All articles tagged with #brain exercise
The article emphasizes the importance of exercising often-overlooked body parts such as the brain, lungs, wrists, and toes to improve overall health and prevent decline, offering specific exercises and habits for each area.
The New York Times 'Connections' puzzle for December 8, 2024, challenges players to categorize 16 words into four groups based on common themes, such as 'Punch' and 'Companies Named After Animals.' Created by Wyna Liu, this daily word puzzle combines creativity and logic, offering a fun and educational mental workout. Hints for today's puzzle include categories like 'Cram' and 'Homophones of Music Genres,' making it an engaging activity for players of all skill levels.
Professor Hana Burianová, a cognitive neuroscientist, suggests seven daily habits to improve memory and reduce the risk of dementia. These habits include practicing active mindfulness, playing challenging games like Wordle and Framed, getting dressed with your eyes closed to engage your concentration, testing your memory with observation games and mnemonic techniques, engaging in regular physical activity to improve brain health, having sex to release happy hormones that support cognitive function, and recording voice notes to remember names and details. These habits can help maintain memory and ward off mental decline as you age.
The New York Times crossword puzzle for June 28, 2023, constructed by Matt Fuchs and Victor Sloan, features themed entries that cross each other to evoke common expressions. The clues require lateral thinking and some knowledge of animals. The constructors share their inspiration and personal stories, and readers are encouraged to submit their own puzzles to The New York Times.
The Wordle Review for April 14, 2023, features columnist Simone Noronha and a review of Wordle 664. The author shares their newfound love for Wordle, which has turned into a competitive group chat. Today's word is THIEF, and the difficulty and statistics will be available later. Simone Noronha is a South Asian illustrator and art director from Dubai who is based in New York.