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[3 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

They’re not just playing for fun: they are raising money for Child’s Play, a gamer-created, gamer-supported charity that fulfills the wish lists of over 60 hospital’s children’s units worldwide. Each donation buys the games, the consoles and the movies that bring a little bit of fun into an otherwise gruelling hospital experience.

Games, Headline, blog »

[23 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]
Games (borrowed brains : bookmarks)

Superb reads around understanding where we’re at: philosophically, physiologically and practically with games.
<< Dive into my current bookmarks on games. Bits on game design, pervasive gaming, blended-reality games played on the streets, how gaming shapes our brains. If you’re amazed that games can command their own economies – with global heft or that mainstream business, government, the military or medicine has moved into the realm of serious games. Play has potency.

Featured, Future Skills, Games, Resources »

[26 Sep 2009 | No Comment | ]
LEVEL UP: DIY (organic) Brain Enhancement [what you know]

Grey (matter) is the new black should you be looking to define your mark in a world wallowing in the happy shallows.
 
The revelation of our time, that our cerebral stuff isn’t sculpted and set early, but bendy and plastic throughout our lives, has opened a new realm of ways to stretch our brain cells out of the grasp of entropy.
 
There are a host of chemical hacks, from psychiatric drugs like Ritalin or Xanax, to street drugs that can force the brain to comply, buttressing …