If you’re a baboon, being in charge gives you a lot of advantages: you have better access to food, you get more action from the ladies, and your kids tend to grow faster and live longer. Low-rankers, meanwhile, must expend more time and energy to get food and mating opportunities. It makes sense to assume that the baboons at the bottom of their hierarchy might experience more stress than their high-ranking relatives.

I told you never to call me on this wall! University of Illinois at Chicago grad student Arthur Nishimoto (L) and fellow students play Nishimoto's Fleet Commander, a massive multitouch strategy game based on Star Wars.
Image: L. Renambot/Electronics Visualization Laboratory

There have been some big Star Wars videogames, but none as big as Fleet Commander.

Arthur Nishimoto, a graduate student in the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory, has developed his real-time strategy game to be played on a wall-size LCD screen. Players are divided into two opposing teams t...