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...students—could benefit from getting high once in a while. While alcohol is boorish and mindless, marijuana is intellectually stimulating, relaxing, and mellow. Alcohol is fun because it makes us less aware of what’s going on, and thus less inhibited, while marijuana makes us hyper-alert, perceptive, and thoughtful. Alcohol is a fantastic social lubricant, but there is nothing particularly enlightening about it. Marijuana, on the other hand, allows us to access reality through a new and riveting sensory prism. I don’t mean to sound like former Harvard psychology lecturer Timothy...
Sure, thrown controllers have bruised any number of hyper-competitive teenagers, while racing games—with their incessant tunnel-vision scenery—can necessitate a brief recovery period to adjust your vision to the boringly stationary real world. But until recently, serious game-related accidents were few and far between...
Much attention has been paid to video game violence as a possible model for real-world outbursts—with id Software’s hyper-violent computer game “Doom” infamously, and speciously, named as a contributing factor to the Columbine school shootings by media commentators—but incidents of violence directly related to in-game feuds are a comparatively recent development. They stand as an unwelcome testament to the runaway success these games have had in creating an alternate social universe just as real and urgent as the one we wake to each...
...three Harvard bands, democratically elected via a vote on the Web. They represent a diversity of genres from Min’s own recently-formed funk-jam band After Hours, to Star Wars tribute-band So Long Princess (who I, sadly, missed), and the self-declared “hyper-literate indie pop” of the Sinister Turns.Yale’s representatives were chosen largely at random, based on groups Min and Hufstedler were able to contact using the all-encompassing powers of Facebook.com.11:12 a.m.—Tuning quietly beside the stage is one such...
...enforcement campaign against illegal dog ownership, which began November 13, has caused a storm of complaint and protest everywhere from Beijing's streets to the electronic bulletin boards and blogs of China's hyper-active cyber universe. And the issue has created some unlikely rebels: Xiaomei, for example, is the very model of a law-abiding Chinese and wouldn't dream of doing anything that might get her into trouble. But she nevertheless joined hundreds of protesters who showed up at the entrance to Beijing Zoo on November 12 to protest the crackdown. She says that riot police outnumbered...