Play to win

WorldChanging has a review of some recent multiplayer climate-policy games. The European Climate Forum is quoted as explaining:

Climate games may make the difference when communicating highly complex issues of climate change because they introduce a rather simple but very important element into communication: having fun. As known from the science of learning, having fun catalyses learning processes remarkably and makes people interested in subjects they would not make inquiries into otherwise.

WorldChanging also looked at the green chemistry angle of this year's Nobel. And while we're at that time of year, the LA Times has an amusing article titled The Nobel Prize for Creativity about the efforts of universities to link themselves, however tenuously, to as many Nobel laureates as possible. David Baltimore, Caltech's president, opines: "It is sort of a game, and you might as well play it by whatever rules you want, like solitaire".