Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Nov 10, 2015)

What’s That You Said? II

Here are some well-known expressions rewritten into “Cliff-ese”. For those of you who don’t know what that means, he was a very wordy person on the TV show “Cheers” and never used a small word where a larger one would work. Try to figure out the phrases in simpler terms.

1. Projecting short, loud, canine-like noises erroneously toward the top of an incorrect arboreal plant.

2. To subject a slender illumination device to rapid carbonization on its antipodal points.

3. To slay a brace of avian creatures with just a single petrous conglomeration.

4. Like sending dense shelly concretions through the air to fall in front of stout-bodied, artiodactyl creatures.

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Nov 10, 2015)

Chess: True or False Quiz II
Test yourself on this chess quiz!

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Memory : Amygdala

The amygdala is a small part of the brain, adjacent to the hippocampus, that is believed to react most directly to emotions. From studies using brain scans, it has been shown that events that stimulate the amygdala are remembered better over time. This may be why emotionally significant events are remembered better than emotionally insignificant events.

Because the amygdala is involved heavily with emotions, it is believed to play a role in conditions such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and phobias.

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Stoic

sto-ic

noun :: Not affected by or showing passion or feeling.

“Although he was upset, he kept a stoic calmness throughout the interview.”

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Creativity : Embarrassment

One of the most common reasons that people do not contribute ideas to a group brainstorm is the fear of embarrassment. Expressing a new idea to a group of people requires some bravery because it makes you vulnerable to criticism. This is why the brainstorm rule of deferring judgment exists, but even with the rule, it is hard for people to overcome this emotional block.

It can help to have the group perform some bonding activity before the brainstorm starts. A icebreakers shows that it is ok to be silly and say things that may be imperfect. The following icebreaker is designed to quickly get all the embarrassment out of the way.

On the count of three, everyone in the room should simultaneously give their best impression of a barnyard animal. Moo like a cow, squawk like a chicken, or oink like a pig. Preface the exercise by saying that anyone who does not participate with the group will be required to do a private performance. Once everyone has done something really silly, the fear of embarrassment should be lessened.

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Please enjoy park at same time

Try the time travel…

Photo courtesy of Jon Westin.
Found in Cangshan, Dali, China.

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Historical Events for 9th November 2015

1853 – Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun
1918 – Republic Germany proclaimed
1935 – Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1942 – German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 – John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition at Indica Gallery in London
1967 – Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
1968 – Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting led a Loyalist march to the Diamond area of Derry, North Ireland
1984 – 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B v N Tvl B
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

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