Recent Feeds + Reads: 2012

Does fantasizing give you the motivation to achieve your goals? — December 31
Our Health Comes Through Commitment to Others — December 30
The Science Behind Good Vibes: How Mindfulness Actually Works — December 30
Colored Lights Will Lift Your Mood — December 30
Game Theory: The Passion Behind ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ — December 29
Stunning Photos of Cities Without Light Pollution — December 29
Best psychology books of 2012 [The Observer] — December 28
The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012 [Brain Pickings] — December 28
Zen and the Art of Work — December 28
Awe-Inspiring Art as a Byproduct of the Freeze Response — December 27
Parrot listens to Scissor Sisters' music — December 27
Dealing With the Danger of Cognitive Hubris — December 27
explore-blog — December 27
Feeling Overwhelmed? — December 26
30 Surprising (And Controversial) Ways Students Learn — December 26
Best Space Photos of the Year 2012 — December 26
Quick and Easy Ways to Quiet Your Mind — December 26
How to Turn Off Negative Thoughts in Your Mind — December 24
7 New Exercises to Boost Happiness — December 24
BBC Column: when you want what you don’t like — December 24
Stereotyping You By Your Favorite Album of 2012 — December 23
What are the top five career regrets? — December 23
Take Off Your Inverted Spectrum Glasses: Color’s True Charm is in the Brain — December 23
The cycle path to happiness — December 23
The Best Music Books of 2012 [Brain Pickings] — December 23
The Overview Effect and the Psychology of Cosmic Awe — December 23
Chronicles of chronology: The power of seven — December 23
How Failure Helps You To Succeed and Grow — December 22
DESIGN FORWARD: Creative Strategies for Sustainable Change — December 22
Filmography 2012 — December 22
Color Psychology: What Does It Reveal About You? — December 22
The top 10 science books of 2012 — December 21
Creative Passion or Just Doing What You Really Want — December 21
Eclectic Method’s Spectacular Mashup of Hollywood Visions of the Future — December 20
A Splendor Seldom Seen: Saturn backlit by the sun — December 20
The Science Behind Productivity — December 20
The Art of Living — December 19
Music's effects on the mind remains mysterious — December 19
Alone Together, Again — December 19
Listen up worry warts, ruminating won't solve your problems — December 18
Six [more] things that suck the life out of your productivity — December 18
I've discovered classical music isn't just for snobs — December 18
My Symphony, by William Henry Channing — December 18
Enjoy a hypnotic time-lapse video of a spider weaving its circular web — December 17
What are the two most common tricks advertisers use to manipulate you? — December 17
Dave Brubeck is good for your brain — December 17
The Power of Concentration — December 17
The lasting mystery of the Hawthorne Effect — December 16
6 ways retailers trick you into buying more crap — December 16
12 Letters That Didn’t Make the [English] Alphabet — December 16
The Fine Art of Italian Hand Gestures: A Vintage Visual Dictionary by Bruno Munari — December 16
Ditching Gadgets May Boost Creativity — December 16
55555, or, How to Laugh Online in Other Languages — December 13
Workplace Distractions: Here's Why You Won't Finish This Article — December 13
Why do you read 1000 things about change and never change? — December 12
What Does Space Travel Do to Your Mind? NASA’s Resident Psychiatrist Reveals All. — December 12
Milky Way Over Quiver Tree Forest — December 12
What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience — December 12
7 Ways to Outsmart Your Brain And Be More Innovative — December 12
4 Scientifically Proven Steps to Mastering Change — December 11
How Healthy Eating Addresses the Cause of Depression — December 11
Urban jogging may be making you dumber — December 11
“Everyone has filters to select information that receives attention.” — December 10
Stereotyping You by Your Favorite Book of 2012 — December 10
The Story Of The Wheelie Suitcase And The Importance Of Implementing Innovation — December 10
10 Reasons Why Some People Love What They Do — December 9
Chill Out and Get Enlightened: A Newbie’s Guide to Meditation — December 9
Rethinking the Endowment Effect: How Ownership Affects Our Valuations — December 9
Neuroscience Fiction: What Neuroscience Really Teaches Us, and What It Doesn't Matter — December 9
What listening to a story does to our brains — December 9
The Power of Outrospection — December 9
5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried — December 9
Snow Flakes and Ice Structures — December 7
Portal: the graphing calculator edition — December 7
minimalmac — December 7
10 Famous Writers on How to Read — December 7
Can Multitasking Make You Sad? — December 7
8 Mistakes People Make When Searching for Authentic Happiness — December 6
Pollution and Well-Being: A Startling Connection — December 6
