Brenda Laurel on games for girls

Here is the beaver. And here is the stream, and the aspen and the alder and the willow.

And this is an English willow air diffuser, and that's softly moving that air current through the room.

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.

Now I make a daily pilgrimage to visit a particular weeping willow by the Seine, and I hunger for the green fields in the bush outside Bukavu.

He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil he placed it beside many waters he set it as a willow tree.

He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil he placed it beside many waters he set it as a willow tree.

He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

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.

Agriculture there has been damaged by the cutting of walnut, apricot, and mulberry trees for winter fuel, and by a failure to replant poplar, willow, and tamarisk the trees that hold fragile meadows in place. These sorts of trees can be restored, given a concerted campaign and investment in nurseries to produce local varieties.