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  • Top 25 Brain and Mind Haikus. Can you Write Yours? - The results of a recent "Brain and Mind Haikus" contest are in. Below you have my Favorite 10 Haikus on brain-related topics, plus many other fun ones for a total of 25... Can you write a haiku describing anything crossing your mind now? Remember the simple rules: write 3 lines, which don't need to rhyme, containing 5,7, and 5 syllables. My Favorite 10 Brain and Mind Haikus: 1) GTB, the skeptic, says Haikus are easy/ But sometimes they don't make sense/ Refrigerator 2) Techne, the philosopher, wonders: Solve the big questions:/ How do I know when I know?/ Who knows the knower? 3) Millie, the spiritual, suggests: Playing music feeds/ my soul while reading music/ nurtures my old brain.
  • Exercise Your Brain: Quick Brain Teasers to Test Your Memory and Thinking Skills - Here's a quick quiz to test your memory and thinking skills, which should work out important parts of your brain. See how you do! (Answers are below). 1. - Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. 2.
  • Mind Teaser Games - 3 Ways Which Mind Teaser Games Can Improve Your Life - Mind teaser games are games that build up on your strategizing techniques, planning, logic, visual workout, attention and memory. Your brain also gets worked out 90% of the time when you play these mind teaser games. Playing mind teaser games are definitely encouraged as according to Einstein, we humans only use 10% of our brain most of the time. So why waste the other 90%? All the planning, strategizing, and memory work done during the game will definitely help you to have the extra edge as compared to those who thinks that mind teaser games are just another substitute for kiddy’s playground. In this 21st century, there are over thousand of card games, memory games and role-playing games to choose from.
  • Why Do You Turn Down the Radio When You're Lost?: Multi-Tasking and the Brain 101 - You're driving through suburbia one evening looking for the street where you're supposed to have dinner at a friend's new house. You slow down to a crawl, turn down the radio, stop talking, and stare at every sign. Why is that? Neither the radio nor talking affects your vision. Or do they?
  • Combine Physical and Mental Exercise for Brain Health: Interview with Dr. Kramer - Dr. Arthur Kramer is a Professor in the University of Illinois Department of Psychology, the Campus Neuroscience Program, the Beckman Institute, and the Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at the University of Illinois. I am honored to interview him today about recent brain research findings focused on how to maintain a healthy, strong brain. Alvaro Fernandez (AF): Dr. Kramer, thank you for your time. Let's start by trying to clarify some existing misconceptions and controversies. Based on what we know today, and your recent Nature piece (Note: referenced below), what are the 2-3 key lifestyle habits would you suggest to a person who wants to delay Alzheimer's symptoms and improve overall brain health? Dr. Kramer (DK): First, Be Active. Do physical exercise. Aerobic exercise, 30 to 60 minutes per day 3 days per week, has been shown to have an impact in a variety of experiments.
  • Can Meditation Help to Read Hidden Emotional Messages in other People's Faces? - I recently attended a great workshop at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. The class was called "Reading Emotional Messages" and taught by Paul Ekman, Ph.D, a well-know scientist who regularly trains lawyers and police officials in his techniques. Concealed emotions, microexpressions, are the fleeting expressions that people make when they are consciously or unconsciously trying to hide their true emotional response. In conscious microexpressions they may be trying to lie, while with unconscious expressions, they may not even be aware of what they are truly feeling.
  • 10 Brain Health and Fitness New Year's Resolutions: Train Your Brain - You have survived the 2007 shopping and eating season. Congratulations! Now it's time to shift gears and focus on 2008...whether you write down some New Year resolutions or contemplate some things that you want to let go of from last year and set intentions and goals for this year - as is a friend's tradition on the winter solstice. To summarize the key findings of the last 20 years of neuroscience research on how to "exercise our brains", there are three things that we can strive for: novelty, variety and challenge.
  • Spring Break Packages - Teasers, Incentives, And the Best Trips - These days when we look at advertisements for spring break packages online, on television, in newspapers, or magazines we see many incentives thrown at us to help us choose one package over another. Twenty hours of free drinks, free pizza at Pizza Hut while your there, free entry to exclusive parties and clubs...