Why aren’t you doing what really makes you happy? — December 6
Quote: Life, as we all know, is conflict ... — December 5
How to Catch a Cat — December 5
Mindfulness: The Art of Cultivating Resilience — December 5
Three Studies That Changed the Way We Think About Productivity — December 5
Looking at Loneliness: Survey Results — December 4
To Really Read Emotions, Look at Body Language, Not Facial Expressions — December 4
Selective Hearing: How Your Brain Extracts Meaning from the Noise — December 4
Seven may be a wonder but four is just about the limit for your brain processes — December 4
The Honest Truth about Dishonesty: RSA Animate Version. — December 2
Susan Cain on the Power of Introverts, Live-Illustrated by Molly Crabapple — December 2
Suggestions for Savoring Solitude — December 2
5 Tricks of the Mind You Need to Master — December 2
Why Do British Singers Sound American? — November 29
What do the words you use say about you? — November 29
Where is your mind? — November 29
To Listen — November 29
Why Your Opinion About Music Can Be Wrong — November 29
Reading, writing and playing games may help aging brains stay healthy — November 25
Music gets you high — November 25
Low Quality Job As Bad For Health As No Job — November 25
Why Can't We Tickle Ourselves? — November 24
Meditation appears to produce enduring changes in emotional processing in the brain — November 24
The History of Boredom — November 24
What we suffer from today — November 24
evolution of the mobile phone by docomo — November 22
Coffee helps you see the bright side — November 22
Board games popular again — November 22
Happiness or Meaningfulness – But Not Both — November 15
Classical Music Brain — November 15
Staircase by Danny Kuo. — November 15
Banished Words — November 14
Half of the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong — November 14
The culture that is news — November 14
Me Translate Funny One Day — November 14
The Science and Art of Listening — November 13
What 5 counterintuitive things can help you make better choices? — November 13
Happiness, Philosophy and Science — November 11
Short Film Spotlight: Pixar’s La Luna — November 11
Trust Me, I’m Lying: Why Sites Like Gawker Manipulate You — November 11
Monopoly Is Theft — November 11
Our brains can make fast decisions, and accurate decisions — but not at the same time — November 9
The four lessons other developers can learn from the Valve employee handbook — November 8
Remind me to inflate my tires tomorrow at 9 am — November 8
The Apple Haters' 7 Stages of Grief — November 7
The whiner's room — November 6
A Snapshot of Caffeine's Fascinating Effects On The Brain — November 6
Why do we like people who like the music we do? — November 6
The Psychology Of Tetris — November 5
Scientists Dissect the Psychology of 'Truthiness" — November 5
Introverts use more concrete language than extraverts — November 5
Why Fiction Writers Should Learn Math — November 5
The Uses Of Difficulty — November 4
Studying ‘Star Wars’: Professor offers philosophy course in the Force — November 4
Music in Our Ears: The Science of Timbre — November 4
A Book Manifesto — October 30
10 Ways Your Brain is Smacking You Around and What to Do About Them — October 30
How a Cat Boosts Your Creativity — October 30
Loneliness? It’s All a State of Mind — October 30
5 Ways to Break Through A Creative Block — October 30
Multitasking Loses Its Cool; Mindfulness Is Now In — October 30
Cope with pain by changing how you picture it — October 26
Whoever tells the best story wins — October 26
The Year’s Most Spectacular Microscopic Photos — October 26
The Science of Why We Blush, Animated — October 22
Incognito': What's Hiding In The Unconscious Mind — October 21
Valve, a Video Game Maker With Few Rules (Game Maker Without a Rule Book) — October 21
Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, Say, and Do — October 21
The Practice of Mindfulness — October 18
10 of the Most Breathtaking Panoramic Photos We’ve Ever Seen — October 18
Music is at once the most wonderful, the most… — October 18
The Science of the Perfect Nap — October 16
Computer games at work improve mental well-being, memory — October 16
If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This — October 16
Boredom has more to do with you than the situation — October 16
Things You Won’t Believe Science Says Make You Happy — October 15
Why Music – Part Five: Music and Education — October 15
Seven portions of fruit and vegetables a day for happiness and mental health — October 15
How Getting Creative Heals Pain: An Interview with Deb Eiseman — October 15
11 Creative Breakthroughs People Had in Their Sleep — October 12
Does sleep deprivation lead to risky decisions? — October 12
RSA Animate - The Truth About Dishonesty — October 12
Defrag Your Brain With a Spark File — October 12
Gorgeous Miniature Worlds Created from Hundreds of Photos — October 12
