Primrose Road

According to Wired (which incidentally this month also declared THE END OF THEORY!!!111!!5!!#1!!), there's a game/SIM called Zero Hour: America's Medic which is being used to train paramedics in disaster response. Basically, paramedics get immersed in one of three situations: an unusual flu breaks out at an apartment building, a possibly radioactive bomb explodes at a baseball stadium, and finally (here I'll quote the item) "a freight train has derailed at a downtown station during rush hour, spewing lethal chemicals into the air." Other people realize what's kind of funny about that last one, right?

Meanwhile, I do like the idea of computers that can think better than humans do, because they can serve to remind us humanpeople that thinking isn't supernatural or preternatural.