This (troubledteenhelp.com) came in this morning in my google alert mailbox and when I read the contents, well the above image is the best descriptor. The website reports on a study that found 10% of teens (wrong!) being addicted to online and video games, the study has already been discussed more than five months ago (See Gentile, 2009).
I don’t mind the [...]
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Facepalm: TEEN GAMING ADDICTIONS ON THE RISE IN U.S. (The pinnacle schools inc., 2009)
Posted in Gullibility, Video games on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A flash game with a thought provoking “gray” message
Posted in Education, Gullibility, Politics, Video games on September 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For almost a year, I’ve spent much of my gaming time at Kongregate that I questioned, for a little while, my identity as a gamer. Perhaps I’m not a gamer anymore in the eyes of other gamers or perhaps I’m a different type of gamer.
Today, a game called “Gray” caught my attention when I felt [...]
The Science News Cycle as seen by PHD Comics (Cham, 2009)
Posted in Gullibility, Popular media on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love this comic and it is the best graphical representation of how scientific studies as cycled through from researchers to the general public.
One of my suggestions is to skip the university PR Office (if possible) and make our own press release with different standards (usually writing not thinking about the general public’s… disposition, trying to be nice [...]
Bullet-proofing your mind and don’t forget to Gullible-proof your mind
Posted in Gullibility, Gun on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In one of my google alert e-mails, I got a peculiar link to an pro-guns newsletter and what attracted me was a letter about someone’s experience with ret. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman’s seminar on bullet-proofing the mind. Now this blog is meant to be a review of psychological research on video games, but Grossman is [...]
