Homeschoolers will love this one:  A new study shows that music training in young children affects their brain development and improves memory.  Is this one reason why home-educated kids, who are often taught music at young ages, score so much higher on tests than average students?

 Meanwhile, NatGeo has a photo gallery of a few of the 50 new marine species discovered in Indonesia.  Also, scientists and state officials in Louisiana are considering diverting the Mississippi near its gulf outlet.  Part of the motivation for this is the two- to three-foot rise in ocean water levels expected over the next century by global warming theorists.