Five Reasons Why Stoicism Matters Today — October 11
How Memories of Experience Influence Behavior — October 11
19 Ways to Bounce Back from Just About Anything — October 11
Why We're Suckers for Sorrow — October 11
How To Get Yourself To Meditate — October 10
The Four P’s of Creativity — October 10
Book Review: Automate This — October 10
Why Doing Nothing Is the Key to Happiness — October 10
15 Things You Gotta Know About Coffee — October 9
The psychology of the powerful — October 9
Struggling to Reconcile Conflicting Beliefs? Listen to Some Mozart — October 9
Music Lessons — October 9
10 Essential Books for Book Nerds — October 8
Why it’s Better to Have a Strategic Philosophy than an Ideology — October 4
Reasons to Do What You Love — October 4
Twelve Essential Psycho-Political Films — October 4
Crazy expensive coffee maker brews the coffee of the future — October 4
Synchronizing Metronomes — October 4
Making It Through Tough Times: An Ancient and Wise Way to Bounce Back — October 3
What 6 rules should be guiding your career? — October 3
Aristotle’s 12 Virtues and The Path to Happiness — October 2
Meet the hexaflexagon. It’s about to blow your mind. — October 2
5 Characteristics of a Strong Mind — October 1
15 Things We Now Know About Money and Happiness — October 1
Why Misinformation Sticks and Corrections Can Backfire — September 27
A Conversation with Innovation Guru Clayton Christensen — September 27
When You Can't Sleep, How Good Is Lying in Bed With Your Eyes Closed? — September 27
Why Solving Puzzles Is Fun: Q&A with Consciousness Researcher Daniel Bor — September 27
“I’m Bored!” – Research on Attention Sheds Light on the Unengaged Mind — September 27
Cool infographics for all six episodes of the Star Wars saga, — September 27
Why your memory is like the telephone game — September 26
An Introduction to Creativity — September 25
15 Incredible Ways Music Affects Your Brain — September 25
Rethinking Sleep — September 25
To Succeed, Forget Self-Esteem — September 24
A Counter-Intuitive Remedy to Feeling Short of Time — September 24
Famous Robots — September 24
Why Movie Sequels and Remakes Almost Always Fail — September 24
How to Taste Coffee — September 24
Positive Thinking vs. Positive Psychology — September 23
Stretching yourself to learn new things — September 23
Comments are the radioactive waste of the Web — September 22
The 2012 Ig Nobel Prize Winners — September 22
Procrastination Inception: The Science of Procrastination - And How To Manage It — September 21
Retrain Your Brain to Reduce Worry — September 21
Labeling Negative Emotions In The Moment Can Help You Overcome Them — September 21
Orée Board Maple — September 21
Postcards From Google Earth — September 21
Deep Space : 2012 winners : Astronomy Photographer of the Year… — September 21
The Neuroscience of Belonging — September 20
Theory: Music Underlies Language Acquisition — September 20
Ego Depletion, Motivation and Attention: A New Model of Self-Control — September 19
The 20 Most Significant Inventions in the History of Food and Drink — September 18
Scientists cast doubt on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle — September 18
What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience — September 18
Neverending stories — September 18
Bach on record: Play it again — September 18
A Solar Filament Erupts — September 17
Here It Is: The Best Word Ever — September 16
Get fit faster: listen to music! — September 16
This Is Your Brain on the Internet (Maybe) — September 16
Rejuvenate Your Brain While You Work: 10 Ways — September 13
3 Myths About Creativity That Just Won’t Quit — September 13
Best Foods for Your Brain — September 13
The Creativity of the Wandering Mind — September 13
5 Reasons Video Games Are Actually Good for You — September 13
"Video Game" is a Bad Name for the Medium (Also Inside: RPGs) — September 10
What Work Is Really For — September 10
This is your brain on Jane Austen, and researchers at Stanford are taking notes — September 9
9 Ways Neuroscience Has Changed The Classroom — September 9
Politics & Alternative Reality Fiction — September 9
The science of conducting: Von Karajan was right — September 9
Taste buds and 'tude: The food and mood link — September 9
On Reading and Books — September 9
Why does coffee never taste as good as it smells? — September 9
Employee Brain on Stress Can Quash Creativity And Competitive Edge — September 7
The Great Ideas of the Social Sciences — September 7
The best interface is no interface — September 7
The Thing You Think You Cannot Do: Thirty Truths About Fear and Courage — September 7
How well can we know ourselves? — September 7
The Role of "Ripeness" in Creativity and Discovery: Arthur Koestler's Seminal Insights, 1964 — September 7
Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy edited by Nicholas Joll – review — September 6
Four Geeky Laws That Rule Our World — September 6
