Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Jun 24, 2015)

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Forward and Back

Each pair of hints below relates to two words. One of the words is the other one spelled backward. What are the ten word pairs?

Example: married, moisture

Answer: wed, dew

1. light source, rodents

2. dwell, wicked

3. retain, sneaking look

4. weapons, tight fit

5. portion, catching device

6. prize, furniture compartment

7. drinking aid, skin blemishes

8. stopper, big swallow

9. implement, stolen goods

10. precinct, illustrate

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Jun 24, 2015)

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Figures of Speech – Sports and Games
Humans, especially men, can be extremely competitive. Knowing that, it’s no wonder we often adopt sports phrases and idioms into our everyday vocabulary. Don’t strike out on this one!

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Demotic

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de-mot-ic

adjective :: Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.

“The king gave a demotic speech to his loyal subjects.”

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Creativity : Negative Thinking

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Negative thinking is usually a bad thing, especially if it occurs in the form of premature judgment of an idea. However, sometimes intentionally thinking negatively can help you find weak points in your solution.

Think about the worst parts of your idea. Try to identify all the defects that you can. Be as critical and superficial as possible and keep a list of all the negative aspects of your idea. Once you are done, go over your list and identify the key defects. See if you can improve them.

This can be especially helpful if you are going to present your idea to a group or person who is going to judge it. If you already know the top few things that are wrong with it, you can have some arguments or alternative solutions prepared in your defense.

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Memory : Repeat Their Name

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Have you ever been introduced to someone and then forgotten their name a minute later? Here’s a little tip to help you remember. When you are introduced, make an effort to repeat their name out loud.

For example:

“It’s nice to meet you, Bruce. My name is…” or

“My sister’s name is Karin too!”

By just saying their name out loud, you will be reinforcing it in your memory and it will be much more difficult to forget. If you can link it to someone else that you know (like your sister in the above example), you will have one more way to help you remember.

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Winning Arguments

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Animals Having Killer Hair Day

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Fancy Name

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A guy implied he was going to build a 480 ft skyscraper but labeled…

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A guy implied he was going to build a 480 ft skyscraper but labeled all the plans as 480″. Then he had it built 40′ tall as per the plans, pocketed the investment money and won in court because he didn’t technically defraud anyone.

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Research suggests that one giant container ship can emit almost the same amount…

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Research suggests that one giant container ship can emit almost the same amount of cancer and asthma-causing chemicals as 50 million cars, while the top 15 largest container ships together may be emitting as much pollution as all 760 million cars on earth.

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Click (2006) is the only Adam Sandler film to date that has been nominated…

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Click (2006) is the only Adam Sandler film to date that has been nominated for an Oscar. The category was ‘Best Achievement in Makeup’.

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The Japanese have a word (tsundoku [積ん読]) for the habit of buying…

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The Japanese have a word (tsundoku [積ん読]) for the habit of buying a lot of books and never reading them.

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Crazy Moving Arrows Illusion

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Anomalous motion illusions, or simply motion illusions, are static images that appear to move. These types of optical illusions are sometimes confused with GIFs or other types of animations but the images themselves don’t actually move. They just appear to move, usually due to contrasting colors, line placement, or position of the shapes in the image.

Motion illusions can sometimes be a little hard on the eyes, but they’re definitely cool! Today’s moving arrows illusion is a great example of a motion illusion…

Moving arrows illusion

When you look at this moving arrows illusion, doesn’t it look like each row of arrows is moving in the direction they’re pointed? The beauty of the moving arrows illusion, like all motion illusions is that the arrows aren’t moving at all. In fact, nothing in this image is moving! If you don’t believe me, place your mouse pointer at the front of one of the arrows.




These motion illusions will sometimes work differently for different people. If you’re having trouble seeing the moving arrows illusion actually “move” there are a couple things you can try.

First, try not to focusing on the illusion too hard. Or, try focusing on it a little harder. Some people can see the effects of the moving arrows illusion best when they don’t stare directly at it; instead, try looking elsewhere and watch the arrows out of the corner of you eye. I’ve found that the easiest way to see the full effect of the moving arrows illusion, and most other motion illusions, is to move my eyes across the image. Scan your eyes up and down or side to side—not to fast or too slow—and the image will appear to move.

Did this moving arrows illusion blow your mind? Be sure to check out the purple nurple optical illusion and the psychadelic screen melt illusion!

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Crossing The Line

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