“Purposeful play builds self-confidence and real-world problem-solving skills.”

SuperBetter is the game Jane McGonigal designed for herself when she was recovering from a brain injury and had to lie perfectly still for weeks and weeks.During the recovery, she realized that she didn’t just want to get better; she wanted to be even better than before her injury – super better! So she created a game to help her get there.Based on her experience in game design and scientific research, she created an avatar, power-ups, bad guys, and went on quests every single day, to take the illness as a challenge and make it fun.

SuperBetter: The game

Post-traumatic growth and post-ecstatic growth are positive developments that people experience during difficult times.<ul><li>Post-traumatic growth often happens to car crash victims, who find themselves appreciating life a lot more after the crash, or cancer survivors, who start running marathons once they recover.</li><li>However, you don’t need to run your car into the next tree, in order to play a round of SuperBetter. There’s another form of growth that doesn’t require trauma, called post-ecstatic growth.</li></ul>

Post-traumatic growth and post-ecstatic growth

This reduction in physical pain comes from 2 things:<ul><li>Playing a video game shifts our attention spotlight, and allows us to react less to the signal of pain.</li><li>The activity of playing engages us in a state called flow, where we’re so engaged and absorbed in the activity that we feel in perfect control of our lives.</li></ul>In this way we give our attention to a positive activity, which also makes us feel in charge. This gives us the confidence to endure the pain and our body adapts.

Using games to reduce physical pain

When two people play a similar game in the same room, they form a strong neurological and physiological connection. They show the exact facial expressions; their heartbeats also settle into the same rhythm – and this occurs irrespective of whether they’re playing with or against one other.And the connection goes more than that: we’re also very likely to like the people if we’re playing a game with them. The reason for that is because we’re attracted to people we see that alike to ourselves.

Bonding with people over games

Games can have a positive influence on your life, providing that you play them for the right motives. The impact games have on your life doesn’t rest on the type of games you play or the time you use to play them. It depends on the reason you play them.Not every person plays games for educational or social causes. Some people play games as a type of escape from life issues– and that’s when gaming becomes destructive. But, if you play games with a positive aim, you’re more likely to gain the advantages and also feel happier in your non-gaming life.

The impact games have on our lives

After suffering a brain injury, Jane McGonigal came up with a game to help aid her recovery and battle the ensuing depression she experienced. A quarter of a million people have now played this game to astonishing results: depression gone in 6 weeks in some cases and even terminal cancer patients reporting that playing the game gives them a sense of control over their own health. This book shows readers how to use these techniques to find strength and create positivity: readers can look to their own 'power-ups' which are little things they can do to feel better and tackle the hurdles in their own lives.

Understand yourself and those around you.

psychology

Psychology

books

Books

entertainment

Entertainment

scienceandnature

Science & Nature

A revolutionary new self-help book by top flight game designer Jane McGonigal. After suffering a brain injury, Jane McGonigal came up with a game to help aid her recovery and battle the ensuing depression she experienced. Half a million people have now played this game to astonishing results: depression gone in 6 weeks in some cases and even terminal cancer patients reporting that playing the game gives them a sense of control over their own health. The book shows readers how to use these techniques to find strength and create positivity: readers can look to their own 'power-ups' which are little things they can do to feel better and tackle the hurdles in their own lives. This book provides simple step-by-step ideas that can be carried out in day-to-day life, helping you transform your life with a new flexible and reenergised mindset. In this book McGonigal uses her own story and those of others to expertly demonstrate how simple changes can result in dramatic life-affirming effects. And what's more, she tells you how you yourself can lead a more "gameful" life.

Jane McGonigal

Superbetter

Krita is professional-quality drawing software created by a team of artists with the noble aim of putting top-notch creative tools within reach of everyone.You can use Krita for any kind of drawing and illustration, but it's particularly great for comics and manga.

1. Krita

Artweaver Free enables you to create beautifully realistic digital drawings by taking input – from your mouse, a stylus or, if you have a touchscreen PC, from whatever you feel like tapping the screen with – and applying ultra-realistic brush effects.t is particularly useful for children. Kids love experimenting with all the different brushes, and we love not having to clean up any mess afterwards.

2. Artweaver Free

Like the classic version of Microsoft Paint (which is was originally intended to replace), Paint 3D offers a small selection of drawing tools for doodling on a flat canvas. However, the real fun happens when you click the 3D Objects button.

3. Microsoft Paint 3D

Fresh Paint is another art app from Microsoft – this time designed to replicate the feeling of putting brush or pen to paper.Experienced artists will be able to achieve great results with tools that behave like their real-life counterparts, while kids and novices will make an equally realistic mess. Free drawing software that everyone can enjoy.

