Top 10 brain-training apps

9. Geocaching Intro

Apple iTunes store
Geocaching lets users chose from a map of different hidden prizes. Simply chose a dot, and Geocaching will generate instructions to find the prize.

The Geocaching Intro app creates a real-life treasure hunt. The system relies on a network of volunteers who hide “geocaches” around an area and then create a map to the treasure. The prize at the end of the treasure hunt is usually a small token or prize, but the real reward in this app is the thrill of the chase. Simply open the app and set off on an adventure.

Compatibility: iPhone, iPad, and Android

Cost: The Intro version is free, but an upgraded version with a wider cache of maps and mazes goes for $9.99

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Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

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