A new insight on present times More info on what games can do for us in the techy times of today, regarding the abilities to develop "partial attention", to process information or to relate to large groups of people. Plus, educators take games to school. Memo: I'm having an affair In a workaholic culture like Britain's, it shouldn't come as a surprise that around 40 per cent of employees admit having had a fling with at least one colleague. The news is that now affairs seem to be just another piece of paperwork. It has been proved that underfeeding can help delay aging. Luckily, scientists are now developing a much more practical option for us. Caffeine could help fat burning and resistance when practicing sports. Making human-batteries of us? Then, Vitamin C may cut passive smoking damage. Living by oneself, a trend that grows in Bs As, satisfying singles and couples equally. Finally, teens are putting family members atop their lists of role models and getting along with their parents, in what it is considered a return to family.		August 7th, Thursday, 2003, ip nº51 Traveling, what a mess! The way we travel now It seems as if our difficulty and clumsiness to relate to the world has won over traveling too. The following piece talks about the way Brits (and probably many others) travel nowadays. Besides exposing the feeling that traveling allows us to escape our daily lives and achieve real happiness, something sad enough if you think for a moment, the author focuses on the fact that people often get disappointed about their trips abroad. The article opens some doors to ask ourselves interesting things regarding the importance of predisposition when traveling, our ability to experience and seize new situations and the consistency of a trip (why doing always the same things?). Staying at home, as the article to some extent suggests, would be a way to confirm our lack of imagination when it comes to conceiving different manners of traveling. Link: http://travel.guardian.co.uk/feature/0,8806,1012007,00.html Also a curiosity that revels another traveling taboo: apparently many single Italians choose not to travel because they have no one to go with. This signals the importance of social contacts but also the absence of lone travelers. Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_51_1.html It gives you a degree (but it takes a few years from you!) Study arts, die young Afterwards, check out this article about a new report that suggests your course of study could affect your long-term health. Not surprisingly, many of the alleged causes of illness seem to be related to job stability, income or even family background, among other not too consistent reasons, evidencing the selective outlook used to deconstruct the information. Why not taking into consideration more subtle variables which could affect health, such as time-consumption, repetition, challenge, and therefore levels of satisfaction reported, for example? Is it because dealing with job rates is easier than understanding and solving the unhappiness professional lives may cause -regardless the career you choose? Link: http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/artsandhumanities/story/0,12241,1012315,00.html And read on how NY Universities are pushing out students with lower credits who wouldn't be able to graduate within the ideal period of four years, allowing us to see first hand "cultural sponsoring". Link: http://mathforum.org/epigone/mathed-news/joilanmal Appeared in CNN.		Relatives that simply won't die Girl/boy grows up without knowing his/her roots; feeling empty then initiates a search. Same old story, only this time African-American will be able to trace back their enslaved ancestors. Plus, an African-American museum? Read on the project, and on the black people's claim for recognition of their history of persecution. > On the European pension system: Britain sees it back… For some specialists the rise of behavioral disorders in children can be explained by the fact that many of them are being over-diagnosed for physiologists to make easy money. Read it next. > Showbiz News: According to The Inquirer if RIAA sues, let's say, 10,000 people, this is still going to impact only on one six thousandth (1/6000) of the file traders out there. Besides, people don't seem to be discouraged by legal threats. Having contacts to download songs? After, some definitions to know which exactly is the legal scope of copyright laws.