• Entertainment & Gaming

    Do Brutal Video Games Desensitize Players to Violence?

    By Posted on 4.25.2008 8 Comments

    If you spend your free time killing and maiming people and/or aliens in a virtual world, does this have any effect on what you do in the real one? Psychologists have been trying to answer that question, or some form of it at least, for a while, and Cognitive Daily has an interesting review of one of the latest papers on the subject.

    4.27.2008 at 06:52pm - Comment by D2kbaby

    Other commentors also said great things, but video games and violence, hmmm nope. Thats like saying someone who works with hazardous chemicals will eventually use them to hurt people. Their bad...they hurt people...my Lord someones going to use them to kill everyone. Sounds far-fetched and extreme...and DUMB. If anything I think video help calm the violence. When I have a bad day at work or am just generally in a crappy mood. I'll play a couple games. Now whether or not I'm in the mood to play a violent game or like guitar hero...well depends on my mood. But if I'm pissed and at someone and take my anger out killing video game characters...hell sounds more healthy than picking a fight in a bar. It's all about interpretation. How many kids get bullied at school and don't turn into Columbinesque shooters. How many people own guns and don't kill people. How about this, we get parents to inform out children that hurting other humans is bad. Killing them is even worse. Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge will either A) keep you alive or B) keep you from killing someone because you did it in a videogame.

  • The Environment

    Recovery of Ozone Hole May Increase Antarctic Warming

    By Posted on 4.25.2008 13 Comments

    The good news is that the ozone hole over Antarctica is slowly healing, thanks to controls on ozone-depleting substances that were once widely used in products such as refrigerators and aerosol cans. Stratospheric ozone protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation that can cause problems such as skin cancer and crop damage.

    4.27.2008 at 06:05pm - Comment by D2kbaby

    Notice how years ago the "EVERYONE PANIC" story was the hole in the ozone, now its all healed and Global warming is our big enemy now. What most people do not know is Ozone (O3) is such an unstable molecule that it changes its molecular state constantly and chaotically. Scientists have a hard time replicating it for this reason. So yes the ozone is periodically going to have holes and close itself up. That is its nature. Man didn't close the ozone, it closed and healed itself. Kind of like the way global warming is going to happen, and when it does, do you think the media will put that on the front page for weeks on end. Nope...it won't. Its not a way to scare you into submission. There are volcanoes and other world catastrophies that cause more damage to the Earth than we have in our what...200 years of industrialized living. This Earth has seen more hell than anything humans have done to it.



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