The acclaimed movie Slumdog Millionaire depicts life in India as two orphan brothers (Jamal and Salim) grows up in the slum of Mumbai. Through a series of adventures in search for his love Latika, the protagonist Jamal ends up working at a call center and then ended up on the India’s version of the show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” — which he wins since he happens to know all the answers to through his previous adventures.
The other brother Salim was not so lucky as he got involved with gangsters — a by-product of the crime-ridden neighbor in which they grew up.
Slumdog Millionaire was winner of the 2009 Oscars for Best Picture, best Directing, best Music Song, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Cinematography, and Writing Adaptive Screenplay.
He has some middle eastern comedy acts in his skits, but they are all done in good taste. In fact, he wants to dispel some of the Middle Eastern stereo-types. He says, just once he wants to see an Middle Easterner on TV doing regular things (like baking a cookie)…
On NPR interview with Terry Gross, Maz talked about his acting career and how he was on the hit TV show “24″. Maz Jobrani attended University of California at Berkeley and even enrolled in the PhD program in UCLA. His mother had wanted him to become a doctor, lawyer — okay, or say car mechanic (instead of acting).
Maz is well-known enough to be on Wikipedia. More about Maz Jobrani and his tour schedule on his website.
Steven Purugganan of Massachusetts set some world records in Sport Stacking at the 2009 WSSA World Sport Stacking Championships. You can see videos of him breaking the world record at WorldSportStackingAssociation.org. This is a sport where you stack cup in various formation and you try to stack them as fast as you can. It requires fast and good hand-eye coordination.
Steven is 11 year old as of this writing. He has been doing it for some time, below is an older video of him being interviewed by a local radio station.
MS Paint is a paint program that comes with Windows operating system. MS Paint does not come close to having all the features of Photoshop; it has only the very basic painting tools. However, if you are a artist, you can make due with whatever tools you have. Below is a video of someone who painted a replica of the famous Mona Lisa artwork using only MS Paint in 2.5 hours.
You put digits from 1 to 9 in the empty squares. Each column and row should have one and only one unique digits. In addition, each of the nine smaller 9×9 grids should only contain one of each digit. In other words, no duplicate digits in any columns, rows, or marked inner 9×9 grids.
Posit Science produces products that improves brain fitness. Most notably, the Brain Fitness program and the InSight product. Jewel Diver is a demo game from the Insight product that helps you keep track of multiple moving objects. You can find some of their brain teasers that focuses on memory attention and sound discrimination as linked.
This game called “Electric Love Faktori” was found on GaiaOnline.com. But you can play as a guest without logging in. With three-levels of difficulty, you have to rotate and slide the terminals until you complete a circuit path. It is not as easy as you think.
Why are people so consumed about winning that have to give up integrity and character by cheating? Not to mention the negative effects of cheating on health. Because cheating cause guilt on every level and certainly that is not good for health. Watch this other video about the negative effects of lying on health.
This video, Gary King explains why lying negatively affects your health…
And many people believe that lying can cause cancer. MRI machines can detect differences in brain activity when people are lying and when they are not. This implies that lying can change brain functions. It would make sense that lying has negative consequences on health since lying causes stress and stress decreases the immune system.