  • Asking 40 Important Health and Medical Questions to the Next US President - Dear Mr or Mrs Next US President, The health and medical blogosphere would like to make sure you and your team take into account the issues outlined below as you and your aids formulate your policies and put together the team that will further define and implement them. 40 different health bloggers have asked these questions that I now pose to you and your team. Dear Mr or Mrs Next US President, 1. Your main asset is your brain. What have you done lately to maintain your brain? (SharpBrains). Health Policy 2. Who do you support as US Science Advisor? (A Blog Around the Clock). 3. Not to depress you but...are you aware that healthcare reform is really hard? how will you change all this? (Medinnovationblog). 4. How will you increase price transparency of medical procedures and engage consumer forces? (Val Jones). 5.

  • Top 7 Brainteasers and Puzzles for Job Interviews and Brain Challenge - A recent CNN article explains well why a growing number of companies use brainteasers and logic puzzles of a type called "guesstimations" during job interviews: - "Seemingly random questions like these have become commonplace in Silicon Valley and other tech outposts, where companies aren't as interested in the correct answer to a tough question as they are in how a prospective employee might try to solve it. Since businesses today have to be able to react quickly to shifting market dynamics, they want more than engineers with high IQs and good college transcripts. They want people who can think on their feet." What are technology companies (Google, Microsoft, Amazon) and consulting companies (McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Accenture...) looking for?
  • Top 21 Books on Brain Health, Fitness and Training, Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis - Given the growing media coverage of brain fitness and brain training, we have produced this compilation of the Top 21 Books that help understand these trends, the research behind them, and the implications for all of us.
  • Earth 2.0: Yes We Can Launch a New And Improved Global Agenda - Imagine seeing a top sheik from Dubai, wrapped in traditional Arab clothing, exclaim "Yes We Can" in front of the 800 experts gathered during the Summit of the Global Agenda that just took place in Dubai on November 7-9th, co-organized by the World Economic Forum and the Government of Dubai. This same sheik added that "we build the future with our own hands".
  • Brain Training and Mind Games: Interview with Japanese Expert Go Hirano - Today we are traveling to Japan to learn about latest gaming trends there. Go Hirano is a Japanese executive with experience in neuroscience and gaming. Alvaro Fernandez (AF): Hirano-san, what is the state of Brain Fitness and Brain Training in Japan? what are the most popular programs so far? Go Hirano (GH): So far, the most popular application is anti-aging, and most popular product is Dr. Kawashima's book of calculations and oral reading for adults. TV variety shows regularly come up with Brain specials. It is hardly deniable that brains enchant Japanese people.
  • Ways to Increase Page Views and get Targeted Traffic to Stay on Your Site - You cannot build a successful internet based home business unless you are able to get targeted traffic to visit your website and stay on it long enough so that you can get your message across and act on it. The level of success of your website is directly related to the number of views it receives every day. Page views are generated by unique visitors who surf onto your site and check it out in order to find the answer to information they are looking for on how to do something.
  • Cognitive Fitness and Health: 10 Debunked Myths on How Your Mind Works. - Over the last year we have interviewed more than 10 leading neuroscientists and psychologists worldwide to learn about their research and thoughts, and have news to report. What can we say today that we couldn't have said only 10 years ago?
  • We Need a Global Consortium for Brain Fitness and Training Innovation - The World Economic Forum asked me to write "an 800 words summary of your most compelling actionable idea on the challenges of aging and gerontology", in preparation for the Inaugural Summit of the...
  • Improving Brain Functioning For Healthy Aging: Interview with scientist Jerri Edwards - Today we are fortunate to interview Dr. Jerri Edwards, an Associate Professor at University of South Florida's School of Aging Studies and Co-Investigator of the influencial ACTIVE study. Dr. Edwards was trained by Dr. Karlene K. Ball, and her research is aimed toward discovering how cognitive abilities can be maintained and even enhanced with advancing age. Alvaro Fernandez (AF): Please explain to our readers your main research areas. Jerri Edwards (JE): I am particularly interested in how cognitive interventions may help older adults to avoid or at least delay functional difficulties and thereby maintain their independence longer.
