Historical Events for 31st December 2015

1695 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
1744 – English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth’s nutation motion (wobble)
1890 – Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot
1921 – 14th Australasian Championships: Rhys Gemmell beats Alf Hedeman (7-5, 6-1, 6-4)
1946 – French troops leave Lebanon
1967 – Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game
1970 – Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
1994 – This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.
1995 – Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria
1997 – Orlando Hernandez, half-brother of pitcher Livan, defects from Cuba

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Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Dec 31, 2015)

Bark At The Moon

What emotion is an anagram of a homonym of an antonym of a homonym of an anagram of wolf?

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Dec 31, 2015)

Sixteen Tons
Test your knowledge of this country song made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford.

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Salubrious

sa-lu-bri-ous

adj :: Favorable to or promoting health or well-being.

“The moment I stepped off the airplane into Hawaii I knew that the climate was going to be salubrious to me.”

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Creativity : Bug List Practice

Previously we learned how keeping a bug list can be a great way to discover unmet needs that you may want to solve. This exercise will help you get started on your very own bug list.

Get a piece of paper and a pencil. Spend 10 minutes writing down bugs that you notice in your daily life. If you are having difficulty getting started, go through your typical day starting from when you wake up and write down all the bugs that come to mind. Here are a few to get you started…

1. Alarm clocks don’t work when the power goes out

2. Coffee takes too long to brew

3. Toothpaste tube is messy

4. Can’t find car keys

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Memory : Uses of the Phonetic System

Once mastered, the Phonetic Mnemonic System is great for remembering things. It can be used exactly like the Link, Loci, or Peg systems to form visual associations. These associations work like a mental filing system for the information that you want to learn.

Additionally, it can be used with great success to remember numbers. We have already seen how you can use pegwords to remember numbers, and the phonetic system works in a similar way. It can actually be more efficient since a word can represent more than one digit.

Suppose that you are trying to remember the telephone number 756-1286. Using the phonetic system, we know that this number can be represented by the sounds c+l+ch + t+n+f+sh which you could remember by the words “clutch tuna fish.” Similarly, you could remember the first few letters of pi (3.14159265) with the phrase “Mother day will buy any shawl.”

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Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Dec 30, 2015)

Exit and Entrance

If you throw me from the window,

I will leave a grieving wife.

Bring me back, but in the door, and

You’ll see someone giving life!

What am I?

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