Submission + - Star Simpson speaks out (boston.com)
Reverberant writes: "Star Simpson, the MIT student arrested in Boston for wearing a "hoax device" at Boston's Logan Airport, speaks to Boing Boingabout hear yearlong ordeal."
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 17 declined, 4 accepted (21 total, 19.05% accepted)
Submission + - Violent Video Games Do Not Create Violent Children
Reverberant writes: "In a recent On the Media segment (podcast), a Director from the Center for Mental Health and Media at Harvard addresses the concern that violent video games result in gamers engaging in violent behavior real life. After a two year study, the Center came to the conclusion that there is no overall relationship between youth violence and violent video games. More interestingly, the study indicated that children who almost exclusively played violent video games shared the same greater risk toward violent behavior as children who did not play video games at all. The researcher speculates that an excessive tendency toward violent games or an excessive tendency to abstain from video games may both be symptoms of social problems that could lead to violent behavior."
Submission + - Google becoming a force in national campaigns (onthemedia.org)
Reverberant writes: "NPR's On the Media ran a segment on Google. While the segment touched about the widely reported story of Google's low privacy ranking, the segment also examined Google's growing influence on national politics by way of YouTube. The correspondents speculate that, in the not-to-distant future, candidates may have to make visits to Google's Mountain View headquarters in the same way that candidates today have sit-downs with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register "
Submission + - Knocking out noise with microwaves
Reverberant writes: "A resident of Houston, Delaware has resorted to several
unusual methods for combating loud music from car and home stereos, including shooting one neighbor's dog, blasting air horns at another neighbor, and using 'his genius-level IQ and parts of household microwave ovens to develop a makeshift device that uses electromagnetic waves to temporarily jam the circuitry of his neighbors' stereos.'"
