{"id":6298,"date":"2010-12-21T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=6298"},"modified":"2010-12-19T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T03:44:08","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-december-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/6298","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday – December 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Play\"<\/p>\n

Play<\/strong>:
\nHow It Shapes the Brain, Opens the
\nImagination and Invigorates the Soul
\nby Stuart Brown
\nBF717 .B76 2009<\/a>
\nNew Book Island<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n

OK, now that finals are (almost) finished, let’s talk about what you’re going to do with the next four weeks of your life. I have a feeling that there will be some sleep in there, some catching up with friends, some family time. I would also guess that there would be some playtime in there as well, and that would be the subject of this week’s featured title.<\/p>\n

Brown, doctor and founder of the National Institute for Play<\/a> (can I work there?), takes a serious approach with a not-so-serious topic: play. He contends that the ability to laugh, joke around, compete and have fun has a huge impact on our lives. The author brings in cutting-edge scientific research about the mind-altering effects of play to support the notion that the brain benefits from these types of interactions. He also shares his knowledge and expertise in the matter gained from six thousand interviews that he has conducted over the course of his career.<\/p>\n

And with that, you’ve got the last New Stuff Tuesday<\/a> of the year. I’ll be too busy playing until 4 January. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown BF717 .B76 2009 New Book Island, 2nd floor OK, now that finals are (almost) finished, let’s talk about what you’re going to do with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[178,2926,185,3312,242],"class_list":["post-6298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-books","tag-neuroscience","tag-new-stuff","tag-play","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6298"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298\/revisions\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}