4. Microsoft Fresh Paint

Generally drawing softwares are paid softwares which can not be bought by many students. So here is are some awesome drawing softwares which can be used for making professional looking digital artworks for them. 

Free drawing software for everyone, with useful tools and an easy learning curve to boot.

problemsolving

Problem Solving

artsandculture

Society, Arts & Culture

softwareengineering

Software Engineering

The best free drawing software for 2022

Mechanical Turk then first publically displayed in the France and there he defeated the ambassador of USA in France Benjamin Franklin even including the best chess player of that time Francois-Andre Danican Philidor has claimed to have been given one to the toughest game of his life. Von Kempelen visited whole Europe exhibiting his Turk and returned to its original place and passed in 1804.Then Von Kempelen’s son sold his machine to the man named Johann Nepomuk Malzel for 10,000 Francs and Malzel was a character who stoles other inventions and takes the credits for that. BuB

Mechanical Turk the AI who plays Chess in 1770

And this time the great revolution of machine came in the long scale industries the invention by the Von Kempelen got the huge attention and now people started to fear the machine that it will took over the world like now we fear from AI. In 1819 the person known as the father of computer Charles Babbage faced the Mechanical Turk and off course he loosed his matches against him but by the loss the idea of machine thinking itself strikes in his head and after 2 years he developed his Computing Device usually known as Computer these days so many people were afraid and some were inspired.

So now you probably thinking that this is some sort of time travel mystery or you may link this story to the alien whatever but the reason behind this whole Mechanical Turk was something other than this and Edgar Allan Poe himself discovered the truth behind this machine.

history

History

sciencefiction

Science Fiction

artificialintelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence in 1770 the Mechanical Turk!

It basically talks about the possible fundamental particle of mass, and the presence of other dimensions of space-time.

What is string theory?

<ul><li>The problem faced in newtonian physics(and by Newton himself) was that, although he could mathematically calculate gravitational pull, he was baffled by HOW this gravitational force was exerted through an inert medium like space on a celestial object so far apart.</li></ul>But it could be successfully, mathematically be applied to astonomy, except for the 'how'.

Newtonian physics

Now, coming to Einstein's era,he postulated that,<ul><li>space time has got 4 dimensions(including time), (like Newton did), but he also managed to explain the how, which Newton couldn't.</li></ul>According to Einstein, <ul><li>without any matter on the fabric of space time, it appears to be flat and linear</li><li> when matter is present, this space-time fabric warps and curves around that matter, alongwhich gravity attracts.(check pic)</li></ul>

Einstein's theory

<ul><li> Theodor Kaluza, theorized that electromagnetism(just like gravity) exerts its effects as warps and curves in a 5th dimension (including time).</li><li> Furthermore, using the assumption of the existence of a 5th dimension, he could also successfully mathematically derive out, not only einsteins equation, but also the equation for electromagnetism.</li></ul> That is it formed the basis of a unified theory, where every other physical theories could be derived from.

 Kaluza-Klein theory(KK theory) : Kaluza part

<ul><li>Oskar Klein, went a step ahead to postulate that there are relatively smaller dimensions which are curled up, located at a microscopic level of the larger dimensions. </li><li>just like how an electric cable from afar seems to be single dimension, but for small ants on the cable, there are much more dimensions(clockwise/anticlockwise) to that cable than a single dimension as perceived by the observor.</li></ul> <ul><li>That is according to Klein, ultramicroscopic enlargement of the visible dimensions could lead to the demonstration of, curled up microscopic dimensions.(check image)</li></ul>

  Kaluza-Klein theory(KK theory) : Klein part

Coming to the present era,<ul><li>Superstring theory - Talks about the smallest, indivisible entity which makes up space.</li><li>i.e. We know, matter is made of atoms, which is composed of a nucleus, a proton and an electron. We have even gone further and found that, these micro particles are made of packets of energy called quarks.</li></ul>

Superstring theory

<ul><li>According to string theory, quarks are actually constituted of dancing, filament like form of energy, which looks like a vibrating string. </li><li>And these can vibrate in different patterns(frequencies), leading to production of different types of particles based on the vibrating frequency. </li></ul>This is the ultramicroscopic landscape of the universe. The matter within matter.