  • 10-Question Checklist to Select the Right Brain Fitness Program for You - Unless you have been living in a cave, you have read by now multiple articles about the brain training and brain exercise craze: sudoku, Nintendo BrainAge, multiple online games, software like MindFit and Posit...
  • Can Games, Meditation and Parenting Help Improve Attention? - I am honored to interview today Michael I. Posner, a prominent scientist in the field of cognitive neuroscience. He is currently an emeritus professor of neuroscience at the University of Oregon (Department of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences). In August 2008, the International Union of Psychological Science made him the first recipient of the Dogan Prize "in recognition of a contribution that represents a major advance in psychology by a scholar or team of scholars of high international reputation." Alvaro Fernandez (AF): Dr. Posner, many thanks for your time today. I really enjoyed the James Arthur Lecture monograph on Evolution and Development of Self-Regulation that you delivered last year. Could you provide a summary of the research you presented?
  • Do Crossword Puzzles and Bridge Provide all the Brain Exercise You Need? - This is a question we often get asked in our classes and lectures. The quick answer is that while recreational activities like crossword puzzles, sudoku, bridge, chess, poker, etc. are all good for you and better than doing nothing, they are usually limited in their range of mental cross-training as well as difficult to control to ensure the right combination of both challenge and novelty.
  • Obesity Crisis or Cognitive Crisis? How to Get Weight Under Control - In early August, a scientific study published in the British Medical Journal added a novel perspective on how to think of, and consequently address, the so-called obesity epidemic that many developed countries, including the US, are experiencing.
  • Why Smart Brains Make Stupid Decisions On Money, Work and Health - It happens. Often. Why? We just secured an interview with Ori Brafman, co-author of Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (Doubleday Business, 2008), to discuss our Dark Side (well, he calls if "different hidden forces" and "psychological undercurrents").
  • Are Yoga and Meditation Good for my Brain? A Scientific Take on Stress Management - Yes! Yoga, meditation, and visualization are all excellent ways to learn to manage your stress levels. Reducing stress, and the stress hormones, in your system is critical to your brain and overall fitness. Why is this so? It’s clear that our society has changed faster than our genes. Instead of being faced with physical, immediately life-threatening crises that demand instant action, these days we deal with events and illnesses that gnaw away at us slowly, without any stress release. Dr.
  • 12 Simple Steps to Explode Your Site Traffic Using Online Social Media - LAST YEAR SAW THE ARRIVAL OF ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA. If you operate a website or blog, you would be well advised to realign your site to exploit the popular social media sites for increased traffic. You should also introduce social media components to your site because web users are experiencing these new forms of interaction on more and more sites and they will have an expectation of the same from your site too.
  • All You Need To Know About Ethical Link Building - When it comes to good website marketing strategies, you will soon learn that some are good and will gain you loyal customers while others are more problematic about what it is they offer to the normal consumer. Ethical link building is an important part of joining the visible web community and as with many endeavors, you'll find that if done badly will effect your operation for the worst. When thinking about ethical link building, there are a few facts that it is important keep at the forefront of your mind. The first thing to remember is what link building actually is.
  • Avoid The Dream Stompers - "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain. One of the new terms created in cyberspace is ‘dream stompers.
  • Brain Age Mythology Compared to What Really Improves Cognitive Health - Many people have been asking us recently about whether we all have a "Brain Age" and how we can reduce our "brain ages". This concept is a myth, fueled by the (very fun) Nintendo game and a recent PBS campaign promoting a program produced by Posit Science.
  • Enlightening Students About Credit - Credit card companies seem to be growing by leaps and bounds. They are appealing to all kinds of people as well. If you thought that credit cards were available to only people with jobs, think again. Credit card companies are starting young these days. Who is their target? High school and college students, of course.
  • Ready to Measure Your Brain Fitness and Cognitive Health? - You know your weight. And your physical fitness. And a variety of health-related metrics. What about your brain fitness? In years to come, we can expect a growing number of assessments to help each of us address that precise question, using tools that today are only available to researchers and clinicians, raising both opportunities and concerns.
