When Ideas Have Sex - Interesting TED talk

Author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is.

Original Link HERE

Interesting Puzzles ...... 1 a day... Number 4

1. If you had a ton of feathers and a ton of stones which would be heavier?



2. Two women apply for a job. They are identical. They have the same mother, father and birthday. The interviewer asks, "Are you twins?" to which they honestly reply, "No".

How is this possible?

 3. A man can make perfect counterfeit bills. They look exactly like real ones, they're made of exactly the same materials, made the same way, everything. So perfect, one could pretty much call them real bills. One day he successfully makes a perfect copy of another bill. However, he gets caught when he tries to use the copy. How is this possible?

4. How far can a dog run into the forest?

5. You are given eight coins and told that one of them is counterfeit. The counterfeit one is slightly heavier than the other seven. Otherwise, the coins look identical. Using a simple balance scale, can you determine which coin is counterfeit using the scale the least number of times?

Interesting Puzzles ...... 1 a day... Number 3

A completely black dog was strolling down Main Street during a total blackout affecting the entire town. Not a single streetlight had been on for hours. Just as the dog was crossing the middle line a Buick Skylark with 2 broken headlights speedily approaches his position, but manages to swerve out of the way just in time. How could the driver have possibly seen the dog to swerve in time?
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Stumped?

Interesting Puzzles ...... 1 a day... Number 2

An 18-wheeler is crossing a 4 kilometer bridge that can only support 10,000 kilograms and that's exactly how much the rig weighs. Halfway across the bridge a 30 gram sparrow lands on the cab, but the bridge doesn't collapse. Why not?
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Read more to find the answer...

Beer Drinking good for your health - New Study

Doctors have suggested that drinking up to a pint of beer a day is good for the health and can reduce the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure.
They claimed that moderate consumption could even help people lose weight if combined with a healthy diet.
Doctors Ramon Estruch and Rosa Lamuela tested 1,249 men and women over 57 years old.
Those who accompanied a Mediterranean diet with up to a pint of beer 'not only did not put on weight, but in some cases even lost weight'.
The doctors found beer provides the same health benefits attributed to moderate consumption of wine.
"In this study we banish myths. We know that beer is not to blame for obesity," the Daily Mail quoted Dr Lamuela as saying.
Beer contains folic acid, vitamins, iron and calcium, which the study claims provide a 'protective' effect on the cardiovascular system.
The subjects who regularly drank moderate amounts of beer were less likely to suffer from diabetes and high blood pressure, and had a lower body fat content.
The researchers from Barcelona and Madrid suggested women should drink two small glasses of beer a day while men should drink three, combined with a healthy diet and exercise.


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Interesting Puzzles ...... 1 a day...

An Arab sheik tells his two sons to race their camels to a distant city to see who will inherit his fortune. The one whose camel is slower will win. The brothers, after wandering aimlessly for days, ask a wise man for advise. After hearing the advice they jump on the camels and race as fast as they can to the city. What does the wise man say?

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Answer after the Jump.....

The wiseman tells them to switch camels!!!

Two Novels for one...

I have already started the first one :)

Epicurius Says.....

 This one is a Wall paper as well {I doubt if anyone would want this kind of morbid ones though).

The Art of Choosing..Interesting

I had done a post about choices and the TED talk by Dr. Barry Schwartz (Paradox of Choice) showing us that a wealth of choices could very well depress us instead of freeing/empowering us.

Along the same line is this TED talk by Sheena Iyengar on the Art of Choosing.

About the talk: 

Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.

Hope you Enjoy.

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P.S: The TED website has some interesting features like Interactive Transcript. Do take a gander.

Choices..Damned if we Choose....Damned if we dont (Funny and Interesting)

Damned if we choose one or the other. This, by the way reminds me of a wonderful TED talk by Dr. Barry Schwartz about the choices we make in life. This talk is titled "The Paradox of Choice" He finds that a wealth of can make us not happier but more dissatisfied, not free but paralyzed. Counter intuitive, but gripping talk.

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Or if you prefer the good old youtube....







Edit: Bobby Pointed out that the youtube video isn't opening. I rechecked and it seems to be working for me. Here are a couple of  links that can help:
TED talk link
Direct Youtube link
Google Search

Do let me know if the video is still inaccessible.

