It's time to flex those brain muscles that have been stagnating here for too long! Pop quiz! Mix and Match! The following abstracts are taken from the TV Guide listings for tonight's prime time lineup and from the Media Lab's Colloquium Series for 1996-97. Can you match the abstract with the show or talk? The quizes will be graded during GSB.

A. Urkel pulls strings to get everyone tickets to a New Edition comeback concert, but Carl and Harriette find that they're stuck with babysitting chores. The members of New Edition appear as themselves.

B. A Halloween-themed profile of a Salem, Mass., woman who uses her alleged psychic powers to help the police solve crimes.

C. Large corporations invest millions in spurious notions such as perpetual motion, and self-appointed gurus become best-selling authors by promoting ancient, disproved, medieval medical ideas. A second Dark Ages period is upon us. With James Randi as a professional magician (The Amazing Randi), author and lecturer.

D. "Logopolis." The Doctor and Adric travel to Logopolis, the City of Logic.

E. Music is not only the ideal art form for self-discovery and the development of individual personal potential in its listeners and practitioners, but, in its technological form, also the ideal art for live, real-time collaboration between the listener/creator and the source of the sounds and structures which go to make up the music.

F. It's a bad sign for Nash (Don Johnson) when it appears that the infamous Zodiac serial killer has resurfaced.

G. A shadowy killer commits several heinous murders and terrorizes a small child, leaving police enough clues that Frank (Lance Henriksen) thinks the slayer seeks "to gloat to show us how clever he is."

H. As designers and builders of online communities, we can learn powerful lessons by studying the social rituals that have succesfully shaped real-world communities, and applying these lessons to our own work.

I. A look at the "increasingly specialized interactions" between plant and animal life in the rain forests of Central America. Included: a caterpillar metamorphosing into a butterfly, which then eats bird droppings that contain life-prolonging amino acids; fruit-eating birds whose droppings help propagate trees. Also: a hunting jaguar; army ants.

J. Comics have a rich visual vocabulary, and people find them appealing.

K. Alexandra Powers and Heather Langenkamp portray the figure-skating rivals as they struggle to reach the 1994 Winter Olympics. Based on actual events.

L. "Attitude" is also a dance pose that depends upon balancing on one leg, a metaphor I find attractive for talking about girls' and boys' gendered thinking orientations in a postmodern digital world.

Match those abstracts to the following show/talk titles:

1. Family Matters
2. Doctor Who
3. Caught in the Web?: Knowledge Re/Construction, Ethnographic
      Entanglements, and Other Mishigas
4. Comic Chat
5. Ritual Reality: Social Engineering in Cyberspace 
6. MOVIE: Tonya and Nancy: The Inside Story 
7. Collaborative Instruments and Interactivity in Music
8. Nash Bridges
9. In Pursuit of the Chimera
10. Predators of the Rainforest
11. Millennium
12. Unsolved Mysteries

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7th floor playroom
March 7, 1997
5:30 pm