The interplay of business, art and science
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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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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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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Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork
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