<ul><li>Mathematically speaking, a very fascinating result was obtained, while applying and trying to incorporate Newtons, Einstein's equations.</li><li>The string theory equation holds true mathematically in a scenario involving 10 dimensions of space and 1 dimension of time(i.e. a 11 dimensional system), which has not yet being observed by man</li><li>The discovery and exploration of these extra dimensions could also hold the answer to why the 20(actually 26) <a href="https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.codata.org%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2FTable%25201-CODATA%2520Recommended%2520Values%2520of%2520Fundamental%2520Physical%2520Constants%25202014.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcodata.org%2Fcodata-recommended-values-of-the-fundamental-physical-constants-2014%2F&tbnid=vz1jX8rjxOjTaM&vet=1&docid=OX1uvsqAeHzkPM&w=2156&h=1446&itg=1&hl=en-IN&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim">fundamental constants</a> have such distinct values which are relevant to the decimal.</li></ul>

String theory's mathematical implication

<ul><li>The geometrical shape of the ultramicroscopic landscape, is called as Calabi Yau manifold, and is postulated to be one which folds in on itself.(see pic) </li><li>The shape of the landscape is thought to be what determines how the filaments of energy vibrate. </li></ul>

 Geometry of the ultramicroscopic landscape

<ul><li>Since, we have only observed the existence of 4 dimensions(including time), but have mathematically figured out the existence of 7 more dimensions, many experiments are being conducted to empirically observe them.</li><li>One such experiment, done in the large hadron collider, where, particles moving near the speed of light are allowed to collide head on, to see if any resulting debris (called as gravitan) enters into any of these unknown dimensions.(This is calculated by measuring the total energy before and after the collison, lesser energy after the collision implies energy has been lost somewhere).</li></ul>

Realisation of string theory

The essence of the fascinating string theory. 

Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe. View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/brian-greene-on-string-theory Talk by Brian Greene.

technologyandthefuture

Technology & The Future

education

Learning & Education

space

Space

Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe. 

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/brian-greene-on-string-theory

Talk by Brian Greene.

TED-Ed’s mission is to create lessons worth sharing. Feed and expand your curiosity with our award-winning animated shorts - published on YouTube and available with supplemental learning materials on ed.ted.com.

Want to suggest an idea for a TED-Ed animation, nominate an educator or animator? Visit our website at: http://ed.ted.com/get_involved.

Consider backing us on Patreon. By doing so, you directly support our nonprofit mission to create free, high-quality educational content: https://www.patreon.com/teded

For more information on using TED-Ed content for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film, or in an online course), please submit a Media Request using this link: https://media-requests.ted.com/ 


TED-Ed

String theory - Brian Greene

.If you apply yourself to something or apply your mind to something, you concentrate hard on doing it or on thinking about it.

Application Of Mind

🌈Be Conscious About What You're Putting in Your Head. ...🌈Work on Desire. ...🌈Have the Right Sources. ...🌈Give Yourself a Drive to Learn. ...🌈Be Open to Change. ...🌈Allow Yourself to Be Creative or Successful. ...🌈Don't Let Others' Thoughts Influence You. ...🌈Be Around Positive People and Things.

Ways To Use Your Mind Power

💢 Try puzzles.💢Play cards.💢Build vocabulary.💢Dance.💢Use your senses.💢Learn a new skill.💢Teach a skill.🌈Listen to music.

Things Help You In Stay Sharp

Natural Ways To Boost Your Brain Power & Sharpen Your Mind🌈Practice meditation to decrease stress. ...🌈Take up cognitive training exercises. ...🌈Exercise your body—for your brain. ...🌈Practice deep listening. ...🌈Ditch the sugar. ...🌈Nourish your brain with antioxidants. ...🌈Sleep on it.

Natural Ways To Boost Your Brain Power & Sharpen Your Mind

Hey beautiful people today we are going to learn how to stay sharp at every situation please follow and support 😁

productivity

Productivity

personaldevelopment

Personal Development

How to looks smarter

Our minds need decluttering too. Whenever we are occupied by things that are not helpful, we are burying the good things underneath. Leave the things that don’t bring us joy, don’t let them steal our peace. 
Like the physical decluttering, you need to do it often. Every day if you can: just as you should tidy your room every day, so the mess doesn’t accumulate.

A Cluttered Mind Can Mess Up Your Life

Make a list. Are there any important things that you’ve wanted to do but never started? How important are they? What is making you delay them?
Understand whether and how these things are important. Then decide how to tackle the challenges preventing you from starting them. When everything is clearer, make a plan and follow it.

Clear Your Procrastination List

Daily practice of mindfulness will help you detach from your emotions and watch them from above. Many times we are worrying without recognizing it.
Worrying is the biggest unhelpful thing that can occupy our minds. It takes up so much space that we can’t enjoy the present. Mindfulness will help recognize it as soon as it emerges. When it does, acknowledge it and let it pass like a cloud in the sky, then move on with the present. Don’t let your worrying control you.

