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Life Hack: Nice Refreshing Cold Beverage

Life Hack: Nice Refreshing Cold Beverage

Don’t you hate when you come home and you want a cold beverage but there are none in the refrigerator?  Here’s a quick way to go from tepid disappointment to icy-cold happiness. Wet down a paper towel and wrap it around your beverage. Stick the can or bottle in the...
Brain Quirk: Pardeidolia or Seeing Faces

Brain Quirk: Pardeidolia or Seeing Faces

Do you see an image of Jesus in this potato chip?  If you do see an image, you are experiencing pareidolia:a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus (an image or a sound) by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists. (Wikipedia) But...
Magical Number 7

Magical Number 7

Say a number between 1 and 10. Most people will say 7. Why is that? Why is 7 a lucky number for a lot of people? “There are seven days of the week, seven colours of the rainbow, seven notes on a musical scale, seven seas and seven continents. Snow White ran off...
Brain Quirk: Spotlight Effect

Brain Quirk: Spotlight Effect

The Bottom Line: People are Not Paying As Much Attention to You as You Think! We have all done something embarrassing: tripped on our own feet, spilled a drink on our clothes, dropped something; we were so embarrassed and agonized over it for hours or days. Well good...