Whether you’re a freelance writer or a blogger, you need a quiet environment to think creatively and write effectively/productively. But, with the boatloads of online commotions around you, it’s almost impossible to concentrate to write. Here is the comprehensive list of 11 handy tools that will aid you in distraction-free / Zen like writing.

Did you make out that our brain requires exercising (as much as our body) in order to function efficiently, let it go and our mental processing can become lethargic? Well, how to exercise your brain then? Solving brain teasers is one of the simple but effective ways to boost your brain power! Here are some of the best (25, to be exact), handpicked, tricky, yet witty brain teasers to blow your mind away which appear difficult at first, but rest assured that they have a trick that makes them really easy to solve. Just think “out of the box” to work them out.

Do you know the fact – you could fit one million planet Earths inside the Sun! While that’s being a mind-blowing fact itself, can you believe our solar system’s big boy ‘Sun’ is just about to represent 1 pixel in the following uber-cool picture? Then you’re about to see the facts and figures of these big/bigger/biggest and most brightest stars in the universe (from Sun to VY Canis Majoris) along with a relative graphical illustration and an awesome video clip too.

Second Part of Cannes Lions 2010 – “Silver Lion” Category Award Winning Awesome Ads for your views.

The Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival (IAF) is the world’s biggest celebration of creativity in communications, for those working in advertising and related fields. In this post, I am pleased to share with you the best of Cannes Lions 2010 Bronze Award Winning – creatively done, inspiring, awesome, mind-Blowing, touching, awareness creating, thought provoking, funny Ad Films.

Get ready to explore our planet earth from top to bottom (35000 ft above and below sea level) – going to explore the earth’s surface from peaks to mysterious depths, tallest mountain (Mount Everest) to deepest Mariana ocean trench. With thanks to the designer Karl Tate and OurAmazingPlanet.com, I am pleased to share this stunning infographic with you.

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, the fifth-largest and the densest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets. OK! now, lets come to the focus point of this blog post: How big is our planet Earth? I mean, compare to other planets… In the following mind-blowing picture, you’ll start to appreciate how small earth is!!! Icing on the cake: Now, you can interact with the Scale of the Universe too!

Dr. Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) was a gynecologist in Berlin and a world-famous popular science writer who illustrated the form and function of the human body with spectacular, modern man-machine analogies through the fantastic poster Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace) which was created in 1926. Image credit: industriepalast.com/ 80 years later, in 2006, inspired by this great artwork, German artist/designer Henning M. Lederer came up with an innovative/creative idea to animate/interact Fritz Kahn’s complex & strange way of explaining the functions of a body, by transferring this depiction with the help of motion graphics and animation. Here is an awesome  preview clip of Henning’s ongoing animated and interactive project based on the Fritz Kahn’s poster: Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] from 1926. In addition to the moving images, as a framework, Henning created a cabinet for his work including a mixture of old and new technology. This new version of [Continue Reading]

A short but captivating stop motion video clip by SMART Technologies showcasing the magic of their touch screen interactive whiteboards.

Can you imagine? Take a cup of tea/coffee, sit back, relax and before finishing – you can actually travel across the universe up to 13.7 billion light years away and return where you are, that is under 7 minutes! So what would it look like to travel across the universe? To help us visualize this, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in partnership with Rubin Museum of Art has produced a modern movie titled “The Known Universe” featuring many visual highlights of such a trip.