[Phys-l] on-line gambling (was: Good Questions)

[Stefan Jeglinski <jeglin@4pi.com>]

Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> Do HS students still read such books as Gamow's One Two Three ...
> Infinity, wherein he discusses the drunkard's walk and the blu sky, or
> are they addicted to TV and text msgng?

Ray Suarez's story on NPR heard this afternoon suggests that one of 
the up and coming addictions keeping high-schoolers and college kids 
from the books is on-line poker. A vanishingly few kids are paying 
their way through college with it (2-12 hrs/day). Most of course 
(~90%? more?) just lose money, perhaps every last dime, not to 
mention the mental toll. I guess it can apparently bring out the 
addictive personality in anybody. Just an interesting phenom in light 
of threads seen here, some recent.

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/gambling/index.html


I wonder if any teachers here can ask their students what the actual 
prevalence of this is?



Stefan Jeglinski