The Banana Peel Project

When I learned about the American Psychological Association’s decision to formally condemn the Bush administration’s treatment of war prisoners, I smiled. A good day for psychology, I thought.
Unfortunately, the feeling was short-lived. Now, it seems that some psychiatrists at Tel Aviv University have decided that “Internet addiction” is a pathological condition that, like […]

After my recent post on the recent decisions by the APA and AMA that video games are not addictive, a reader asked me to elaborate. I clarified that yes, video games can be addictive but, like television watching or book reading or car collecting or marijuana smoking or computer using, they will not cause […]

Today I have a couple of interesting tidbits, both having to do with the relationship between technology and our sense of sight.
First of all, let me talk about how fascinating it is that Seed decided that it would be productive and interesting to put a theoretical physicist and a structural engineer together to talk about […]