Brad (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} thatdumbjerk) wrote,@ 2007-11-26 14:27:00 |
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Free Rice
XKCD → A Softer World → Free Rice
That is the path I used to find Free Rice, a vocabulary game that (ostensibly) takes some of its advertising revenue to donate rice through the UN. Ten grains per correct answer. A fun game, though. It's multiple-choice and the incorrect answers are apparently chosen at random, so it make it a bit easier than it might otherwise be.
I also notice that since most of the answers are short (one word), if there is a long (multi-word) option, then it is almost always the correct answer.
This game seems like a good resource for anyone needing practice with vocabulary, but almost more-so anyone needing practice in multiple-choice tests.
From this game, tympanum = middle ear—think: tympanic membrane, which is the eardrum. I very specifically remember tympanic membrane from dissecting a frog in high school and learning that a frog's tympanic membranes are exposed and not protected by an ear canal—presumably for better underwater hearing with no air bubbles.
middle ear
This also seemed ripe, to me, for some pun about a Map of Middle Ear and something to do with Lord of the Rings. I'll leave it to someone else to put it all together.
Anyway, it's interesting to see that some words are familiar, while other words have to be decomposed, and still another class of words I know the answer to seemingly by instinct—no memory of knowing the word or its use, no obvious decomposition, but "knowing" the answer.
Quite odd, memory is.
XKCD → A Softer World → Free Rice
That is the path I used to find Free Rice, a vocabulary game that (ostensibly) takes some of its advertising revenue to donate rice through the UN. Ten grains per correct answer. A fun game, though. It's multiple-choice and the incorrect answers are apparently chosen at random, so it make it a bit easier than it might otherwise be.
I also notice that since most of the answers are short (one word), if there is a long (multi-word) option, then it is almost always the correct answer.
This game seems like a good resource for anyone needing practice with vocabulary, but almost more-so anyone needing practice in multiple-choice tests.
From this game, tympanum = middle ear—think: tympanic membrane, which is the eardrum. I very specifically remember tympanic membrane from dissecting a frog in high school and learning that a frog's tympanic membranes are exposed and not protected by an ear canal—presumably for better underwater hearing with no air bubbles.
middle ear
This also seemed ripe, to me, for some pun about a Map of Middle Ear and something to do with Lord of the Rings. I'll leave it to someone else to put it all together.
Anyway, it's interesting to see that some words are familiar, while other words have to be decomposed, and still another class of words I know the answer to seemingly by instinct—no memory of knowing the word or its use, no obvious decomposition, but "knowing" the answer.
Quite odd, memory is.
