Tag: brain
Bronze Age Brain Surgery: 3,500-Year-Old Skull Found With Square-Inch Hole
For 3,500 years, a curious medical case has been buried beneath the floor of a Bronze Age building in Israel. Now, a team of archaeologists has studied the remains of two wealthy brothers entombed there, finding that both likely struggled with chronic infectious disease in childhood. The two skeletons showed signs of…
Bing’s new Android and iPhone apps let you speak to its ChatGPT brain
You could have a high IQ if you can spot the rogue word in this brain teaser in 18 seconds
BEING able to spot the rogue word placed in this grid could mean that you are anything but a dunce.
You could very well have a high IQ if you can spot the word ‘dance’ in 18 seconds or less.
Are you able to find the word ‘dance’ in 18 seconds or less?[/caption]
Your eyes and brain will need to be working seamlessly together to be able to find it in the time allowed.
Keep your eyes glued to the grid and concentrate as hard as you can.
Were you able to spot it in time?
If you’re still scratching your head, the answer is at the bottom of the page.
Brain teasers are a great way to keep your mind active and can help improve your thinking abilities as well as sharpening your thinking process.
Doing brain teasers can help improve memory and help you remain focused undertaking other tasks.
Another tricky brain teaser asks you to find the misspelled word in this image within ten seconds.
It went viral online and is sure to sharpen your awareness if you can find the anomaly among the list of words.
Likewise, this puzzle asks you to find the correct spelling of “bingo” among a sea of 221 versions of ‘bigno”. This one also challenges you to spot the rogue word in under five seconds.
If you fancy a less-wordy optical illusion, somewhere in this woodland photograph is a small stag hiding effortlessly in the foliage – can you find it? And, how quickly?
Instead of a rogue word, this video has a rogue animal lurking somewhere.
Or perhaps you can try to spot the cartoon dog hiding within these sheep in a Where’s Wally-inspired image.
Were you able to find it in time?[/caption]
Sure, why not let an airplane seat electrify my brain?
Commercial air travel is a largely terrible experience, and aviation companies patent a lot of ways to make it either slightly less miserable or an even more dystopian hell. Where does reading passengers’ emotions to offer them transcranial stimulation therapy fall? I’ll leave that up to you.
Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer filed a patent application for a “brain stimulation system to provide a sense of wellbeing” back in 2016, and it was granted last year. But I only discovered it thanks to a more recent Mastodon post by attorney Jeff Steck, and I am fascinated. Embraer’s reasonable starting premise is that lots of people become anxious on long car, train, and airplane rides, “turning a short trip into a long one.” From there,…
Little People, Big World’s Zach Roloff undergoes emergency brain surgery
What Creepy Video Game Sounds Do to Your Brain
Researchers discover way of layering graphene to mimic brain synapses
Stalking deer in theHunter: Call Of The Wild helps stave off social media-induced brain rot
For Hayden and I’s Ultimate Audio Bang podcast, we thought we’d do something a little differently this year. Instead of focusing on one theme and yapping on about it for a very long time, we’re now splitting the pod into two segments: the first half on the hip and happening, the second on an FPS genre or subgenre that we’re unfamiliar with. Our first port of call? theHunter: Call Of The Wild.
In our first sessions with the game, we both concluded that A) deer are incredibly athletic; and B) we’re the most impatient people, perhaps ever. More than that, though, we hadn’t realised how important it was to fixate on your prey. Not like, track them down. But like, track them down, you know?