Cultural output is strong, with films and video games and edgy fashion pouring forth.
Parents who worry that video games are bad for kids usually try to rein in their game time.
My proximity to museums, cultural institutions, and other venues means I don't have to outfit my apartment with "entertainment" options, like a big screen TV or video games.
Dr Simon Kuhn of Ghent University in Belgium and colleagues in the UK and Germany analysed brain scans of more than 150 teenagers who were classified as playing video games either moderately or a lot.
Analysts say that to buyers of an Apple tablet, playing video or video games may be more important than reading.
Break taking can also involve naps, weed, television, video games, or meditation.
But do video games actually provoke aggressive feelings, reduce activity in the frontal lobe of the brain and promote violent behavior, as the California law asserts?
Many scientific studies have shown that video games can improve human performance in sensory and perceptual tasks, such as hand-to-eye co-ordination, as well as those involving a lot of attention.
Critics attack video games as the antithesis of a fit lifestyle, but fitness video games offer America a rare opportunity to change their lifestyle for the better.
Moreover, beyond the impact of the violence, time spent playing video games has additional deleterious effects on children's health.
Indeed, research has shown that video games can improve mental dexterity, while boosting hand-eye coordination, depth perception and pattern recognition.
Scott Pilgrim needs too much help from video games to really save the world.
Playing video games improves manual dexterity among surgeons, making them faster and less likely to make mistakes, US researchers have said.
But does video gaming make the pleasure centre larger or do people with larger pleasure centres take up video games?
The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, concluded that there was "measurable" associations between playing video games and health risks.
Alas, no such pill exists-but the designers of video games routinely use something very similar as they strive to make their games more lifelike.
However her hunch is that playing the video games makes the pleasure centre grow bigger.
These young entrepreneurs have already begun to shape some markets such as mobile video games and online karaoke.
Who says video games poison the minds of the young?
Life in the slow lane: a traveler to Sao Paulo might wonder why so many drivers can be seen doing such menial tasks as shaving, watching movies, or playing video games while at the wheel.
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