Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Nov 27, 2013)

Nail Bag



I am tied up at least once a day

And forced to carry ten nails.

I work diligently without any pay

And follow your many trails.



I do not smell very well

But at least I have many eyes.

I have two tongues but never yell

And I'll bet you know my size.



What am I?





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Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (Nov 27, 2013)

Christmas Songs for Children

These are some of the Christmas songs you may have learned as a child. How much do you remember from them?



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Creativity : Defer Judgment

Deferring judgment is an important rule for brainstorming sessions, and it's just as important for working with your own ideas. If you judge an idea too quickly, you will reject many ideas that have real potential. Early ideas are easy to reject because they are imperfect, but they can be improved and embellished. Sometimes the best ideas come from combining parts of several imperfect ideas.



If you feel yourself jumping to judge or reject an idea (either your idea or someone else's idea), take a moment and allow yourself to recognize that not all ideas spring forth from the mind in perfect order.

Memory : Social Interactions

As we have learned, events with emotional significance get preferential treatment by the hippocampus and are more likely to make strong memories. The most important way that emotions are created is from interactions with other people.



Modern technology is constantly reducing the social interactions that we have on a daily basis. Drive-through pickup, self-checkout lines, Internet shopping and email are examples of ways that today's technology isolates us from face-to-face interactions with other people. Humans are social beings, and social interactions are required for good mental health. Several studies have shown that people with social lifestyles have stronger cognitive function than people who are reclusive. Social ties can also help one deal with life's stressful events.



Try to get in touch with more people. Strike up a conversation with the person next to you on the bus, or the checkout person at the store. In addition to the mental benefit, you will be making the other person's day a little more interesting.

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Anemic

a-ne-mic



adj :: Lacking force, vitality, or spirit.



"That was an anemic attempt to hit the baseball. It barely went 10 feet."

Featurette: Creating Time Lord Art

"Dr Who 50th Making Of 2013" by Milk visual effects

Did “The Day Of The Doctor” leave you wondering how how it’s possible to make a 3D painting? Here’s how Doctor Who‘s genius visual effects team at Milk brought Gallifreyan art to life.

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Einstein invented a type of refrigerator that lasted 100 years!

Einstein invented a type of refrigerator that lasted 100 years!

In 1926, five years after winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, Albert Einstein read a news story about the death of a Berlin family, killed by toxic fumes that leaked from a broken seal in their refrigerator.

Dangerous leaks like this were becoming an alarmingly frequent occurrence as old-fashioned ice boxes were replaced with modern refrigerators that used poisonous coolants.

Einstein became preoccupied with this tragedy, insisting that a better refrigerator design must be possible. He and former student Leó Szilárd, set out to find one.

They used their knowledge of thermodynamics to produce an absorption refrigerator, a device that drove a combination of safer gases and liquids through three interconnected circuits.

It required only a small pilot light as a heat source and was hermetically sealed and safe, so safe that some experts estimate the casing could last 100 years.

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