Bullets: Stress, Computer games, IQ, &c…
It’s time for another sarcastic bullet round-up:
- Elderly happiness is not IQ-related. Now there’s a big surprise. Anyone who’s worked with a significant number of elderly people knows that some of the happiest elderly people out there are the ones who are completely off their rockers and don’t know their incontinence panties from a hole in the wall.
- The other part of the above article notes that a high IQ didn’t necessarily correlate to a happy or successful life. This also isn’t surprising. Alone, IQ is a worthless metric: it’s what you do with your brain that matters, not its potential. And some of the most bitter people I’ve ever known were very intelligent. And some of the happiest people I’ve ever known have been perpetually out-to-lunch. Your mileage may vary.
- Video gaming has some health benefits in children. Aside from better hand-eye coordination, video games prove to be a powerful distraction while undergoing painful treatments, or for preventing children from picking their faces. Who would have thought?
- Having a view of the sea reduces stress levels. Yes that’s probably why so many people go to the beach in one form or another when they go on vacation.
- Vitamins don’t slow the aging process. Yet another big surprise. There’s actually some cool, experimental stuff in that article that I’m going to flesh out more later.
Once again, to put the sarcasm aside for a moment…
I don’t hate elderly people, even those who are completely out in left field somewhere. Indeed, I find their airyness endearing much of the time, except when you’re trying to explain something intricate to them, in which case you’d have better luck banging your head against the wall. Nonetheless, most of them are sweet people who would probably give you anything you asked for under normal circumstances.
In the case of video games, there are more effective ways of killing pain without pain killers in extreme circumstances, as I outlined here a few weeks ago, particularly in the case of burn victims. But as someone who compulsively picked at his scalp as a child, I can guarantee you that I wouldn’t have done it if I had a computer game to occupy my hands most of the time.
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