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...trouble. Something like 40 percent of people that play WoW call themselves addicted.”Like any addiction, video game addiction is serious. Mood disorders, such as bipolarity, depression, anxiety disorders—including obsessive-compulsive behavior, and social phobias can develop. “They lose sleep. They flunk out of school,” says Orzack. “They often gain weight because they are not exercising. They neglect their personal needs. They avoid making social plans.”MORE FUN AND GAMES?The Review will explore serious issues relating to video games such...
...passing conversation, we’re reluctant to admit that we just haven’t read it.It’s easy to understand why people bullshit in class. It’s a necessary skill, fabrication for survival, forced upon us by the combination of too little sleep and too many commitments. But some argue that faking it has become an integral part of American life. In 2005, philosophy professor Harry Frankfurt came out with “On Bullshit,” a slim volume that claimed bullshit is abundant in all parts of our culture. With...
...Stickgold's evidence includes an experiment he led in 2000 when Harvard researchers were able to elicit the same dream in a bunch of people as they drifted off to sleep. They did this by exposing 27 subjects to an intensive three-day course in the computer game Tetris, which involves assembling geometric shapes. By the second night of training, 17 subjects had reported having the same dream image-falling Tetris pieces-indicating to Stickgold that the need to learn prods the brain to dream. More of these kinds of studies are needed, he says, "because as we learn...
...when other parts that inhibit us are off-line, "it follows that there's value in interpreting dreams," he says. They provide a "privileged, unfiltered access" to what's on a person's mind. Mark Blagrove, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Wales, where he runs a sleep laboratory, thinks it's possible the search for a biological function of dreaming could be futile. "It could just be," he says, "that our elaborate dreams are a side effect of the fact that we have a highly evolved imagination...
...vast, closed chain, incomprehensibly complex and ever changing. When you look at life from this second perspective, some unlikely connections reveal themselves. You're forced to retreat from the den of libertarianism and sniff the wind, to wake up when someone in Khartoum or Mogadishu twitches in his sleep...