Brain training games do nothing to keep the mind nimble, according to Cambridge University researchers. The scientists concluded that while we get better at the complex computer exercises with practice, there is no evidence that this is of any use in everyday life. Healthy middle-aged people would do more for their brain by eating a salad, going for a stroll or taking up ballroom dancing, experts said. Read the full article on the Daily Mail.
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Apr
The internet is one of 237 nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. From the BBC: “The nomination for the internet is supported by 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and the founder of the $100 laptop project Nicholas Negroponte. It is unclear who would accept the prize if the internet were to win.”
5
Dec
Guilty after all: Amanda Knox and former lover Raffaelle Sollecito were found guilty of the drug-fueled sex murder of Meredith Kercher. Knox was jailed for 26 years and Sollecito for 25. The conviction, after 14 hours of deliberation, came two years and one month after 21-year-old Miss Kercher’s half naked body was found in a pool of blood in the bedroom of her Italian home.
Here’s to education: new UK study shows, kids believe Hitler coached Germany football team
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Nov
Children think Adolf Hitler coached Germany’s national football team and that the symbol of Remembrance Day is McDonald’s Golden Arches, a shocking study has found.
The astonishing results emerged from a study of 2,000 children between the ages of nine and 15 which tested them on their knowledge of facts of both world wars.
More than one in 20 thought Hitler managed Germany’s football team rather than the leader of the fascist Nazi Party.
Twelve per cent worryingly assumed McDonald’s Golden Arches was the symbol of Remembrance Day.
And 40 per cent didn’t even know that Remembrance Day falls on November 11th.
Some of the more disturbing results were that one in six children believed Auschwitz was a World War Two theme park.
Only half knew D-Day was the invasion of Normandy – a quarter believing it was ‘Dooms Day’ and one quarter thought a nuclear bomb was dropped on Pearl Harbour which spurred America’s involvement. The study was conducted by war veterans’ charity Erskine in the run up to Remembrance Day. This is a rather shocking result and should certainly stir up some controversy.
23
Oct
Four people have died of swine flu in the space of 24 hours as experts predict children will be hardest hit by the second surge of the pandemic. A teenager was among the latest deaths as new cases of swine flu almost doubled to reach 53,000 in the last week. The four people who died in the last 24 hours in Scotland were a 16-year-old boy, a 77-year-old man and two women aged 47 and 54. All of them had significant underlying health problems. The number of deaths of people in the UK suffering from swine flu has risen to 128, with 93 deaths in England, 21 in Scotland, eight in Northern Ireland and six in Wales.