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Brain candy

Writer Steven Johnson argues that TV and video games can stimulate intellectual skills

By Joseph Rosenbloom
May 1, 2005

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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter By Steven Johnson Riverhead, 238 pp., illustrated, $23.95 (Full article: 983 words)

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