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Dec 2015
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Tetris Syndrome: A Mind Made of Blocks

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To play a game of "Tetris" is to invite a geometric invasion into your mind. After hours of intense block manipulation, you finally set aside your gaming device. You take a deep breath, close your eyes -- and there the frenzied, multicolored tetrominoes c 
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