Generally I don't feel comfortable about passing along st...

Generally I don't feel comfortable about passing along stuff that I find on the Net, but I picked up two tidbits today while muffling around in search of what people would chat about at a Washington party at the home of the British Minister in 1838 (and what a strange fellow the British Minister was then! Some stuff it would never OCCUR to you to make up...)

The first was that there seems to be a high correlation between top-quality surgeons and videogamers. The article quickly pointed out that while skill at gaming doesn't NECESSARILY mean a person would be a skilled surgeon, still there was some enormous percentage of the top level of surgeons who are also gamers. (Something like 47%?). The article concluded with the warning to High School students that attempting to qualify themselves for this field of endeavor by playing TOO MUCH videogames would be counterproductive... Which reminded me of the warning-labels on Superman costumes at Halloween informing parents that the outfit would not actually confer upon its wearer the power of flight.

The second (which didn't come off the Net, in fact) was the fact that Felix Salten, the fellow who wrote Bambi, also apparently wrote, in 1906, a jaw-droppingly graphic piece of pornography called Josefine Mutzenbacher.

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