How Human Ingenuity Arose Fascinating articles by Heather Pringle in Scientific American Magazine, on the origins of creativity: Scientists long thought that early humans were stuck in a creative rut until some 40,000 years ago, when their powers of innovation seemed to explode. But archaeological discoveries made in recent years have shown that our ancestors had
Read more →Meditate to create: the impact of focused-attention and open-monitoring training on convergent and divergent thinking How interesting! Cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and her fellow researchers at Leiden University used creativity tasks that measure convergent and divergent thinking to assess which meditation techiques most influence creative activities. Open Monitoring and Focused
Read more →Iain McGilchrist on the Divided Brain In this mile-a-minute RSA animation, Iain McGilchrist describes the real differences between the left and right hemispheres of the human brain. It’s not simply “emotion on the right, reason on the left,” but something far more complex and interesting. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist
Read more →A sobering, yet hopeful opinion essay from Mirian Graddick-Weir, executive vice president, Human Resources, at Merck. She has responsibility for all aspects of human resources for over 86,000 employees worldwide. Here is an excerpt: Technological innovation accounted for almost half of U.S. economic growth over the past 50 years, but the country’s standing
Read more →Inspiring Quotations about Creativity in Science John Dewey Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination. — The Quest For Certainty Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) U. S. inventor. There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something! Albert Einstein All religions, arts
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