Brain Training Can Make You Significantly Smarter

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigdym7xIDgKPHDpcJ1hHe8f2Y8HP_t888m9abyB9Q3MoYkC7-Wic1tAY098umTs8ACVreUkd5eOyyZT5ENrjDNLi5hPD7xSusw_w0BbPU-j2qKV_IApgfcWFBzI5BGeOfYTz8KJKj9cyI/s1600/brain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Brain Training Can Make You Significantly Smarter" border="0" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigdym7xIDgKPHDpcJ1hHe8f2Y8HP_t888m9abyB9Q3MoYkC7-Wic1tAY098umTs8ACVreUkd5eOyyZT5ENrjDNLi5hPD7xSusw_w0BbPU-j2qKV_IApgfcWFBzI5BGeOfYTz8KJKj9cyI/s400/brain.jpg" title="Brain Training Can Make You Significantly Smarter" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brain Training Can Make You Significantly Smarter</td></tr> </tbody></table> <h2> <a href="http://worldofnews360.blogspot.com/2013/08/brain-training-can-make-you.html">Brain Training Can Make You Significantly Smarter</a></h2> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div> As many people hit middle age, they often start to notice that their memory and mental clarity are not what they used to be.  We suddenly can't remember where we put the keys just a moment ago, or an old acquaintance's name, or the name of an old band we used to love.  As the brain fades, we euphemistically refer to these occurrences as "senior moments."</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> While seemingly innocent, this loss of mental focus can potentially have a detrimental impact on our professional, social, and personal well-being. </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> It happens to most of us, but is it inevitable? </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Neuroscientists are increasingly showing that there's actually a lot that can be done.  It turns that the brain needs exercise in much the same way our muscles do, and the right mental workouts can significantly improve our basic cognitive functions.  Thinking is essentially a process of making neural connections in the brain.  To a certain extent, our ability to excel in making the neural connections that drive intelligence is inherited.  However, because these connections are made through effort and practice, scientists believe that intelligence can expand and fluctuate according to mental effort.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Now, a new San Francisco Web-based company has taken it a step further and developed the first "brain training program" designed to actually help people improve and regain their mental sharpness.  Called Lumosity, it was designed by some of the leading experts in neuroscience and cognitive psychology from Stanford University.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Lumosity, is far more than an online place to exercise your mental skills.  That's because they have integrated these exercises into a Web-based program that allows you to systematically improve your memory and attention skills.  The program keeps track of your progress and provides detailed feedback on your performance and improvement.  Most importantly, it constantly modifies and enhances the games you play to build on the strengths you are developing--much like an effective exercise routine requires you to increase resistance and vary your muscle use.</div> </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Apparently it does. In randomized, controlled clinical trials, Lumosity was shown to significantly improve basic cognitive functions. One study showed students improved their scores on math tests by 34 percent after using Lumosity for six weeks, significantly greater gains than those made by other students in the same class, who were not training with the Lumosity program.</div> </div>

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Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhme_PtrcJ8hLCRvjpRFEFEoSLhOCW0tvwzSMGUR-htBb1b9JYGhOdLSXURCLKIf2GK7k3ALuq3TR-N1uG4ZFq3lqCbHvQH7GSYk1d3aW4qwMnes9K6wFaqupm9OYMnwISVGNy7QyVQZHY/s1600/Chinese+supercomputer+named+as+world's+fastest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest images" border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhme_PtrcJ8hLCRvjpRFEFEoSLhOCW0tvwzSMGUR-htBb1b9JYGhOdLSXURCLKIf2GK7k3ALuq3TR-N1uG4ZFq3lqCbHvQH7GSYk1d3aW4qwMnes9K6wFaqupm9OYMnwISVGNy7QyVQZHY/s400/Chinese+supercomputer+named+as+world's+fastest.jpg" title="Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest image" width="400" /></a></div> <h1 class="headline" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 1.21em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span class="entry-title">Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest</span></h1> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <span class="entry-title">Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest</span></h3> <div> <span class="entry-title">Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest</span></div> <div> <span class="entry-title"><br /></span></div> <div> BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese university has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost doubling the speed of the U.S. machine that previously claimed the top spot and underlining China's rise as a science and technology powerhouse.<br /> The semiannual TOP500 listing of the world's fastest supercomputers released Monday says the Tianhe-2 developed by the National University of Defense Technology in central China's Changsha city is capable of sustained computing of 33.86 petaflops per second. That's the equivalent of 33,860 trillion calculations per second.<br /> The Tianhe-2, which means Milky Way-2, knocks the U.S. Energy Department's Titan machine off the No. 1 spot. It achieved 17.59 petaflops per second.<br /> Supercomputers are used for complex work such as modeling weather systems, simulating nuclear explosions and designing jetliners.<br /> It's the second time a Chinese computer has been named the world's fastest. In November 2010, the Tianhe-2's predecessor, Tianhe-1A, had that honor before Japan's K computer overtook it a few months later on the TOP500 list, a ranking curated by three computer scientists at universities in the U.S. and Germany.<br /> The Tianhe-2 shows how China is leveraging rapid economic growth and sharp increases in research spending to join the United States, Europe and Japan in the global technology elite.<br /> <span class="entry-title"></span><br /> "Most of the features of the system were developed in China, and they are only using Intel for the main compute part," TOP500 editor Jack Dongarra, who toured the Tianhe-2 facility in May, said in a news release. "That is, the interconnect, operating system, front-end processors and software are mainly Chinese."</div> </div>

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