How your brain sees virtual you - New Scientist

The way the brain regards the virtual "you" may help explain why some people spend large chunks of their life online playing immersive games

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The real distractions for pilots - Salon

The scolds in Congress pushing for legislation banning nonessential gadgets from the cockpit are on the wrong track

... Am I absolving the Northwest pilots of blame? Am I advocating that crews should be allowed to break out their laptops to play computer games or surf the Internet while flying? No. But here again we are witnessing one of this country's most wasteful and self-defeating tendencies: that of coming up with unrealistic, zero-tolerance solutions to problems that are either greatly exaggerated, badly misunderstood, or that don't exist in the first place.

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