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| You can mold The Brain Explorer right to your brain. How, you ask? Simply by taking this test, or as much of it as you want, you can get results on how your brain fits in with the rest of the web. You can even shape this site to your own particular brain. It's quite a test, but answer however much you feel fit to answer. And if you care to, you can compare your results to others. |
Feeling lost? Well, you shouldn't be. Navigating this site is a snap, with or without help. Just knowing how to get around anywhere can be helpful, but if you want that helping hand in your traversement across this site, take the tour to follow a guided path. You can even skip across sections to start anywhere you want to. That's the power of freedom, even with a little help. |
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How creative
are you? Do the following test, and it will help you determine whether you
have the personality traits, values, motivations, interests and attitudes
that make up creativity. You can print out this test, distribute it to classmates,
students, teachers, friends, family, anyone. Try to be as honest as possible
and do not try to second-guess how a creative person might react.
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Log
into your account for The Brain Explorer. This account holds all of your bookmarks,
your brain dominance score, name, email, and automatically fills out forms
if you have an account and are logged into it. You can also set certain options
such as to skip the splash page, remove buttons from the side menu, certain
boxes, the quote bar, and other such items. |
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If you want
to reach out to other students and teachers like yourself, and want to express
your own opinion on any subject or topic, then head to any one of four main
forums. The last choice, pertains to all of the content pages, and at the
bottom of every page, you can click on [View Page Comments] to see any comments
that have been made to that topic itself. All comments on a topic, no matter
what the sub-page, go to the same topic board.
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Add your own related links to this exhaustive list of informational and corresponding links. These are all categorized into 4 distinct levels: General, Brain, Mind, & User Contributed. See what other students and teachers just like you submitted as a link. |
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| Recommend any content page to a friend, teacher, neighbor, or even yourself. Just fill out an easy 1-2-3 form, and an e-mail will be sent immediately to the address you specified. Send yourself a reminder to revisit a certain page, or you can even show your friends what a great taste in design you have. |
Put in your say about a particular topic of the month. The booth is always open, and there is a ballot waiting for your intentions. And when you finish voting, there is a small yet certain discussion going on about that topic. Put in your say, and defend what you voted for. |
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| You
can share your dreams with the entire brain community. Dreams are considered
as a carryover into sleep of what a person has thought about or come across
while he or she is awake. One of the best-known theories was written by Sigmund
Freud in his book 'The Interpretation of Dreams'. He emphasized that repressed
desires that we always think of at the daytime, particularly those related
with sex and hostility are freed and released in dreams. |
This
is an interactive Flash movie that you can move around the brain with. It details
all major parts of the brain anatomy, and interactively uses your mouse movements
and displays all different parts of the brain. If you do not have Flash enabled
or installed, you can either download
it from Macromedia,
or view our text version
of the page, that features some extra information. |
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| The
mailing list is an e-mail sent out every so often, informing you, the user,
student, or teacher, of what's happening here at The Brain Explorer. This includes
any site changes, any awards, and any types of news that we think you should
be aware of. This is absolutely not a spam list, and your e-mail is kept completely
confidential, following other guidelines here. |
Plenty of quotes, famous, or even unheard of authors, all with something to say on the subject of the Brain. These range from simple analysis, to a humorous quip on the almighty conscienceness. You might even recognize some of these immortal quotes that can be heard over and over again by an informed teacher. |
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| Send
a superb free electronic greeting - it's so easy. When you send an electronic
card, you are taken to a form where you: Choose the features to design your
own personalized postcard enter your message say who it is to be sent to Your
friends, family or business associates will receive an email notice that a
greeting is waiting for them here. |
Check
out a list of the most frequently, and even infrequently visited pages. Every
page is a link, showing how many page views it gets, and from what date. Feeling
like you're missing something here? Then just surf on over to our page view
list and find the most frequently visited pages, and all the blue links are
pages that you have yet to visit. |
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| Got an essay that you wrote? Want to show it off to others interested? Well, if it has any relation to the brain or the mind, you can contribute it here. It's free, fast, and easy. Share your essay with everybody else, and of course, at the end of every essay is copyright information about your own essay, which means no one can steal it away from you. |
Think
you know what you're talking about? Why don't you test your knowledge in this
interactive quizzing area. Choose from a multitude of different quizzes and
you can test what you know (or try your luck). What do you get as a result
of doing well? Personal gratification for one, and the satisfaction that you
know what researchers yearn to learn about everyday. |
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| Not only is this site designed for students of a classroom, but it has the educators work built right in. Not only can the teacher of the classroom use this site as a learning tool, but they can also use worksheets and essays specially prepared for the off-line classroom. Anyone can print ready made worksheets right off this site. But better yet, students and teachers can share any of their creative ideas and/or essays with the whole group here at The Brain Explorer. |
Not
sure what a word means? Look it up. But if you don't want to spend time opening
up the dictionary to see if it even has the word you're looking for (Most common
dictionaries don't have most medical terminology), then go the the Glossary
here on the site to peruse through the most common and even the uncommon brain-related
words. We organized it so you don't have to spend oodles of time sifting through
a plethora of words. |
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| Want
to quickly get to anywhere on the site? Use the easy Advanced Search tool.
It comes complete with identifiers and boolean logic. Not sure where to start?
Just try reading through the Advanced
Searching Tips. |
Anyone who wants to get into touch with the creators can do so with this Feedback form. No need to even open up your mail client. Just click, write, and send. It's so simple, you could probably send comments unconsciously. |
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| Education doesn't have to be plain old text and pictures. Games are often the key to being a great educator. All of the best teachers know that, because that's what keeps their students alert and alive. Not only is this the best way to learn, but only the most fun. |
The most common De Facto that every site possesses, and that would be the Guestbook. What site would be complete without one? Where would users post their praise & gripes? Well, you won't be left hanging. Here is the easiest page to quickly post your comments. You can also view other user's comments on the site, all from the same page. |
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"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
" -- Virgina Woolf
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