[FRIAM] New Yorker profile of Will Wright (and more)

[J T Johnson]

FRIAM-ers:

The current issue of the American magazine, The New Yorker, has an
interesting article on Sim City developer Will Wright at
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/061106fa_fact
It touches on the popular history of gaming and Wright's current work with
Spore.

And in the same issue (no wonder I don't get any REAL work done) is a review
of the epidemiology of cholera ("Sick
City<http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/061106crbo_books>
Maps and mortality in the time of cholera" by Steven Shapin)  Another good
read about London doctor John Snow's work at
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/061106crbo_books

--T.

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