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The summer Olympics may be a distant memory, but the World Mind Games are something altogether different, seeing international memory athletes flock to China to compete with brain instead of brawn.

This extravaganza of mental muscle finished in Beijing, China on 17 December, with Russia emerging as the big winner. The event saw 150 athletes from 27 countries competing in 14 variations of five sports, including chess, go, draughts, bridge and xiangqi – a Chinese game that resembles chess.

Russia topped the medal table with six golds, five silvers and one bronze, with the Chinese team coming in a close second. England improved upon last year's tenth place, moving up to seventh with two golds and one bronze medal. The US fell from sixth in 2013 to 13th position this year.

[radon1]

After this year's Winter Olympics, a few foreign athletes have adopted Russian citizenship to continue doing sports In Russia. One of them, a guy from South Korea, won a short-track championship yesterday. He was awarded a prize of 25000 roubles, which is less than 500 hundred dollars.

Another, an American snowboarder, has not yet been given his cash prize for his Winter Olympics win. So far, he has managed to obtain less than a third of the money that are due to him.

Laughable.

[dissident]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'h')ttp://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26735-russia-boasts-best-mental-agility-at-world-mind-games.html#.VKKTdf8N9g

The summer Olympics may be a distant memory, but the World Mind Games are something altogether different, seeing international memory athletes flock to China to compete with brain instead of brawn.

This extravaganza of mental muscle finished in Beijing, China on 17 December, with Russia emerging as the big winner. The event saw 150 athletes from 27 countries competing in 14 variations of five sports, including chess, go, draughts, bridge and xiangqi – a Chinese game that resembles chess.

Russia topped the medal table with six golds, five silvers and one bronze, with the Chinese team coming in a close second. England improved upon last year's tenth place, moving up to seventh with two golds and one bronze medal. The US fell from sixth in 2013 to 13th position this year.

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('radon1', 'A')fter this year's Winter Olympics, a few foreign athletes have adopted Russian citizenship to continue doing sports In Russia. One of them, a guy from South Korea, won a short-track championship yesterday. He was awarded a prize of 25000 roubles, which is less than 500 hundred dollars.

Another, an American snowboarder, has not yet been given his cash prize for his Winter Olympics win. So far, he has managed to obtain less than a third of the money that are due to him.

Laughable.

[radon1]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '
') If he was looking for pots of gold he would have moved to the USA.

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The American diet is severely deficient in fish-derived Omega-3 fatty acids that are vital for proper brain development and function:

http://advances.nutrition.org/content/3/1/1.full

Too much canned soda pop and chips and no salted herring.

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Really? Capello, the former Russia's soccer team coach, is owed dozens if not hundreds millions of roubles of his remuneration - for what? - for doing nothing. The guy is sitting and doing nothing and the arrears are growing and growing each day. And they further multiply with the rouble falling as his contract amounts are fixed in euros. Can you imagine this kind of dream-come-true in the US? Right, win championships for nuts, or do nothing and get everything, what's your choice? Clearly, a manifestation of Russia's mental superiority.

[KaiserJeep]

There is only one game for Americans:

[SteveO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '
')Too much canned soda pop and chips and no salted herring.

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'I')t's no wonder that the stupidity level of Americans has increased, given their diet of genetically modified maize, soya, and saturated fats.

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'S')ounds like every manager the England team has ever had.

[Sixstrings]

Americans do need to eat more fish.

A little problem over the decades is that a lot of the fish are gone. I remember stories about my dad and mom, broke newlyweds in the 60s, just fishing all day and catching big stuff.

Now you really can't do that. What fish there are, are smaller. Restaurants serve grouper from Vietnam. And "chilean seabass" from Antarctica (that one is expensive).

I'm just sitting here thinking, and you know, I remember years ago eating more fish. Just going out to restaurants and such. Seems like people used to eat more fish. I don't know if it went out of style, or if the fish really are all gone, or what.

You just don't see it on the menu so much anymore. And seafood restaurants are often expensive, I dropped $80 for two at Red Lobster over the holidays. A slightly fancier chain we have around here is more than that, that would be a hundred bucks for two.

Farm-raised tillapia has replaced all the other fish, on many menus. I'd never even tried the stuff before, I was always dubious about it, what the hell is this tillapia.

So anyhow, I was in Walmart recently and noticed a big huge bag of frozen tillapia for cheap, like $11. So now we're talkin' my budget.

So I've been baking that, with butter and italian herbs and parmesan and lemon pepper. It's pretty good! Not my favorite fish in the world, but pretty good I think I'm hooked on it.

Yes, we do need to eat more fish over here. I suppose one can also get omega-3's from fish oil capsules.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'I')t's no wonder that the stupidity level of Americans has increased, given their diet of genetically modified maize, soya, and saturated fats.

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
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Do you realize that corn (maize) is not a natural plant in nature, to start with?

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'U')nhealthy isn't really the issue.

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'U')nhealthy isn't really the issue.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GASMON', 'T')ilapia is on sale more in the UK and I find is great cooked in a sweet & sour sauce with rice and a salad.

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', '
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Well spotted.

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I've got food on the brain lately. I just got into finally working with dried beans. I never realized how simple that is. Just put in the crockpot, 5 hours later you've got bean soup.