Have you heard about the Einstein’s riddle. Einstein wrote it like a 100 years ago and when he wrote it, he said that maybe 2% of the world’s population would be able to solve it. It goes like that:

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality.
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

It’s too bad I accidently found the answer in the comments before actually began to solve it. Well, gotta wait some time till I forget it.

And also, by chance I have found this in maze of Einstein. I don’t know, I solved it in like 2-3 minutes. But maybe I just got lucky. Or possibly I cheated somewhere and didn’t notice.

I was sort of skimming through some articles and reading on the web about Renaissance (although I am surely not into arts or anything). And when it’s about Renaissance, eventually it comes down to Leonardo Da Vinci.

Even if you are not very interested in him (like me), you probably know he is said to have constructed a helicopter. Not even that, he has also created tank. How cool is that: creating these two things back at the XV-th century while the real things just come out 5 hundred years later?

I also really liked the vegetarism idea. Not only, according to Wikipedia, Da Dinci was a vegetarian, but “Vasari reports a story that as a young man in Florence he often bought caged birds just to release them from captivity.” Also his unusual polyphasic sleeping pattern is mentioned (what is an awesome subject, I think I should write more about it sometime later).
Finally, some italian scientist recently claimed to have recently found out who Mona Lisa was. Not that it would seem too compelling yet, but it’s still worth mentioning. ;)

Okay, with that written, I can get back to studying now… ;)