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Internet use ‘good for the brain’

For middle-aged and older people at least, using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests.

A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulated centres in the brain that controlled decision-making and complex reasoning.

The researchers say this might even help to counteract the age-related physiological changes that cause the brain to slow down.

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Bag of Randomness

  • McCain loses blinking contest.  Link
  • For fellow Daily Show fans – Jason Jones and Samantha Bee appear to be getting their own show.  Link
  • If liking the feel of new socks on your feet is wrong then I don’t want to be right.
  • Rightly or wrongly, a U. S. president gets the credit or blame for the economy.  But I wonder how many presidents have left office with the Dow lower than when he started.  George W. Bush was sworn in on Saturday January 20, 2001.  The previous day, the Dow closed at 10,587.59.  Yesterday the Dow closed at 8979.26.
  • Man, I’ve been in the doldrums as of late and I can’t figure out why.
  • KitKats taste best right out of the freezer.
  • That’s the only candy bar I eat, if you consider that a bar.
  • I turned over to PBS for a brief moment to check out the Texas Senate debate and heard an extremely stupid question asked by a moderator.  Her question, and I’m paraphrasing, “Both of you state that you would punish businesses that hire illegal immigrants.  Lets say you hire a contractor to do some work on your house, and the contractor brings over illegal immigrants to work.  What would you do?  Would you call immigration? Would you allow them to work? What would you do?”  Come on, give me a break.   Like you can tell someone is an illegal immigrant just by observation.  She didn’t even clarify the question by stating that the contractor told you he hired illegal immigrants.  And if it’s an issue that that don’t speak English, that’s a weak argument because there are plenty of legal immigrants that do not speak English.
  • I learned that Dallas Cowboys radio voice Brad Sham has a cameo in the Oliver Stone movie W.  He plays a reporter at a press conference of all things.
  • MoOM – The Museum of Online Museums
  • Strip club offers seniors free flu shots.  Article
  • Super Bowl tickets are expensive, no telling what they will be when the Super Bowl comes to North Texas.
  • Dallas ISD continues to disappoint.  For those of you that don’t know, because of an accounting error, they are short $84 million and had to lay off teachers.  Notices were announced yesterday, and the news coverage was just heartbreaking, especially seeing the young students crying.  Just think, at one time people went to teaching for the job security.
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    Baylor University backs off plan offering perks to retake SAT

    Baylor University, facing sharp criticism for paying already-admitted students to retake the SAT and try to boost their scores, said Thursday it “goofed” and would probably end the practice.

    The school in Waco, Texas, offered enrolling students a $300 bookstore credit for retaking the college entrance test and $1,000 if their scores rose 50 points or more. The carrot prompted a wave of criticism, on campus and nationally, as an unethical bid to boost the school’s rankings.

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