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How Video Games can be Good for You

Improve your multi-tasking and visual skills with video games

Video-gamers spot things in their visual environment faster and process several things at once better, and these visual skills can be carried over into their real lives. Why Sea Gypsies in South East Asia can see underwater better than other people. Several space probes are heading to Mars as it approaches the closest point in its orbit to Earth. Analysing stardust to understand the earliest history of the universe. Should really believe what's published in scientific literature?

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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