM CST
(Newser) - The Bible, War and Peace, 1984, and Ulysses are some of the classics people say they've read but actually haven't, a new British study has found. Why? Two-thirds of those surveyed fibbed about their reading mainly to appear intelligent and "more sexually attractive," a researcher tells the Daily ... More »

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literature • reading • dating • book • lying • classics

 Psychologists: 
 Victorian Novels 
 Helped Us Evolve 

Victorian literature upheld cooperation, personal sacrifice

Jan 14, 09 6:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Victorian novels didn't just tout moralistic values of 19th-century British society, they helped altruistic genes flourish, a study claims. Evolutionary psychologists say classic characters such as Mr. Darcy and Count Dracula helped instill and promote a sense of right and wrong in society, the Guardian reports, specifically the notion that... More »

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Dracula • culture • English literature • Britain • society • morality • greed • progress • Victorian novel • classics • Pride and Prejudice • Middlemarch • Wuthering Heights

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