Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
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Researchers used the game "Quake," which allowed them to change the appearance of characters.
Photo:Marco Arment (Flickr Creative Commons)
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May 22, 2013The University of Connecticut has come out with a new study on violent video games. It looked specifically at whether video games that pit players against human looking characters provokes more violent thoughts in the player than fighting non-human creatures.
When players fight human looking... read more
Connecticut's tourism branding campaign was unveiled last year.
Photo:CTVisit.com
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May 22, 2013The fortunes of the Connecticut Office of Tourism have turned around since 2009, when then-governor Jodi Rell infamously cut state funding for tourism marketing to just one dollar. Last year the state invested $15 million to promote the state's tourism industry.
The result was the Connecticut... read more
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May 16, 2013
Britain's Prince Harry capped his weeklong trip to the U.S. by winning a charity polo match at a star-studded event in Connecticut.
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May 10, 2013Middletown is gearing up for a special celebration Saturday.
The city's north end will will come alive with music, dancers and visual art Saturday. MiddletownRemix: Hear More, See More is a festival of Art and Sound that features a flash mob dance, a laptop computer Orchestra, and a host of o... read more
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May 9, 2013May is Foster Care Awareness Month, and as WNPR's Ray Hardman reports, advocates are pushing to extend foster care from 18 to 21 years old.
There are currently close to 4,000 foster care children in Connecticut. And when they turn 18, they begin a sometimes rocky transition into the real worl... read more
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May 1, 2013The Connecticut Department of Education has reached a new agreement with the plaintiffs in the decades long Sheff v. O'Neill case.
The lawsuit is meant to ease the racial disparity between students in Hartford Public Schools and neighboring school districts.
The latest settlement extends... read more
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Apr 24, 2013The City of New Haven's 375th birthday celebration will feature a laser light display.
New Haven was founded in 1638 by English Puritans. The c... read more
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Apr 16, 2013Information about yesterday's explosions at the Boston Marathon is still trickling in, but the two big questions - who did it and why - have yet to... read more
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Apr 12, 2013The Hartford Homeless Outreach Team heads out every Thursday to check-in on Hartford's homeless population and hand out lunches. They go out early... read more
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Apr 11, 2013Tonight the Frozen Four gets underway in Pittsburgh. The Frozen Four is the college hockey equivalent of the Final Four. This year, two of the team... read more
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Apr 5, 2013
It one of the greatest moments in Olympics history, maybe in all of sports - the 1980 Miracle on Ice.
The U.S. Men's Hockey team w... read more
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Apr 5, 2013Officials from towns in Fairfield and New Haven counties got a crash course on transit oriented development.
Roger Reynolds is the senior staff... read more
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Apr 2, 2013So, most of the snow has melted. The day are longer and warmer. And you may be starting to think about your garden.
Anne Rowlands, co-publisher... read more
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Mar 27, 2013An 8-month-old harbor seal pup has successfully recovered from a flipper amputation and is now on view at Mystic Aquarium.
She's called Pup 49,... read more
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Mar 15, 2013Austin, Texas is the epicenter of the music world, at least for the next few days. The South By Southwest Music Festival got underway Tuesday. Ever... read more
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Mar 6, 2013Yale University announced the winner of its inaugural Windham Campbell literature prizes. The award was established by a gift from the estate of wr... read more
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Feb 28, 2013A Connecticut museum has been selected to contribute to an upcoming NASA mission.
Bridgeport's The Discovery Museum and Planetarium will join... read more
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Feb 27, 2013The state legislature is mulling over a host of bills in response to the Newtown tragedy. Most concern gun policy, or mental health care but yester... read more
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Feb 25, 2013Dr. Amy Arnsten, Professor of Neurobiology and Psychology at Yale University, spoke to WNPR's Ray Hardman, on her recently released findings from a... read more
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Feb 21, 2013It's clear that the Legislative Bi-Partisan Task Force charged with making recommendations in repsonse to the Newtown tragedy will probably miss th... read more