How Board Games Can Make You a Better Person

by David J Salmon | Jul 3, 2016 | Mind Success

It’s no secret that play is essential to learning. We learn best when we’re having fun. For this reason, games are widely acknowledged for encouraging development in a variety of different areas: empathy, reasoning skills, mathematical ability and vocabulary – to name...

2016 Winnipeg Fringe Festival

by Steve Pavlina | Jul 2, 2016 | Mind Success

I’ll be in Winnipeg July 15-25 for the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. If you’re in the area, let’s meet up — I love Canadians! If enough people are interested, perhaps we could do a group meetup as well. The last time we had a Winnipeg meetup was in December 2010 at The...

Can We Guess Your IQ?

by Steven Aitchison | Jul 2, 2016 | Mind Games

As Wikipedia says: An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from one of several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence. Most people have an average score of 100. Everything above that, indicates a bright intelligence, and even genius if...

10 Ways To Make Life Simpler

by Steven Aitchison | Jul 2, 2016 | Mind Games

We all strive for a much simpler life. For most of us, our goal is to work less, enjoy life more, stress less and just chill. Unfortunately for too many of us, that’s all a pipe dream. We work long hours and too hard at jobs we don’t like or don’t bring us...

How To Find the Power in Your Story

by Omkari Williams | Jul 2, 2016 | Mind Success

Sometimes we feel powerless in our own life. We feel as though nothing we do is working in our favor. Life can feel like that. We have all had those moments, days or even weeks where life felt like – and was – a hard slog. Yet if we look more closely we can find that...

The Best Strategy for Surviving a Grenade Blast, Backed by Science

by Patrick Allan | Jul 1, 2016 | Mind Success

[embedded content] Hopefully you never have to worry about a grenade going off near you, but it’s good to know what to do just in case. This video explains how a grenade works, and how you can lower your chances of being injured if one explodes nearby. In this video,...

Remains of the Day: GameCube Emulation Just Got Way Better

by Andy Orin | Jul 1, 2016 | Mind Success

Good news! You’ve made it to the weekend. And I know what I’ll be doing while everyone else is out grilling beneath the summer sun: playing Nintendo games on my computer thanks to a newly updated emulator. Preeminent GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin just got its...

Why Hangovers Seem to Get Worse as You Get Older

by Patrick Allan | Jul 1, 2016 | Mind Success

Things get harder as you get older, and that includes recovering from a night of drinking. If it feels like you don’t handle hangovers as well as you used to, here’s why. At one point in your life you could probably go crazy on Friday night and get by with nothing but...

Build Your Own Virtual Pet Cube 

by Thorin Klosowski | Jul 1, 2016 | Mind Success

GIF Virtual pets might be 20 years out of style, but if you’re looking for a miniature desktop friend, Adafruit has a guide to build a little emoting creature you can call your own. To be build this, you’ll need about $40 worth of parts, including a small LED Matrix...

Live Desktop Adds Animated Themes to Your Mac's Desktop

by Thorin Klosowski | Jul 1, 2016 | Mind Success

[embedded content] Mac: If you’re bored of that useless, still image for your desktop wallpaper, Live Desktop is a Mac app that gives you a selection of animated themes to choose from. Once the app’s loaded up, you can choose from a variety of desktops, all of which...