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Fight back against junk food marketing

24 Monday Apr 2017

Posted by sedeer in Disease, Humans, Science communication

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Children, crowd funding, diet, Education, food, games, Health, Human, junk food, People, science and society, Science in Society

Frugivoro: a board game about health foodMost people realize that our food is loaded with sugar and that our eating habits are unhealthy, but it’s very hard to change them. Rather than simply accepting the situtation or complaining about it, my sister-in-law and her mother decided to change it. Over the past several years, they’ve designed, tested, and refined a new board game, Frugivoro, that gets kids excited about healthy foods (and sneaks in some education, too!). Many of our eating habits form in childhood, so this is a create way to counter the deluge of junk food marketing kids are exposed to. Continue reading →

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Through the Looking Glass

11 Wednesday Sep 2013

Posted by sedeer in Humans

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Behavior, behaviour, Cognition, games, immersion, Joy Division, MMOG, MMORPG, Popular science, science, University of Malta, Video game, virtual worlds, Will Love Tear Us Apart, World of WarCraft

Instead of writing a post for Inspiring Science this week, I decided to share my first published feature article with you! It appeared in Issue 6 of Think magazine, which was published on Monday. I wrote about the research of Gordon Calleja, director of the Institute of Digital Games at the University of Malta, and also reviewed Will Love Tear Us Apart, a game he designed based on Joy Division’s song Love Will Tear Us Apart. You can read my feature below and also check out the other articles in the issue (it’s free!) and visit the magazine on Facebook!

Gordon Calleja has a dream job: he studies video games. It may sound like frivolous fun, but his work is serious research. He examines how people perceive the world around them and interact with it. His research blends aspects of philosophy, neuropsychology, and literary theory with futuristic concepts like cybernetics and post-humanism; his papers are peppered with references to Wittgenstein and Borges alongside quotes from avid gamers. In his book In-Game: From Immersion to Incorporation, published last year by MIT Press, Professor Calleja tackles the question of how we experience games – how the barrier created by the screen and the controls dissolves into a sense of really being there. ‘Ultimately,’ he says, ‘studying presence in games is asking how we are conscious here in the physical world.’

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Found while foraging (December 11, 2012)

11 Tuesday Dec 2012

Posted by sedeer in Foraging

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famous psychology experiments, games, gender, Genetics, math, memory, mind, parasite, photography, rape, science, science and society, Science in Society, sexism, stanford prison experiment, video, videogames, virus, woman scientist

It’s been a while since I last shared a mish-mash of assorted links.  Unfortunately I’ve been too busy recently to have the time to trawl aimlessly around the web, so there are fewer fruits from my foraging forays.  Anyway, enough mixed metaphors and strained writing; here’s my latest collection of tidbits from the web for you to enjoy.  Feel free to add more in the comments if you’d like.
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