Saturday 30 November 2013

The guy who invented television thought it was trash and wouldn't let his kids watch it!

The guy who invented television thought it was trash and wouldn't let his kids watch it!

American engineer, Philio Farnsworth, would grow to create one of the most iconic invention. His invention, the television, would change how people spend their day to day lives for the rest of human history.




When Farnsworth started going to an engineering school, he already had an idea as to what the television he would soon invent would look like and what it could do.




In 1927, a year after he cofounded Crocker Research Laboraties, Philio Fransworth was the first inventor to transmit a television image comprised of 60 horizontal lines!




Despite creating perhaps the most revolutionary piece of technology in his lifetime, Philio Farnsworth didn't want to watch television, and talked about it very negatively. Philio Farnsworth said, "There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this houshold, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet."




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JK Rowling told Alan Rickman Snape's entire story even before the first Harry Potter movie was shot!

JK Rowling told Alan Rickman Snape's entire story even before the first Harry Potter movie was shot!

Turns out that Professor Snape was a secret double agent. So what does that make Alan Rickman, the man who played him in the "Harry Potter" films, if he secretly knew that his character was a secret double agent?




The Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actor was taken aside by Potter author JK Rowling and told Snape's arc to the end of the series years before the final book in the series, "The Deathly Hallows," was released.




That enabled him to have a certain insight to the character that not even anyone on set could match.As a result he often argued with directors based on knowing something they didn't.




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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Dec 01, 2013)

Every Dawn



Every dawn begins with me,

At dusk I'll be the first you see,

And daybreak couldn't come without

What midday centers all about.

Daises grow from me, I'm told

And when I come, I end all cold,

But in the sun I won't be found,

Yet still, each day I'll be around.





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Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (Dec 01, 2013)

Names in Phrases 2

Many first names have become part of common phrases. See how many of these names you can identify.



Take the Quiz at Braingle.com

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Arrant

ar-rant



adj :: In the highest degree.



"I like the arrant luxury of the ocean liner."

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Equipoise

e-qui-poise



noun :: A state of equilibrium.



"The kids' lives are kept in equipoise by the watchful eyes of their parents"

Creativity : Imagination

A creative person must have a vivid imagination that is free to create without constraint. When you are imagining things, you do not need to be bound by the laws of physics or other rules that govern our normal lives. Set yourself free to explore what you could do under any circumstances. If you come up with a fruitful idea you might be able to modify it to work in reality.



To spark some interesting ideas you could ask yourself some "What if?" questions that break a rule. For example, you could ask yourself how you would solve the problem if you had the strength of Superman. Or, you could ask, "What if cost were not a factor?"



Another important aspect of imagination is to use all of your senses. We already know that using all of your senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) can help you make long lasting memories. Your senses can also be used to enhance creativity. If you think only verbally, then your solutions will be predominantly verbal. Try to imagine smells, sounds and textures when you are thinking about a problem.

Memory : Alzheimer's Prevention

Several recent studies have shown that mental and physical exercise throughout one's lifetime may significantly reduce the effects of Alzheimer's.



Mental exercises such as crossword puzzles, brain teasers, chess, or card games help keep the mind working in top shape. This helps build what is called a "cognitive reserve." Formal education also helps build a person's cognitive reserve. In fact, each year of education reduces a person's chances of getting Alzheimer's by an average of 17%. Scientists believe this is because people with a large cognitive reserve are better able to adapt as neurons are killed by the disease. The more neural connections you have, the longer it takes for the disease to make a significant impact.



It's important to note that mental exercise cannot help significantly once Alzheimer's has already set in. A person must have a lifetime commitment to learning in order to build up his or her cognitive reserve. It is probably not possible to completely prevent the disease in genetically susceptible people, but it is possible to delay the onset so that it will not occur in the person's lifetime.

Australia has a fake Target complete with the same logo and colors!

Australia has a fake Target complete with the same logo and colors!

If Target Corp. Had a twin in a parallel universe, that retailer might carry the same name, logo and slogan and operate on the opposite side of the alternative Earth. Say, Australia.




As it turns out, Target’s Down Under doppelgänger is quite real. Target Australia not only sports the same red and white bull’s-eye logo but also a motto that reads “Get More. Pay Less.”




Sound familiar?




Target officials in Minneapolis, though, want to make something abundantly clear: The two retailers are completely different companies.




The similarities are so strong between the Targets that people sometimes confuse the two, a problem that might get worse as U.S. Target further expands across the globe.




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A man charged with bestiality was set free because the sheep didn't testify in court!

A man charged with bestiality was set free because the sheep didn't testify in court!

A man who was accused of having sex with a sheep has walked free after the animal was unable to testify.




The man, from Haaksbergen, near Utrecht, the Netherlands, was reported to police after a farmer caught him having sex with a sheep.




But the case was thrown out of court as the sheep couldn’t take to the stand to testify it didn’t want to have sex and had suffered emotional stress.




Under Dutch law, bestiality is not a crime unless it can be proved the animal didn’t want to have sex.




Since the sheep couldn’t testify, the man was able to walk away from court as if nothing happened.




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The Chernobyl nuclear disaster killed most life forms. Except this one.

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster killed most life forms. Except this one.

Radiotrophic fungi are fungi which appear to use the pigment melanin to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy for growth.




This proposed mechanism may be similar to anabolic pathways for the synthesis of reduced organic carbon in phototrophic organisms, which capture photons from visible light with pigments such as chlorophyll whose energy is then used in photolysis of water to generate usable chemical energy.




These were first discovered in 2007 as black molds growing inside and around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.




Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine showed that three melanin-containing fungi, increased in biomass and accumulated acetate faster in an environment in which the radiation level was 500 times higher than in the normal environment.




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A man posing as a detective strip searched employees at over 70 McDonalds!

A man posing as a detective strip searched employees at over 70 McDonalds!

The strip search prank call scam is a series of incidents that occurred over roughly a decade before an arrest was made in 2004.




These incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police detective, and convincing managers to conduct strip searches of female employees or perform other unusual acts on behalf of the police.




The calls were usually placed to fast-food restaurants in small rural towns. Over 70 such occurrences were reported in 30 U.S. States.




This was until an incident in 2004 in Mount Washington, Kentucky, finally led to the arrest and charging of David Stewart.




Stewart was a 37 year-old employee of Corrections Corporation of America, a private-commercial firm contracted by several states to provide corrections officers at private detention facilities.




This man even got the fiancé of one Assistant Manager order a worker to perform oral sex on him.




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A man was found frozen to death moments before receiving a $300 million inheritance!

A man was found frozen to death moments before receiving a $300 million inheritance!

A long-lost relative of the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, who could have inherited $19 million of her $300 million fortune, was found dead under a Union Pacific Railroad overpass in Wyoming.




Children sledding found the body of Timothy Henry Gray, in Evanston, a small mining town in southwestern Wyoming near the Utah border. The coroner said it appeared he died of hypothermia. The low temperature that day was 10 degrees, and had hit zero in the previous week.




Gray's siblings said they hadn't heard from him since their mother's funeral in 1990, when he disappeared without a word. It wasn't clear whether Gray was living under the overpass or if he was homeless.




Sadly, he was not able to enjoy this great fortune.




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