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Tips from the authors of  The Winner’s Brain The brains of highly successful people function differently from those of the average Joe, according to the authors of the new book, The Winner’s Brain. Assistant neuroscience professor Mark Fenske of the University of Guelph and cognitive behavioural psychologist Jeff Brown of Harvard Medical School, say you [...]

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photo credit: Arbron New research shows musical training sharpens the ability to sense emotions. Makes sense to me. Music, especially classical, conveys many subtle emotions. Music and other arts help us develop our sense perceptions. Our perceptions shape our perspective and vice versa. According to Dana L. Strait and a team of researchers at Northwestern University [...]

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The Creativity at Work Newsletter: Alchemy When I tell people I am a Corporate Alchemist, I get some interesting responses, and none of them are neutral. People are either incredulous, excited or curious. Most Americans I talk to don’t know what alchemy is, and Canadians often reference “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho. So what is [...]

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This reminds me of  the work of  Dr. Linda Long, a biochemist and musician, who develops  Molecular Music from plant and human protein molecules. She uses the results for therapeutic purposes and to increase understanding of science and the human body. From Utne: Using people’s brain waves as the notes, scientists have created music. The [...]

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Most people think of bacteria in terms of infections and disinfectants. Erich Schopf, a bacteriologist at the University of Vienna,  thinks of colour, and actually paints with bacteria! The fact that bacteria use pigments to protect themselves against UV radiation gave him the idea to use them as paint. He gathers his raw material from the ground, [...]

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Creativity at Work Newsletter: Summer Reading Proust Was a Neuroscientist By Jonah Lehrer If you are a scientist you could choose to get nitpicky about whether or not Proust was a neuroscientist, or you could sit back, relax and enjoy the ride as Lehrer weaves together stories about art, science and creative breakthroughs. Lehrer argues that [...]

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A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth. The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory ? the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it. This type of memory [...]

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Images from Art Institute of Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art ARTISTIC LIMITATIONS  Cataracts forced Mary Cassatt to stop working years before her death in 1926. She painted “Young Mother Sewing” in 1900. More Photos > For Claude Monet, 1912-22 was a watershed decade. He was perhaps the most successful artist of his time, and his genius had already [...]

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