Evidence of one sort or another piles deep, deep, deep for or against there being significance to the length of a person’s second finger as compared with the length of that person’s fourth finger. Now implicated in the ever-more-encompassing story: video game addiction. Here’s a new (and perhaps the only) study on this particular vexing question: […]
Tag: addiction
Drug experiment of the day: Cocaine and Oreo Cookies
Today’s Drug Experiment of the Day happened at the University of Connecticut. Connecticut College News announces: In a study designed to shed light on the potential addictiveness of high-fat/ high-sugar foods, Professor Joseph Schroeder [pictured here] and his students found rats formed an equally strong association between the pleasurable effects of eating Oreos and a specific environment as […]
Ig Nobellian smoking consistency (P. Morris)
A news report reinforces the research finding, announced publicly in 1996, that smoking is not addictive. That 1996 announcement resulted in the awarding of that year’s Ig Nobel Prize in medicine to James Johnston of R.J. Reynolds, Joseph Taddeo of U.S. Tobacco, Andrew Tisch of Lorillard, William Campbell of Philip Morris, Edward A. Horrigan of […]
“Mouse Party” video addiction game
The University of Utah offers you, free an addiction (and possibly addictive) video game called “Mouse Party“. The PlantCellBiology web site, where we first heard about “Mouse Party”, says of it: you can grab mice with different addictions and lift them into an analysing machine to take a closer look at the processes in their […]