October 7, 2014

Could eating right help to cure a disease? An animal study found that a healthy dietary fat that's in olive oil can restore heart health. The fat called oleate brought about an immediate improvement in how the hearts contracted and pumped blood. The next step is to duplicate the animal tests in humans. Source Link

The all-you-can-watch streaming video buffet known as Netflix is becoming a big part of the day for millions of Americans. The company says its average subscriber watches about 90 minutes of Netflix programming daily. Regular TV viewing still averages about five hours per day. Source Link

Learning online can be just as effective or even better than teaching that takes place in a classroom. Researchers compared students of an online MIT physics course to those who took the same class on campus. The learning was the same in both settings for students, including those who were less prepared before taking the class. Source Link