  • The Question is: To Hit or not to Hit..? - Every blackjack player- either veteran or rookie - has faced the "hit or stay" dilemma at some point or another while playing.
  • Healthy Aging for Brain and Body: Answers to your Main Questions - Given the growing and often contradictory media coverage regarding aging and Alzheimer's Disease topics, you probably have a good number of questions you would like to see answered on Healthy Aging for Brain and Body. Let's address some of them in a lively Question & Answer format. * Question: What is aging? - Answer: Wikipedia says that "Ageing or aging (American English) is the accumulation of changes in an organism or object over time.
  • Sequence to Maximize Your Internet Profits - Chances are that if you’ve done any research into Internet marketing – or any type of sales or marketing – you already know that people who come to your website do not buy from you on their first visit. You already know that it’s important to follow up on your Internet marketing campaign with an email marketing campaign to convince them to come back and buy from you. If you neglect your follow up email marketing, you will be throwing away a potential of your market and your profits.
  • Legalized Sports Book For More Fun And Entertainment - Everyone needs some fun and entertainment every now and then to take a break from our hectic work schedule. Usually, after a long day at work, energy level is low and what most people do would be to head straight for home to take a much needed rest. Who still has the energy for entertainment after 12 long hours at work? Fortunately, fun and entertainment can be brought right into your own home.
  • Writers With a Website Earn More Money - Just for a moment lets imagine that you're not a writer, but that you operate a small business. It is vital that you expand your business while keeping your existing customers in touch with your growing business. What's a good way to go about this? Okay, now you're a writer again and you're trying to get the attention of publishing editors and want to have a place where interested parties can check out what sort of work you're doing. What's a good way to go about this? The answer is the same for both questions.
  • How to Watch TV Series Online Free - It's Easier Than You Think - Are you aware that you can watch TV series online free? A great deal of TV programming is available over the internet, at no charge beyond the internet bill you're already paying.
  • Christmas Gift Ideas For Kid - Christmas is a fun time of year, but Christmas give ideas for kids can be tough to come by if you aren't used to dealing with children. It isn't all that tough, though, if you know what you are doing. Going beyond the typical books and clothing that kids get every year;
  • Simple Simon Says, Follow Strip Poker Rules! - The Rise of Strip Poker The popularity of strip poker was fueled by TV shows and the web. The internet version uses multi-user chat rooms, webcams and microphones. Users pit their skills against each other and the game ends with player clothed or outstripped. Even without money involved, online strip poker can be just as thrilling as real strip poker games. Both follow strip poker rules, which may vary though. Chips or Strip?
  • Coming-Soon-Adult-DVD Titles in the Market - The adult film industry is one of the most robust and productive in the market. If you think adult film enthusiasts are already satisfied with the figure, think again. The demand for coming-soon-adult DVD titles is quite hefty and high these days. What are coming-soon-adult DVD titles? To begin with, such movies are adult films that are still yet to be released.
  • Classy, And Oh So Tasty…Our Gourmet Gift Baskets Are Sure To Please! - When it comes to making a good impression, saying “Thank you,” or selecting a gift sure to delight, few other choices guarantee success like gourmet gift baskets; especially when the food basket comes from Full Moon. That’s because Full Moon Gift Baskets are particular. We include only the highest-quality of gourmet foods; ones with the highest of palatable standards. With a variety of styles from which to select, our gourmet gift baskets are the perfect choice for corporate business gifts, birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, and weddings, just to name a few. There is a “just-right” gift basket brimming with select gourmet foods, one to fit every occasion. Take the Crowd Pleaser Gourmet food basket, for instance…as visually impressive as it is appetizing.
  • Be naughty, try sex toys! - There is a common misconception that sex toys are reserved only for women. The Internet contains an entire range of vibrators, dildos and other erotic toys offered for the feminine gender. What men don’t actually know is that adult toys are reserved for them as well. Let’s take the example of masturbators, offering the most realistic feel and soft material to enjoy. Similar to a woman’s vagina and just as tight, a masturbator can bring a man on the highest peaks of sexual pleasure. Top-quality sex toys impress through their realistic appearance, such is the case of the masturbator. Shaped like a vagina, it also has an outer grip for comfortable usage.
