Brenda Laurel on games for girls

Or the bog turtle, needing wet meadows and insects and sunny places.

Brenda Laurel I want to show you, real quickly, just a minute of Rockett's Tricky Decision, which went gold two days ago.

It's October of 1957, and Sputnik has just launched, and we're in Laurel Maryland, at the applied physics lab associated with Johns Hopkins University.

A TED archive gem. At TED in 1998, Brenda Laurel asks Why are all the top selling videogames aimed at little boys? She spent two years researching the world of girls to create a game that girls would love.

The need to wrestle with macroeconomic policy issues could easily cause talks to bog down and give protectionist lobbies the political ammunition they need. That is why the Trade Representative is wisely trying not to add macroeconomic policy into the bargaining, despite demands from powerful voices in the US Congress.