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Education

Journal Journal: Firstborns Raised to be More Intelligent

The Long held beleif that first born children are genetically more likely be more intelligent than their younger siblings has at last been debunked. It turns out that its how the children are raised that matters... And why am I not surprised? "Even if a child had lost an older sibling and was raised as the eldest, their IQ was higher by an average of 2.3 points than their younger siblings." http://www.worldnewsaustralia.com.au/region.php?id=137876&region=3
Space

Submission + - Eta Car - Local Supernova

da4 writes: Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy has a great article about Eta Car, a star approx 7500 l.y. away from us that's ready to supernova sometime.. Real Soon Now.
Microsoft

Journal Journal: Australian Retailers Report 30% XBox 360 Failure Rate

Smarthouse news is reporting that more than 30% of Australian XBox360 owners are returning the consoles with the "Red Ring of Death", which occurs when the console suffers a hardware failure http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/13201/Retailers_Claim_360_Failure_Rate_Is_Over_30.html.

It appears that the failures are caused by a fundamental design flaw in the cooling of the GPU.

News

Lake Disappears into Andes 307

steveb3210 writes "It seems that what was once a 5-acre glacial lake in the Andes has mysteriously disappeared. 'In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal,' Juan Jose Romero from Chile's National Forestry Corporation, Conaf, said. 'We went again in May and to our surprise we found that the lake had completely disappeared. All that was left were chunks of ice and an enormous fissure.'" The current theory is that an earthquake opened the ground and allowed the lake to drain. Looks like global warming is off the hook this time around.
Biotech

Journal Journal: Stem Cells To Repair Damaged Heart Muscle

Stem cell researchers at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom have announced the start of a clinical trial to treat heart heart attack patients with their own bone marrow stem cells: "In the first trial of its kind in the world, 60 patients who have recently suffered a major heart attack will be injected with selected stem cells from their own bone marrow during routine coronary bypass surgery. The Bristol trial will test whether the stem cells will repair heart muscle cells damaged
Google

Google Says Vista Search Changes Not Enough 282

akkarin writes "Following Google's complaint to Microsoft regarding Vista's 'desktop search,' Google claims that Vista's search has not changed enough: 'Google said yesterday that the remedies don't go far enough. Google chief legal officer David Drummond said in a statement, "We are pleased that as a result of Google's request that the consent decree be enforced, the Department of Justice and state attorneys general have required Microsoft to make changes to Vista."'"

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