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Brain Games
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:45 am
by lorin
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/
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 1:54 am
by Vraith
I'm about to watch it tonight.
I'm thinking about doing the brain profile they're doing at their site connected with it.
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 2:28 am
by Hashi Lebwohl
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?