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Did you know that navigating your way through mazes can increase your total memory, recall and cognition? Did you know that this simple recreational activity (which only requires a pencil and a mind) also delays the outset of senile dementia , enhances your ability to focus, improves your abstract reasoning , improves your ability to plan and carries with it untold and countless other benefits. Mazes are wonderful mental muscle builders. Individuals tend to attack mazes (on paper or on sketch screen applications on mobile devices ) using any one of several approaches: 1) Brute Force Adherents, who only make a cursory inspection of the maze, followed by high-speed trial and error attempts, with each attempt usually getting than the one which preceded it and terminated at an earlier stopping point; 2) Center - Out Examiners, who view the whole maze and first seek to identify the center, and psychologically work their way outward to the entryway of the maze befor putting stylus to scree...

Image via Wikipedia about brain-scanning (fMRI) technology. Tongue-twisters provide an entertaining way for us to refine and strengthen our elocution . They are also used therapeutically by speech pathologists and others [remember Bertie and Lionel in " The King's Speech "?] help overcome a variety of speech impediments , including the most troubling one of all: a lack of self-confidence. Tongue-twisters are not childish, and they are not merely speech exercises. They are certified (* by some organization which does not currently exist, but which should be formed ) brain-builders. In speaking them, your mind must clearly identify each word and its proper pronunciation, and differentiate it from the rest of the  words. This does several things: 1) It forces the mind to ascribe some meaning or sense to the riddle. It pushes the imagination and creativity; 2) It increases the ability to focus because of the inherent need for precision; 3) It improves visual discernment and...