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Friday, June 24, 2005

Medical Journal Accepts Paper by 13-Year-Old on "PlayStation Thumb"

From a story on CNet,

A 13-year-old girl has become the youngest author to be published in South Africa's main medical journal for her research on "PlayStation thumb".

Safura Abdool Karim interviewed 120 of her former schoolmates for a science project about whether they suffered problems after playing computer games.

Symptoms of "PlayStation Thumb" include blisters numbness and tingling, mainly in the thumb, she wrote.

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She said she herself did not own a PlayStation because they were a "waste of time".

This put a smile on my face. It's pretty funny. I can't want to see the look on my son's face when I show him this news! I look forward to reading the whole paper.

If anybody finds it online, please drop me a not or comment here. I can't seem to find it, so it may not be available online yet.

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