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There is a new page of math puzzles this week, and the usual departments.

Here are a few more math puzzles to exercise that brain.

1. Look at the following:

1 + 23 - 4 + 5 - 6 + 78 + 9 = 106

Notice that the digits 1 through 9 are used in order to arrive at 106. Using 1 through 9 in order, and using only addition or subtraction, create an equation that equals 100.

2. Mary is 54 years old, and her mother is 80. How many years ago was her mother three times the age of...

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Recent studies reported on at the annual Meeting Of The Society Of Psychophysiological Research in Montreal show that there are immediate brain-function benefits from exercising, as well as long-term effects. Exercise seems to help your brain work more efficiently and actually make you smarter.

In one such study, participants had their thinking ability tested, then ran on a treadmill for thirty minutes. When their heart rates returned to normal resting levels they were tested again. Throughout the study, they were connected to an electroencephalogram (EEG), in order to track their brain waves.

One result was that exercising had sped up their decision-making. The difference was a fraction of a second on average, but this is considered significant. It was also found, upon scoring the tests, that the subjects answered more accurately after the exercise than before. Bottom line? Faster, smarter brains.

Participants were in their twenties, but researchers think the findings will hold true for other age groups.

- A lobster needs about seven years to grow to be one pound.

- Beams of sunlight that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays.

- Found in your throat, the hyoid bone is the only bone you have that is not attached to another bone.

Walt Disney Had Himself Frozen After His Death

This is just a interesting story about a man that did seem mysterious at times. However, he was not cryogenically frozen. He was cremated a couple days after his death in 1966.

Name a word that has all five vowels in it, in the same order they are found in the alphabet (but not necessarily consecutively).

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Good art instructors have you turn a photo of a face upside down, and then draw the face. This interrupts your usual mental interpretation of the face. You are left with nothing to do but draw the lines the way they are. Try this technique. You'll be surprised how much more accurate a drawing done this way is, and it demonstrates how easily we are mislead in what we see by the patterns of thought in our minds.

Imagine if you knew how to spot a lie, how to prevent lies from being told, how to trap a liar and how to get a confession. Would you like that? That is what you'll learn in the new e-book: Lying: Signs Of Lying And How To Trap A Liar.

Learn more here... http://www.99reports.com/lying.html

Why easy invention ideas? because sometimes it is just too intimidating to think about building a new type of car, television, or other invention. These are ideas for garage or basement tinkerers. You can come up with a prototype for most of these for the cost of the money in your pocket. Like all the ideas on this site, they are not patented yet, as far as I know.

Helium Kites

Maybe its been done, but I haven't seen them sold yet. The idea is that with some lift from the helium, these kites could be flown in any amount of wind. With proper design, they would still fly something like a kite, and with some maneuverability if designed like a stunt kite. Your first prototype might be a kite with a small helium balloon attached. How's that for an easy invention?

Kite Ads

Okay, this is more of a marketing idea than an invention. Put ads on kites and get paid to fly them at...

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Until next time,

Steve

www.IncreaseBrainpower.com

Riddle Answer: Here are two: facetious and abstemious.

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