Stop Worrying

When you ignore or delay something that you promised to do, it still stays on top of your mind. Whenever you do something else, your brain will remind you that you should have been doing that other thing instead.
This is not helpful. Declutter the negative emotions for yourself so you can free up space for productive action.

Follow Through on Promises and Commitments

We can’t focus on ourselves when our brain is occupied with emotions related to someone else, or anger and hate of the world. We need inner peace before we can focus on the present. Let go of those emotions that you bear inside.
Your emotions will only affect you, not anyone else (unless you act on it). Find your closure if you need it, but let it go.

Let Go of Anger and Forgive

You don’t need a journal to know that someone or something is toxic to you.
You need to say NO to anything that takes you down from your current state.

Say No to People and Things that Drag You Down

The problem with clutter is that, once you are in the middle, you don’t realize it anymore. You carry on ignoring, going around it. You get used to the disorder so much that you become the disorder…

mindfulness

Mindfulness

mentalhealth

Mental Health

5 Easy Steps to Declutter Your Mind

Wordle’s popularity is thought to be partly because, in an era of apps aggressively competing for your attention and time, the game was deliberately built to be played once a day, and without features designed to promote its growth such as push notifications and email sign ups.

What's the reason behind Wordle's popularity ?

Even though I play it every day, I still feel a sense of accomplishment when I do it: it makes me feel smart, and people like that.

The rules were also intuitive for people who grew up playing word games such as Scrabble, or a code-breaking game such as Mastermind. Wordle combined this familiarity with an opportunity to show mastery and to improve performance over time, a blend which enabled players to enter into a “flow state”.

Like the rest of the world, I have been playing wordle for a few days, it has been growing on me. It made me curious as to why it's such a hit. Turns out it's a combination of multiple things. 

Josh Wardle developed game to play with his partner – and now more than 2m others have joined in

Why is Wordle an online hit?

Drawing is a powerful tool of communication. It helps build self-understanding and can boost mental health.But our current focus on productivity, outcomes and “talent” has us thinking about it the wrong way. Too many believe the myth of “I can’t draw”, when in fact it’s a skill built through practice.Dedicated practice is hard, however, if you’re constantly asking yourself: “What’s the point of drawing?”We need to reframe our concept of what it means to draw, and why we should do it – especially if we think we can’t.

Drawing Is Good

Devoting a little time to drawing each day may make you happier, more employable and sustainably productive.New jobs are emerging all the time for visual thinkers who can translate complex information into easily understood visuals.Big companies hire comic creators to document corporate meetings visually, so participants can track the flow of ideas in real-time. Cartoonists are paid to draft innovative, visual contracts for law firms.

Drawing In 2022

Art-making can reduce anxiety, elevate mood, improve quality of life and promote general creativity. Art therapy has even been linked to reduced symptoms of distress and higher quality of life for cancer patients.And it can help you enter a “flow state”, where self-consciousness disappears, focus sharpens, work comes easily to you and mental blockages seem to evaporate.

Benefits Of Drawing

Cultivating a drawing habit means letting go of biases against drawing and against copying others to learn technique. Resisting the urge to critically compare your work to others’ is also important.Most children don’t care about what’s considered “essential” to a functioning society. They draw instinctively and freely.Part of the reason drawing rates are thought to be higher in Japan is their immersion in Manga (Japanese comics), a broadly popular and culturally important medium.

Cultivating a Drawing Habit

Unlike language, we consider it normal for people not to learn to draw, and consider those who do to be exceptional.Without sufficient practise and exposure to an external system, a basic system persists despite arguably impoverished developmental conditions.

Drawing Is Language

With regular practice, you may find yourself occasionally melting into states of “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)">flow</a>”, becoming wholly absorbed. A small, regular pocket of time to temporarily escape the busy world and enter a flow state via drawing may help you in other parts of your life.

State Of Flow

Use simple tools that you’re comfortable with, whether it’s a ballpoint pen on post-it notes, pencil on paper, a dirty window, or a foggy mirror.Times you’d typically be aimlessly scrolling on your phone are prime candidates for a quick sketch. Doodle when you’re on the phone, watching a movie, bored in a waiting room.Together with mindful doodling, drawing from observation and memory form a holy trinity of sustainable proficiency

How To Start Drawing Naturally

I’m a keen doodler who turned a hobby into a PhD and then a career. I’ve also seen what hurdles people face when it comes to learning to draw and how they can be overcome.

Have you fallen for the myth of 'I can't draw'? Do it anyway – and reap the rewards

True beauty comes from within.It’s about being kind to others and not only thinking about yourself.

