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Posts from June 2012

  • Why supermarket tomatoes look great but taste bland | Not Exactly Rocket Science — June 29
  • The Psychology of Flow (in under 300 words) — June 29
  • Concluding the Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment — June 29
  • BBC Column: What makes us laugh? — June 27
  • 9 Simple Suggestions That Change People’s Perceptions — June 27
  • Why Are American Kids So Spoiled? — June 27
  • Learn To Play Piano In Your Sleep — June 26
  • Your Brain on a Magic Trick — June 26
  • Why We Remember Song Lyrics So Well — June 25
  • Your Musical Brain — June 25
  • Unconscious Creativity, Conscious Creating — June 25
  • The Attention Economy Primer — June 25
  • Reading and Guilty Pleasure — June 25
  • Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional — June 25
  • "How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read" by Pierre Bayard — June 25
  • Why Crowded Coffee Shops Fire Up Your Creativity — June 22
  • Why We Stop Learning: The Paradox of Expertise — June 22
  • Against Positive Thinking: Uncertainty as the Secret of Happiness — June 22
  • Reimagining Books: How Citia's iPad App Compares to a Paper Book — June 22
  • How to evolve your own musical melodies — June 19
  • New Scientist TV: What the golden ratio sounds like — June 19
  • What If Beethoven Gave Your Commencement Speech? — June 19
  • Myst-like Universities, Oxford-like Games? — June 18
  • It All Began With a Strange Email — June 18
  • How Music Benefits The Brain — June 18
  • Deirdre N. McCloskey: Happyism — June 18
  • Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans – review — June 18
  • Research Shows That the Smarter People Are, the More Susceptible They Are to Cognitive Bias — June 15
  • The Pixar Touch - history of Pixar: Pixar story rules (one version) — June 15
  • Feeling Flow in Funny Places — June 15
  • The Art of Coffee: A Mad Men Era Short Film — June 14
  • Why Weird Experiences Boost Creativity — June 14
  • Lose Yourself – Becoming the Characters You Read — June 14
  • Story & Games | Talking Philosophy — June 13
  • How Silence Works: Emailed Conversations With Four Trappist Monks — June 13
  • Why Do We Say 'Hmm' When Thinking? — June 13
  • 3 Ways to Be Less Busy and More Productive — June 13
  • Can Music Save Your Life? — June 13
  • Mark Vanderbeeken: The English Language Innovation Bias — June 13
  • The Cognitive Behavioral Miracle – Controlling your Emotions — June 8
  • Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely on the Relationship Between Creativity and Dishonesty — June 6
  • Is popular music becoming sadder? — June 5
  • If You Want to Succeed in Business, Read More Novels — June 4
  • Jules Evans – Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations (Little Atoms podcast) — June 4
  • Jonah Lehrer – Imagine: How Creativity Works (Little Atoms podcast) — June 4
  • Where Does Passion Come From? — June 4
  • The Role of Intuition and Imagination in Scientific Discovery and Creativity: A 1957 Guide | Brain Pickings — June 4
  • Dave Lee: GTD sucks for creative work. Here's an alternative system. — June 4
  • Where Does Decaf Come From? …and Other Burning Questions About Coffee — June 4
  • Apple's Newton MessagePad PDA at Twenty — June 3
  • Storytelling our energy future | SmartPlanet — June 1