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Brain Fit, the More You Use It the Better It Gets

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:43:59 +0000

Your brain is like a muscle, the more you use it the better it gets.

When was the last time you gave your Brain a solid workout?

It’s like a muscle, you must exercise it.

To build and keep your body fit, you can run around the block, do some push ups or even go down the gym.

Baby boomers use it or lose it

As you get older, you need to maintain your brain. If your senior years seem to slipping away on you while you weren’t looking, then it’s time to start feeding your mind. Because you don’t want let your mental acuity slip.

Recent studies show your old brains are just as capable of learning, as kids. It might take longer to learn.

Get your brain tuned up and ready to keep your thought life healthy.

One of the new buzzwords is Neuroplasticity or brain plasticity refers to the brain’s ability to CHANGE throughout life.Your brain has the amazing ability to reorganize itself by forming new connections between brain cells (neurons).

Neuroplasticity occurs in the brain whenever you learn and memorise something new.

Just like challenging your muscles to increase your strength, doing crossword puzzles, math puzzles and Sudoku, will flex your gray matter. Because it creates neuron growth and increases brain function. So if you practice playing the piano, do math problems, or learn a foreign language, then you are constantly strengthening certain pathways in their brains.

Give your brain a chance to stretch by exercising your capability and grow.

It’s not just baby boomers

I know your probably thinking, that good, for Baby Boomers to know, but what does that have to do with me. Well the latest research shows cognitive decline much earlier than first thought. It seems your brain and starts to slowly shrinking around the age 27. So when you get to 27 years old its downhill, your abstract reasoning, brain speed, and puzzle-solving show signs are fading.

The good news your average memory decline begins at about age 37. It’s not only Baby Boomers who need to train their brain. When you learn new a language or take up another skill, because you’re shaping your synapses, and nudging your neurons to boost memory function. Your brain will get stronger or faster by working out.

Math puzzles will keep your brain in shape, and sharp!

“solving puzzles or do brainteasers activity helps the neutrons work proficiently. However, once you beat the game, move on to a harder one to keep your brain challenged”. At Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Stuart Zola, Ph.D.-an Alzheimer researcher

It’s not as if you got to head to the closest library and study astrophysics or solve a calculus equations. There more fun ways to exercise your mind. And one of the easiest and most entertaining ways is doing math puzzles and games.

“benefits of playing cards, or doing crosswords or engaging in other games and activities that tickles the gray matter.” Robert Mair, professor of psychology and chairman of the UNH Department of Psychology

Math Puzzles such as sudoku can keep your brain active. It’s even better if you can interact with other people, so why have a game of cards Monopoly. So, give your mind a bit of exercise. Do it the fun way with

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Logic Puzzles. Please Help.?

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:32:26 +0000

Your Question
Logic Puzzles. Please help.?
There is only 4:

1) Man Wrinkle spent one-fourth of his life a boy, one-eighth as as youth, and one-half as an active man. If Man Wrinkle spent 8 years as am old man, then how many years did he spend as an active man?

2) Last weekend, I went to play in the nearby park. It was real fun! I rode my new bicycle that Mon had gifted me on my birthday. On reaching the park, I saw that there were a total of 16 bicycles and tricycles.If the total number of wheels was 42, how many tricycles were there?

3. Suppose 7 monkeys take 7 minutes to eat 7 bananas.
a. How many minutes would it take 3 monkeys to eat 3 bananas.
b. How many monkeys would it take to eat 63 bananas in 68 mins.

4. Your teacher has a total of 16 chalks. When a chalk reduces to 1'4 of it's original size, it gets too small for her to hold for writing and hence she keeps it aside. But your teacher hates wasting things and so, when she realizes that she has enough of these small pieces to join and make another chalk of the same size, she joins them and uses the new chalkstick. If she uses one chalk a day, how many days would the 16 chalks last?

q1
answer
= 8 * (1/2) / [1 - 1/4 - 1/8 - 1/2]
= 4 / [1/8]
= 32 years

q2
16 = b + t
42 = 2b + 3t

(2b + 3t) – 2(b + t) = 42 – 2*16
t = 10
answer = 10 tricycles

q3a
7 monkeys eat 7 bananas in 7 minutes.
1 monkey eats 1 banana in 7 minutes.
answer = 3 monkeys eat 3 bananas in 7 minutes.

