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Brain Training Games Don't Train Your Brain 151

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @03:03PM from the maybe-it-just-takes-more-than-6-weeks dept.

Stoobalou writes with this excerpt from Thinq.co.uk: "A new study has shown that brain training games do little to exercise the grey matter. Millions of people who have been prodding away at their Nintendo DS portable consoles, smug in the knowledge that they are giving their brains a proper work-out, might have to rethink how they are going to stop the contents of their skulls turning into mush."

Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release 140

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 20, 2010 @12:05PM from the sooner-than-later dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "A month after an advisory was published detailing a new vulnerability in Firefox, Mozilla said it has received exploit code for the flaw and is planning to patch the weakness on March 30 in the next release of Firefox. Mozilla officials said Thursday that the vulnerability, which was disclosed February 18 by Secunia, is a critical flaw that could result in remote code execution on a vulnerable machine. The vulnerability is in version 3.6 of Firefox."

Comment GM improved the Saab 93 tremendously (Score 1) 438

by VTEngineer on Sunday December 20, 2009 @04:19PM (#30506276) Attached to: A Requiem For Saab

they made it more reliable. I talked to a Saab mechanic and he told me to be very happy I had a 2001 93. GM improved many things in the Saab to make it more reliable. I have no reason to doubt him. He gave me specifics that have long since slipped my mind, but GM failed Saab in marketing, not platform.

Mars Polar Cap Mystery Solved 77

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 22, 2008 @01:44PM from the feather-in-their-cap dept.

Matt_dk writes "Scientists are now able to explain why Mars' residual southern ice cap is misplaced, thanks to data from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft (the same probe running the 'Mars Webcam'). It turns out the martian weather system is to blame. And so is the largest impact crater on Mars — even though it is nowhere near the south pole. Like Earth, Mars has frozen polar caps, but unlike Earth, these caps are made of carbon dioxide ice as well as water ice. During the southern hemisphere's summer, much of the ice cap sublimates, a process in which the ice turns straight back into gas, leaving behind what is known as the residual polar cap. The mystery was that while the winter cap is symmetrical about the south pole, the residual cap was offset, and scientists couldn't figure out why."

Comment I prefer to think of it as tortured soul syndrome (Score 2, Interesting) 232

by VTEngineer on Sunday September 14, 2008 @07:44PM (#25002787) Attached to: David Foster Wallace an Apparent Suicide

Most great artists please many, but inside are miserable. God's greatest gifts make the receiver miserable, but give pleasure to many. Kind of fascinating to me. Almost like their internal misery is the source of their genius.

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