Knowledge Adventure News Today

A while back I posted a note asking you all who you'd like to see interviewed here on Searchblog. The top vote getter was Bill Gross, of Goto/Overture, Picasa, Knowledge Adventure, and Snap fame. (He also starred in Chapter 5 of my book). Bill was gracious enough to agree...

The Remarkable — and Still Relevant — Story of Oregon Trail

This is the main reason that Disney had an extra important announcement with all of this required content accepted and officially confirmed to be in development

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1:18 Continued education for older people helps keep their brains healthy, but also is a way to make new friends. Credit insta_photos/Adobe Stock A program designed as a source of continuing education for older Idahoans has a new function during the pandemic: combatting social isolation. New Knowledge Adventures is in its sixth year of offering classes to people age 50 and over. Because of COVID-19, its classes have moved online, said Carol Hourcade, who chairs the outreach committee for the or...

Packaging for the Asciiware Sphere 360 PlayStation controller (photo courtesy of Hock Wah Yeo) When Hock Wah Yeo was hired by the game publisher Velocity, the head of the company gave him an unusual order: “Scare me.” 1     Let’s say you go to the store and buy a video game. What does it look like? Chances are, it comes in a plastic box, roughly the size of a DVD case, and there’s a logo on the top that tells you what platform it’s for — Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo. It’s easy to...