How many squares do you see?
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Egg Timer !!!
Egg Timer !!!
Hard-boiling an egg takes approximately ten minutes, but it isn't always as simple as that. Many factors can alter the time it takes. For example, in different parts of the world, hard-boiling an egg can take up to forty minutes. Why?
~ Pic credit - http://www.chicken-house.co.uk/acatalog/Clucky_Egg_Timer.html#a1162
Identify the fruit !!!
Identify the fruit !!!What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
~ Look closely,this is not a flower arrangement but a dry fruit arrangement.Ceramic bowl filled with an assortment of dried fruits which can be given as a gift.
Pic Credit - http://www.ohnuts.com/buy.cfm/tu-bshvat-gifts-dried-fruit-platters/floral-arrangement
Spot the difference Brain Game
Spot the difference Brain Game: An Unexpected Challenge - Read on for something interesting before attempting.....
Dr. Pascale Michelon shared which brain areas and cognitive functions are engaged as we solve the type of brain teaser known as Spot the Difference, where we have to find the differences between two versions of one image.
Every time we do something several brain skills or cognitive abilities are involved. Each cognitive ability is supported by a network of brain cells (or neurons) working together in specific locations of the brain.
Let’s see what cognitive abilities and which brain areas are involved in the simple “ Spot the differences” exercise:
1- You have to identify the objects that you see: This involves your visual skills and thus your occipital lobes (back of the brain, at the bottom).
2- You have to analyze the spatial relationships between the objects that you see: This involves your visuospatial skills and thus your occipital lobes and parietal lobes (back of the brain, top part).
3- You have to remember what you see in one picture and compare it to what you see in the other picture: This involves your short-term memory and thus your frontal (front part of the brain) and parietal lobes.
4- You have to mark down the locations where you see a difference: This involves your motor skills, and thus mostly your frontal lobes.
Did you realize that so much was going on in your brain during this seemingly simple exercise? This is what makes it a good brain exercise: It stimulates several brain functions and thus several networks of neurons.
Now Ready...Set... Go...- How many differences can you spot, and which ones are they?
~Pic Credit - Wikipedia
Amazing shot!!!Swimming elephant!!
Amazing shot!!!Swimming elephant takes man for a dip.Perched between the tusks, an Indian 'mahout' or elephant driver is photographed on his steed in this arresting image.The photograph, taken by Italy-based Cesare Naldi, won first prize in the National Geographic International Photography contest last December.
It was taken in the Andaman Islands, a remote archipelago in the Bay of Bengal, where Rajan, a 60-year-old elephant, lives.
The six-ton elephant learnt to swim 40 years ago to help work for logging companies there.
For years the elephant felled trees with Nasru, his 58-year-old driver.
But in 2002 logging was banned in the islands and most of the 200 elephants were sent back to the Indian mainland.
However, Rajan was kept on by a wealthy owner who had no desire to see him leave Havelock Island, and enjoyed a blissful existence eating bananas and swimming in the crystal clear water.
Two years ago a Kerala temple offered £40,000 for the elephant and Rajan almost had to leave, before a tourist lodge launched a campaign to raise the funds to keep him. Since then Rajan and Nasru have become something of an attraction.
Naldi told National Geographic: "When I was in the water with Rajan, I was really surprised by how fast he could move his legs to swim. Most of the time he had his head under the water and used his long nose to breathe, like a submarine uses its periscope."
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