http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/rss/catalog/tag/tagName/Educational/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 Zend_Feed en_US http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/wise-alec How much do you remember from grade school? Put you smarts to the test and find out with Wise Alec, an award-winning game with challenging questions for young and old alike. This clever trivia game boasts over 1,000 questions about history, science and spelling from the national grade school curriculum. Each question card features both easy and hard questions to help level the playing field between big and little kids. Sorry Mom and Dad, you’re considered big kids. So don’t even think about opting for the easy questions! The whole family will play, laugh and get stumped together as they flex their memory and critical thinking muscles.]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/book-of-animal-ignorance-hardcover The authors of The New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance bring us a book packed with wit, wisdom and little-known facts about the animal kingdom. Arranged alphabetically from aardvark to worm, The Book of Animal Ignorance is sure to impress both animal lovers and trivia nuts alike. One of our favorites: Boeing used to “employ” ferrets to run cables through hard-to-reach parts of airplanes. That one had you scratching your head, didn’t it? We’re fairly sure that means your brain is fast at work filing that little tidbit away for future use as witty dinner party banter.]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/book-of-general-ignorance-hardcover Camels store water in their humps and Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, right? Wrong and wrong, according to the authors of The Book of General Ignorance, a witty and humorous tome that gives common misconceptions, misunderstandings and flawed facts the heave-ho. The Book of General Ignorance will activate the memory centers of your brain as you try to recall the information you learned. After all, you’ll need to remember these fascinating tidbits to in order to impress everyone at dinner parties. Makes a great gift for trivia buffs, know-it-alls and aspiring game show contestants.]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/brain-box-all-around-the-usa This is the kind of game that reminds you of summers spent with your kid sister stuck in the backseat of a wood-paneled station wagon on your way to Yellowstone. Or wait, was it Yosemite? Brain Box: All Around the USA gives players 10 seconds to study an illustrated card and memorize as many details as possible. Then, players roll the dice to determine which question they’ll be asked about the card. This clever memory game teaches players little-known facts about the 50 states while boosting visual perception and recall skills.]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/eats-shoots-leaves-paperback We have to confess that we’ve been known to engage in hour-long debates about the merits (or lack thereof) of the serial comma, the proper usage of the colon versus the semicolon and the all-too-common and egregious misuse of the apostrophe. So naturally, we’re suckers for Eats, Shoots & Leaves, an impassioned manifesto on punctuation by British journalist Lynne Truss. This witty, humorous and at times snotty book makes a case for the value of punctuation in preserving the nuances of language. Whether you’re a stickler for quotation marks or don’t know the difference between a dash and a hyphen, this smart book will have you thinking about punctuation like never before. ]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/i-never-metaphor-i-didn-t-like-hardcover I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like is an extraordinary compilation of nearly 2,000 analogies, similes and metaphors from Dr. Mardy Grothe, quotation guru and author of Oxymoronica and Viva le Repartee. The book explains figurative language in a refreshingly down-to-earth way and contains chapters on wit, love, stage and screen, politics, sports and more. Featuring quotes from the likes of Aristotle, Maya Angelou, George Washington and Oprah Winfrey, I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like will fill up your verbal repertoire and have the language centers of your brain buzzing like a swarm of bees at a honey convention.]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/laughter-paperback You’ve been known to snort, shed tears, spit fruity beverages out your nose and heave in uncontrollable fits of laughter—sometimes at the most inopportune moments. But what is laughter, really? Why do we laugh at things that aren’t even funny? And is it really the best medicine? To get to the heart of this universal human expression, Robert R. Provine, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, studied 2,000 cases of naturally occurring laughter over a 10-year period. Laughter: A Scientific Investigation is Provine’s engaging and funny report on the evolution, health benefits, contagiousness, social role and neural mechanisms of laughter.]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/math-dice In our ever-so-humble and arithmetic-loving opinions, math got a bad rap. Kids swear they’ll never need it. Parents insist they don’t use it. And grandparents tell stories of walking up a snowy hill barefoot while calculating the distance to school with nothing but an abacus. Enter Math Dice, a game that makes mathematical concepts fun for young and old alike. This 3D math game challenges players to get closest to the target number by creating different equations using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and powers. Math Dice includes two target dice, three scoring dice, a lesson booklet and a storage bag for taking your mad mathematical skills on the road.]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/secrets-of-mental-math-paperback Turns out, that gray matter in between your ears is the most powerful super computer out there. You just need to know how to use it. That’s where renowned “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin comes in. In Secrets of Mental Math, Benjamin will teach you amazing tricks to help you multiply and divide triple digits, compute with fractions, and determine squares, cubes and roots without consulting a machine or breaking a math-phobia-induced sweat. Before you know it, you’ll be saying “math schmath” as you perform complex calculations in your head and impress friends with your mathematical genius. ]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/things-that-make-us-sic For the record, we gladly break grammar rules for effect (not to be confused with “affect.”) What can we say? Sometimes a properly placed “ain’t” sounds much better than a grammatically proper “isn’t.” But we’re downright grammar curmudgeons when it comes to the erroneous use of words like “irregardless,” “expresso” and “disorientated.” In Things That Make Us (Sic), author Martha Brockenbrough gives us a snarky, irreverent guide packed with common grammar gaffes and tips for avoiding them. This helpful and hilarious book also contains letters to some infamous language offenders, including George W. Bush, David Hasselhoff and the Queen of England. ]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/viva-la-repartee-hardcover You have the uncanny ability to come up with the perfect retort or witty reply to bring your adversaries to their knees. Trouble is, your timing sucks. If you’ve ever come up with a brilliant comeback a little too late, then Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts is for you. Author Dr. Mardy Grothe assembled a collection of the most brilliantly composed (and perfectly timed) retorts, comebacks and wisecracks from Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Groucho Marx, Winston Churchill, Dolly Parton and more. So go ahead, dog-ear pages. Highlight your favorite passages. After reading this, you’ll never be left without a witty retort again.]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/first-ladies-of-the-united-states-flashcards From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, the First Ladies of the United States Flash Cards will teach you about America’s political history and put your recall skills to the test. These colorful, durable cards feature the official White House painting or photograph of each First Lady on one side and a narrative about her life on the reverse. Challenge yourself to remember the order of the First Ladies and recall additional facts about their lives to form new connections between brain cells and keep your mind in tip-top shape. ]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/presidents-of-the-united-states-flashcards The Presidents of the United States Flash Cards make a smart learning tool whether you have a child learning about the presidents in school or you just want to brush up on political history yourself because your genius kid is giving you a complex. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these durable cards feature the official White House painting or photograph of each president on one side and a narrative about his life on the reverse. By challenging yourself to remember facts about the presidents, you’ll form new connections between brain cells and turbo-charge your memory. ]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/intellectual-devotional-biography-hardcover The fifth installment of this best-selling series features 365 captivating entries about the most celebrated personalities in history. Like its compulsively readable predecessors, The Intellectual Devotional Biographies is organized into seven categories, one for each day of the week. With their trademark wit and style, authors David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim offer an array of fascinating facts about major figures from Atilla the Hun to Desmond Tutu. ]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/intellectual-devotional-hardcover From important literary passages to basic physics principles, this New York Times bestseller boasts 365 short daily lessons that will help you refresh your memory, learn new things and become a bigger hit at cocktail parties than the crab puffs. The Intellectual Devotional is the first in a series of books by David S. Kidder and Noah Oppenheimer designed to arouse curiosity and keep your brain sharp. This fascinating book offers a daily dose of information from one of seven fields of knowledge: history, literature, philosophy, mathematics and science, religion, fine arts and music. ]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/intellectual-devotional-modern-culture-hardcover From the Slinky to Star Wars, Beatlemania to Babe Ruth, and flappers to fascism, The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture walks you through 365 days of the films, music, literature, personalities, trends, sports and pop references that have defined contemporary culture. Whether you’re a pop-culture maven or trivia buff, this installment of the New York Times best-selling Intellectual Devotional series will test your memory and keep your brain sharp as you try to remember 365 fascinating tidbits that’ll impress even the most cultured of the culturati. ]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/intellectual-devotional-american-history-hardcover The last time you thought about American history was back in Mrs. What’s-Her-Name’s class. And, come to think of it, you weren’t really paying much attention. The Intellectual Devotional: American History offers 365 days of history lessons and the chance to refresh your knowledge, revitalize your mind and make Mrs. What’s-Her-Name proud. From Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr., to the Federalist Papers and Watergate, these daily digests cover the pivotal events, major figures and cultural milestones that helped shape our nation. After a year of historical wisdom and cerebral nourishment, you’ll be extolling the virtues of life, liberty and the pursuit of brain health. ]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/intellectual-devotional-health-hardcover This fourth installment of the New York Times best-selling Intellectual Devotional series gives you everything you ever wanted to know about health and the human body in small daily doses. The Intellectual Devotional: Health covers topics in lifestyle and preventive medicine; the mind; medical milestones; drugs and alternative treatments; sexuality and reproduction; diseases and ailments; and children and adolescents. Packed with 365 days of medical knowledge and wellness wisdom, this fascinating book is positively infectious—but in a good, healthy, no-hazmat-suit-required kind of way. ]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/kwizniac This take-anywhere trivia countdown game tests your knowledge under pressure as you learn fun tidbits of information related to each question. The object of Kwizniac is to accumulate the most points by answering as many trivia questions as possible. Unlike most trivia games that give just one piece of information about a subject, Kwizniac offers a more in-depth trivia experience with a set of 10 clues in decreasing order of difficulty. The more clues it takes to answer the question, the less points you receive. Kwizniac activates the brain’s hippocampus, which basically means it’ll turbo-charge your natural RAM while having fun.]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/brain-box-all-around-the-world Put your memory and visual perception skills to the test while doing your world geography teacher proud with Brain Box: All Around the World. This clever memory game teaches players facts about different countries while boosting visual perception and recall skills.]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:21 +0000