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Braintenance Express - A Newspaper For Your Mind

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You must read this. You must obey. Sleep... Okay. Snap out of it and read a fresh-off-the-press edition of my newspaper . I made it just for YOU! Braintenance Express A newspaper filled with interesting brain-training and cognition-enhancing news, advice and exercises to keep your mind at its very best and most powerful. Related to The Braintenance Blog. Published by Douglas E Castle 05 July 2013 ...

10 Psychology Experiments Which Went Horribly Wrong! - Braintenance...The Dark Side...

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We have a propensity to overrate ourselves as a species a great deal of the time. I just found this wonderfully demonstrative article on StumbleUpon , (fooled you?) one of my new social media and content resource groups which is loaded with wonderful material, The original url for the page is: StumbleUpon Recommendations For Douglas E Castle . But please don't go there just yet. First read one of the articles which they selected for me, and an ideal one to share with my fellow cerebrotonics and psychonauts here on The Braintenance Blog : -------------- (1) cerebrotonic - Designating a personality type characterized as intellectual, introverted, and emotionally restrained. (2) psychonaut - An explorer of one's own mind. A psychonaut often embarks on inner voyages with the aid of psychoactive substances , meditation, sensory deprivation , binaural beats , and other means. Most commonly, one who experiments with psychedelic substances, such as psilocybin, LSD , MDMA (ecs...

The Problem With Solutions: Brain Teasers.

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While strolling through cyberspace via search engine , I came across some nifty word problems involving mixtures or solutions . These are my favorite types of algebra problems because there solutions require solutions. I can't seem to get enough irony (or wordplay) - I might be anemic. These are great problems to try to do in your head (visualize containers and the pouring process) if the math is easy enough. There are great fun, highly gratifying, and wonderful brain-trainers -- not only for algebraic reasoning, i.e., find the missing number, but for improving your ability to visualize.  That's right. The Braintenance Blog is offering our adherents (those who stick with us or to us) two benefits for the price of one. In fact, if we wanted to keep this sale in proportion we'd have to offer four benefits for the price of two; or three benefits for the price of one and a half; or (let's get crazy) one whole benefit at half price... do you see where I'm going? Here...