Exercise your Science Brain
Looks at parts
Looks at wholes
Click here: Left Brain - Right Brain Quiz / Another Quiz / And Another / Two Sides
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Click here: National Geographic Brain Games TV Show
Click here: The Power of Concentration
Your brain's three parts:
- The innermost part of the brain.
- Sometimes called the reptilian brain.
- Responsible for unconscious functions like breathing and heartbeat.
- Basically, it keeps your alive!
The Limbic Brain
- Comes from the Latin word limbus, meaning "ring."
- The limbic brain, which rings the brainstem, is the seat of emotion.
- It is responsible for impulsiveness.
- It contains a small, almond-shaped structure called the amygdala, which is the guide of anger and fear.
- It contains the seahorse shaped hippocampus, which encodes memories.
- The hippocampus controls hormones.
- Comes from the Latin word for "tree bark."
- It contains the gray matter.
- Responsible for conscious thought and reason.
- Controls higher brain function like calculating, planning and language.
- Makes up 80% of brain mass.
Click here: Neuroscience for Kids
Image Below: A Typical Neuron
LEFT BRAIN TEASER
This is a famous test of creativity.
Briefly look at the image below.
1 - 2 - 3...
What do you see?
A logical, left-dominant brain sees only a hodgepodge of disconnected shapes, but the right-dominant brain can go beyond logic and find the connecting concept that makes sense of the shapes.
If you can't "see" beyond the shapes, it's because your left-handed brain is trying to solve the problem, and won't let your right-handed brain take over.
If you still can't see the picture, the answer is below:
The picture is of a dog drinking from a stream, with its head in the middle of the picture, facing down to the water, and its tail off to the right.
Left Brain - Right Brain Test
While sitting at your desk...
Lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.
Now, while doing this,
Draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.
(Your foot will change direction and there is nothing you can do about it!)
MORE BRAIN STUFF. . .
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Are you a keen observer?
Can you see the arrow in the Federal Express logo below?
Notice anything about the Tostitos logo?
Click here: More Logos
Can you see the Energizer Bunny on the moon?
For the words below, read the color of the ink, not the words themselves.
Are you a good observer?
- a statement about something you have noticed
- the act of paying close attention in order to gather information (data)
Click here: The Invisible G Website
Click here: Selective Attention Test / Conversation Perception Test
(1) Qualitative Observation:
- an observation that uses your five senses to describe an object or phenomenon ( 5 senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing )
(2) Quantitative Observation:
- an observation that often is made with instruments or tools, such as rulers, scales, beakers, clocks, or thermometers. The results are measureable or countable, and expressed using numbers.
Count every letter ' F ' in the following red text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI-
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
HOW MANY F's?
ANSWER: There are 6 -- no joke.
Read it again!
Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down.
The reasoning behind it is that
the brain cannot process the word 'OF'
( Read aloud the words inside the triangle below. )
Most people read, "A bird in the bush."
Did you notice that the word "the" is listed twice?
Can you find the man's face in the coffee beans below?
Click here: Face Blindness
Click here: Upside Down Mona Lisa
The Dress that went Viral on the Internet in 2015
Do you see WHITE and GOLD or do you see BLUE and BLACK?
Click here: New York Times article
What do you see below?
Most people notice the word "me" in brown.
Look again... Find the "you" in the "me."
What do you see below?
Can you see both "optical" and "illusion?"
What do you see below?
You probably can see the word "teach."
But...did you see the word "learn" in the reflection?
( Strange but true: The image below is NOT really moving. )
Click here: Rotating Gears
MORE INTERESTING LINKS...
Click here: Brainteasers, Puzzles and Riddles / Web Source Illusions
Click here: Optical Illusion / Quirkology: 10 Amazing Illusions
Click here: Selective Attention Test / Part Two / Part Three
Click here: Amazing Sidewalk Chalk Illusions
~ A Math Mind Boggler ~
1) Pick a number from 5 to 9.
2) Subtract 5.
3) Multiply by 3.
4) Square the number (multiply by itself).
5) Add the digits in the number together until you get only one digit, i.e. 64 = 6 + 4 = 10; 1 + 0 = 1.
6) If the number is less than 5, add five. Otherwise subtract 4.
7) Multiply it by 2.
8) Subtract 6.
9) Give the digit its corresponding letter in the alphabet (for example; 1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C, 4 = D...26 = Z, etc.)
10) Pick a name of a country (NOT A STATE) that begins with that letter.
11) Take the second letter in the country name and think of a mammal that begins with that letter.
12) Think of the most common color of that animal.
FOR THE ANSWER, SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS WEB PAGE.
HIDDEN IMAGE STEREOGRAMS:
Hint: Blur your eyes to make the image pop out at you.
Can you see the candy clusters above?
Can you see the T-rex dinosaur above?
Can you see planet Saturn with rings above?
Can you see the rosebud above?
Can you see the huge hippo above (in the center)?
Can you see the shark above?
Click here: More Optical Stereograms
Last month, while Calvin was away on vacation in the South Pacific, he sent a postcard to each of his five closest friends (including Tom). Can you determine which friend received a postcard from which island (one is Huahine), and what was shown on each card?
1. Andy, Rick, and the person whose postcard was mailed from Tahiti received the postcards showing (in some order) a white sand beach, a waterfall, and an array of seashells.
2. Of the postcards mailed from Bora Bora and Moorea, one went to Charlotte, and the other (which didn't go to Sally) depicted tropical fish.
3. Neither Andy's postcard nor the one showing a waterfall was the one mailed from Raiatea.
4. The postcard highlighting palm trees wasn't sent from Moorea.
5. The postcard for Rick wasn't the picture of seashells.
Click here: More Mystery Mastery Logic Puzzlers
~ Image Gallery ~
The Tin Man: "If I only had a heart."
Scarecrow: "If I only had a brain."
Lion: "If I only had courage."
Answer to the Math Mind Boggler:
(A GRAY ELEPHANT FROM DENMARK)