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Insighteternal t1_j7sunmf wrote

Reply to comment by radiantwave in Video game playing causes no harm to young children's cognitive abilities - regardless of duration of game playing and video game genre, study finds by BringinItDirty

The sleep thing I read is usually due to screens mimicking sunlight, or artificial light in the blue spectrum. This is why I have a program on my TV that tints the whole thing orange, which simulates a sunset.

Not saying gaming overall doesn’t affect health in negative ways, but the same can be said with just about any hobby taken to excess.

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beakrake t1_j7ss1eb wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Video game playing causes no harm to young children's cognitive abilities - regardless of duration of game playing and video game genre, study finds by BringinItDirty

K/D is hardly relevant to all video games, but to take it a step further and generalize by saying video games can't/won't help in any cognitive way, I whole heartedly disagree.

Mechanics, architecture, resource management, critical thinking skills, problem solving, reading, hand eye coordination, time management, navigating electronic systems and menus, etc, etc...

There are a lot of benefits to being more open minded about such learning potential, because the future is here and computers aren't going away any time soon.

If that's what they like and what catches their interest, why shit on those interests to shoehorn them into doing things your way or learning things you like?

Sure, they probably can't list "Minecraft" on their college resume, but if they used that platform to learn to read at an early age, or can mentally conceptualize 3D structures really well because of it, the future results will likely speak for themselves in time.

The long and short of it is, you should capitalize on whatever your child is enthusiastic about to help teach them new things on the DL whenever you can.

Whether that's stick ball, musical instruments, video games, or something else entirely, the endeavor to teach them goes a lot smoother when they actually enjoy the activity and are subtly learning core skills that do carry over to RL situations, without having to force the square peg into the round hole by teaching them in a more conventional, but far less interesting (to them,) way.

Learning in an unconventional manner is still legitimate learning after all, and anyone who doesn't realize that is doing their child a real disservice.

TLDR - Knowledge comes in many forms, just because it comes in an unfamiliar package doesn't nessesarily make it worse.

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mainguy t1_j7sbjqs wrote

Reply to comment by IAintGotNoCandy4You in Application for a coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef has been rejected due to environmental concerns by monovial

as a physicist/science teacher, I gotta say it was entirely science that got us into this mess lol. The carnot cycle was the beginning of the end for a stable climate.

I love science but lets not point the finger at imaginary culprits when the real one is right here

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arkofjoy t1_j7s7jub wrote

Reply to Application for a coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef has been rejected due to environmental concerns by monovial

As usual the Libs go for the old saw "dem jerbs"

More and more mines are automated these days. How many actual jobs would this mine have created, as opposed to how many people are employed by tourism for the great barrier reef?

Many years ago there was a plan to log the Daintree Forrest, which, at the time was going to bring in 30 million dollars A year. Except that it would create run off that would again destroy the reef and local tourism operators created 120 million dollars of business every year.

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