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#intelligence
fromSilicon Canals
3 hours ago
Psychology

Research suggests that high intelligence doesn't protect against bad decisions - it makes people better at constructing convincing justifications for the bad decisions they were already going to make - Silicon Canals

fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago
Books

If you prefer these 8 "boring" activities over going out, you're probably more intelligent than average - Silicon Canals

fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago
Science

9 quiet signs you're more intelligent than you give yourself credit for, according to psychology - Silicon Canals

Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 hours ago

Research suggests that high intelligence doesn't protect against bad decisions - it makes people better at constructing convincing justifications for the bad decisions they were already going to make - Silicon Canals

Higher intelligence can lead to greater polarization rather than alignment on contested facts.
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago
Books

If you prefer these 8 "boring" activities over going out, you're probably more intelligent than average - Silicon Canals

fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago
Science

9 quiet signs you're more intelligent than you give yourself credit for, according to psychology - Silicon Canals

Board games
fromKotaku
2 days ago

Puzzle Spy International Deserves To Be Played By Way More People

Puzzle Spy International offers a collection of 11 engaging puzzles with a light story, ideal for solo or cooperative play.
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

How AI giants tried to storm the last stronghold of the human mind: the math olympiads

The news of the AI's medal win was published by thousands of media outlets and chosen as one of the year's biggest scientific breakthroughs by the journal Science. And this is where the story starts to get complicated. Because the news is a lie.
OMG science
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Stop the brain rot! 12 ways to stay sharp in a mind-frazzling world

Brain rot, characterized by cognitive decline from easy information, is rising due to social media and shortform videos, leading to exhaustion.
Writing
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Joys of (Creative) Constraint

Many successful writers experience anxiety, but self-imposed constraints can help alleviate this and enhance creativity.
#linkedin
Board games
fromEntrepreneur
5 days ago

He's LinkedIn's First Puzzlemaster. Here's How His Games Benefit Their Business - and Your Brain.

LinkedIn has appointed Thomas Snyder as its first principal puzzlemaster to enhance user engagement through daily puzzles.
Board games
fromwww.businessinsider.com
6 days ago

Meet the three-time world Sudoku champ behind LinkedIn's daily puzzles

LinkedIn hired a Sudoku champion to create engaging puzzles, aiming to enhance user interaction and foster connections on the platform.
Board games
fromEntrepreneur
5 days ago

He's LinkedIn's First Puzzlemaster. Here's How His Games Benefit Their Business - and Your Brain.

LinkedIn has appointed Thomas Snyder as its first principal puzzlemaster to enhance user engagement through daily puzzles.
Board games
fromwww.businessinsider.com
6 days ago

Meet the three-time world Sudoku champ behind LinkedIn's daily puzzles

LinkedIn hired a Sudoku champion to create engaging puzzles, aiming to enhance user interaction and foster connections on the platform.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days ago

Self-taught people often don't realize it, but psychology says the way they solve problems is fundamentally different from most people - Silicon Canals

Self-taught individuals develop unique cognitive patterns that enhance problem-solving through exploration and unfocused thinking.
fromTheregister
2 weeks ago

While you're here, could you do one more impossible thing?

Finn described his experience traveling for a sales call, stating, 'They wanted me to visit a promising new prospect that was 'in the same region' as the client I came to visit.' This led to unexpected travel challenges.
London startup
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

What Is the 'Critical' in Critical Thinking?

Critical thinking is the ability to analyze, evaluate, and make judgments for decision-making, not merely critiquing or criticizing ideas.
Productivity
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

6 Signs You're a Smart Person

Intellectual creativity is a distinct form of intelligence often overlooked because society emphasizes artistic creativity, yet it represents equally valuable and powerful cognitive capability.
Games
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Parseword: Is Wordle creator's new game too much of a chin-scratcher' to go viral?

Josh Wardle created Parseword, a digital adaptation of cryptic crosswords designed to make the traditionally complex puzzle format accessible to a broader audience beyond dedicated enthusiasts.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

People Don't Just Update Beliefs, They Test Them

Understanding psychological change requires recognizing the role of control and mastery in actively pursuing change despite familiar limitations.
Education
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 weeks ago

A clever math shortcut could reveal your problem-solving superpower

Boys are significantly more likely than girls to use creative shortcuts for arithmetic, and this flexibility correlates with better abstract problem-solving abilities.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

5 Strategies to Boost Your Aging Brain

Brain aging begins in the mid-forties with shrinkage and reduced blood flow, but cognitive function can be maintained through compensatory strategies and healthy practices.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
5 days ago

