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...imagines he could write in "flawless Harappan" - even though he may have no idea what the assembled sequences would mean. Rajesh Rao, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Washington and a co-author of the study, says the task ahead of them is "like a jigsaw puzzle, one where you try to fit meanings into patterns and sequences." At the moment, he and his team are wary of ascribing meaning to the signs - an act of conjecture, he says, that has led other Indus Valley experts in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoding the Ancient Script of the Indus Valley | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...premise is simple: as variously shaped groups of four blocks fall down the screen (trivia answer: they're called "tetrominoes"), a player must fit them together like a jigsaw. When a horizontal line is completed, it disappears, freeing up more space to play the game. Once the stacked blocks reach the top of the screen you're toast. But there's something about the formula that sets a hook deep in our psyche; players have even reported seeing the falling blocks in their sleep. "I believe there is some basic psychological pleasure sensor that Tetris has found that other [games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 Years of Tetris: From Russia With Fun! | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...neither the place of University President Drew G. Faust nor the institution of Harvard to pompously welcome seniors “into the company of educated men and women” on Commencement Day, as if a mortarboard is somehow the last missing piece of the finite jigsaw of one’s “education.” The University no longer even has the chutzpah to define confidently what an “educated” person is. Gen Ed, then, is just one in a series of institutional attempts to deal with the long-term decline...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All At Sea | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

When I can, I try to swim. I like to do jigsaw puzzles. Maybe on a Sunday morning sleep late and read a book. Not much time for too much of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...process] is like putting a jigsaw puzzle together,” Shen said. “This [meeting] is the box of the jigsaw puzzle—we want to make sure the puzzle is going in the right direction...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Planners Present Allston Framework | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

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