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...always suspected that at some level, playing video and computer games can make you smarter. A lot of these games, after all, are as complex as they are treacherous. You have to learn how to solve problems fast, testing hypotheses and decoding puzzles. Patricia Greenfield, a psychology professor at UCLA, has studied the relationship between video games and intelligence and finds a positive correlation. Her research attributes an increase in worldwide "nonverbal IQ" (spatial skills, the use of icons for problem solving and the ability to understand things from multiple viewpoints) to the spread of video games...
...reasons why democracy exists are difficult to define and even trickier to implement properly, UCLA political scientist James Q. Wilson remarked to an intimate audience in an Institute of Politics Speech at the ARCO Forum last night...
...reasons why democracy exists are difficult to define and even trickier to implement properly, UCLA political scientist James Q. Wilson remarked to an intimate audience in an Institute of Politics Speech at the ARCO Forum last night...
...Sciences. At 12 he joined the Sierra Club. At 15 he discovered a member of the heather family, a Presidio manzanita, which had not been seen for 50 years. This subspecies, Ravenii, was later named for him. He did his undergraduate work at Berkeley, got his Ph.D. at UCLA and entered teaching, but not a cloister; he also developed a gift for bringing people together for worthwhile projects...
...Right now, we're in the process of surveying our membership and that will determine our agenda [at negotiations with UCLA administrators this summer]," Razza said...