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Tetris Improves Your Brain

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sing-the-music-honey dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Playing Tetris increases the density of the cortex and improves the efficiency of some parts of the brain, according to researchers investigating video games and other complex spatial tasks." Unfortunately, storing a half million copies of the song negates any practical functional gains beyond loading your trunk very efficiently.

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  1. So tetris at work = good by d-r0ck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [Peter is wearing shorts, sandals and a paisley shirt, with his feet up on his desk, munching chips and playing tetris on his computer]
    Bill Lumbergh: Hello Peter, what's happening? Listen, are you gonna have those TPS reports for us this afternoon?
    Peter Gibbons: No.
    Bill Lumbergh: Ah. Well then I suppose we should go ahead and have a little talk.
    Peter Gibbons: Not right now Lumbergh, I'm kinda busy. You know what, in fact I'm gonna have to ask you to just go ahead and come back later, I've got a meeting with the Bobs in a couple minutes.
    Bill Lumbergh: I wasn't aware of a meeting with them.
    Peter Gibbons: Yeah, they called me at home.