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By Tara Miller Almost everyone would love to take advantage of ways to boost their brain power and become smarter, no matter how smart they already are. Below are 25 scientifically proven ways you can do just this. From surprising activities such as watching TV or riding a motorcycle to brain-healthy nutrition choices, try a few of these ideas and see if you notice any improvement in your intelligence. What You Can Do These activities all offer ways to improve your cognitive abilities, so pick up a crossword puzzle, drink some water, and listen to some music to make yourself smarter.
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Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike.
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Koka Sexton of InsideView Talks Social Selling
Koka Sexton is the Director of Social Strategy at InsideView and a recognized social selling expert. He blends ten+ years of sales experience with a passion for social media. Koka is also the founder of InsideView’s newest social media endeavor: Social Selling University – a central location to learn about the tools and techniques for Social Selling. In the interview, Koka talks about a new style of selling that leaves old-fashioned push tactics behind. Customers are weary of this aggressive style.
The 10 Best Disney Songs You've Never Heard
Anyone can whistle or sing their favorite Disney song, but for every ‘Under the Sea’ and ‘A Whole New World,’ there are dozens of orphaned tunes that never made it into their respective film. Too bad, since many of these unfortunate victims of time constraints or script rewrites are really catchy. However, many of these never-before-seen songs have surfaced online with their accompanying storyboards to let us sigh and wonder at what might have been. Take a look at 10 great Disney songs that were left on the cutting room floor. The creative team of 'Aladdin' had to make numerous changes to the film, including cutting many songs, characters and trimming the plot. Thankfully, several songs that were cut from the film ended up on the special edition DVD.
This page describes a number of lucid dream induction techniques. It is recommended that you be able to recall at least one dream per night in order to maximize the effectiveness of these methods. [ edit ] Preliminary Knowledge Certain elements are common to many of the lucidity-inducing techniques discussed later in this chapter. To better understand these techniques, these common components will be discussed first.
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This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids
This December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Ar , artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas. Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color. How great is this? Given the opportunity my son could probably cover the entire piano alone in about fifteen minutes. The installation, entitled The Obliteration Room , is part of Kusama’s Look Now, See Forever exhibition that runs through March 12. If you liked this you’ll also enjoy Roman Ondak’s Room of Heights and Karina Smigla-Bobinski’s helium-filled kinetic drawing sculpture .
Meditation is simply the training of the mind. It has been used, primarily for spiritual practices, for thousands of years. The effects are numerous.
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Banksy didn’t win an Academy Award, wasn’t spotted at the show and didn’t even bother to vandalize the Kodiak Theater restrooms – disappointing stuff, we know. On a positive note, the hype surrounding his nomination brought attention to an often overlooked film genre, the documentary. While Exit Through the Gift Shop starts our list, other noteworthy art and design documentaries have been released in the past few years. 12. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
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<img src="http://makezineblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/rs_wp10_blog_3d1.jpg?w=600&h=450" alt="" title="Touchless 3D Tracking Interface" width="600" height="450" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-233499" /> <img src="http://makezineblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/rs_wp10_blog_3d2.jpg?w=600&h=415" alt="" title="Touchless 3D Tracking Interface" width="600" height="415" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-233500" /> Combine low-tech materials with some high-tech components and build a completely Touchless 3D Tracking Interface . Explore capacitive sensing by using several panels of cardboard lined with aluminum foil.
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A Beautiful Mess
The next guest in our "At Home With" series is our close friend Rachel Denbow. Rachel is one of our favorites when it comes to decorating, and we are so happy to have her sharing her space today! " Our 100-year-old Craftsman sits about one mile outside of downtown Colorado Springs in a beautiful neighborhood with those coveted mature trees that get close to making a tunnel as you drive down the street in the spring.
This sculpture by Canadian artist Julien Valle gives new meaning to the phrase “jumping right out of the page”. Valle has sculpted the resulting spray from a typical can of spray paint into a spiky reality. Check out the link below for more of his work including a 24×100 inch hanging banner with hundreds of office supplies, tools, electronics, and other supplies attached to it. Julien Vallee Works Like this: Like Loading...
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What a clever idea! DIY firefly jars, sans fireflies.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 at 8:14 am by Jenna I’m in love with this idea… and such a cool alternative to patio lights. All you have to do is gather a few mason jars, flick some glow-in-the-dark paint in the jars, and let them sit in the sun to charge during the day. By the time your dinner party rolls around you’ll have firefly lanterns. I think it would be cute to do this same thing with mini jars, and string them up somehow… hmmm.Hijacking Emotion Is The Key To Engaging Your Audience
The default to emotion is part of the human condition. To better appreciate the role of emotion and what it allows an audience to do, we need to take a brief detour into evolutionary biology. The human brain can be understood as three separate brains working in tandem, if not completely integrated with each other. The primitive brain and the limbic brain collectively make up the limbic system, which governs emotion. Within the limbic system, there is a structure called the amygdala, which leaders need to understand.Flickr photographer Patrícia Almeida recently shot these great photos of a wonderfully whimsical umbrella art installation in Portugal. Like something out of a fairy tale, the umbrellas look almost like they're magically floating in mid-air. As she writes, "In July, in Águeda (a Portuguese town), some streets are decorated with colorful umbrellas. I felt like a kid, amazed by all that color!" She calls it Umbrella Sky .