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Mother strikes a blow against epilepsy risk of computer games.

A campaign by the mother of a ten-year-old boy who suffered an epileptic fit triggered by a computer game has persuaded a leading manufacturer to change how it vets its products. “Parents should know that every time they buy their child a game, there is the potential for an epileptic fit unless we make safety-testing law.”

Lighter side is that : In June a short animated film introducing the 2012 Olympics logo was inadvertently broadcast on television without being tested and was said to have caused dozens of epileptic fits.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3006941.ece

17 year old works on NASA spaceship

Hassany Alejandre of Menlo Park, Calif., spent last summer working with Stanford University graduate students testing the insulation capacity of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration spaceship that will serve as the first space-based gravitational wave observatory.

Alejandre is scheduled to present his findings Dec. 13 during the AGU fall meeting in San Francisco -- a meeting to be attended by more than 14,000 of the nation's top scientists.

"It's a little intimidating when I stop to think about it," Alejandre said. "Some of the greatest minds in the world will be attending the conference and I'm presenting my poster as a high school student. It's very exciting."

Alejandre is enrolled at Canada College in Redwood City, Calif., where he's finishing his high school courses and simultaneously taking college courses in calculus and biology.

His AGU presentation will focus on LISA -- the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna -- that will be launched by NASA in 2015. LISA will use an advanced system of laser interferometry for detecting and measuring gravitational waves.

http://www.physorg.com/news116186985.html