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Video Games Found To Decrease Brain Activity
Richard C writes "A Japanese researcher, Akio Mori, from the Nihon University's College of Humanities and Sciences, claims to have found a link between the playing of video games and the balance of activity in the brain. It is also claimed that this effect can cause behavioural changes, such as lack of concentration, difficulty with social association, and short temper. These effects are also thought to be, to some extent, nonreversible." I was gonna say something witty and insightful here, but
I can't think of anything. At least I can't make a windows machine stable
enough to run Neverwinter or my brain would be toast.
I pretty sure he meant Microsoft Windows, not video games.
Was that a dig at Microsoft or a dig at himself for not being able to maintain a stable computer? I'm expecting any minute now a flood of posts "Well, I CAN maintain" blah blah blah
Denver Isuzu Suzuki
-a friend of mine playing a game on his TI86 during yet another semi-boring APCS lecture
How does this compare with a comparable level of exposure to TV?
I can't imagine that watching TV would be more helpful than playing a video game where atleast some thought was required.
He didn't say you had to sleep with tons of people. He just said that you should have advanced social skills, so that you could walk into any social situation and walk out with someone who would be willing to do whatever you want.
Social skills are important. And I mean real social skills, not chatting on AIM or IRC.
My other first post is car post.
Stop playing WarCraft 3... It's enough that looking at all that porn is making you go blind, you hoser!
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
"Nihon" == "Japan" in Japanese.
[insert witty comment here]
Nope, actually most house/techno comes from europe, it was invented in Germany and the Netherlands, expanded to Great Brittain, and to the USA. Certain styles never even made it to North America.
Make a man a fire and he will be warm for a day, set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life
Hmmm let me check:
Pink floyd, nope, very different build.
Within Temptation, some yes, some no.
Rhapsody, Not a single 'normal' song.
I'll stop here, my music is probally not popular enough, not being from the USA etc.....
Make a man a fire and he will be warm for a day, set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life
Right! I can just say: dyslexics of the world untie!
Enoc