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Monday, 18 November 2013

I haven’t been feeling myself lately…

I’ll let you know if I need a hand…

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Sunday, 17 November 2013

The world’s shortest commercial flight lasts 2 minutes!

Papa Westray, one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, has a population of 70 and is home to the record of the world's shortest regular commercial flight.

If you're familiar with the Orkney Islands, you might know that Orkney Ferries are somewhat more popular (and practical) transportation forms for travelling between certain islands.

Loganair, a Scottish airline, operates Britten-Norman Islanders that fly from Papa Westray Airport to Westray and Kirkwall.

The flights from Papa Westray to Westray is the world's shortest scheduled flight, at around 2 minutes.

There are ferries from Papa Westray to Westray, though they are slightly longer.

Westray has a population of 550, and its main industries are fishing, fish farming, and cattle farming.

The island is also notable for its plan to make the island self sufficient with renewable energy by the end of 2012.

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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Nov 18, 2013)

Faults of Technology

I have a common English phrase. I feed this phrase into a computer translation program. This translates it into a foreign language then back into English again. Unfortunately, because computers do not understand idiom and sarcasm, the phrase has been changed. It now reads:

BLIND, INSANITY.

What was the original phrase?

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Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (Nov 18, 2013)

Song: "My Girl"

Written and produced by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, "My Girl" was a number one hit for The Temptations.

Take the Quiz at Braingle.com

Stress : Export Worries

Most people worry about future events that may or may not happen. This expectation of something bad happening causes people stress even though the thing may never occur. One helpful technique for reducing worry is to export your worries to a notebook or diary.

Suppose you can't get to sleep because you are worrying about a meeting with your boss later in the week. Pick up your notebook and write down that worry. Now, set a time in the future and promise yourself that at that time you will review what you are worrying about and make a decision. This should help resolve the present worry and put it off to the designated time. An added benefit of this is that during the interim, your subconscious mind will have time to process the problem and come up with potential solutions. This is very similar to how the 'Letter to Yourself' technique works.

Memory : Strong Associations

Previously we learned how the mind makes associations between all the different sensory inputs as well as emotional states and social triggers. You can use this to your advantage when you want to be sure to remember something. Most people rely almost exclusively on their senses of sight and hearing. Try to get your sense of smell, touch, or taste into the memory, or pay attention to your emotional state. A memory that involves four senses will be much stronger than a memory that involves only two. The more associations you have for a particular memory, the more protection you have against losing it, and the more ways you will have to remember it later.