by Minter Dial | Aug 6, 2009 | Education
For all of you living outside of the US who write the date ‘normally’ (i.e. DD/MM/YY), tomorrow morning the time and date will read: 04:05:06 07/08/09 five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM in the morning of the 7th of August 2009 If nothing else, pause...
by Minter Dial | Aug 5, 2009 | Education
For the guitar players out there who don’t play as often as they might like (or are just starting up), I thought this “how to” was rather good. Ease Finger Soreness when Learning to Play Guitar – wikiHow My favourite ideas in this list:...
by Minter Dial | Aug 2, 2009 | Education
Here is a 10-minute video that had me giggling, at first, then laughing blissfully out loud. This video is from the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University in Japan, where scientists have managed to train a chimpanzee named AI (Artificial Intelligence?) to...
by Minter Dial | Jul 30, 2009 | Education
Via Sciences Humaines, a very insightful and thorough French magazine, I read [this article in the aug-sept 2009 issue] about how the video game, Tetris, has been identified as helping trauma victims recover. A study* by scientists at the University of Oxford...
by Minter Dial | Jul 7, 2009 | Education
Tomorrow will be a beautiful day…especially if you live in the United States (i.e. you write the date MM/DD/YY). At five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM in the morning (of 8th of July), the time and date will read: 04:05:06 07/08/09 It’s a beautiful...
by Minter Dial | Apr 29, 2009 | Education
Or how old is your brain? Here’s a little game that will drive you nuts, especially if you have a competitive streak in you. The site instructions are in Japanese, so before clicking on this link, read below! Touch ‘start’ Wait for 3, 2, 1. Memorize...