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Song of Myself By 1819-1892 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten, I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. 2 Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it, The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.

The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless, It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it, I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked, I am mad for it to be in contact with me.

Meet Mark Let me introduce myself. My name is Mark Sisson. I’m 63 years young.

I live and work in Malibu, California. In a past life I was a professional marathoner and triathlete. Now my life goal is to help 100 million people get healthy. I started this blog in 2006 to empower people to take full responsibility for their own health and enjoyment of life by investigating, discussing, and critically rethinking everything we’ve assumed to be true about health and wellness. Meet Mark new here? Print Non-gamers tend to take a dim view of video games and their fans, assuming they’re all a bunch of sweaty man-children clutching liter bottles of Mountain Dew between Cheeto-dusted fingers and screaming racist obscenities that diffuse, muffled, through thick neckbeard thatches into their headsets at online opponents.

And a few weeks ago, even I the stereotypical World of Warcraft addict’s set-up of pee bottles and poop buckets. But the indicate that the popular stereotype isn’t very representative of most gamers. In fact, if you’re an American, you’re more likely to be a gamer than not.

• In the Unites States, the average gamer is 30 (); in the UK, it’s 35. As the kids who grew up playing Nintendo and Sega Genesis get all growns-up and continue playing, the average age will only grow. 62% of gamers are adults. 29% of gamers are over the age of 55.

Of developing writing skills which can excite and engage both boys and girls and recognise and support the changing nature of literacy. Existing work has investigated game creation as an activity which can help develop narrative and storytelling skills (Carbonaro, Cutumisu et al. 2005; Robertson and Good 2005; Good and. Jun 13, 2007. The NEA report Reading at Risk write, “If one believes that active and engaged readers lead richer. Not counting as literature), those few scholars who have touched video-game controllers are noting that games. Psychologists have long noted that video games require fine-motor skills and sophisticated.

• 45% of US gamers are female. • 58% of Americans play games. Surely, though, video gaming is unhealthy. I mean, you’re sitting there on a couch, or in a computer chair, or hunched over a smartphone for hours at a time. If watching TV for hours is bad for us, why wouldn’t video games be bad for us? There are differences between the two. TV is wholly consumptive.

You’re sitting there, passive and placid, while the TV does the work. You just consume it.

Yeah, yeah, I’m sure a Ken Burns documentary is qualitatively different than binge watching reality TV, but my point stands. Meanwhile, gaming requires mental and physical engagement. You’re problem solving. You’re reacting to stimuli. You’re planning and strategizing and, in the case of online gaming, competing and communicating with other people. Rather than watch beautiful people do interesting things on a TV, a gamer participates in the story and drives the narrative.

On the face of it, video gaming is a different beast than TV and deserves a closer, more comprehensive look before dismissal. There’s a huge body of research examining the potentially negative effects of video games.

There’s also a huge body of research examining the potentially positive cognitive effects of video games. I’ll examine the former, followed by the latter. Then I’ll give my take on everything. Video games and violence. This is a popular notion that arises whenever a school shooter’s personal history reveals a fondness for playing violent video games, but the actual evidence is murky. Some researchers are adamant that video games increase aggression and violence, while others take the opposing view. In a number of studies, playing violent video games has been linked to increased aggression.

Most of this aggression occurs immediately after the gaming session and. Researchers test increased aggression by having subjects play games and then giving them the opportunity to dose an unseen study participant with something unpleasant – loud noises, hot sauce, cold water. Subjects can make the dose as strong (loud/spicy/cold) as they desire. The louder/spicier/colder the delivery, the greater the aggression.

Other researchers by the inconsistent results, either (). Like, a psychology professor from Texas A&M, who frequently that find links between gaming and violence, publishes papers that, and when they’re all so different from each other. The causality may be reversed as well.

Huawei G606 T00 Firmware Umbrella. An earlier of adolescent boys in the Netherlands and Belgium found that aggressive teens are more attracted to violent video games in the first place. The authors suggest a “cycle of desensitization,” whereby aggressive teens play violent video games which make them even more tolerant of real violence, but I don’t think we have sufficient evidence to show that.

A even suggests that it’s not the violence in a video game causing the short term aggression, but the frustration from losing or failing to master the controls. That means that losing a match in Call of Duty, a round in Tetris, a game of Ultimate, or even a prized property in Monopoly could all temporarily increase your aggression. Now, I’m no video gamer. I do enjoy a board game or two when I get the time, and I can get pretty competitive and aggressive, especially when I lose.

Same goes for. It’s fun, but it’s competitive fun; anyone who’s played a game with me at has probably noticed the subtle shift in tone when the game’s on the line. I don’t like to lose. Is that unhealthy or dangerous? We just don’t see the evidence that video game-induced aggression is causing a wave of violence. Gaming is more popular than ever in this country and violent crime rates.

If anything, increased sales of violent video games are associated with a. I’m not convinced this temporarily increased aggression in a contrived clinical setting is all that bad, let alone. Video games and stress. A shows that playing video games can trigger the stress response and.

