A newly published study challenges the often-angry claim that video games make kids more violent. The study is: “Angry Birds, Angry Children, and Angry Meta-Analysts: A Reanalysis,” Luis Furuya-Kanamori [pictured here] and Suhail A. R. Doi, Perspectives on Psychological Science, vol. 11, no. 3, May 2016, pp. 408-414. (Thanks to Neil Martin for bringing this to […]
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Novel Mode of Capturing a Heron (1866)
Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip was a monthly publication that brought science (mostly botany, zoology and geology) to the masses. Science-Gossip provided short summaries of scientific studies (mostly botany and zoology); advice to the hobbyist on raising reptiles, catching rare butterflies, building a microscope, etc; and most interesting, pages and pages of correspondence, answering readers’ questions and reprinting […]
A 1st physics analysis of Angry Bird Space
Rhett Allain looks into the physics of the game Angry Bird Space: One of the things I love about analyzing games like Angry Birds Space is that you have some freedom to create little experiments, but you can’t just do whatever you want. This is a lot like real-life science. Maybe I want to build a gravitational […]