Inner Beauty > Outer Beauty 

Belle inspires us to learn something new everyday. We dont have to be in school to study and learn, we’ll always be curious, and we’ll always be reading.

Never Stop Learning

Whether it’s an enchanted rose, a mirror that can show you whatever you ask it to, or even the act of falling in love, magic is out there and it’s pretty great 👍

Believe in Magic 

A Chipped Cup Can be Better Than a Perfect One 

The Beast looks intimidating and scary, but once Belle takes the time to get to know him, it’s clear that his rough exterior is just a facade.He’s actually really kind and gentle and just needed someone to give him a chance to show it.

Look Beyond What You S👀

Ultimately love wins the day.

Love is Stronger Than Hate

Sometimes all you need to feel better is a warm cup of tea (a heart-to-heart with Mrs. Potts doesn’t hurt either.)

Tea Heals All 

Life can be scary, but pushing yourself out of your comfort zone makes you a better person.

Don’t Let Your Fears Get in the Way of New Experiences 

Your happy ending will start when you least expect it.

Your Happily Ever After Might Not Look Like One Right Away 

Nothing is as perfect as it seems. And sometimes that’s difficult to accept.

Every Rose Has its Thorns 

Standing out because you’re not like everyone else isn’t a bad thing. Embrace what makes you different, because it’s also what makes you special.

Dare to be Different 

"How can you read this? There's no pictures!" "Well, some people use their imagination."

“He’s no monster, Gaston; you are!”

“Think of the one thing that you’ve always wanted. Now find it in your mind’s eye and feel it in your heart.”

“Master, we all understand how you feel about Christmas. But when a woman gives a man a gift, she’s saying, “I care about you.”

“The people think I’m odd. So, I know how it feels to be…different. And I know how lonely that can be.”

“Now I know she’ll never leave me, even as she fades from viewShe will still inspire me, be a part of everything I doWasting in my lonely tower, waiting by an open doorI’ll fool myself, she’ll walk right in, and as the long long nights begin, I’ll think of all that might have beenWaiting here forevermore…”

“I let her go… Because I love her.”

“You take me as your prisoner, and now you want to have dinner with me? Are you insane?”

motivationandinspiration

Motivation & Inspiration

movies

Movies & Shows

loveandrelationships

Love & Relationships

11 Life Lessons from Beauty and the Beast

Robots don’t have personalities, ideas, thoughts, or desires. Any human-like qualities we could attribute to a machine or its output are merely reflections of ourselves or its programmers.That doesn’t sit well with the mainstream perceptions of AI. Thousands of articles promise a near-future where human creators are either displaced or forced to work in tandem with machines.

Robots Are What We Make Them

Most of what AI does is prestidigitation. That’s because there’s only a handful of things a typical deep learning system can actually do. Much like a real-world magician, developers create incredible programs out of some fairly basic algorithmic foundations.The only difference between a disappearing coin trick and what David Copperfield does is scale. There is no more or less “real magic” involved in the former’s illusions and the latter’s.

The Perception Of AI

A few years back, a former Microsoft intern named Nabil Hossain and a pair of Microsoft AI researchers developed a machine learning system to generate humorous headlines from existing news articles.The big idea was that the AI would make microedits by changing a single word in a serious headline to make it a funny one.

Making AI Funny

The AI picks a noun or verb from a headline and replaces it with a word that can be objectively quantified as humorous.So here’s the simple answer to the question of whether AI can be funny or not: If you get to define what is and isn’t funny, sure. AI can be just as funny as you decide it is or isn’t.

The Machine Workings Of Humor

Jokes can be reduced to formulas. Just about anything can be reduced to a formula, but “funny” isn’t a thing. It’s a perception. Just like you can’t hand me an ounce of satisfaction or purchase a mile’s worth of courage, you can’t quantitatively produce funniness in a lab.

Funny is a Perception

AI can’t be funny. Funny as interpreted by the recipient of a joke is subjective. And funny as an intended construct requires intent.Just like fashion, being funny is as complex as the people you surround yourself with. What a group of AI devs might find funny or fashionable will likely differ from the tastes at Fashion Week in a Comedy Central writer’s room. And both the individual and public perception of what’s humorous is constantly changing and evolving.

The Bottomline

Can an AI be funny? What does funny mean? Who gets to decide? Luckily for all of us, Microsoft went ahead and answered these questions on our behalf.

philosophy

Philosophy

computerscience

Computer Science

Codifying humanity: Can humor be reduced to an algorithm?

Find 100+ Facts about Entertainment & Media - Curated from sources like Books, Podcasts & Articles - Genuine Insights from like-minded Users like You!