7 ways to exercise your brain


	7 ways to exercise your brain

einbar

8-5-2008 7:40 AM

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10-16-2008 5:03 AM

Rashid Malik

Great advice (only is I would start following each and every one of them religiously).

10-20-2008 1:18 PM

Jorjor

I regularly take my brain out of my skull and send it for a jog around the block.

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