Colin Collan says games help you cope with stress and anxiety. A mental health study is taking place between oxford university and the makers of power stimulator to better understand how games ease anxiety among players. Few of us would want to do these jobs in real life, but it turns out that doing them in a kind of fantasy, silly environment is a lot of fun.
Mass shootings in Buffalo, Tulsa and Uvalde appear to have broken a longstanding impasse over federal gun laws. A bipartisan group of senators has laid out a legislative framework—but whether that turns into an actual bill remains unclear. Scientists are rethinking what might constitute the building blocks of extraterrestrial life. And why people seem to love boring video games.
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