10 Essential Italian Films — September 6
The Science of "Chunking," Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity — September 6
'This Will End In Tears': Soundtracks For Down Days — September 6
Philosopher Muses on “The Art of Procrastination” — September 6
What’s the matter with analytic philosophy? — September 6
The mystery of the stopped clock illusion — September 6
Making Choices: How Your Brain Decides — September 6
Experts in Programming Share Their Knowledge with "The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got" Series — September 6
Dante’s 9 Circles of Hell in LEGO Form — September 5
Book Notes - Charles Yu "Sorry Please Thank You" — September 5
This Is Your Brain On Management — September 5
Does Contemporary Neuroscience Support or Challenge the Reality of Free Will? — September 4
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do. — September 4
How to Read Like a Writer — September 4
The Slowest Reader — September 4
What Kind of Book Reader Are You? A Diagnostics Guide — September 4
A Point of View: Are tyrants good for art? — September 3
Why we Troll — September 3
The neuroscience of winning explained — September 3
Awesomely blemished inverted solar beauty — September 3
Working From Home? You're a Better Worker — September 3
Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science — September 3
"Economics in Denial" — September 3
What books can teach you to be the best? — September 2
What does it take to become an expert at anything? — September 2
37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady — September 2
How Consciousness Evolved and Why a Planetary "Übermind" Is Inevitable — September 2
Puppet experiment suggests humans are born to be fair — September 2
The Terrors & Occasional Virtues of Not Knowing What You’re Doing — by Jad Abumrad — September 1
The Economics Revolution Will Be Televised — September 1
What Some of the Greatest Science Fiction Writers Thought 2012 Would Be Like — September 1
Stanford researchers' cooling glove 'better than steroids' — September 1
The science behind our weirdest behaviours — September 1
Daniel Kahneman: Why Moving to California Won’t Make You Happy — August 31
The science and psychology of memory — August 31
What It's Like for a Deaf Person to Hear Music for the First Time — August 31
Playing Games for All the Wrong Reasons — August 31
The Neuroscience of 20-Somethings — August 31
How to Forgive, and Why You Should — August 31
Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep — August 30
The Algebra of Coffee Consumption — August 30
The Compendious Coffee Chart — August 30
How To Be Unhappy — August 30
10 Reasons Why Some People Love What They Do — August 30
Understanding the Psychology of the American Idea of Choice — August 30
The Imperfect Balance Between Work and Life — August 30
The Science of Bad Neuroscience — August 30
Learning a Second Language can Improve a Child's Memory — August 29
Memory Enhanced by a Simple Break After Reading — August 29
Why Morning Routines are Creativity Killers — August 29
The Psychology of Customer Service — August 29
Why Being Busy Can Keep You From Getting Ahead — August 29
“Books are the training weights of the mind.” — August 29
Science awakes to benefits of Yoga — August 29
Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics — August 28
Why Gadgets Are Great for Introverts — August 28
A Point Of View: The trouble with freedom — August 28
Brushing Your Teeth Keeps Your Brain Healthy — August 28
Riddled with irregularity — August 28
The Psychology of Team Turnarounds — August 27
Redefining Work and Ourselves — August 27
The Neuroscience of Creativity and Insight — August 27
The Only 2 Tricks You Need for Maximum Productivity — August 27
Watching reruns can actually help restore willpower — August 27
Top 5 Surprises When Starting Out as a Software Developer — August 27
Awe expands your sense of time - and makes you less materialistic — August 27
Getting lost in a good book can help keep you healthy — August 27
John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering — August 27
What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier — August 27
Learning while you sleep: Dream or reality? — August 27
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Indie Developer Lifestyle — August 26
Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged — August 25
Microsoft Logo — August 25
10 Studies That Reveal What Customers WANT You To Know About Them — August 25
How Umbria Changed My Mind About Italy — August 25
Language and Emotion – Insights from Psychological Science — August 25
Macintosh Stories: On Xerox, Apple and Progress — August 25
Michael Mauboussin’s Behavioral Economics Reading List — August 25
Usability Expert: Windows 8 on PCs is Confusing, a Cognitive Burden — August 24
Everything in Writing and Life is Fiction — August 24
What popular science books have changed the world? — August 24
