Happiness
Name two of the six top countries ranked on the World Database of Happiness.
Denmark, Mexico, Columbia, Switzerland, Finland, Iceland
In 1796, Dr. Edward Jenner created this, the world's first, to use against smallpox.
the world's first succesful vaccine
BTS
This is the word that means fish farming, with the old word for water and the word for growing put together.
Aquaculture
When you visualize a route through a room or through many rooms and stick pictures up to memorize them in order.
memory palace
Name one of the reasons why people in Lisbon, Portugal are generally happy.
1. Work fewer hours
2. Lots of sunshine
3. Beautiful city
4. Friendly people
Without this 1854 invention developed by Elish Otis, we would not have The Empire State Building, Taipei 101, or The Burj Kalifa!
the first elevator
This very popular Netflix show produced by South Korean TV, has spawned a lot of fictional and reality shows that try to copy its formula for success.
Squid Game
This is the general trend around the world when it comes to fish farming.
increasing (rising, growing, doubling, tripling)
For Nelson Dellis to remember the order of a deck of cards, he first does this, then groups three cards together at a time, and then places the images around his memory palace.
He connects each card to someone familiar, with an associated action and object.
Per square kilometer, there are more than this number of people living in Singapore.
8000
In what year (around) did the wheel first appear in Mesopotamia?
3500 B.C.
"Auld Lang Syne" is a traditional folk song from this country.
Scotland
Name two of the fish species that Barton Seaver tells us should not be eaten.
tuna (Atlantic bluefin tuna), orange roughy, shark, sturgeon, swordfish, Atlantic salmon
To use this memory technique would mean to remember the order of the planets this way: My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nuts
Acrostics
There is almost none of it in Singapore, at least in its extreme form.
poverty
Johannes Gutenberg invented this in 1439 with movable type, an innovative addition to the machine. After, books were flying off the shelves all over Europe.
the printing press
This Generation is made up of people born between 1981 and 1996.
Generation Y
Name two species of sea animal that Barton Seaver tells us can be harvested with little impact on the environment.
mussels, clams, oysters, anchovies, sardines, herring, Alaska Pollock, Atlantic herring, Japanese flying squid, American lobster
Apart from getting enough sleep, some other tips to improve your memory are: avoid stress by exercising, playing mental games and this.
Eating right- getting a healthy diet- eat foods like blueberries and spinach that have antioxidants
This was a cuddly and cute therapy animal used to deal with anxiety or depression, and the people at the nursing home really loved it.
Llama
Completed in 1946, the ENIAC (Electronic Numberical Integrator and Computer) was built by this famous university.
University of Pennsylvania
Los ricos también Iloran (The Rich Also Cry)
Decreasing fish populations in the waters of Cabo Pulmo was caused by overfishing. Now, most of the former fishermen work in this industry.
eco-tourism
In 2009, a research team at Rutgers University found a type of brain activity that happens during sleep, where new information here is transfered there.
from the hippocampus to the neocortex