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Playing Tetris might reduce PTSD flashbacks
By Erich Vieth on February 23rd, 2009

Playing Tetris might reduce PTSD flashbacks

Oxford psychologists have recently concluded that playing Tetris might serve to lessen the effects of post traumatic stress disorder.

Playing ‘Tetris’ after traumatic events could reduce the flashbacks experienced in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), preliminary research by Oxford University psychologists suggests.

If this early-stage work continues to show promise, it could inform new clinical interventions for use immediately after trauma to prevent or lessen the flashbacks that are the hallmark symptom of PTSD.

Entertainment • Featured • Psychology Cognition
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Oil Tetris
By Erich Vieth on April 12th, 2006

Oil Tetris

The U.S. consumes 400 million gallons of gasoline every day. That amounts to almost 5,000 gallons every second. More than half of that oil is imported.

Everything we do is affected by oil. In addition to keeping us warm and transporting us, we eat oil. Not literally, but the average American meal travels an about 1500 miles to get from farm to plate.

If there were an interruption in the oil supply, we would look to the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That much-cited U.S. reserve, however, holds only a 60-day supply of oil. It is official U.S. policy, then, that We the People shall always remain only small one incident from a major oil crisis.

Economy • Entertainment • Politics
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