How Minecraft could help teach chemistry’s building blocks of life

The online building game offers a way to explore the world of molecules like no other

This piece was first published on The Conversation

Children should be playing more computer games in school. That idea might enrage you if you think kids today already spend too much time staring at screens or if you are already sick of your offspring's incessant prattling about fighting zombies and the like. But hear me out.