Exercise your brain

[james]

Speaking of getting older, here is an article on keep the old brain more agile as we age. I'm banking on learning a language. :-)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/technology/03brain.html?8dpc

James

[Les]

Re: Exercise your brain

I'm with ya James - I'm going to focus on English. After my game of golf today - I have that language down... I had no idea how many F's were involved, but I worked through it quite well

Les...

PS. Great article - gives one hope

[gjbingham]

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I'd heard those reports before that learning a new language was one of the best brain exercises out there. It certainly doesn't come easy. Foul language I have down pat (like Les apparently. Golf does that to you!) Pig latin is next, then on to....hmmmmm

[brokencookie]

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I'm keeping my brain active by planing a POMPEI OVEN.






That should get this thread back on the right track

Bruce

[SpringJim]

Re: Exercise your brain

baby boomers who are encountering the signs, by turns amusing and disconcerting, that accompany the decline of the brain’s acuity: a good friend’s name suddenly vanishing from memory; a frantic search for eyeglasses only to find them atop the head; milk taken from the refrigerator then put away in a cupboard.

I do all that already.....eek! Yesterday I walked to town and then wondered where I parked the car....it was nice knowing you guys!

...back to the Shanghai and Sodoku games....

[SpringJim]

Word Games

The pheeomnnal pweor of the hmuan mnid.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the human mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Smiply amzanig huh?
SpirgnJim

[Frances]

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I've seen teshe bferoe but its alwlyas fun to raed one! Werid or waht?



...challenge the brain... challenge the brain... challenge the brain

Gosh, I'll have to think about this one

[gjbingham]

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I couldn't read a thing! Funny stuff!

[PizzaJNKY]

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Now that was funny SJ. I hope that logic works for my Pompeii. As long as the first brick and the last brick are in the right place, the rest can be a total mess and it will still cook a pizza without a problem.

[gjbingham]

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Good spin on that one PJ!

[SpringJim]

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As lnog as the fisrt birck and the lsat brcik are in the rihgt plcae, the rest can be a tatol mses and it wlil stlil cook a pziza withuot a prolbem!

pziza, the wrolds msot prefect food!

wokrs for me!!

[gjbingham]

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Sotp Taht Srpnig Jim! Yuo're mkanig my eeys wtaer!