Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jul 22, 2013)

What Do These Numbers Represent?



All these number represent one thing. What is it?



1.609344

1,760

5,280

63,360

160,934.4

1,609,344





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Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (Jul 22, 2013)

"The Simpsons" Trivia

How well do you know "The Simpsons"?



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Stress : Smile and Humor Therapy

Chronic stress can cause an imbalance in the neurochemicals that contribute to elevating our mood and reducing anxiety. Fortunately, research has shown that you can reduce the imbalance simply by smiling or laughing, regardless of your actually mood. When you smile or laugh, your brain gets fooled into thinking that it is happy, and releases the corresponding neurochemicals. Laughter has been shown to have the following benefits.



1. Lowering levels of the stress hormone, cortisol

2. Reducing blood pressure

3. Boosting the immune system

4. Improving respiration and circulation

5. Reducing pain

6. Reducing depression and improving mood



If you are having a hard time getting motivated to do something and you need a pick me up, try smiling or laughing out loud. It may sound silly, but it can actually improve your mood and get you thinking more creatively. So, when life gives you a frown, turn it upside down!

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Abjure

ab-jure



verb :: To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate



"Once a man has lost his self-respect, and has decided to abjure his better qualities and human dignity, he falls headlong, and cannot choose but do so." --Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Memory : Location Memory

The Loci system for remembering items works well because the human mind can remember where you learned something almost as well as what you learned. You've probably had the experience where you knew exactly where a piece of information was located but you couldn't remember the actual information itself.



The memory of where the information is located can be a helpful cue for remembering the information itself. For example, to remember the names of your neighbors, you could mentally walk down the street and picture people in front of their house.



You can also take advantage of location when you are taking notes or preparing study material. Instead of making a vertical list of items to be remembered, organize the items on the page in a logical way. For example, if you are memorizing foreign words, you might put the nouns along the left side of the page and the verbs along the right side. The location of the word on the page will help you remember it during recall. Mind mapping, diagrams, and charts are note-taking strategies that can help you organize information visually on a page. Spatially organized notes with diagrams and drawings work better than regular notes in an outline format.

Slipping memory may be sign of worse to come - Omaha World-Herald

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Daily Sudoku: Mon 22-Jul-2013

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Daily Monster Sudoku: Mon 22-Jul-2013

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Daily Squiggly Sudoku: Mon 22-Jul-2013

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Autism Study Seeks Participants at MIND Institute - Rocklin and Roseville Today

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The Saturday Quiz answers - The Independent

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The Ashes: England v Australia – live! - The Guardian

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Gentleman Rabbit Optical Illusion

via Mighty Optical Illusions http://www.moillusions.com/2013/07/gentleman-rabbit-optical-illusion.html

An interesting art installation was setup by mr. #Francis Tabary that depicts the same object from different angles. It all depends how you look at it – you may see the rabbit or a gentleman wearing a hat. The mirror helps in seeing the both simultaneously. I leave it up to you to realise how this illusion works. It’s relatively simple, so no hints this time.

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round three: as it happened - Telegraph.co.uk

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