Kid Uses D&D to Advance Science - 7:00 AM Here at GeekDad, these
sorts of stories make our hearts sing. Boy (in this case, 12
year old), chats with Dad (a scientist) about one of Dad’s
scientific conundrums. To solve the problem, the kid draws on
his monstrous knowledge of, yes, Dungeons & Dragons, and the
Monster Manual in particular, to solve it. As reported by
Discover Magazine, the problem was this: Alan Kingstone, a
University of British Columbia psychologist, wanted to find out
if people (or creatures) look at where people (or creatures) are
looking because they are drawn to their eyes, or because they
are drawn to the center of their heads. It was hard to know the
difference, because most animals (humans included) have eyes
more or less in their heads. But not in D&D. Young Julian Levy,
his son, said (essentially), “Duh! Dad, not all creatures have
eyes in their heads.” And he flipped through his Monster Manual
to show him (at least in the scene that I imagine). There’s the
monster known as the “behold