Tuesday 8 April 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Apr 09, 2014)

I Can Be Huge or Small



I can be huge,

or I can be small.

I can be long like a sausage,

or round like a ball.

I might stay with you,

or I might travel for miles.

For those of few years,

I always bring smiles.



What am I?





Check Braingle.com for the answer.





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Different Spiral Optical Illusion

I love it when I get hold of an optical illusion that really blows your mind. That’s exactly what happened with the illusion that I’m going to post up today, because it completely fooled me the very first time I ever looked at it. I was sitting here, looking at the illusion, and I was impressed with the nice spiral effect it gives off. Keep in mind, I’m one of those people that just loves to stare at cool, trippy optical illusion.


After I stared at the image for a little while I noticed that this wasn’t your typical spiral optical illusion, but it was actually something very different that I noticed. I can guarantee you that the artist of this optical illusion tricked a lot of people with this one, because it’s a very subtle change to an old trick that many people won’t even notice, because we’re all so used to seeing so many of these spiral illusion. Check out the illusion below and see if you can figure out what I’m talking. What’s different about this spiral optical illusion?


Different Spiral Optical Illusion



So, can you tell me what’s so different about this spiral optical illusion? If so, go to the comments section right now and leave your answer. I’d like to hear what you’ve come up with and we’ll see if you’re right. At the very bottom of this post I will give the answer, so don’t read any further, unless you want to know the answer.





Want to check out another cool optical illusion that will give your brain a challenge? Check out this illusion and spot 6 critical errors in the image.


**ANSWER TO THE ILLUSION ABOVE**


The illusion above puts off a spiral effect, but it’s not actually a spiral at all. The lines are actually a bunch of different circles that have been made in different sizes that give off a spiral effect.


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Today in History for 8th April 2014

Historical Events


1801 - Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews

1916 - Norway approves active and passive female suffrage

1946 - League of Nations assembles for last time

1985 - Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix

1990 - King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties

1992 - After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue


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Famous Birthdays


1541 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician (d. 1593)

1904 - John R Hicks, British economist (Nobel 1972)

1929 - Renzo de Felice, historian

1929 - WIlliam K Everson, film historian

1948 - Michael Leshner, Canadian lawyer and gay rights advocate

1979 - Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylähullut)


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Famous Deaths


1461 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)

1697 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629)

1931 - Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies

1950 - Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies in London

1990 - Doreen Sloane, dies

1997 - Laura Nyro, singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 49


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Brain Teaser 4/8/2014

1. A friend of mine’s grandmother is younger than his father. How can this be possible?



2. What's the least number of chairs you would you need around a table to sit four fathers, two grandfathers, and four sons?



3. If Dick's father is Tom's son, what relation is Dick to Tom?

Solution

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It was a message unique in the history of telegraphy…

mars It was a message unique in the history of telegraphy. Opesti nipitia secomba. These words, written in Martian, were relayed from London to the Red Planet on 27 October 1926. The sender was Dr Hugh Mansfield Robinson, a former town clerk who claimed to be an interplanetary psychic. In 1926, when Mars was 8 million miles closer to Earth than average, Robinson paid to have a love letter transmitted via radio to a Martian woman named Oomaruru.

Robinson first heard from the Martians in 1918, and his astral body supposedly visited Mars on several occasions. He describes a planet populated by men seven to eight feet tall, while the ladies were over six feet. “They have large ears sticking out on each side of the head, a huge shock of hair massed high, and a Chinese cast of features.” These are described as ‘intensely religious’ beings, who treat atheism as a form of insanity. “They have great airships run by electricity. All their power is electrical, run from the harnessing of the canals and waterfalls in the mountains. They are consequently many generations in advance of us in wireless knowledge”, the doctor elaborated. He also spoke of their society, believing that labour strikes were unknown, that the population was decentralised out of cities, and that their numbers included a lower caste of beings lacking in intelligence, and with heads shaped like that of a walrus.

Unfortunately, his money were wasted. The next day, the Post Office informed him that no signals had been received that could have emanated from the Red Planet.






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A man in China bought a first class ticket on China Eastern Airlines…

A man in China bought a first class ticket on China Eastern Airlines, went to the airport every day for almost a year, ate food for free at their lounge, changed his ticket for the next day after eating about 300 times, then cancelled his ticket for a full refund before validity expired.






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Former Alabama state Senator Steve Windom…

Steve-Windom Former Alabama state Senator Steve Windom didn’t leave his chair during a 12 hour dispute, notably urinating in a jug, because he was afraid the Democrats would steal it.






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In 1799 a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek…

In 1799 a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was gold.






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