Brain Myth

Many animals can use their brains to do some of the things that humans can do, such as finding creative ways to solve problems, exhibiting self-awareness, showing empathy toward others and learning how to use tools. But although scientists can't agree on a single definition of what makes a person intelligent, they do generally agree that humans are the most intelligent creatures on Earth. In our "bigger is better" society, then, it might stand to reason that humans should have the biggest brains of all animals, because we're the smartest. Well, not exactly.

The relationship between brain size and intelligence isn't really about the actual weight of the brain; it's about the ratio of brain weight to the entire body weight. For humans, that ratio is about 1-to-50. For most other mammals, it's 1-to-180, and for birds, it's 1-to-220. The brain takes up more weight in a human than it does in other animals.

Intelligence also has to do with the different components of the brain. Mammals have very large cerebral unlike cortex’s, birds, fish or reptiles. 

“If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.” ― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can

Tongue Twisters

Tongue Twisters are not only for light-hearted linguistic fun and games. They serve a practical purpose in practicing pronunciation. English tongue twisters may be used by foreign students of English to improve their accent, actors who need to develop a certain accent, and by speech therapists to help those with speech difficulties.

When their use is for one of these more serious reasons, then tongue twisters are generally subdivided into categories classifying them by the particular vowel or consonant sounds they exercise. The Peter Piper twister, for example, clearly provides practice for the P sound.

Tongue twister not only add the challenge of proper pronunciation of difficult words and syllables, but also have been shown to effectively help rhythm and tone, as well as adding fun, interest and humor to an otherwise dull set of drills. They boost confidence and aid with the development of a sense of humor in children, and can make sometimes stressful speech therapy more light-hearted and easier on the individual. Because of their very nature, tongue twisters are fun for not only individuals, but also for the whole family, and can easily become a game for parents and children, or even a professional practicing their skill….

If you understand, say "understand".
If you don't understand, say "don't understand".
But if you understand and say "don't understand".
How do I understand that you understand? Understand!

Cryptology

Decode this quote by Thomas Henry Huxley, address on university education delivered at the formal opening of John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland…

                                                                               

"I ONANTC AYS HTTA I AM IN ETH TEHLSGITS GRDEEE SPEDIMRSE BY RYUO SSGEBIN, OR RYUO AILTMEAR EEURSRCSO, AS HSCU. ZSEI IS ONT RRDENUGA, DAN RYRTEITRO SEDO ONT EMKA A ITAONN. ETH TEGAR USISE BTOAU HHIWC SANHG ERTU TYBLISUMI, DAN ETH RRTREO OF NGARVEOHNIG ETAF, IS AHWT RAE UYO IONGG TO DO HIWT LAL EESTH SINGHT ?"

"I CANNOT SAY THAT I AM IN THE SLIGHTEST DEGREE IMPRESSED BY YOUR BIGNESS, OR YOUR MATERIAL RESOURCES, AS SUCH. SIZE IS NOT GRANDEUR, AND TERRITORY DOES NOT MAKE A NATION. THE GREAT ISSUE, ABOUT WHICH HANGS TRUE SUBLIMITY, AND THE TERROR OF OVERHANGING FATE, IS WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH ALL THESE THINGS ?"

 The words were jumbled to make you jumble along;)

Mind Quotes

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

ROBERTSON DAVIES, quoted in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotes

To know psychology ... is no guarantee that we shall manage our minds rightly.

WILLIAM GLOVER, Know Your Own Mind

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Father

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES, Middlesex

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind, have the greatest power.

HORACE MANN, 

The mind grows by what it feeds on.

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND, Lessons in Life 

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

HANS MARGOLIUS, quoted in A Toolbox for Humanity

“Thinking Cap” - How many times I have been ambushed with this term? My simple counting skills also fail to acknowledge that. When in thinking mode will still believe I’m wearing it, cause have been so much fed on this term. A 'thinking cap' was previously known by the appealing name as 'considering cap'. The figure who comes to mind when wondering such a cap is Sherlock Holmes. There's no record of his wearing a cap to accompany the jacket though. Nevertheless, such caps possibly did exist. The 'considering cap' is explained at great length, in fiction at least, in The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, 1765, which usefully includes an etching too. I can't find any concrete record of actual considering or thinking caps. Nevertheless, the metaphor must have arisen for a reason and the use of real thinking caps is as good a reason as any. Citations which include lines like "I must put on my thinking cap" are ambiguous as it is difficult to determine whether they refer to actual headgear. I'll pass this one over to the archaeologists. The one I wore was imaginary one although researchers have recently built something that sounds a lot like a real one. Using a simple form of electrical stimulation, it seems to speed up the brain's natural learning process. Given a chance will still go for my imaginary one as there is no end of making myself handicap to the easiest.

THINKTHINKTHINKTHINKTHINKTHINKTHINKTHINKTHINKTHINK

When two airplanes almost collide why do they call it a near miss? It sounds like a near hit to me!

Why do you press harder on the remote-control when you know the battery is dead?

Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?

Why is carrot more orange than an orange?

Why are they called buildings when they are already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?

Strangely no answers are to be awaited in this as they should only make you ponder….

