Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Jul 29, 2015)

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Hidden Time & Again III

Inside each set of the following words, there is a pair of smaller words. By putting & between them, lo & behold, you’ll make a familiar phrase. For example, “Thighbone/Swallowtail” conceals “High & Low.”

1. Firecracker/Misconstruing

2. Blockbuster/Doohickey

3. Shunting/Bespeckled

4. Proliferation/Climbable

5. Heartstrings/Consciences

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Jul 29, 2015)

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The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers were early pioneers of Rock & Roll. They reached the peak of their popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Creativity : “Lucid Dreaming” by Stephen Laberge

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In Dr Stephen Laberge’s book, “Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life”, he introduces the idea of lucid dreaming and gives advice and techniques for achieving it. Dr Stephen Laberge is considered the pioneer of lucid dreaming and has conducted more than 20 years of research on the topic at Stanford University.

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Memory : Card Trick: Missing Card

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We have already learned how the phonetic mnemonic system can be used to remember playing cards. Once you learn this, here is an interesting trick that you can perform for your friends and family.

The Missing Card

Ask someone to remove one card from the deck. You are going to look through the deck once and then tell them the missing card. As you are looking through the deck you need to modify each card keyword as you come to it. Form a mental association with this modification. For example, the keyword for the 8 of clubs is ‘cave’. You could picture the roof of a cave caving in. The keyword for the 4 of hearts is ‘hair’. You could picture your friend with his hair on fire. Once you have looked through the deck and modified each keyword, run through the deck in your mind. The one keyword that has not been modified represents the card that was removed.

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Insipid

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in-sip-id

adj :: Lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge. Dull.

“Although his early poetry seems insipid, his later work is more interesting.”

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A giant “Welcome to Cleveland” sign on a rooftop in the flight path of a Milwaukee…

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A giant “Welcome to Cleveland” sign on a rooftop in the flight path of a Milwaukee airport has been causing “panic and outrage” to passengers arriving by air for over 37 years. The creator’s reasoning: “Living in the world is not a dress rehearsal. You better have fun with it.”

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The Hindu religion states that science only offers a limited view…

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The Hindu religion states that science only offers a limited view of reality, but all it offers is right and correct, meaning that the religion by it’s nature cannot contradict science, leading to the the majority of even highly religious Hindus accepting evolution as fact.

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In 1990 disabled activists got out of their wheelchairs and crawled…

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In 1990 disabled activists got out of their wheelchairs and crawled up the steps of the Capitol, inconveniencing Senators to encourage a vote on the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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The last McDonalds hamburger sold in Iceland (from 2008) is…

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The last McDonalds hamburger sold in Iceland (from 2008) is rotting in a museum. And you can watch the livefeed.

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The Little Horse With a Littler Horse Illusion

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I’ve got quite an interesting horse illusion for you today! Have any of you seen this going around social media lately?

DaVinci Horse

Meet Da Vinci, the foal with a rather unusual birthmark, if you will. Dubbed Vinny by his owners, this little chestnut foal was born in May at the Fyling Hall riding school at Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire, England. When owner Wendy Bulmer bought his mother, she didn’t know that the mare was with foal. However, after little Vinny was born, she got another interesting surprise.

Vinny was born with a white patch of hair on his shoulder, neck, and leg that looks eerily like another small horse running alongside him. She saw the ghostly horse illusion as such a work of art, that she named him after one of the most famous artists in the world – Leonardo Da Vinci. I would have to agree that this horse illusion is definitely an interesting piece of art, and Mother Nature really did quite a job with little Da Vinci…




Da Vinci Ghost foal

What do you think of Mother Nature’s horse illusion? Da Vinci is definitely a cute name, but I can’t help but think that there may have been a better name. What would you have called the little foal with the white doppelgänger horse illusion?

If you loved this horse illusion, make sure you check out these two horses with one head!

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Pregnant Parks have the best Park Rangers.

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Invalidity Births please use alley.

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Found on bus in Beijing, China.

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Historical Events for 28th July 2015

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1586 – Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England
1935 – Belgium’s Romain Maes wins Tour de France
1963 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1974 – Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1986 – Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
1988 – IBM announces price hike on older models
1989 – Cards’ Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
1993 – Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games
1997 – Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
2012 – 18 people are killed and 11 injured in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia

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