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Video games can be a hazard to health: A report from Leeds Teaching Hospitals describes the case of a 16 year old boy who injured his knee while playing an active game with is Nintendo Wii. He had lateral patella dislocation with medial patellofemoral ligamentous damage and a large femoral osteochondral fracture (Emergency Radiology 14 March 2008; doi: 10.1007/s10140-008-0712-7).

Minerva won’t even begin to try and summarise a paper in the International Journal of Design and Nature (2007;2:348-55; http://journals.witpress.com). “Problems with voting: the ultimate source? Mathematical considerations and speculative implications” came about because an interview for a specialist registrar post produced an outcome that no one—neither the panel nor the successful and unsuccessful candidates—thought appropriate. The author starts by stating: “Voting systems may determine appointment committee outcomes but may also underpin free will, perceptions, quantum uncertainty, and possibly reality itself.” Food for thought, indeed.

New evidence in Nature Medicine suggests that host-to-graft disease may result from using …