by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 5, 2026 | Psychology, Psychology of Film and TV, Psychology of Media and Culture
In the summer of 2005, a virtual plague swept through the digital kingdom of Azeroth. Players logged into World of Warcraft to find the streets of major cities carpeted with skeletons. A bug had allowed a deadly in-game disease to escape its intended boundaries, and...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 7, 2025 | Psychology of History
The Silurian Hypothesis, proposed by astrophysicist Gavin Schmidt and astrobiologist Adam Frank in 2018, presents a fascinating question: if an advanced industrial civilization existed on Earth millions of years ago, would we even be able to detect it? Named after the...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 20, 2025 | Color Psychology
What Does Yellow-Green Mean in a Dream Yellow-green, the vibrant hue that bridges the lush tranquility of green and the radiant vitality of yellow, holds a unique place in the spectrum of human emotion and experience. This dynamic, dual-natured color seems to embody...