Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Oct 01, 2013)

Like Wildfire



This deadly 8-letter word can really "put people in a frenzy," and for very good reason. If you drop letter 1 and order the rest of the letters like so [8745623], then you get exactly what the word can do. So, if you are affected by it, you had better get a good [65478], or you could be taking a very long [321]!





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Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (Oct 01, 2013)

Song: "Dani California"

How much do you know about the Red Hot Chili Peppers's song "Dani California"?



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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Pellucid

pel-lu-cid



adjective :: Transparent; clear; translucent; not opaque.



"In the atmosphere of the Easterly weather, as pellucid as a piece of crystal and refracting like a prism, we could see the appalling numbers of our helpless company, even to those who in more normal conditions would have remained invisible, sails down under the horizon." --Conrad, Joseph

Creativity : Word Skipping II

Pick a poem or song from our list and recite it out loud. Now, recite it again but skip every other word. Then skip every third word, and so on, until you can't do it any more. This exercise helps with your concentration and mental endurance.



1. Row row row your boat

2. The itsy bitsy spider

3. Jack and Jill went up the hill



An example of skipping by two: Jack Jill up hill fetch pail...

Memory : Memorizing Pi

Now that we have learned the Phonetic Mnemonic System, we can use it to memorize long numbers. We have already learned how to memorize the first few digits of pi. Here we will learn how to memorize 150 digits by using a little poem created by A. Loisette over a hundred years ago.



Mother Day will buy any shawl.

3.14 1 5 9 2 65

My love, pick up my new muff.

3 58 97 9 3 2 38

A Russian jeer may move a woman.

462 64 3 38 32

Cables enough for Utopia.

7950 28 84 19

Get a cheap ham pie by my cooley.

71 69 3 9 9 3 75

The slave knows a bigger ape.

1 058 20 974 9

I rarely hop on my sick foot.

445 9 2 3 07 81

Cheer a sage in a fashion safe.

64 06 2 862 08

A baby fish now views my wharf.

99 86 2 80 3 48

Annually Mary Ann did kiss a jay.

25 34 2 11 70 6

A cabby found a rough savage.

79 821 48 086

A low dumb knave knew a message showy.

5 13 28 2 306 6

Argus up my fire rushes.

470 9 3 84 460

A bee will lose life in enmity.

9 5 50 58 2 231

A canal may well appear swift.

725 3 5 94 081

10 Weird Rules From Early Baseball

As the baseball playoffs begin, we look at some of the strange rules and customs of the early days of the game.



via Discovery News http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/10-weird-rules-from-early-baseball-130930.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

DNews: Beautiful People: Why We Think They're So Great

Anthony takes some time to explain how friendly silver foxes (yes, the animals) are helping us figure out why we think beautiful people are so great.



via Discovery News http://news.discovery.com/human/videos/beautiful-people-video.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1