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Four Days in November: Reflections From the Gut

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Morning of November 5, 2008, I reluctantly crawl out of bed, extend checkout time long enough to get breakfast, and contemplate the 3-hour drive back from Hampton, Virginia to my home in Maryland. I emerge from the Holiday Inn elevator to receive the well trained – and rote – greeting from the 5 hotel staff […]

Harvard study jettisons original ideas, favors booing those who have them

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

“81% of a random sample of Mature-rated video games included content that was not noted on the game box.” So declares the press release crowing about findings of a study led by Associate Professor Kimberly Thompson of the Kids Risk Project at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). ”Study Finds M-Rated Video Games Contain […]