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Janusian Thinking
Get creative ideas by imagining two opposites or two contradictory ideas.
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What if Music and Language Are Neither Instinct nor Invention?
Once humans were sufficiently smart and social that cultural evolution could pick up steam, a new blind watchmaker was let loose on the world, one that could muster designs worthy of natural selection, and in a fraction of the time. Cultural selection could shape our artifacts to co-opt our innate capabilities.
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When Bad Science Kills, or How to Spread Aids
Will the "circumcision solution" to AIDS and HIV backfire? The best evidence says yes - and raises a red flag for public health recommendations based on faulty science.
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The Eye Spy Puzzle
This, one of the shortest poems, Requests your help as Sherlock Holmes.
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Twins Reared Apart: The Best Natural Experiment
Twins reared apart allow new insights into nature and nurture. A new book about the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart tackles this topic.
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Is There a Creativity Crisis?
While we may not yet be in a full-blown "creativity crisis," we may be heading in that very direction!
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Harnessing the Neuroscientist, Author and TV Star: Mark Changizi, PhD
Alan Marnett, the Founder of BenchFly.com interviews Mark Changizi to get his thoughts on the book, the process of developing great hypotheses, and the sexiest theory he can’t pursue.
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The Tyranny of Making Ideas Happen
Beware of stifling a creative organizational culture when executing ideas.
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Story & Games
A look at the importance (or lack thereof) of story in games.
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Despite Less Play, Children’s Use of Imagination Increases over Two Decades
Children today may be busier than ever, but Case Western Reserve University psychologists have found that their imagination hasn’t suffered – in fact, it appears to have increased.