Very interesting series by National Geographic. Lots of fun and very startling how much we don't know about our brains. It's easy for a layman like me to understand.
braingames.nationalgeographic.com/
Brain Games
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Vraith
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I'm about to watch it tonight.
I'm thinking about doing the brain profile they're doing at their site connected with it.
I'm thinking about doing the brain profile they're doing at their site connected with it.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Hashi Lebwohl
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hrmpf. Maybe some day they'll ask challenging questions but I doubt it.
hair : capillary :: female servant : ? (I couldn't figure this one out on the test I took once). I still don't know the answer. *shrug*
Initially, I did not know the answer to this analogy, either:
Hypatia : Church of Alexandria :: Mata Hari : ? of ?
This one is really tricky--the answer is not what you think it will be:
If a genius can solve a problem in 15 minutes and another genius in 10, how long (mins.) will it take them to solve it together?
I liked this question even though it didn't take that long to figure out:
An insane genius has been invited to a TV show. When the showman asks him how old he is, he doesn’t want to reveal his age. However, as he knows the showman’s age, he poses a riddle, promising an autographed book to whoever can solve it. He says that both he and the showman are in their twenties, and that he is four times as old as the showman was when he was three times as old as the showman was when he was twice as old as the showman. How old are they?
hair : capillary :: female servant : ? (I couldn't figure this one out on the test I took once). I still don't know the answer. *shrug*
Initially, I did not know the answer to this analogy, either:
Hypatia : Church of Alexandria :: Mata Hari : ? of ?
This one is really tricky--the answer is not what you think it will be:
If a genius can solve a problem in 15 minutes and another genius in 10, how long (mins.) will it take them to solve it together?
I liked this question even though it didn't take that long to figure out:
An insane genius has been invited to a TV show. When the showman asks him how old he is, he doesn’t want to reveal his age. However, as he knows the showman’s age, he poses a riddle, promising an autographed book to whoever can solve it. He says that both he and the showman are in their twenties, and that he is four times as old as the showman was when he was three times as old as the showman was when he was twice as old as the showman. How old are they?
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