Pokemon teaches more than just kidnapping

Seriously, when you think about Pokemon, in a lot of ways, it teaches you how to be a competent kidnapper. You find your target, physically beat the snot out of them until they can barely move and are on the verge of death, then you capture them in a ball and force them to fight for your amusement. Of course, that won't stop us from collecting them all, because we always finish what we start. Our parents just raised us that way.

All joking aside, turns out some folk at Nintendo, The National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) and Nortel LearniT think that there's more to these Pokemon than meets the eye (someone should get on combining Transformers and Pokemon). They think that Pokemon can teach kids about science. At www.masterthescience.org, several lesson plans explaining how those that inhabit Pokemon Diamond & Pearl can teach science can be found.

If only they had cool lesson plans like these back when we went to school, we might be doctors right now, instead of being chained to a laptop.

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