How playing too many video games could help prepare you for a career as a surgeon
The Huffington Post reports that “scientists at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston pitted high school sophomore gamers, college gamers, and medical residents against each other to see which group would perform better using virtual surgery tools.” The results were clear: the high school gamers performed better virtual surgery than the medical residents.
All the same, the Huffington Post says that the study “measured skills in 32 categories, including hand-eye coordination, pressure on the controls, and time,” so it seems that playing games does give people practice in useful skills that could help them one day if they choose to become medical professionals.
http://bgr.com/2012/11/23/video-game-surgery-study/
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‘Gangnam Style’ Defeats Bieber to Become Most-Viewed YouTube Video of All Time
Korean singing sensation Psy has unseated pop idol Justin Bieber on the YouTube charts.
“Gangnam Style” officially became the most-viewed video in YouTube history Saturday, beating out previous record-holder, the Biebs’ “Baby.”
Clocking in at 805 million views, the video that spawned invisible horse dancing bests “Baby,” by about 1 million views (the latter currently has close to 804 million).
“Gangnam Style” has experienced a meteoric rise since its July debut, gaining an average of 11 million views per day — the “most viral, fastest-growing video of all time” — according to data aggregator Starcount. The electronic dance hit cracked YouTube’s top 10 list just last month. “Baby,” on the other hand, was released two-and-a-half years ago.
http://mashable.com/2012/11/24/gangnam-style-most-viewed/
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Should Twitter Ban Hamas?
Should Twitter allow named terrorist groups to continue to tweet? Not according to a group of Republican House members, who have asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to force the San Francisco-based social communications company to ban accounts of organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. “The FBI and Twitter must recognize sooner rather than later that social media is a tool for the terrorists,” said a letter from Rep. Ted Poe of Texas.
http://allthingsd.com/20121124/should-twitter-ban-hamas/
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Google Maps Adds Indoor Floor Plans for Desktop
“Before heading home for the holidays or out to shop on Black Friday, check out indoor maps of the airport or shopping mall on your desktop to better plan your trip,” Google Maps posted in a message on Google+.
Floor plans for over 10,000 locations worldwide are available on your web browser, such as stores, train stations, airports and museums. You can use it to plan the fastest route through the mall, or make sure you know how to get from the taxi to the airport gate without running all over the airport.
“Simply zoom in on a building on Google Maps and you’ll automatically see a detailed floor plan with helpful labels for gates at the airport, stores within the mall, departments within a retail shop, as well as ATMs, restrooms and more,” Google wrote.
Google also offers a tool to let venue owners add their own floor plans to Google Maps. You can see a list of participating locations across the globe right here.
http://mashable.com/2012/11/23/google-maps-floor-plans/
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Searching For Hotel? Google Pushing Google Hotel Finder
There is a screen shot of me removing the 2 or 3 AdWords ads, just so I can clean up space here on this post. Note, you can click on the image to enlarge.
These started popping up in the Google search results last December but recently they have been coming up more and more often - virtually for all hotel travel based searches.
A WebmasterWorld thread has many SEOs and Webmasters not happy. Of course, those who are in the hotel aggregation business are not happy. But some searchers are n
