The Nukezilla Sunday Supplement – 26th June 2011

Every Sunday we’re going to post links to articles we think are interesting from the last week. Sundays are usually very quiet around here, so this seems like the best day to do it. We’re going to link to articles on range of subjects, including videogames, technology, movies, geek culture and much, much more.

Videogames

Blowing Bubbles – GamesIndustry.biz. “Mobile and social gaming are in a huge valuation bubble – but that doesn’t have to mean that disaster is coming.” Another good article from Rob Fahey.

20 years of sim games – Ars Technica. A monster feature on the history of simulation games. There’s two parts out so far and it’s rather good from what I’ve read up to. You can check out part two here.

Culture

Feminism in the 21st century – The Guardian. “Caitlin Moran writes about her body, Rachel Cusk dissects the aftermath of her divorce and Sylvia Walby addresses ‘raunch culture’. What do their books reveal about feminism today?”

How to survive the age of distraction – The Independent. Do you find yourself getting distracted more easily? Have you found that read with a laptop on is like reading at a busy party? That’s what this article focuses on. The article seems to have gone, but the cached version is still there (scroll down a bit).

Science

Researchers explore problems of ‘face blindness’ – The Guardian. Prosopagnosia, or face blindness is a peculiar disorder where a person simply cannot recognise or remember faces, even of people that they know well. The research has been limited so far, but more attention is being placed on face blindness, which affects a surprising number of people.

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon – Damn Interesting. ”In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time very recently. If not, then you just might hear about it again very soon. Baader-Meinhof is the phenomenon where one happens upon some obscure piece of information– often an unfamiliar word or name– and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly.”