Blind Gamers Take the Video Out of Video Games
Learn about how blind and low-vision gamers are taking the \u201cvideo\u201d out of video games, with Cornell University Professor Andrew Campana. Then, learn about a newly discovered mammoth fossil that shatters the record for the oldest DNA we\u2019ve ever found.
Additional resources from Andrew Campana:
- Andrew Campana's faculty page: https://asianstudies.cornell.edu/andrew-campana
- Andrew Campana, Cornell University \u2013 Taking the Video out of Video Games, Cornell Academic Minute: https://academicminute.org/2020/12/andrew-campana-cornell-university-taking-the-video-out-of-video-games/
- A Blind Legend: http://www.ablindlegend.com/
New kind of mammoth fossil shatters the record for oldest DNA by Grant Currin
- van der Valk, T., Pe\u010dnerov\xe1, P., D\xedez-del-Molino, D., Bergstr\xf6m, A., Oppenheimer, J., Hartmann, S., Xenikoudakis, G., Thomas, J. A., Dehasque, M., Sa\u011fl\u0131can, E., Fidan, F. R., Barnes, I., Liu, S., Somel, M., Heintzman, P. D., Nikolskiy, P., Shapiro, B., Skoglund, P., Hofreiter, M., & Lister, A. M. (2021). Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03224-9
- Callaway, E. (2021). Million-year-old mammoth genomes shatter record for oldest ancient DNA. Nature, 590(7847), 537\u2013538. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00436-x
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