The Angry Earth

Angry Birds, Angry Children, and Angry Meta-Analysts: A Reanalysis.

Ferguson's (2015a) meta-analysis assessed a very important and controversial topic about children's mental health and video games. In response to the concerns raised by researchers about the appropriateness of the meta-analytical methods used by Ferguson; we decided to reanalyze the data and discuss two major misconceptions about meta-analysis. We argue that partial correlations can (and should...

Angry Sparrow

Instrumentalists rely on physical gestures such as plunking, bowing, hitting, and blowing air into their instruments in order to produce sound; among tremendous number of human gestures, the body movements employed by musical performers are limited. This compositional project began with the idea of extending the relationship between human gestures and sound by electronic means. From that germin...

The Angry Birds AI Competition

SUMMER 2015 85 The aim of the Angry Birds AI competition (AIBIRDS) is to build intelligent agents that can play novel Angry Birds levels better than the best human players. The competition was initiated in 2012 by the authors of this report and is held in collocation with some of the major AI conferences such as the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2013 and again in ...

The myth of the angry atheist.

Atheists are often portrayed in the media and elsewhere as angry individuals. Although atheists disagree with the pillar of many religions, namely the existence of a God, it may not necessarily be the case that they are angry individuals. The prevalence and accuracy of angry-atheist perceptions were examined in 7 studies with 1,677 participants from multiple institutions and locations in the Un...

The Angry Effects of Self Control