The immature in the gamer's world

Need to grow up.

Sterilizers to skeletons to burglary...

Ionized Plasmas as Cheap Sterilizers for Developing World
University of California, Berkeley, scientists have shown that ionized plasmas like those in neon lights and plasma TVs not only can sterilize water, but make it antimicrobial -- able to kill bacteria -- for as long as a week after treatment.

Interesting discussion about burglary and fortifying one's house against it.

Skeleton of ancient human relative may yield skin.

Death with dignity.

For those gamers who have run out of ideas for names:

It's Monday, so here are some things to make you smile

Um... is he allowed to do that?

David Attenborough stands up against creationism in school.

Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle

Stockbox Grocers to Convert Shipping Containers into Local Grocery Stores in Food Deserts

Blog sprinkles

How badly fucked up the Gulf actually might be.... And people share their ideas on how to fix it. And BP tells you not to spill.

The secret about Obama and BP!!1!

Obviously there are giant secretive worms that live in the earth's core...

Chris Hedges: The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger

Tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, have begun to dismantle the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment. They are creating a theocratic state based on “biblical law,” and shutting out all those they define as the enemy. This movement, veering closer and closer to traditional fascism, seeks to force a recalcitrant world to submit before an imperial America. It champions the eradication of social deviants, beginning with homosexuals, and moving on to immigrants, secular humanists, feminists, Jews, Muslims and those they dismiss as “nominal Christians”—meaning Christians who do not embrace their perverted and heretical interpretation of the Bible. Those who defy the mass movement are condemned as posing a threat to the health and hygiene of the country and the family. All will be purged.

Uh oh.. Gamers Have Bodies Of '60-Year-Old Chain Smokers' (STUDY)

A photo of slave children around the Civil War.

I should be more concerned about this because it means other species are going as well.... but ... they're SNAKES.

The snake decline reported this week across Europe and Africa could well be happening in America as well, say biologists.

“If you get your average herpetologists together, you’d probably arrive at a consensus that a lot of scientists feel that even across their own lifetimes there are negative changes in terms of population,” says Rafe Brown, chief curator of herpetology at the University of Kansas. “It’s clear that overall the trends are not good and we’re looking at pretty serious declines.”

“The bottom line,” Dr. Brown adds in a telephone interview Thursday, "is that few of these species can survive when 99 percent of their habitat has been turned into subdivisions."

Sign the petitions:

Tell the oil companies: Stop polluting California and clean up the Gulf!

"Congress must not block the Clean Air Act's limits on global warming pollution."

"Please sign on to the Leahy - DeFazio "Dear Colleague" letter asking U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Vilsack to maintain the ban on Monsanto's genetically modified alfalfa."

Just wait until they do this for the military!

Gamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone.

A neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain will go on sale later this year.

"It picks up electrical activity from the brain and sends wireless signals to a computer," said Tan Le, president of US/Australian firm Emotiv.

"It allows the user to manipulate a game or virtual environment naturally and intuitively," she added.

The brain is made up of about 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons, which emit an electrical impulse when interacting. The headset implements a technology known as non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) to read the neural activity.

Ms Le said: "Emotiv is a neuro-engineering company and we've created a brain computer interface that reads electrical impulses in the brain and translates them into commands that a video game can accept and control the game dynamically."

Headsets which read neural activity are not new, but Ms Le said the Epoc was the first consumer device that can be used for gaming.

"This is the first headset that doesn't require a large net of electrodes, or a technician to calibrate or operate it and does require gel on the scalp," she said. "It also doesn't cost tens of thousands of dollars."

Maybe the game Medal of Honor Airborne's catapulted propaganda

Does come on a bit thick....

Well, DUH!

Headline: Study: Gamers spend less time on homework

They paid someone to study this? I could have told them that for free!

Put that book down and play those video games, dammit!

How else will you make it in this life?!

Playing video games appears to help surgeons with skills that truly count: how well they operate using a precise technique, a new study says.

There was a strong correlation between video game skills and a surgeon's capabilities performing laparoscopic surgery in the study published Monday in the February issue of Archives of Surgery.

Laparoscopy and related surgeries involve manipulating instruments through a small incision or body opening where the surgeon's movements are guided by watching a television screen.

Video game skills translated into higher scores on a day-and-half-long surgical skills test, and the correlation was much higher than the surgeon's length of training or prior experience in laparoscopic surgery, the study said.

Out of 33 surgeons from Beth Israel Medical Center in New York that participated in the study, the nine doctors who had at some point played video games at least three hours per week made 37 percent fewer errors, performed 27 percent faster, and scored 42 percent better in the test of surgical skills than the 15 surgeons who had never played video games before.