Comment Sweet Game! (Score 4, Funny) 151
"some worthless game where large-breasted ladies in not much clothing chop up mutant dinosaurs with giant chain saws"
I want this game.
Brain Training Games Don't Train Your Brain 151
Stoobalou writes with this excerpt from Thinq.co.uk: "A new study has shown that brain training games do little to exercise the grey matter. Millions of people who have been prodding away at their Nintendo DS portable consoles, smug in the knowledge that they are giving their brains a proper work-out, might have to rethink how they are going to stop the contents of their skulls turning into mush."
Comment Proof? (Score 1) 152
Looks to me like this guy is talking out his ass about the entire Alienware thing.
Submission + - Proof That Practice Does Make Perfect (physorg.com)
eldavojohn writes: "Despite earlier studies showing that the early effects of repetition are negative in learning something, researchers at Carnegie Mellon have discovered the mechanism that enforces 'practice makes perfect.' From the article, "Scientists have shown that N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are required to initiate synaptic plasticity in this mechanism, a fact that holds true in many areas of the brain. Indeed, it is becoming increasingly clear that these receptors are required for the kind of synaptic strengthening that occurs during learning." They hope that by better understanding this long term learning, they can better understand diseases."