  • Refinance Mortgage Loan: Ignore Those Teaser Rates - If you're enticed to get a refinance mortgage loan because of the incredibly low initial rates, you're actually looking at a teaser. Because most people believe that low rates indicate the best deal, they fall for the trap and find themselves locked in the vicious grip of a loan they cannot afford. What are teasers? You've heard it all. Avoid loans that offer very low interest rates during its first few years. They may seem harmless and most of the time, people like the idea of paying low interest rates early during the loan term. But after this, reality sets in.
  • Traffic Building And An Empty Theater - What can you provide your site visitors that will inspire them to come back? There was a time not so long ago when the content on website remained essentially static. No one felt compelled to provide fresh information because at that time it was fairly easy to get a suitable ranking through SEO methods that are not acceptable today. If you could achieve a top ten ranking on a search engine your work was done.
  • Growing Your Online Business in Three Easy Steps - Getting your website up and running is an exciting thing at first. You get a lot of people coming to visit your site, they're buying things and you seem to be doing pretty well. But after a time, the initial excitement wears off and you begin to ask yourself, "Is this all there is?" Before you get to that point, you need to learn the three basic steps to take in order to grow an online business and stay relevant in the ever changing virtual marketplace. Thankfully, most of this information is common sense, but that doesn't mean you can't learn a thing or two (or three).
  • Resale Rights - What Are People Looking For? - Determining what master resale rights products and private label rights products will be in demand, how to organize your website, and how to most effectively draw targeted traffic to your website are critical to your success.
  • How to Manage Your Sites According to Market Demand? - Determining what master resale rights products and private label rights products will be in demand, how to organize your website, and how to most effectively draw targeted traffic to your website are critical to your success. There are countless opportunities on the Internet, but sometimes there are so many that it is hard to know where to focus. For example, have you ever wondered? Whether master resale rights products or private label rights products are most in demand?For more help visit www.plr-vodoo.
  • Six Things To Do On Long Plane Trips - No matter how long the flight, a long plane ride can feel like an eternity. Even though flying is the fastest way to travel, you can feel like you’re wasting time, bored, and restless if you don’t have activities planned for your trip. Here are some things you can do on your next long plane trip. Read a Book or Magazine Although you may not normally have time to sit down with a good book and read, a long plane ride is the perfect time to catch up on reading that book you’ve been meaning to get to or your favorite magazine.
  • Resale Rights: What Are People Looking For? - Determining what master resale rights products and private label rights products will be in demand, how to organize your website, and how to most effectively draw targeted traffic to your website are critical to your success.
  • 4 Easy Ways To Promote Your Website Online - Creating your website is the easy part compared to what comes next – promoting it. Website promotion is not only a task that you must do continually, but it’s also going to take some time and effort before you start seeing results. Fortunately, there are many different ways to advertise your business online, and while some work, others don’t, so it’s really going to be a matter of trial and error to figure out what works for you. To get your promotional endeavors off to a good start, here are 4 popular and easy ways to advertise your website online: Article Marketing: Writing and submitting articles to free reprint article directories is a great way to create incoming links to your website.
  • Master Resale Rights Products and Private Label Rights Products will be in demand! - Determining what master resale rights products and private label rights products will be in demand, how to organize your website, and how to most effectively draw targeted traffic to your website are critical to your success. There are countless opportunities on the Internet, but sometimes there are so many that it is hard to know where to focus.
  • Product Launch Formula - The Easiest Way To Launch A Successful Product - Launching a product can be an arduous and difficult task, especially in competitive markets. Thankfully, there is a step-by-step product launch formula that you can follow to ensure success and beat out your competition. A good plan can mean the difference between a hugely successful campaign, or a complete failure. Follow these simple steps to instantly increase your chances of a successful launch. 1) Buzz Marketing. Well before your product even goes live, you need to create some "buzz" for it. Create anticipation and scarcity with your marketing efforts to get people talking about your product and the launch in their favourite online forums. The more exposure you can generate, the more chance you have of being successful.

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