Practice mindfulness with these 3D puzzles and leave your phone alone for the afternoon

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Between the 24-hour news cycle and binging Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why, we could all use a little break. May we suggest the humble puzzle as a way to distract from the hell hole that is Twitter and cable news? 

If you’re looking to add a bit more mindfulness into your life, puzzles are a great way to kick back and relax while still exercising your right brain. And we’re not just talking about the jigsaw variety (so 2017). 

These Wood Trick DIY Mechanical 3D Puzzles provide hours of mental stimulation, calling upon your imagination, spatial reasoning, motor skills, and tactile sensitivity. They’re all made from renewable wood without added toxins or glues, so they make for an extremely eco-conscious hobby. Plus, you’ll have a beautiful piece of functional art to display when you’ve completed one. Read more…

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Kid’s super deep response to classroom riddle is way better than the actual answer

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Kids may say some spectacularly funny things at times, but every now and then they can be impressively wise too.

On Tuesday, teacher Bret Turner tweeted about a recent puzzle he’d set for his first grade class.

“I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere,” reads the riddle. “I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space.

“What am I?”

The first response he got, while ultimately wrong, was pretty deep.

The first guess from one of my 1st graders was “death” and such an awed, somber, reflective hush fell over the class that I didn’t want to tell them that actually the answer is the letter e, which just seemed so banal in the moment pic.twitter.com/7sYFxHNcZk

— Bret Turner (@bretjturner) January 2, 2018 Read more…

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