You may have seen this before, but I still thought it might be interesting to some of you.

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Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind.
And better than that: Alzheimer’s is a long, long, ways down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.

If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends and the person that sent it to you with ‘yes’ in the subject line. Only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!

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If you can read this, you have a strange mind too. Only 55 people out of 100 can.

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseaethe huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it.

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Actually, this is what is known as an internet meme. I leave it to you to find out what that means.

I was curious to see if there was any truth to the claims of the author. Snopes has the status as undetermined. But they provide links that provide more information about it. I found out the original was produced by some guy back in 2003 and it did not come from Cambridge University. There I found a link to a guy who works at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, in Cambridge, UK, a Medical Research Council unit that includes a large group investigating how the brain processes language. If you want to know more about the science behind this meme, click on the following link:

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/

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