Forget carrots. If you want better eyesight, put down the rabbit food and get your game on, because researchers have found playing action video games can actually improve an important aspect of vision.

“Contrast sensitivity” is a basic but important part of visual perception and one of the first aspects to degenerate with age. Those with good contrast sensitivity can discern very small changes in shades of grey when placed against a uniform background and cope well driving at night and in poor visibility.

Those with poor contrast sensitivity have several options to improve their sight, such as eye surgery, contact lenses or glasses. But now there may be another way forward as a team of researchers from the University of Rochester have found that playing video games could actually improve a gamers’ eyesight.

“We’ve found that action videogames train the brain to process the existing visual information more efficiently, and the improvements last for months after game play stopped,” said Daphne Bavelier of the University of Rochester, New York.

But, it has to be action video games, say the researchers. Even though the test was small, they did find that those of their test gamers who played the action video games Call of Duty 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004 had better contrast sensitivity after the nine week test compared with those gamers who played non-action video games, in this case The Sims2. This was put down to the need for greater visual alertness in action video games where instant reactions were necessary in unpredictable environments.

Even more surprising to the researchers, who had until now assumed that contrast sensitivity could not be improved by training the eye, was that most regular players of action video games see improvement of about 50% after around 50 hours of playing, and that effect could persist for months or even years after their most recent session.

“When people play action games, they’re changing the brain’s pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it,” added Bavelier.

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The word trillion has been thrown around a lot in the United States lately but can you really imagine how much money that is? I have thought about it many times, but never really saw it through my own eyes.

I found this site that puts a trillion dollars into perspective for us. Check it out and see for yourself how much a trillion dollars really is.

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Tell me these aren’t bad products…

Source: Gizmodo.com

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A friend sent me this link last week and I hadn’t had a chance to post it until now. This site shows pictures of Dubai’s progression throughout the years in their architecture and technology.

There are also interesting pictures showing what Dubai’s plans are for the future of their architecture. In their record books, Dubai already has the tallest hotels in the world which are considered the only 5 star deluxe hotel in the world as well. They own both of the world’s tallest hotels and the tallest one called the Rose Tower stands at 1,093 feet and the second tallest hotel is Burj al-Arab and it was built on an artificial island right beside a beach standing at 1,053 feet.

The Rose Tower Hotel Standing at 1,093 feet

Burj al-Arab Hotel Standing at 1,053 feet

Here is an image of what Dubai looked like in 1990…

For comparison here is a recent image of Dubai, this site claims it is from 2008…

I was curious to how they can afford all of this expansion so fast and did some research. Initially without doing research I assumed they produced a lot of oil, which they do, but that is not their main source of income. According to Wikipedia almost 23 percent of their income comes from construction and real estate which does not surprise me after seeing the pictures on this site.

There are some very fascinating photos on the website I have been talking about throughout this post so you should at least check it out for those!

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This scientific study was done by thisiswhyyourfat.com.

Read all the details HERE

Ok this definitely isn’t a scientific study but if people actually eat this stuff they are at least working really hard to be obese.

One more nice pic for ya from the site

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