Underwater River

In Cenote Angelita - Mexico , There is an underwater river. Under water rivers can be found in a cave, if you dive up to 30 meters depth, the water is fresh water, but if you dive 60 meters the water becomes salt water, therefore creating a "river" complete with trees and foliage. However this is not unusual because the river is a river of hydrogen sulfide layer that looks like a river. Hydrogen sulfide, H2S, is a coulourless gas, toxic, flammable and smells like rotten eggs. These gases can arise from biological activity when bacteria break down organic material in a state without oxygen (anaerobic activity), such as in the swamp, the sea and sewage. Gas was also featured on the gas arising from volcanic activity as natural gas.

As seen in the pictures the sensation that we can get is a unique natural phenomenon.

Human Brain Analysis

Read and analyze.





Women - Multiple process
Women's brain is designed to concentrate multiple tasks at a time.
Women can Watch a TV and Talk over phone and cook the new recipe.

Men - Single Process
Men's brain designed to concentrate only one work at a time. Men
cannot watch a TV and talk over the phone at the same time. He stops
the TV while Talking. He can either watch TV or talk over the phone or
cook.

LANGUAGE.
Women can easily learn many languages. Her brain sets up. But cannot
find the solutions to problems.
Men cannot easily learn languages; he can easily solve the problems.
A 3 year old gal has three times higher vocabulary than a 3 year old boy.

ANALYTICAL SKILL
Men's brain has lot of space for handling the analytical process. So
easily he can analyze and find the solution for a process.
He can design (blue print) a map of a building easily.
If a complex map is viewed by women, she cannot understand it. She
cannot understand the details of the map easily.
For her it is dump of lines in a paper.

CAR DRIVING.
While driving a car, men's analytical spaces are used in his brain. He
can drive a car fast. If he see an object at long distance,
immediately his brain classifies the object's (bus or van or car)
direction and speed of the object and drive accordingly. Where as
women take a long time to recognize the object direction/ speed. His
single process mind stops the audio in the car (if any), then
concentrating only on the driving.
You can often watch, while men driving the car fast, the women sit
next to him will shout, "GO SLOW" , "CARE FULL", "AAHHH", "OHH GOD.."
..etc..

LIE
Many times, when men lie to women face to face, they get caught easily.
Her super natural brain observes the facial expression 70%, and the
body language 20% and the words coming from the mouth 10%. So he is
easily caught while lying.
Men's brain does not have this.
Women easily lie to men face to face.
So guys, While lying to your girls, use phone, or letter or close all
the lights or cover your/her face with blanket..

PROBLEM.
End of day, if men have lot of problems, his brain clearly classifies
the problems and puts the problems in individual rooms in the brain
and then finds the solution one by one.
You can see many guys looking at the sky for a long time. If you
disturb him, he gets irritated.
End of Day, if women have lot of problems, her brain can not classify
the problems. she wants some one to hear that. After telling
everything to a person she goes happily to bed. She does not worry
about the problem being solved or not.

WANTS
Men want STATUS, SUCCESS, solutions, big process... etc
Women want RELATIONSHIP, friends, family...etc...

UNHAPPY
If women are unhappy with their relations, they can not concentrate on work.
If men are unhappy with their work, they can not concentrate on the relations..

MAP
Men can easily locate the place in a complex map. His analytical brain
does this.
While watching a cricket match in a stadium with full of crowd, men
can leave his seat to tea shop and keeps everything in his mind and
comes back to his seat with out problems. He uses his analytical
skills space of brain.
Women can't do this. They often lose their way to their seat.

LIFE
Life is very easy to Men. One good job,(One alcohol bottle is enough
for them - Optional)
Women want everything in life.

SPEECH
Women use indirect languages in speech.
Merlin asked Sam, "Sam do you like to have a cup of coffee?"
This means, Merlin wants a cup of coffee.

Men use direct language. "Merlin, I want to have a cup of coffee, Pls
stop the car when you see a coffee shop".

HANDLING EMOTION
Women talk a lot without thinking.
Men act a lot with out thinking.
That's why many of prisoners are men all over the world.