Right Brain v. Left Brain

Posted under Thoughts by Mark on Sunday 24 January 2010 at 2:12 pm

So I was looking up random stuff on the internet today while watching the Colts and Jets AFC Championship game and I found this link to an optical illusion that starts a battle between your right and left brains.

The illusion below will spin clockwise or counter-clockwise depending on which side of your brain you are using to process it. Check out this article for all the details. When I first looked at this I thought it had to be a trick that it was just randomly changing direction so I did a little test. I started by staring at the picture for a little bit. It was spinning to the right. Then I started…

The Charles Schulz Philosophy

Posted under Thoughts by Mark on Sunday 10 January 2010 at 2:10 pm

Charles M. Schulz was the creator of the ‘Peanuts’ comic strips.

I received this mass email and I usually just read them and keep the interesting ones and all the rest but I seldom pass any on and I refuse to do it via email. Just a quark I have I guess. But this is one I felt I should share.

You don’t have to actually answer any of the questions. Just ponder them. Read the following straight through, and you’ll get the point.

Question Set 1:
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.