Do video games lead to violence?
May 15, 2008Posted by mmarvs in : Debates
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You have probably read about the release of the new version of the video game Grand Theft Auto and the huge controversy it has caused because of the extremely violent behaviour the characters show.
Have a look at this interesting post in Carmen López’s Blog, Bloggin’ Away, and write a comment with your opinion.
Book Review: Brave New World
May 11, 2008Posted by mmarvs in : Books
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Review by Águeda Fernández
BRAVE NEW WORLD
Aldous Huxley
(1932)
Future…how can this word make our life so unpredictable?
Despite the fact that this book was written in 1932 and it is thought not to be a scientific prophecy, the chemically-driven happiness that Huxley imagined is not so different from our life-style nowadays. Adolf Huxley didn’t want to write a piece of ill-concieved futurology, he was only trying to write an ironic view of future. Sarcasm encompasses each chapter so that his book is not very thick but it definitely has an intense philosophycal flavour. “Brave new world” is an extremely well-written novel that will make you think about the way we’re threating our appalled planet.
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The Brain-Wiring Test
April 24, 2008Posted by mmarvs in : General
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Why don’t men hear a request to put out the rubbish while they’re reading a newspaper? Why do men turn off the radio when they’re parking? Why do women turn maps upside down to read them, but men never do?
In their controversial book on the differences between the way men and women think, Why Men don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps, Barbara and Allan Pease travelled around the world, investigating evolutionary biology, analysing psychologists, studying social change.
One of the tests included in this book is the Brain-Wiring Test, designed to indicate the masculinity or feminity of your brain patterns.
Check it yourself and answer the questions as honestly as you can: here’s the test (PDF format- 3 pages)!
And here your can check the the result.