Video Games and Alzheimer’s: That’s Improbable


 

  • by Marc Abrahams
    Improbable Research

This Very-Complicated-Chain-of-Logic Press Release says that video-game playing mightcause Alzheimer’s disease: “It is important for future research to confirm that gaming does not have a negative effect on the hippocampus.”

How to think about poo: A 7-minute talk about the anus and its functions by PhD student Giulia Enders has attracted a lot of attention.

“The more we learn, the less we understand,” says a geneticist about weighing the promises of big genomics.

“Despite the highly hazardous life-style led by comic book characters such as Tintin, we are unaware of any previous systematic description of the challenges and health impairments faced by Tintin in the course of his adventures,” says a study on the cartoon character’s health.

The World Health Organization has shifted its attention from physical diseases to linguistic ones.