HuffPost Science: Violent Video Games; Mysterious Stones; Inflatable Space Habitat

January 16, 2013 Subscribe · Forward What Are Video Games Doing To Us? For all their popularity, video games -- violent ones in particular -- get a pretty bad rap. They've come under fire for making our kids lazy, insubordinate, and -- especially in the wake of recent mass shootings -- prone to murderous violence.  Continue reading... Mysterious Stones Unearthed In Prehistoric Shelter Inflatable ISS Annex Deal Puts Mogul Step Closer To Goals Ancient Civilization Said Surprisingly Warlike Marijuana Study Tying Teens' Pot Use To I.Q. Drop Is Flawed, New Paper Suggests Oldest Star In The Universe? HD 140283, About 13.2 Billion Years Old, Is Most Ancient Yet Observed Faces In Space: Planets, Celestial Formations That Look Like Visages (PHOTOS) Marijuana Study Tying Teens' Pot Use To I.Q. Drop Is Flawed, New Paper Suggests China Google Earth Mystery Solved, As Expert Explains Xinjiang 'Structures' Are Actually Factories HIV Prevention: Nobel Laureate David Baltimore Talks VIP, New Developments (VIDEO) China Google Earth Mystery Solved, As Expert Explains Xinjiang 'Structures' Are Actually Factories Parasitic Worm VIDEO Shows Huge Nematode Emerging From Dead Spider Host, Biologist Says WRAY HERBERT Unshakable Humanity: Altruism and Disaster Will the precocious altruism of childhood survive severe tribulation, or will kids revert back to their earlier self-centeredness? The Sichuan earthquake provided a natural "stress test" to examine the strength of youthful generosity. Continue reading... PATRICIA ADAIR GOWATY Sex Science: Controls Can Keep You From Fooling Yourself What might any scientist, perhaps one like A. J. Bateman, who did a foundational study in sexual selection, have done to save himself from his likely mistakes? Bateman might have used a control experiment to test if the assumptions of his methods were met. Continue reading... CLAY FARRIS NAFF The Top 5 Reasons You Aren't Going to Heaven But Shouldn't Lose Hope Apart from a scientific inclination to adopt the simplest explanation that fits the facts, it seems to me that the whole idea of heaven is an incoherent hodgepodge of false comfort and delusion. Continue reading... STEVE BLANK The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (Part 1) The U.S. has spent the last 70 years making massive investments in basic and applied research. The irony is that while the U.S. government has had a robust national science and technology policy, it lacks a national industrial policy. Continue reading... SARA SEAGER So Many Exoplanets... So Few Women Scientists The paucity of impact-making announcements by female astronomers in general is dreadful. How can it be, that well over a century after the first women received PhDs in astronomy, women have failed to match their male peers in this and other aspects of STEM academia? Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.