q3b
7 / 7 * 7 = 63 / 68x
x = 63 * 7 / 68 = 6.4853(?) = 7 monkeys

q4
is it 1/4? if yes, then answer
= 16 + 16*(1/4) + 16*(1/4)^2
= 16 + 4 + 1
= 21 days

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Logic

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:18:03 +0000

just in case the puzzles A few questions… First a football team won a game 7-3 but not a single man threw the ball! How? Next, can a spider marry his widow sister? Next, in Chicago why is it bad to take a picture of a man with a dog? Here’s one of my favorites a puzzle called twins Two girls are born to the same mother on the same date same time and the and year but there not twins! Why? Next, A car driver hit a cat but it didn’t die! Why? a man has 4 pizzas. Then you take 3 away how many …

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How Are Logic Riddles/puzzles Used to Benefit Us in Real Life?

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:22:28 +0000

can someone give a good explanation?(winner will receive a 5 star best answer)

Logic riddles/puzzles are a great exercise for your brain; exercising your brain this way keeps your brain on alert, always aware, seeking and thinking, it increases the speed of your thinking, and makes you a good problem solver because you have learned by example of this type of exercise and experience to increase your ability to think logically – all good attributes to have which benefit us greatly in real life.

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Kox Box-a Major Problem in Australia(Logic Bomb Rmx)

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:03:06 +0000

one of the various remixes of this goooood track. enjoy and comment please!

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Logic Puzzles (Requirement:Algorithm) Railway Engineering?

admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:57:16 +0000

Logic Puzzles
Requirement:Algorithm
Railway Engineering. A railway depot has an oval track and two branch lines as shown in the figure below, whis is used to train train drivers, also known as Engin-eers. The specific problem a student Engine-eer is asked to solve is how to move railway carriage A to position B and railway carraiage B to position A without taking any of the railway carriages through the tunel and returning the engine to its starting position. How can it be done?

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p239/benchoz/RailwayEngineering.jpg

It was not mentioned it think it is
How can you show the algorithm

I'm not going to go into detail as to how I would do it, but as a clarfication, and maybe even a hint, are you allowed to move the engine through the tunnel??

I might actually confuse you and myself if I tried to explain the answer in writing but I think that allowing the engine to go through the tunnel might unlock some answers of your own.

Well, if it is allowed, here is my solution:

Move the engine forward and then switch the tracks so that the engine can move towards carriage A. Then pull carriage A to the initial position of the engine by switching the tracks. Then move the engine to the initial position of carriage A, again switching the tracks, and this time continue through the tunnel. Then pick up carriage B and move it back to the inital position of carriage A by again switching the tracks. Then go back and pick up carriage A and move it to the initial position of carriage B.

A visual might be easier to understand. I didn't however animate anything so I just used desktop icons with Jing

http://www.screencast.com/t/snolBqOM

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Simon Tatham Portable Puzzle Collection Beta 1

admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:51:58 +0000

A preview of my port of Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection to the Windows Mobile (Smartphone and Pocket PC) platform. More details about the puzzle collection can be found at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ and details about my port (including a download) can be found on my blog at http://www.christec.co.nz/blog/archives/131

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SITES WITH GOOD LOGIC PUZZLES?

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:00:37 +0000

any good sites for logic puzzles?
NOT BRAIN TEASERS OR RIDDLES. JUST LOGIC!PUZZLES

Try to look here for different logic/puzzle games:
http://www.astatix.com/puzzle-games.html

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The Tower of Hanoi

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:18:02 +0000

While in China, we need ways to pass the time. What better way that solving one of the oldest logic puzzles?

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Sites That Have Logic Puzzles?(See Follow- Up for Details!)?

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:53:12 +0000

You know those puzzles here you have to find out where everyone goes? for example: billy can sit next to june, but not next to mary. mary can't sit near people whose name starts with the letter l, but must have june on her left. that type of thing! i love them, but have no clue if they are even called logic puzzles. I WANT A SITE THAT HAS MANY OF THESE!!!!!!!! thanks sooo much for the help!

There are all sorts of tests on this website

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