Do We Need to Play? The Joy of Togetherness

This 20-minutes TED Talk was given by Jane McGonigal in June 2012 and was since viewed by over 2 million viewers on the Internet:

http://ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_the_game_that_can_give_you_10_extra_years_of_life

Jane designs computer games. She promises that the effects of playing increases life by up to 10 years. This is not simply based on mathematics but on psychological insights and recent neuroscientific research. In her talk she recounted her own experience of depression following a concussion two years earlier...Watch the rest in TED Talk.
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