ScienCentral has a report on the advantages of video game training -- an interesting twist: one study claims the advantages of such training for laparoscopic surgeons; the researcher (a laparoscopic surgeon) found that surgeons who were also current video gamers performed 30% better on a laparoscopic training exercise than those who had never played video games!

The BBC reports on a new study getting us closer to a machine that can "read our minds" (don't worry; long way to go yet!)

And Simon Baron-Cohen, the autism researcher, has an interesting op-ed piece in the New York Times about brain differences between the genders.