There is a neat little article in today’s Wall Street Journal which talks about techniques for studying effectively for exams. Among other things it says that testing yourself repeatedly before an exam is better than re-reading the text because the tests help the brain to more easily retrieve and apply knowledge from memory. Taking pre-tests [...]

In a study published in the journal Neurology, people who reported using olive oil in all facets of their diet from coooking their food to using it as salad dressing, were found to have 41% LOWER RISK OF STROKE than people who never included oive oil in their diet. Olive oil i high in [...]

In yesterday’s news cycle, a story issued which is a harbinger of technology to come and one of the great benefits of competition between smart phone apps, which has advanced that technology nicely (although the potential is much greater). The story is about a portable device created at the Massachusetts General Hospital which connects to [...]

The Egyption government has arrested four anti-government protesters, members of the April 6 Youth, organized primarily through Facebook and other social media tools. Security officials detained the activitists in Cairo’s Hisham Mubarak Law Center, a group that provides legal assistance to detainees. Its director, Ahmed Sief was also taken into custody. Facebook said it has [...]

According to some reports, Facebook is now cleaning up its legal act with pending and threatened litigation, in order to set the stage for taking the company public. Presently valued in excess of 40 billion,  with infusions of funders from various quarters, the growing powerhouse could become the largest and most powerful internet phenom, exceeding [...]

The Economist Magazine analysts report that global action is not going to stop climate change and that the world needs to figure ways to live with it. Even if carbon dioxide emissions were to stabilize where they are now, the world would still warm by half a defree as the ocean catches up. Sea levels [...]

For 18 minutes in April, one seventh of the entire internet was routed through China, an accident, China telecom claims. Now, experts are suggesting the occurrence was not an error but rather a purposeful manipulation in order to give Chinese experts time to analyze all of the data running through its servers. The April incident [...]

A new study published in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory reveals that intense intervals of exercise including weight training, in which the maximum aerobic potential is met, will consistently boost brain power. For example, it was found that two 3-minute sprints spaced 2 minutes apart to the point of maximum yields a 20% faster vocabulary [...]

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Jeff Newman
Hempel watched the scrawny girl fish off the skiff in the late afternoon sun. The thought of leaving her cut into his heart.
“Grampa, can we work on the table later on?” she asked.
“Sure, if you want. Then homework. It’s important.”
“I know. Mom said it’s important but I like workin’ in the shop better.”
“School is [...]

Here is information that we should worry about from a new study by the U.S. Geological survey and written about in ScienceDaily. More than 20% of untreated water samples from 932 public wells around the country contain at least one contaminant dangerous to human health. In some instances, the contaminants included radon and arsenic but [...]