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I have yet to play the hit role-playing game “Skyrim,” but more than a few tales of gamer obsession leave me hesitant to test its waters. After all, do I really have time for a game that’s “better than real life?” And what am I to make of the gamer who filled his home with the beheaded female corpses?
I enjoy a good blood-soaked video game romp as well as the next guy, but stuff like this really makes me ponder the effects of violent video games on the human psyche. Just consider this recent Indiana University School of Medicine study, which suggests violent video games alter brain areas involved in inhibition and emotional modulation.
Do people really just go up in flames? Do grannies really flare up like roman candles in their rockers and is there anything in science that explains why a middle-aged bachelor might burn down to his sneakers without warning?
In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I enter the dubious world of spontaneous human combustion– including an alleged recent example at an adult film store in San Francisco. Where does the science end and the nonsense begin? We’ll walk the line with you and you’ll learn just what it takes to make something go up in flames.
7-Second Sex Stat Debunked
by Cristen Conger | November 29, 2011
Ever been suspicious of that old saying about men thinking about s-e-x every 7 seconds? There’s good reason to be because it’s complete bunk. First, if sex were to cross men’s minds roughly 12,342 times every 24 hours, they’d get very little done (especially if the stereotype of male as less adept multitaskers is true). [...]
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