A cognitive psychologist has developed a toolkit to help anyone be more inventive by shedding their preconceived ideas and thinking like a kid. Every entrepreneur is trying to do something new and better. If your business doesn't improve in some way on the other dry cleaner in town or other app in the space, then why bother starting it, right?
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You can tell a lot about a person from their body. And I don’t just mean how many hours they spend at the gym, or how easy it is for them to sweet-talk their way out of speeding tickets. For the past several decades researchers have been studying the ways in which the body reveals properties of the mind
Read More »Scientific American Tweet-Up at the American Museum of Natural History
You say you’d love a fun science evening? Great, here s your chance
Read More »Stories that Sharpen Your Mind [Interactive]
Novels may be made up, but the emotions they evoke are real. These feelings grow out of our connection to the novel’s characters and the relationships between a protagonist and others in the context of the broader society. As we follow the ups and downs of a carefully crafted story, we build connections within the social and emotional regions of the brain.
Read More »Food We Eat Might Control Our Genes
“You are what you eat.” The old adage has for decades weighed on the minds of consumers who fret over responsible food choices. Yet what if it was literally true?
Read More »Martin Lindstrom, Branding Expert
Martin Lindstrom, author of Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy, speaks about marketing and branding and how to successfully navigate them. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201111/live-chat-martin-lindstrom.html
Read More »MIND Reviews: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy by Martin Lindstrom. Crown Business, 2011 [More]
Read More »The Pill and Relationship Satisfaction, aka the power of interpretation
I sometimes think I could write an entirely different blog, devoted entirely to oral contraceptives. I don’t know that it would make any difference, but there is just SO much misinformation out there
Read More »Ken Robinson On The Principles Of Creative Leadership
"Creativity is not some exotic, optional extra," says the author of "Out of Minds: Learning to be Creative." "It’s a strategic issue." Sir Ken Robinson is among the world’s elite thinkers when it comes to creativity and innovation. The author of Out of Minds: Learning to be Creative , a 10th anniversary edition of which was published in March, and The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything , Robinson has dedicated much of his professional life to helping governments, educational systems and businesses understand that creativity is not a fanciful luxury.
Read More »Entanglement can help in classical communication
(PhysOrg.com) -- When most of us think of entanglement, our minds jump immediately to quantum communication. "Entanglement has become very well known and useful in quantum communication," Robert Prevedel tells PhysOrg.com. Prevedel, a scientist at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, believes that entanglement can be used in classical communication as well.
Read More »Video: What do guys want?
TODAY’s guest Donny Deutsch gives women relationship advice by answering viewers’ questions and decoding what is going on in the minds of men everywhere. (TODAY show)
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