Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Games & Nobel Prizes

The Nobel prize official website have a section with small games and simulations, based on Prize-winning achievements (http://nobelprize.org/games_simulations.html)

The games are simple, I like the design. The instructions are - in general clear -, I only have some comments about the navigation buttons in some of them.
I like the concept too ... make the "... work of the Nobel Prize winners" accessible to the general audience.

You can find games in any of the categories of Nobel prizes (physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace and economics). You can play just the game, or have access to a brief explanation. If you choose do not read, the feedbacks from the game will give you clues anyways about the right way to do it.

Here are some examples about what to expect:




Category: Medicine
Blood Typing In this game you have to blood type each patient and give them a blood transfusion.

The Immune System Defender Game is intended to learn how to defeat a bacterial infection by using a range of different immune cells.

Category: Physics
The Transistor One of the games allow you to learn about how a transistor functions and what it is made up of.

Category: Peace
The Prisoners of War Game As commander of a prisoners of war camp, are you a "humanitarian champion" or a "sadistic swine?"

And my favorite game, is the Pavlov's Dog (http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/pavlov/index.html)


Enjoy !

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