Alan Lightman: At the Intersection of Science and Religion
“I believe that it is bracing and vital to live in a world in which we do not know all the answers.” Alan Lightman holds a…
Tina Seelig: Leveraging What You Know to Innovate
It is important to remember that we’ve been born to be creative. Literally. The brain is a creativity machine and there’s increasing empirical data that demonstrates…
Bonobos Really Know How To Do It: Isabel Izquierdo on Play and Creativity
“Play is our adaptive wildcard. Play is essential. Play is the glue that binds us together.” Humans share a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos from about…
3 of the Most Amazing Things Bill Bryson Knows: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson was “just trying to fill an empty mind with as much interesting information as it could hold.” Sometimes asking the right questions leads us…
Abundance: A Magical Near Future with a Washing Machine for Everyone
Sociologist Hans Rosling was four when his mother first got a washing machine. It was a big day. His parents had been saving for years. Even…
Question with an Edge: What’s Worth Worrying About? Real Scenarios from Leading Thinkers
At first I was bothered by the whole idea. I don’t want to be worried. Things can happen, but why should I hear super-sophisticated reasons for…
Ken Robinson: How Schools Kill the Creativity We Need Now More Than Ever
“Creativity is as important as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.” Ken Robinson, author of the insightful, Finding Your Element: How to Discover…
A Movable Innovator’s Fest: 9 Essential Experiments and Game Books
A cornucopia of gaming and literature. The first five are literary, the final four represents a broader spectrum of current cutting edge and theoretical approaches. 1. Many Subtle Channels:…
0 Complete Answers, 1 Hidden Muse: Amy Tan on Creativity and Imagination
“The value of nothing? Out of nothing comes something.” How do you create something out of nothing? How do you create a life–an identity–out of that…
Gladwell’s Latest: A Classic Underdog Tale
Things aren’t always as they seem. Malcolm Gladwell’s books often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences and often clarify scholarly research, particularly…
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