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Mind Trip of the Week #66: Mental Cornucopia

Periodically we like to show you some of the neat things that are floating around the internet. Some of these things make our brains hurt, or make us laugh, or are just really cool. So we hope you enjoy them as much as we did. 1. Floating Boat  – it looks so...

Mind Trip of the Week # 65: 21 grams

How many of you heard that the human soul weighs 21 grams? This came from a doctor in the early 1900’s – Dr. Duncan MacDugall – who weighed six patients who were dying and determined  that within a few moments of death each person lost 21 grams. I...

Mind Trip of the Week #64: scarmbled letetrs

Reading that was fun wasn’t it? I always enjoy seeing clear examples of how our brain can process information so quickly that even when you substitute numbers for letters it still makes sense of the words. But…when I did more research on the subject I found...

Mind Trip of the Week # 63: Conundrum of Choice

I first saw Barry Schwartz’s Ted Talk on the Paradox of Choice and was really intrigued with the idea that too many choices can be debilitating and decrease our happiness. But yet I could relate to what he was talking about. How many times have you left a store...