Psychology suggests if you still write things down on paper instead of your phone you aren't resisting progress - you've found something that works and are practicing the increasingly rare skill of not replacing it simply because something newer arrived, and that skill, applied consistently, turns out to predict a surprising number of other things about how you make decisions - Silicon Canals

Handwriting enhances cognitive engagement and memory retention compared to typing, leading to better decision-making and creativity.
Games
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

Wordle's creator is back with a new game, and it's a real chin scratcher

Josh Wardle released Parseword, a daily puzzle game based on cryptic crossword logic that requires wordplay skills like finding synonyms, reversing words, and combining letters.
Business
fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

5 Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Play Chess

Chess develops non-obvious entrepreneurial skills including positional thinking, mindset control, and patience, offering valuable lessons about competitor assessment, thorough planning, and sustainable growth.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Why Creative People Struggle to Commit to One Path

Multipotentiality reflects cognitive flexibility and creativity, challenging the notion that pursuing multiple interests indicates a lack of focus.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
4 weeks ago

People who do their best thinking while driving or walking usually display these 7 cognitive traits that reveal how their mind actually works - Silicon Canals

Movement-based thinking activates diffuse cognitive mode, enabling creative problem-solving and unexpected mental connections outside focused work environments.
Games
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Wordle Creator's New Puzzle Game, Parseword, Out Now

Josh Wardle launches Parseword, a free daily cryptic crossword puzzle game that teaches players to solve clues through wordplay rather than filling a grid.
fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games

With its Alpha series of game-playing AIs, Google's DeepMind group seemed to have found a way for its AIs to tackle any game, mastering games like chess and by repeatedly playing itself during training. But then some odd things happened as people started identifying Go positions that would lose against relative newcomers to the game but easily defeat a similar Go-playing AI.
Board games
#word-puzzle
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Can you solve it? Are you cut out for these puzzling slices?

Three geometric challenges: a triomino tiling impossibility, an alternative four-piece dissection forming a square, and minimizing pieces for equal pizza shares.
Science
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Did you solve it? Are you cut out for these puzzling slices?

Three geometrical puzzles: a tiling impossibility by color-count invariant; a dissection-to-square challenge; and a pizza-division minimal pieces solution of ten.
Higher education
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Can you solve it? The numbers all go to 11

Eleven exhibits striking properties: two-digit prime palindrome, football-team size, palindromic multiples, a neat divisibility test, and digit-arrangement puzzles.
Gadgets
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Rubik's WOWCube adds complexity, possibility by reinventing the puzzle cube

The WOWCube modernizes the Rubik's Cube with heavy electronics, enhancing accessibility and features but inflating cost and reducing traditional puzzle complexity.
Games
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Introducing SoundBites, a New Word Game From Slate

SoundBites is a weekly word game combining crossword and phonics elements where players solve clues, extract sounds from answers, and combine them to spell a mystery word by pronunciation rather than spelling.
fromwww.nytimes.com
2 months ago

Brain Health Challenge: Try a Brain Teaser

Decades of research show that people who have more years of education, more cognitively demanding jobs or more mentally stimulating hobbies all tend to have a reduced risk of cognitive impairment as they get older. Experts think this is partly thanks to cognitive reserve: Basically, the more brain power you've built up over the years, the more you can stand to lose before you experience impairment.
Public health
fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

MicroMacro: The Home Game Jigsaw Puzzle Review

MicroMacro: The Home Game Jigsaw Puzzle is a 500-piece puzzle that utilizes the same art style as all other MicroMacro titles. The puzzle depicts a socc....errrrr, a football game, as well as the neighborhood surrounding the stadium. It is "just" a puzzle; however, there is more to it after you complete it. There are forty-two hidden objects to find (think Where's Waldo?), as well as two cases to solve, like other MicroMacro games.
Board games
#logic-puzzle
Music
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Can't solve a puzzle? Sleep on it, a new study suggests

Newborns' brains predict musical rhythm but not melody, showing innate rhythm-tracking present at birth while melody processing develops later.
#wordplay
fromElite Traveler
1 month ago

How To Train Your Brain For Optimal Longevity

People are increasingly concerned about focus, memory, mental stamina, and feeling cognitively flat in everyday life, not just long-term dementia risk,
Wellness
#synthetic-media
Medicine
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

A brain-training game that takes less than 2 hours a week can reduce your risk of developing dementia by 25%, study finds

Regular online speed training ('Double Decision') reduced dementia risk by about 25% among adults aged 65+ over 20 years.
UX design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Constraints do not limit creativity-they unlock it

Human-centered constraints drive creativity, reveal unmet needs, and produce more useful, market-ready innovations.
#pears
Soccer (FIFA)
fromwww.fourfourtwo.com
2 months ago

Quickfire Quiz 29: Can you answer 10 questions in 90 seconds?

