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The REAL brain drain: Modern technology - including violent video games - is cha…: May 10, 1:50pm 11 reviews military, neuroscience •http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live...; The Real Brain Drain

"At a microcellular level, the infinitely complex network of nerve cells that make up the constituent parts of the brain actually change in response to certain experiences and stimuli.

The brain, in other words, is malleable - not just in early childhood but right up to early adulthood, and, in certain instances, beyond.

The surrounding environment has a huge impact both on the way our brains develop and how that brain is transformed into a unique human mind.

Of course, there's nothing new about that: human brains have been changing, adapting and developing in response to outside stimuli for centuries.

What prompted Susan Greenfield to write 'The Quest For Identity In The 21st Century' is that the pace of change in the outside environment and in the development of new technologies has increased dramatically. Our brains are under the influence of an ever- expanding world of new technology: multichannel television, video games, MP3 players, the internet, wireless networks, Bluetooth links - the list goes on and on. But our modern brains are also having to adapt to other 21st century intrusions, some of which, such as prescribed drugs like Ritalin and Prozac, are supposed to be of benefit, and some of which, such as widelyavailable illegal drugs like cannabis and heroin, are not.

Electronic devices and pharmaceutical drugs all have an impact on the micro- cellular structure and complex biochemistry of our brains. And that, in turn, affects our personality, our behaviour and our characteristics. In short, the modern world could well be altering our human identity."

Folks, it's not just a populist theory, the military already has applicated the 'benefits' of the video game generation:

Further reading for people who are sceptical about the article above:

Virtual Reality Prepares
Soldiers for Real War (*)

The Washington Post, Feb 14, 2006

This is the video game generation of soldiers. " 'Ctrl+Alt+Del,' " the U.S. Army noted in a recent study, "is as basic as 'ABC.' " And computer simulations -- as military officials prefer to call them -- have transformed the way the United States military fights wars, as well as soldiers' ways of killing.

"There's been a huge change in the way we prepare for war, and the soldiers we're training now are the children of the digital age who grew up with GameBoys," says retired Rear Adm. Fred Lewis, a 33-year U.S. Navy veteran who now heads the National Training Systems Association, a trade group that every year puts on the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference, the military counterpart of the glitzy Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Lt. Col. Scott Sutton, director of the technology division at Quantico Marine Base, where the mock-up M16s are used, says soldiers in this generation "probably feel less inhibited, down in their primal level, pointing their weapons at somebody." That, in effect, "provides a better foundation for us to work with," he adds.

Pediatric Ritalin Use May Affect Developing Brain (*)

welcome to steidldangin: May 9, 11:36am 1 review photography, photoshop, digital-image-manipulation •http://www.steidldangin.com/; Image, icon, idol

The World of Fashion: Pixel Perfect: Reporting &Essays: The New Yorker: May 9, 10:28am 2 reviews beauty, arts, photoshop •http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/20...; The photo whisperer

Pascal Dangin is the premier retoucher of fashion photographs. Art directors and admen call him when they want someone who looks less than great to look great, someone who looks great to look amazing, or someone who looks amazing already--whether by dint of DNA or M�A�C--to look, as is the mode, superhuman.

Vanity Fair, W, Harper's Bazaar, Allure, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, V, and the Times Magazine, among others, use Dangin. Many photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, Steven Meisel, Craig McDean, Mario Sorrenti, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia, rarely work with anyone else. Around thirty celebrities keep him on retainer, in order to insure that any portrait of them that appears in any outlet passes through his shop, to be scrubbed of crow's-feet and stray hairs. Dangin's company, Box Studios, has eighty employees and occupies a four-story warehouse in the meatpacking district.

"I look at life as retouching," Dangin says. "Makeup, clothes are just a transformation of what you want to look like. It is known that everybody does it, but they protest. The people who complain about retouching are the first to say, `Get this thing off my arm.'"

It turns out that the Dove ad campaign that proudly featured lumpier-than-usual "real women" in their undergarments was a Dangin job. "Do you know how much retouching was on that? But it was great to do, a challenge, to keep everyone's skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive."

19 Tools Every Homeowner Should Have: May 8, 11:12am 13 reviews home-improvement •http://www.toolbarn.com/articles/19-t...; Before I got married I had a cute little toolbox with all the tools for basic maintenance and repair always at hand. Then I married an engineer and he took over the tools. Since that day neither of us have been able to locate them.

CaliLisettes profile - StumbleUpon: May 8, 5:26am 65 reviews stumblers •http://calilisette.stumbleupon.com/; Honestly, I've always been quite sceptical about chicks posting pics of chicks and still think it's the weirdest phenomenon (in case you're heterosexual), but CaliLisette's sarcastic captions are a great read.

AFP: Tired of paying through the nose, Americans try praying at the pump: May 5, 12:54pm 1 review bizarre, usa, news •http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...; Praying at the pump

The only logical way of fighting back the conspiracy by the joined evil forces. First, the Devil planted the fossil fuel to cause diaspora among the righteous. Then the Darwinists, to further confuse the true believers, proclaimed it to derive from the accumulated remains of imaginary ancient plants and animals. Finally, to close the heretical triangle, the blasphemous Arabs obtained dominance over the oil supply.

"Lord, come down in a mighty way and strengthen us so that we can bring down these high gas prices. These prices will come down, just like the walls of Jericho came down in the Bible. Woe be unto those people that are really greedy and taking advantage of American families."

Amen.

EasyJo: May 5, 7:40am 44 reviews internet •http://www.easyjo.com/led.php; Finally I've stumbled on something that exceed my pain threshold of online nonsense.

Def Leppard offers glimpse into Lounge| Entertainment| Reuters: May 4, 8:49pm 1 review rock-music •http://uk.reuters.com/article/enterta...; "Songs From the Sparkle Lounge"
by Def Leppard

You should be more careful about where you make your music in;
the interior can easily effect your sound.

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