A man in a bar asked the bartender for the following items:
A juice glass, a dinner plate, water, a match, a lemon wedge.
The man poured water onto the plate until it was covered.
“If you can get the water on the plate into this glass without touching or moving this plate, I will give you $100,” the man said. “Feel free to use the match and lemon to do this.”
A few minutes later, the bartender had $100 in his pocket. How did he get the water into the glass?
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Arrange the ten digits 0 to 9 in three mathematical phrases, using three of the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division).
Please use only the ordinary signs of those operations.
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Try solving this 3X3 crossword puzzle. Each word is filled in both horizontally and vertically. In other words, the answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc.
1. family vehicle
2. tavern beverage
3. fresh or young
Go ahead!
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Three playing cards in a row. Can you tell their right order by these clues? There is a two to the right of a king. A diamond will be found to the left of a spade. An ace is to the left of a heart. A heart is to the left of a spade. Now, what is the right order of the cards?
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As ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder) and ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) is a common subject for discussion when it relates to children, it is now known that adults suffer from attention disorders just as well.
The hectic life we live may result symptoms that we can explain to ourselves in other ways. Symptoms like restlessness, impatience, impulsivity, fatigue, and more seems like something we should learn to live with. This is not necessarily so!
However, diagnostic of Attention Disorder with adults is not as easy, as there are many interfering variants (result of the individual’s lifestyle, as well as other – non attentional disorders).
According to US government data, over 4% of the adults have ADHD, comparing with over 8% of the children.
So… do you have ADHD? Test yourself here:
As an adult with ADHD, you might have difficulty with paying attention, focusing and prioritizing. In addition, managing time and being organized with money is difficult.
Dr Ivan K. Goldberg , who developed an ADHD screening test says in an interview to the WSJ that that the disturbance is of the executive functions of the brain – that controls the ability to plan things, time planning, and be organized without letting things be forgotten on the way (MIND360 has a few brain training games addressing the Executive Functions here).
Some scientific studies show that brain training can be effective for ADHD treatment. Such training relate to memory improvement – in particular working memory, and attention brain training.
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Your teen son is on the honor roll, on the soccer team and assists in a homeless shelter on Sunday afternoons. Yet while driving the family car, he’s on the cell phone to his best friend (an issue you’ve addressed with him at least 100 times) and rear-ends another vehicle.
How can teens be so smart, successful, responsible and yet reckless at the same time; easily, according to researchers at Harvard University. We tend to think the teenage brain functions like an adult brain just with less experience and use. Recent research shows this is not true.
The adult brain has specific parts working together to evaluate choices, make decisions and act appropriately for a given situation. In comparison the teenage brain consists of many loose wires that haven’t been connected yet. Research during the past 10 years has shown that teen brains have both sections that remain unconnected and fast growing synapses — a junction between two nerve cells where the club-shaped tip of a nerve fiber almost touches another cell in order to transmit signals.
The brain grows and changes constantly in young people. It is only 80 percent developed in adolescents. The largest part, the cortex, is divided into lobes that mature from the back to the front. The last section to connect is the frontal lobe, the area responsible for processes such as reasoning, planning, impulse control and judgment. This means teens are easily influenced by both their genes and environment and more likely to engage in impulsive behavior.
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Look at the two tables in the picture below. Which one is bigger?
Amazing! The tabletops are identical in shape and size!
If you don’t believe it, try measuring it yourself.
An optical illusion is any illusion that deceives the human visual system into perceiving something that is not present or incorrectly perceiving what is present.
Optical illusions explore the infinite mysteries of the human mind. They create a challenge our visual perception when the information gathered by the eye disagrees with how the brain processes that information.
At first glance, this image consists of black splotches, but look closer.
It actually spells a word.
Optical Illusions trick us into perceiving something differently than it actually exists, so what we see does not necessarily match physical reality. Some illusions show us one thing in a picture, while someone else might see something entirely different in the same picture.
Memory and thinking skills may decline rapidly for people who have mild cognitive impairment, which is the stage before Alzheimer’s disease when people have mild memory problems but no dementia symptoms, and even more rapidly when dementia begins, which is when Alzheimer’s disease is usually diagnosed.
“These results show that we need to pay attention to this time before Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed, when people are just starting to have problems forgetting things,” said study author Robert S. Wilson, PhD, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
The study involved 1,158 people living in Chicago with an average age of 79. A total of 149 of the participants had Alzheimer’s disease, 395 had mild cognitive impairment, and 614 had no thinking or memory problems.
The thinking skills of those with mild cognitive impairment declined twice as fast each year as those who had no cognitive problems, while the skills of those with Alzheimer’s disease declined four times as fast as those with no cognitive problems.
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Our second Optical Illusion is called ‘Old and Young’.
What do you see in this picture?
Is it an old man staring into an old woman’s eyes or two men playing guitar?
Try squinting your eyes until more details come out of the picture.
Also, keep looking until you find: the young girl, the tequila bottle, and the giant vase!
Quite a surprising optical illusion, isn’t it?
A word from our psychological team:
Don’t worry if you don’t see the full effect of these optical illusions. There is a small percentage of people with perfectly normal vision who just don’t see it, for reasons currently unknown.
