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What unbelievable month as sequential monthly International Readership figuratively hit another out-of-the-park home run to 31,261 or 63% compared to 19,935 in the prior month. Take us out to the ball game! Overall total growth is
also accelerating and speeding around the bases as year-to-date October readership slugged a Series-winning 67,156 or, an amazing 502.3 %, since July 31st.
Based on on current trends, Readership will easily exceed 100,000 by the end of November and extrapolating with Google Analytics results - "Readership" is "still pacing to exceed 250,000" in just the first six months, from a meager start of just a little over 13,000. This is far ahead of our most hopeful initial projections. AND...
Based on on current trends, Readership will easily exceed 100,000 by the end of November and extrapolating with Google Analytics results - "Readership" is "still pacing to exceed 250,000" in just the first six months, from a meager start of just a little over 13,000. This is far ahead of our most hopeful initial projections. AND...
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These results again build from our far-reaching worldwide readership, social media followers, and extensive email lists - thanks also to the blog's language translation feature - we are able to reach readers on every Continent - and from over 100 countries. With the largest readership found in North America, followed closely by Europe, but then China. UAE and Russia are coming along, too...
Again, listed below are the Top FIVE Readers' Choice Posts for the month of October 2018.
These top readers' choice blog posts, along with our daily posts, seek to encourage an open forum for readers by providing a variety of comprehensive and insightful topical articles focusing on key areas of interest such as: Neuroscience, Creativity, Writing, Logic, Art, Leadership, Philosophy, Linguistics Cognitive Science, Metaphysics, Brain Fitness - and much more - that in combination and integration are aimed to build a base of knowledge that works to educate, provoke and guide us towards optimizing and sustaining the overall cognitive functionality and fitness of our unique critical, logical and creative thinking skills and talents for a lifetime.
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#Cannabis 'more harmful than alcohol' for teen brains
Teenagers using cannabis are causing "long-lasting damage" to their developing brains, a Canadian study suggests.
It found the impact on thinking skills, memory and behaviour was worse than that of teenage drinking.
The researchers, from the University of Montreal, urged teenagers to delay their use of cannabis for as long as they felt able.The study tracked and tested 3,800 adolescents over four years, starting from around the age of 13.
Drinking alcohol and taking drugs, such as cannabis, at a young age is known to cause problems with cognitive abilities such as learning, attention and decision-making as well as academic performance at school.This study found these problems increased as cannabis use increased - and the effects were lasting, unlike those of alcohol. Read More
How Jeff #Bezos Uses Faster, Better Decisions To Keep #Amazon Innovating
Jeff
Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, speaks during a discussion at the Air
Force Association conference. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
“Every
day at Amazon is Day 1,” according to its CEO Jeff Bezos. He has
reminded employees of this for decades -- Amazon will never stop being a
startup. He even went so far as to name a building on Amazon's campus
Day 1, and when Bezos switched buildings the name followed him to his
new building.
Bezos thinks this focus is a necessity considering what happens on Day 2, once the startup times are over. Read More.
Balanced #Fitness, Tougher Brain
A short meditation can make you stronger in the place you need it most.
Most of us like the idea of meditating more than we like to do it. When sitting still in a quiet room, it’s hard to shake the feeling that we should have a pair of dumbbells in our hands. Fact is, if you want to better your fitness efforts, it’s time to reconsider how training your brain can improve your workouts in the gym.
Elizabeth Stanley, Ph.D., is an Army veteran, an associate professor at Georgetown University and the creator of a system called Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT). She believes that combining meditation and exercise can more efficiently create changes in the brain that make you better able to tolerate stress. And that’s what a good workout is — a stress-generating event. Read More.
Ramon Llull and the Tree of #Knowledge
Raimundus Lullus (Ramon Llull) (c. 1232-1315/16)
Probably in 1232, philosopher, logician, Franciscan tertiary and Catalan writer Ramon Llull (Anglicised Raymond Lully, Raymond Lull; in Latin Raimundus or Raymundus Lullus or Lullius) was born. He is credited with writing the first major work of Catalan literature Recently surfaced manuscripts show his work to have predated by several centuries prominent work on elections theory. He is also considered a pioneer of computation theory, especially given his influence on Leibniz.[2]
“For a long time I have struggled to seek the truth in this and other ways, and by God’s grace I have come to a good end and to the knowledge of the truth which I longed to know and which I laid down in my books, but I am without consolation because I could not finish what I so much desired and for which I have worked for thirty years, and also because my books are little valued, yes – I tell you also – because many people even consider me a fool”. — Ramon Llull. Read More
Teach English Writing Skills: #Creative Stories
Writing Skills: idea, organisation and sentence fluency
Where does the door lead? Do you enter? What happens next? These are the essential questions that ESL students will tackle in this creative writing assignment.
Flow
This English writing exercise has two learning objectives. The first is to write a thoughtful, compelling and well-organised creative story based on a picture prompt.The second objective is to demonstrate a specific writing skill by incorporating a few complex sentences into the story.
Step 1 Introduction
Explain creative writing. It’s making a story. Like any good story there is an element of cohesion. That means there is a beginning, middle and end. Something happens. For this writing exercise the students will be given a picture prompt. The purpose of the prompt is to stimulate creative ideas. Read More.
