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.

Hear what Dr. Merzenich, co-founder of Posit Science, have to say about brain fitness.

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.

Gary King explains why “Real Winner Never Cheat”…

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.

Dr. Dean Ornish talks about cardiovascular disease and obesity at the TED conference. He says that diet and lifestyle and prevent and sometimes reverse this epidemic.

He also talks about how genes are not our fate. Diet and lifestyle and change how your gene expression…

If you like doing Sudoku puzzles, you will like this variant of the puzzle by Scientific American known as “Sci-doku”. It uses letters instead of numbers. As with normal sudoku, each row, column, and nine-cell grid must contain one and only one of the nine letters. You can not just use any nine letters, you have to use the letters that are already shown on the grid.

Here are the full rules.

Play the Sci-doku games »

Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University professor and author of The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment, talks in about the state of the world at the Long Now Foundation seminar.

Technology Students Mess with Dormitory Lights – Funny bloopers are a click away

The North Pacific Gyre is a section of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California that is accumulating trash due to the nature of its water currents. This garbage patch in the ocean consists of trash debris and non-biodegradable plastic that just breaks up into more tiny pieces.

This video on YouTube sumarizes it best…

saying that there is 7 million tons of floating waste spanning an area twice the size of Texas. Birds and wildlife die when they mistaken these plastic bits as food. A lot of these garbage get washed up on beaches.

The latimes.com also has some video pieces on the North Pacific Gyre here.

And this video is a more detailed explanation of trash in our oceans…

The reason why there is not a lot of good photos of the North Pacific Gyre is that most of the garbage is just underwater and is somewhat spread out as explained in theoystersgarter.com.

This is a great concise summary of global warming explaining, what is it, what causes it, and what are its effects.

The Discovery Channel website also has several good videos about global warming.