Rub your eyes with your brains, I have got something new for you. Uncountable times you have used these two but failed to notice that how much more it holds for you. ‘Human’ & ‘Humor’ the first three mirroring each other than we have is ‘an’ & ‘or’, which are used as add-ons in our daily meals. The two Human & Humor reminding each other that we both stand incomplete without the other. Humorism was a model for the workings of the human body. It was systemized in Ancient Greece, although its origins may go back further still. In this theory, humors existed as liquids within the body and were identified as blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile. These were in turn associated with the fundamental elements of air, water, earth and fire. In short I learnt that we have a scientific stand to survive our self with Humor, the one which instantly lights your face with the others…

·        How do you make the number one disappear?
Gone

·        They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

Stars

·        You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make the line longer?

You draw a another shorter line next to it

·        If an electric train is travelling south, which way is the smoke going?
Electric train has no smoke

·        A man was driving his truck. His lights were not on. The moon was not out. Up ahead, a woman was crossing the street. How did he see her?
It was a bright sunny day

Instead of bringing one from the many, lets walk down to understand the significance of idioms. Idioms shine out to their own light. Learning a language is hard enough! Remembering vocabulary and syntax is a job in itself. With idioms comes a whole sliding scale that can vary from person to person. A phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions. Often metaphorical and make the language more colorful. People can use them to express something more vividly and often more briefly. Serving as an image or mental picture have a hidden meaning to it. The total number of phrases used around the world is quite staggering, yet you might only be able to name & hear a few. Phrases are interesting which adds more flavor to you. Mastering it will carve out a better you….

         ·        What comes down but never goes up?
Rain

·        I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A Candle

·        What is the longest word in the dictionary?
Smiles...Cos there is mile between both S

·        What has hands but cannot clap?
A Clock

·        What goes up but never comes down?
Age

Did I tell u if any of my above contents seems violating. 

Kindly contact Google & Flipboard. Make sure you don't leave them until you get a proper answer on the same.

Lots of laughter.....Thank You

In my bag of assorted things, I bring new to you. How often have we heard use your grey matter? Did it ever occur to you why does it emphasis on it or how is it webbed in our brain. It’s never to late to discover. Our brain contains both Grey & White matter. The largest proportion of the brain being grey. The matter serves to process information in the brain. While the information reaches the grey matter in the form of nerve signals that are carried along your nerve fibers. Making you see a new light in your thought process gives you an added magical step in everything.

      

  There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Watermelon

·        What is at the end of a rainbow? 

W

·        What has one eye but cannot see?

Needle

·        Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins.

How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets

·        A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?

If the tide is raising water than it's raising the ship too, so the water will never reach that level

The phrase Mind Bender anyone who hears is crystal with its words. Anything which pushes you to think in more or less & creates a short circuit in you.

How do you bend your mind? Or do we wait for situations to come & corner us than we think on it? Can we beforehand exercise with our mind make it stronger so when we have a problem are more equipped & smarter? I have always given an answer to this Yes…

Brain training can increase your brain power just like weight training can increase your strength. I have heard people can bend forks with their mind. I really need to think whether I believe it or not. But yes I like the fact of playing quiz, hitting on a dart board & given an opportunity love to pick up an air gun & hit on balloons, any bed spreads in my room I start drawing images out of it. I can go on with my list, my point of sharing is make your leisure time the best which helps you grow….

·        A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket? 5th Kid gets it with the Basket

·        What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years? Alphabet M

·        You can start a fire if you have alcohol, petrol, kerosene, paper, candle, coke, a full matchbox and a piece of cotton wool. What is the first thing you light? Matchstick

·        Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks? None as both is Pound

·        What is always coming but never arrives? Tomorrow

“Brain Drain” or “Drain Brain” sum up the meaning to be same. A knife on tomato or a tomato on knife duet to which ever they dance the sufferer will only be tomato. Flipping through all the windows Dictionary, Web or Theories was left amazed at my find. The wings they gave to this

"Brain drain" is when highly skilled workers leave a country, region or economic sector in order to take a job somewhere else.”

Somehow at that need of hour felt why the search to such a deeper term ends in way like that?

Then through search of my brain search engine & making my search more to the point learnt when oxygen reaches less to the brain that is when a brain drain can happen.

I still have that grin on my face why the search engines only shows the first definition as the prime…

Time to take up our weekly twister…

• Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I? Onion

• What can you catch but not throw? Cold

• He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he? Priest

• Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?  Forward - Ton Backward - Not

• A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why? Cos he's playing 'Monopoly'

Display of any content on this page makes you look for me..you are most welcome to raise your voice ;)))

Maybe you’ve gone into the kitchen and can’t remember why, or can’t recall a familiar name during a conversation. Memory lapses can occur at any age. Imagine how much happier your life would be if you never forgot anything important. Fortunately though, based on new memory research, all you need is some simple mental wizardry to get your mind in tune and prevent those minor memory woes.

 May be we can become smarter by trying our hands on these riddles as a weekly ritual…

     

  ·   Who makes it, has no need of it.

            Who buys it, has no use for it.
        Who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
        What is it?  Coffin

 ·       What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? Stamp

   ·         What kind of room has no doors or windows? Mushroom

   ·       What kind of tree can you carry in your hand? Palm

·       If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I? Secret

 ·       Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die? Fire

                       

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