Book : Everything Bad is Good for You
 Over my little holiday, I spotted the following book - Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter"
As I am a big fan of popular culture, I just had to get it.
So, what is it about :
Drawing from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and literary theory, Johnson argues that the junk culture we're so eager to dismiss is in fact making us more intelligent. A video game will never be a book, Johnson acknowledges, nor should it aspire to be -- and, in fact, video games, from Tetris to The Sims to Grand Theft Auto, have been shown to raise IQ scores and develop cognitive abilities that can't be learned from books. Likewise, successful television, when examined closely and taken seriously, reveals surprising narrative sophistication and intellectual demands.
I found it a quck, easy to read, well argued little book.
But not everyone agrees
Oh, I've started reading the author's blog too - http://stevenberlinjohnson.com/. An interesting character
[listening to: I Lost on Jeopardy - Weird Al Yankovic ]
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