It makes sense, doesn’t it? Video games catapult you into stressful and increasingly realistic situations – gunfights, car chases, zombie apocalypses – where people are trying to kill and/or eat you. When you’re playing online and your opponent is another human, the stakes get even higher. Remember, though:. Dukeminier 6th Edition Property Outline Rabin on this page.

The key is balance between stress and recovery. Exercise is self-limiting, if you do it right. You can’t deadlift for four hours straight because your body will simply quit before you do too much damage. And when you override your body and do something like, you risk injuries and long term negative health effects. Gaming doesn’t have the off switch. You can easily play for hours and hours, just running with a chronic flight or fight response. Stress isn’t bad.

Too much stress is bad. Too little is also bad. Video games and obesity. Compared to sitting around doing nothing for an hour,.Violent games may have more of an effect,. My take is that gaming can be stressful – as we’ve already shown – and. But so does to it. It doesn’t help, of course, that it’s logistically tough to eat healthy food while gaming.

You’re not going to pause your game to tuck into a braised lamb shank with whipped butternut squash, but you will cram a fistful of Doritos into your mouth without skipping a beat. Okay, what about the beneficial effects to cognition that don’t get nearly as much press as the bad effects?

Let’s take a look. A recent review of the evidence published in the American Psychologist found that playing commercial video games (especially the “violent” ones that involve shooting and quick decision-making) has a number of cognitive benefits (): • Improved spatial skills that carry over into non-video game environments.

• Increased neural efficiency. • Improved problem solving. • Enhanced creativity. Just recently, a comparing Portal 2 (a first-person puzzle game) and Luminosity (the most popular and widely used brain game) found that Portal 2 improved cognitive skills in the short term more than the game designed to do it.

Speaking of brain games, they. And, a side scrolling platformer designed purely for fun, gray matter in certain regions of the brain increased, indicating structural neuroplasticity. The researchers think similar video games could be used as therapeutic tools for mental disorders that cause these brain areas to shrink. Furthermore, another found that lifetime video gaming history (called “joystick years”) was associated with increased brain volume in areas linked to navigation and visual attention; logic/puzzle games and platformers (like Super Mario) had the strongest effects. In women who never or rarely gamed, playing the real time strategy game Starcraft for 40 hours over six weeks, or the ability to quickly switch from one task to another.

It also has great therapeutic potential that’s already being realized. Video gaming has been used to help the through unfamiliar environments (in the real world),, and, for example. I have a few reservations, though. One genre of video game I’m fairly suspicious of are the social media games. They’re time suckers,, and according to a, are designed to be “negative” and “draining” experiences that invade your thoughts, disrupt your waking and sleeping life, and keep you in a heightened state of stress and unease.

Many of these games penalize you for taking breaks; your crops will wither and your livestock will die if you fail to log in and water and feed them. And most contain sticking points that require real-world cash in order to progress and keep playing. I’ve heard about marriages dissolving because of a partner’s addiction.

They’re whipping them out at dinner, in the middle of conversations, checking in during. They’re draining their bank accounts. Massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, like World of Warcraft, may also be problematic for many of the same reasons. Although the majority of players aren’t or, the. Gaming is only going to get more realistic as time goes on. The thanks to video game developers taking advantage of the increasing processing power available, and pretty soon the opponents you gun down in Call of Duty will be indistinguishable from the real thing, at least visually.

And with the coming wave of virtual reality headsets like and Sony Morpheus that promise to immerse gamers in three-dimensional virtual game spaces, gaming will move from the living room/office to the inner space. Gamers should eventually be able to live out full-blown Star Trek holodeck-style simulated realities with total sensorial immersion.

If that’s the case, and a video game warzone feels almost exactly like a real-life warzone (except for actual injuries), and your nervous system assumes that yes, a velociraptor really is coming for your throat, it’ll be tough to remain in rational, normal headspace. That could be problematic. We’ll just have to wait and see.

I see nothing wrong and a whole lot right with gaming, if that’s what you’re into. Gaming can be social, whether you’re playing with friends online or on the couch next to you. Gaming can be competitive. It’s good to feel the pulse of adrenaline as you go toe to toe with someone else, even if that someone else is a non-player character generated by the game. Gaming can be creative. Perhaps the most popular game right now,, allows players to construct complicated structures and build entire worlds out of the game’s raw materials. Gaming can be.

It’s not all guns and dwarves and aliens. Bottom line: gaming is play. As long as you don’t let gaming take over your life and crowd out or disturb your physical activity, your relationships, your eating habits, your, your, your, your time, your – why not play a little?

Seeing as how I’m not a gamer myself, and this is mostly just an academic interest, I’d love to hear from all you gamers out there. Does today’s post jibe with your experiences? Did I miss anything? Got any recommendations for Primal people who might be interested in gaming? Let’s try to avoid any console wars, though, okay?

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