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…especially if you watch those medical shows – Watching TV can be bad for us, but sometimes it does a lot of good. Many TV series are set in hospitals and this has made people more confident about trying to resuscitate people who have strokes or are choking on food. But 77% of the people surveyed say they don’t know how to help. But (believe it or not) that may not matter!

BBC News quotes ambulance tech Isobel Sternfeld as saying, “When you’re talking about things like CPR, you can’t make things worse?If someone’s not breathing, they’re not breathing. If you don’t do anything, they’re still not breathing, but if you do something you will be giving them a chance.”
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The five western lowland gorillas in the Dallas Zoo are being kept away from the public, since one escaped on March 18 and injured three people before being killed by police. The remaining gorillas are stressed from being kept indoors, and zoo officials are trying to ease this with television. The gorillas each have their favorite shows.

The Dallas Morning News reports that fourteen-year-old Patrick likes cartoons, public television, and National Geographic specials, but sports bore him. Keeper Cindy McCaleb says, “We tried to put on sports, even though we were concerned it might generate aggressive behavior, but he really wasn’t interested.”
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