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Tech Post for 3-Jul-2008
Jul. 3rd, 2008 12:56 pmCanada ranks second last in dealing with global warming among G8 - Only the US scored lower.
How to make gerbils (and maybe humans) smarter - A recent study correlated increased brain synapse activity with ingesting a combination of choline (found in eggs) and either UMP (found in beets) or DHA (found in fish oils).
More sex may lead to less erectile dysfunction - A recent study indicated that men who had intercourse less than once each week had twice the incidence of erectile dysfunction than those who did it at least once each week. Although the relationship is correlational and not causal, just to be safe men should have sex often as "preventative medicine".
Mars soil bake test may be its last - or at least that is how NASA scientists are treating it. They don't know how likely it is for another of the ovens to experience a short circuit so they are treating each use as potentially the last time they can use the instrument.
Google must hand over Youtube logs to Viacom - The logs contain the login ID and IP addresses of Youtube users, leading privacy groups to cry foul. Viacom is currently suing Google for $1 billion(US), alleging that Google didn't do enough to prevent users from posting copyright material.
Firefox sets a record: officially - Firefox 3.0 was downloaded 8,002,530 times, making it an official world record for the most downloads of a single software package in a 24 hour period.
How to make gerbils (and maybe humans) smarter - A recent study correlated increased brain synapse activity with ingesting a combination of choline (found in eggs) and either UMP (found in beets) or DHA (found in fish oils).
More sex may lead to less erectile dysfunction - A recent study indicated that men who had intercourse less than once each week had twice the incidence of erectile dysfunction than those who did it at least once each week. Although the relationship is correlational and not causal, just to be safe men should have sex often as "preventative medicine".
Mars soil bake test may be its last - or at least that is how NASA scientists are treating it. They don't know how likely it is for another of the ovens to experience a short circuit so they are treating each use as potentially the last time they can use the instrument.
Google must hand over Youtube logs to Viacom - The logs contain the login ID and IP addresses of Youtube users, leading privacy groups to cry foul. Viacom is currently suing Google for $1 billion(US), alleging that Google didn't do enough to prevent users from posting copyright material.
Firefox sets a record: officially - Firefox 3.0 was downloaded 8,002,530 times, making it an official world record for the most downloads of a single software package in a 24 hour period.