Well yes, but only for those children initially low in these skills. Gender, race and income did not influence the relationship between videogaming, Internet use and academic performance in children.Computers and Internet access are available in almost all schools in the US, 87% of children between 12 and 17 use the Internet, 71% of online [...]Related posts:Did Barack Obama Use The Computer for
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Barack Obama has made several recent sexual references to his children, most especially his stunning older daughter, Malia. Last week he said:"You know, the - I don't have teenagers yet - Malia's just turned 12. She's my baby. She's going - even though she's 5'9" now, she's still my baby. And she just got braces, which is good, because she looks like a kid and she was getting - she's starting t
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Today, The Department of Veterans Affairs is scheduled to announce it will ease requirements for service members to qualify for post traumatic stress disorder benefits. The change was announced Saturday by President Barack Obama in his weekly address...
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Two different types of Barack Obama themed drugs have appeared on US streets. BoingBoing notes that an LSD blotter with the President's image on it has been found in the wild, while Drug Monkey covers a US Drug Enforcement Administration bulletin reporting Obama shaped ecstasy tablets.There's probably some witty political joke to be made here but I'm damned if I can rustle up enough cleverness, s
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During the 2008 primaries, the Clinton campaign was accused of altering footage of Barack Obama to darken his skin tone. Supposedly, this would activate negative stereotypes of Americans towards Black people; possibly following the same logic that Time magazine applied in 1994 when it darkened the face of O.J. Simpson for its cover.Whether or not this type of (subtle) manipulation actually suffic
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But only if you voted for him, and only if you're a man. That's according to a PLoS One paper called Dominance, Politics, and Physiology.It's already known that in males, winning competitions - achieving "dominance" - causes a rapid rise in testosterone release, whilst losing does the opposite. That's true in humans, as well as in other mammals. The authors wondered whether the same thing happen
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First, the political disclaimers. I'm a Democrat! I voted for Barack Obama. I dislike Rush Limbaugh (I have written about his hypocrisy in regards to drugs - illicit drug users are bad, he's fine because he's addicted to prescription meds). I don't care if he owns a football team (I'd love to see football players boycott his team to show they care about something besides making millions of do
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The New York Times has an interesting piece about the work of anthropologist Ann Dunham Soetoro, most famous for being the mother of President Barack Obama.The article is by Yale anthropologist Michael Dove who knew and worked with Obama's mother before she died in 1995.Dr. Soetoro's most sustained academic effort was her 1,043-page dissertation, "Peasant Blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving Aga
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At the end of his press conference on health care, Barack Obama addressed the controversy over the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Referring to Gates as "Skip," the President asserted that the Cambridge police "acted stupidly." As a psychologist and a lawyer, I have learned not to go too far out on a limb until I hear the other side of the story my client is telling
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More than 5,000 sociologists will convene in San Francisco this August to explore ideas and scientific research about how community affects contemporary social issues as part of the American Sociological Association's 104th annual meeting. In addition to three plenary sessions featuring leading sociological minds, a mini-symposium will examine how the election of Barack Obama might signal a re
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