FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate has determined what she believes to be the leading cause of college dropouts— and it’s not alcohol. Tate recently gave a speech to the Practicing Law Institute in which she said:

With the explosion of educational resources available online, one might think parents would be 100% pleased with the internet’s ro...

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Soon nerds on campus will have three more reasons to not leave their dorm rooms, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. Bizzard is set to unveil new details about all three games starting today at BlizzCon, at the Anaheim Convention Center. The three upcoming releases will be spotlighted, and it’s unlikely any new ...

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Apparently if you’re a professor, you can turn your hobby into something they pay you $100,000 to continue doing as “research.” Well, sort of. That’s almost the case with UC Irvine’s professor Bonnie Nardi who got a large grant from the National Science Foundation to study the absurdly popular and addict online role playing game, World of Warcra...

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Collegiate nerds, video game enthusiasts and World of Warcraft junkies, rejoice!

Blizzard, the acclaimed creators of WoW, Diablo and Starcraft, has released a new cinematic trailer for their upcoming World of Warcraft expansion pack, The Wrath of the Lich King, and it’s chilling – to say the least.

In the short, yet mind-blowing, three-minut...

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