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Now that summer is over and exhausted parents have sent their kids back to school, an ongoing question arises once again: should kids go to school all year? New research has found that students in “year-round” schools don’t learn more than their peers in traditional nine-month schools. And if kids go to school full-time, they won’t have enough chances to get DIRTY!
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In the Oct. 4 edition of the Independent, Robert Verkaik reports that MI6 agents (the equivalent of the US CIA) were operating in Paris on the night of August 31, 1997, the time of the car crash that killed Diana and Dodi Fayed. This was revealed to a jury at a hearing in the UK which is investigating their deaths. Dodi?s father, Mohamed Al Fayed, believes that they were murdered to avert a scandal that would have affected the monarchysince he claims that Diana was pregnant when she died.
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We reported before on why staying up all night to study DOES NOT work. But studying in the evening DOES work because new research shows that our brains learn more effectively in the evening.

You may think that the idea of a being either morning person or an evening person is nonsense, but Australian researcher Martin Sale has found that the time of day influences your brain?s ability to learn?and the human brain learns more effectively in the evening. And by identifying at what point in the day the brain is best able to operate, rehabilitation therapy can be targeted to that time, when recovery is maximized.
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There may be a music center in the brain, but even though you have one, it doesn’t necessarily mean you can hit a note when you sing. If you can’t sing or play the guitar, it may be comforting to know that rock stars tend to die young.

In LiveScience.com, Ben Mauk writes that there may be a music center in the brain, although researchers have yet to find it. Brain scans have shown that the parts of the brain that react to music are the same parts that react to food, sex and drugs.
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