For Laugh...

Video Game-trianed surgeons are the best!

Mom wants you to be doctor? Tell her to fork over the cash for a top-notch console. The Director of the Advanced Medical Technologies Institute in New York, Dr. James Rosser Jr., whose job it is to improve the ways doctors are trained, believes that "Nintendo surgeons" who clock in at least three hours a week of finger-mashing video games make fewer mistakes when operating and finish the job faster. Rosser used the Nintendo game, Super Monkey Ball, to test his theories. Med School, here we come!

Tsunami tragedy triggers unlikely animal friendships

After losing its family in the devastating tsunami that hit Asia and Africa early this year, a baby hippo found an unusual new friend - a 100-year-old tortoise. "Owen", the hippo, was rescued and moved to an African zoo where it met its new pal, Mzee. They now hang out together all day, eating and sleeping together - practically inseparable. Park officials report, "The tortoise behaves like amother to it." Hmmm, sounds like a Pixar movie in the making! ^_^