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What Is Consciousness? Your Amazing Brain. The Brain. BrainDen. Braingle. Archimedes' Laboratory.

50 Riddles. Everybody Jump. What would happen if everyone on earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant? —Thomas Bennett (and many others) This is one of the most popular questions submitted to this blog. It’s been examined before, including by a ScienceBlogs post and a Straight Dope article. They cover the kinematics pretty well. However, they don’t tell the whole story. Let’s take a closer look. At the start of the scenario, the entire Earth’s population has been magically transported together into one place. This crowd takes up an area the size of Rhode Island. At the stroke of noon, everyone jumps. As discussed elsewhere, it doesn’t really affect the planet. Next, everyone falls back to the ground. Technically, this delivers a lot of energy into the Earth, but it’s spread out over a large enough area that it doesn’t do much more than leave footprints in a lot of gardens.

Eventually, the air grows quiet. Seconds pass. The T. But at least now we know. Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Lateral thinking puzzles that challenge your preconceptions. 1. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus: 1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die. 2.

Knowing that there can only be one passenger in your car, whom would you choose? Hint: You can make everyone happy. Solution: The old lady of course! 2. Hint: The police only know two things, that the criminal's name is John and that he is in a particular house. Solution: The fireman is the only man in the room. 3. Hint: He is very proud, so refuses to ever ask for help. Solution: The man is a dwarf. 4. Hint: It does not matter what the baby lands on, and it has nothing to do with luck. Solution: The baby fell out of a ground floor window. 5.

Hint: His mother was an odd woman. Solution: When Bad Boy Bubby opened the cellar door he saw the living room and, through its windows, the garden. 6. 7. Brain Training. Web-based personalized training program Enhance memory and attention Improve your productivity Train your brain with 'serious fun' games Games selected to your cognitive profile Empower Your Brain Play brain training games to improve: memory concentration thinking speed Benefits at work, home, and school: performance pleasure self-confidence Success Stories "It is an excellent game for memory, which I really need!

"That's great exercise! "I'm active on braingymmer for 3 weeks and I see improvements, in my scores, and also at work! " CogniFit - Brain Games. Logical Paradoxes. Some paradoxes - An Anthology. Rubiks Cube Solver. Couldn't figure out how to solve your Rubik's Cube?

Just set the colors of the mixed puzzle, hit the solve button and follow the steps leading to the solution. What can you do with this program? Solve your scrambled Rubik's Cube - if you have a cube you couldn't solve for a long time this program will help you for sure. Play online - hit the scramble button and try to solve it online with the allocated buttons or your keyboard. Generate Rubik's Cube images - you can save the scrambled cube as a picture clicking on the 'Generate image' checkbox. The best Rubik's algorithm finds the solution in maximum 20 steps (God's algorithm). The solver uses JavaScript and is functional in the most common web browsers without any additional extension. How to use the Rubik's Cube Solver? To use the program all you have to do is to set the colors of your scrambled cube, press the Solve button and the program will show you the steps (rotations) needed to solve your puzzle.

De Brain. Amazing Facts - HP. 8 Things About Concentrating. “Music helps me concentrate,” Mike said to me glancing briefly over his shoulder. Mike was in his room writing a paper for his U.S. History class. On his desk next to his computer sat crunched Red Bulls, empty Gatorade bottles, some extra pocket change and scattered pieces of paper. In the pocket of his sweat pants rested a blaring iPod with a chord that dangled near the floor, almost touching against his Adidas sandals. On his computer sat even more stray objects than his surrounding environment.

There must have been twenty browser tabs open. Mike made a shift about every thirty seconds between all of the above. Do you know a person like this? The Science Behind Concentration In the above account, Mike’s obviously stuck in a routine that many of us may have found ourselves in, yet in the moment we feel it’s almost an impossible routine to get out of. When we constantly multitask to get things done, we’re not multitasking, we’re rapidly shifting our attention. Phase 1: Blood Rush Alert. 5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness. Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it. There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know.

But by no means should that stop us from tinkering around in there, using somewhat questionable and possibly dangerous techniques to make our brains do what we want. We can't vouch for any of these, either their effectiveness or safety. All we can say is that they sound awesome, since apparently you can make your brain... #5. Think You Got a Good Night's Sleep (After Only Two Hours of Actual Sleep) So you just picked up the night shift at your local McDonald's, you have class every morning at 8am and you have no idea how you're going to make it through the day without looking like a guy straight out of Dawn of the Dead, minus the blood... hopefully. "SLEEEEEEEEEP... uh... Holy Shit! We're pretty sure Kramer did this once on Seinfeld. The best way to start it off is to just jump right in.

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