Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Dec 11, 2015)

Not Enough Light

Fill in the sentence below so that the first two words combine to make the third word. For example, given “The prime minister ____ the meeting, even though the ____ was technically the ____ official,” you would fill in RAN, KING, and RANKING.

If there is not enough light to ____, ____ ____ the lamp.

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Dec 11, 2015)

“This Love”
Do you know this hit single?

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Odium

o-di-um

noun :: Contempt, dislike or aversion.

“Criminals incur the odium of society.”

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Creativity : Stereotyping Yourself

This exercise comes from the book Conceptual Blockbusting by James L. Adams and relates to the idea of stereotyping.

Find someone that you do not know very well to help you do this exercise. Taking turns, say a label that describes you (blonde, student, carpenter, mother, chocoholic, married, etc). Avoid small talk and avoid having a conversation about each label. Just state your label and then continue. It will get difficult to come up with labels after the first few, but keep going for at least five minutes.

This exercise will demonstrate how you label yourself. Notice how each label is a stereotype. People stereotype themselves and others all the time. Without being able to qualify your labels with conversation, you are allowing the other person to stereotype you. How did your stereotypes affect your understanding of the other person? For example, if they said that they were a “marathon runner,” what preconceived qualities would you instantly place onto them? Recognizing that you are constantly stereotyping things will allow you to look beyond these labels when necessary.

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Memory : Practice

As with most skills, practice improves your performance. Unfortunately, simply practicing by memorizing long lists over and over is not going to improve your ability to remember. There is no “mental muscle” that you are making stronger. However, if you practice memorizing using mnemonic techniques such as acronyms or pegwords, you will get better at using these techniques, which will improve your ability to remember.

In other words, you cannot improve your inherent memory ability through practice, but you can improve your skill at certain memory techniques that make learning more efficient.

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Moving Black and White Illusion

Are you ready for a funky black and white illusion to mess with your eyes this morning? I hope it’s not too early for this stuff, but it caught my eye. Actually, it really messed with my eyes this morning. I don’t know if I’m just tired or what, but this black and white illusion just seems to be moving in all sorts of ways to me…

 

I’ve looked at this black and white illusion quite a few times, and I think it depends on how you look at it that determines how it seems to move. When I look directly at the center of the image, for instance, it looks as if the lines going into the center and spinning clockwise. But, if I scan my eyes over it or move my head when looking at it, the whole image seems to undulate almost. And, no matter how I look at it, the whole image has a 3D like quality and seems to pop off the page.

What did you see in this black and white illusion? Is it moving for you, or is it just my tired eyes this morning? Be sure to take a moment and rate this illusion below! And, if you’re feeling froggy, leave a comment telling me that I’m not crazy and it’s moving for you too.

Wanna see another cool black and white illusion? Head over and check out this checkers optical illusion.

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Historical Events for 10th December 2015

1652 – Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
1684 – Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
1936 – Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1942 – North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim
1944 – 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
1953 – WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins
1960 – Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating).
1966 – Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1993 – Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
2013 – Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first female CEO of a major automotive company

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