A wide range of timed, themed and club-specific football quizzes test statistical knowledge, visual memory and historical records across domestic and continental competitions.
#imagination
Productivity
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

7 Solutions for Common Cognitive Headwinds

People often overlook benefits they already have; proactively inventory and map accessible services to avoid redundant spending, stress, and missed opportunities.
Public health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Why Critical Thinking Is the Most Important Skill in Your Life

Critical thinking protects health, enables breakthroughs by questioning assumptions, combats cognitive biases, and can be trained through source-checking and embracing being wrong.
fromFast Company
2 months ago

How to train your brain like your muscles, according to a neurologist

It might come as a surprise to learn that the brain responds to training in much the same way as our muscles, even though most of us never think about it that way. Clear thinking, focus, creativity, and good judgment are built through challenge, when the brain is asked to stretch beyond routine rather than run on autopilot. That slight mental discomfort is often the sign that the brain is actually being trained, a lot like that good workout burn in your muscles.
Science
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Research suggests that people who talk to themselves aren't losing their minds, they're using the most effective cognitive tool the brain has for problem-solving - Silicon Canals

Speaking to yourself aloud enhances cognitive performance by structuring thought and directing attention more efficiently than silent thinking.
fromDefector
2 months ago

Natan Last Has Thought A Lot About Crosswords | Defector

It may seem like they've been around forever, but the crossword as we know it is barely a century old. They started in the New York World in 1913, where it was originally called a "word-cross." Going on to obsess writers like T.S. Eliot and Vladimir Nabokov, who reportedly wrote the first Russian-language puzzle as a teenager, the crossword settled into a kind of urbane normalcy over the course of the 20th century, a feature of newspapers and cheap jumbo packs.
Books
fromDefector
2 months ago

The Crossword, Feb. 2: Hard Act To Follow | Defector

This week's puzzle was constructed by Rebecca Goldstein and Kelsey Dixon, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Rebecca is a crossword constructor from the Bay Area, and Kelsey is a crossword constructor from Chicago. They both lived in Atlanta in the '90s, which is why Kelsey has been trying to start a rumor that Rebecca was her childhood babysitter. They hope you don't take the puzzle too seriously!
Writing
Science
fromJernesto
1 month ago

I miss thinking hard.

A persistent tension exists between a Builder drive for rapid, practical creation and a Thinker need for prolonged, solitary struggle to solve difficult problems.
Board games
fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

I'm Using the "Paper Plate" Method the Next Time I Do a Puzzle (The Reason Why Is Pure Genius!)

Use paper plates to sort and hold upright jigsaw pieces, keeping edge pieces separate and making all pieces visible and easy to pass around.
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

Ranked: 8 brain exercises neurologists recommend to prevent cognitive decline - Silicon Canals

If you're going to prioritize one thing for your brain health, make it this: regular aerobic exercise. Multiple large-scale studies show that aerobic exercise doesn't just keep your heart healthy-it directly impacts your brain structure. One year of aerobic exercise in older adults led to significantly larger hippocampal volumes and better spatial memory. Other trials documented that exercise actually slows age-related gray matter volume loss.
Public health
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

SUNDAY PUZZLE 02/01/26

I'm going to give you some clues. The answer to each one rhymes with the last word in the clue. Ex. The sky's hue --> Blue 1. Toy that flies to great height 2. Pistol, for one 3. Funeral fire 4. Things you count when you have trouble getting to sleep 5. Friars event with a celebrity host 6. Brand of pen that you can click 7. Place to acquire knowledge 8. Have uncertainty about 9. Not go away
Arts
#pears-game
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Sunday Puzzle: -IUM Pandemonium

Find ordinary words ending with -IUM that match twelve given definitions (example: boredom → TEDIUM).
Arts
fromDefector
2 months ago

The Crossword, Jan. 19: Sole Cycle | Defector

Monday crossword constructed by Hanh Huynh and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu; Defector crosswords run weekly in partnership with AVCX, with submission guidelines available.
Board games
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Embracing board games as a winning strategy for digital detox

Long Island's tabletop gaming expo celebrates handcrafted, tactile board, card, miniature, and role-playing games, highlighting physical interaction and indie creators.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Want to Be More Creative? Try Taking Away Instead of Adding

Most people think that sparking creativity is all about adding things[1]. They tend to think that the more they add to a particular venture or product or service, the better. More features-sure that will add to the creative element of the offering! More options? Yes, please! That will add choice, which will lead to better outcomes. We tend to associate more with being better. But when it comes to creativity, less is more.
Psychology
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