10 Bands That Changed the Sound That Made Them Famous — August 24
What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day — August 24
The Top 10 Psychology Books You Should Read — August 24
The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory — August 24
Brain Science: 10 New Studies That Get Inside Your Head — August 24
The psychology behind the appeal of original artwork — August 24
How Do Cats Purr? — August 23
Google Introduces "TrueView" Ads for YouTube on Android — August 23
7 Essential Books on Music, Emotion, and the Brain — August 23
Creativity may be a nerd’s best revenge — August 23
Time Flies When You’re Having Goal-Motivated Fun — August 23
A little music training goes a long way: Practicing music for only few years in childhood helps improve adult brain — August 23
Typewriter landscape — August 23
Spirituality correlates to better mental health regardless of religion, say MU researchers — August 23
The Interesting Times Triangle — August 23
The Philosophical Roots of Science Fiction — August 22
Why meditation is not just sitting — August 22
Greek myths shed light on our modern world — August 22
12 Choices Your Future Self Will Thank You For — August 22
100 novels everyone should read — August 22
Psychologists link emotion to vividness of perception and creation of vivid memories — August 22
Guessing Game: ‘The Lord of the Rings’ as Written by Other Famous Authors — August 22
For Those Who Want to Lead, Read — August 21
Embracing Creativity — August 21
How to Start Meditating — August 21
The Science Behind Why Power Naps Help You Stay Productive and Creative — August 21
Six things you need to know about your users — August 21
Stop Calling Sherlock a Sociopath! Thanks, a Psychologist. — August 20
The Difference Between Time Management and Task Management — August 20
Fending Off Life’s Slings and Arrows, Such as Divorce, with Stoicism — August 20
The Point of Exclamation — August 20
The 10 Best End of the World Novels — August 20
Top 100 Teen Books — August 20
The Right Way and Wrong Way to Let Your Mind Wander — August 20
Where Do Sentences Come From? — August 20
Can Meditation Make You Smarter? — August 20
Why Living in the Moment Is Impossible — August 20
Understanding the Dangers of “Ego-Depletion” — August 20
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less — August 17
11 Songs Inspired by Literature — August 17
If Hemingway wrote JavaScript — August 16
A Brief History of Money — August 16
The Calendar as a Meme: A Brief History of Timekeeping — August 16
The iPad Put A Fork In Personal Computing — August 16
Strangers on a bus: Study reveals lengths commuters go to avoid each other — August 16
The Moral Limits of Markets — August 16
Italo Calvino's 14 Definitions of What Makes a Classic — August 16
The secret allure of the spoiler — August 15
Notes Towards a Philosophy of Sleep — August 15
The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time — August 15
A Conversation with Robert Bellah — August 15
The Psychology of Employee Retention — August 14
The Death of TV: 5 Reasons People Are Fleeing Traditional TV — August 14
Samsung is Apple's Biggest Fan — August 14
Golden Ratio in logo designs — August 14
Increasing The Productivity of Computer Programmers and Engineers — August 14
Some things I've learnt about programming — August 13
Empirics and Psychology: Eight of the World’s Top Young Economists Discuss Where Their Field Is Going — August 6
Learning New Tasks Is Good For You - But Difficult — August 6
15 of the Greatest Lists in Literature — August 6
11 Meta-Novels That Will Blow Your Mind — August 6
Music we like can be more distracting than music we don't — August 3
Revealing the Psychology of Playing Card Magic — August 3
For More Pianos, Last Note Is Thud in the Dump — August 3
You Are (Probably) Wrong About You — August 3
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge — August 1
Are You Creating Disgruntled Employees? — July 31
How to Land Your Kid in Therapy — July 31
Does Quantum Physics Make it Easier to Believe in God? — July 31
Creative? Introverted? Then You're Probably Not Seen As A Leader — July 30
Lodnon 2102 - the official Oimplycs site — July 30
Brain Is Biased When Learning New Information — July 30
Engineering flowchart — July 30
Why Society Doesn’t Change: The System Justification Bias — July 30
Pop music too loud and all sounds the same: official — July 29
Why Is Everyone on the Internet So Angry? — July 29
Art and the Limits of Neuroscience — July 25
Why we love to hoard… and how you can overcome it — July 25
Study: Awe-Inspiring Experiences Change Our Perception of Time — July 25
5 Psychology Studies for Smarter Web Design — July 25
Psychohistory & Big Data — July 25
The Reading Lists of Your Favorite Fictional Characters — July 25
If You Liked My Book, You’ll Love These — July 23
What To Read Next — July 23
The conversation: Can happiness be measured? — July 23
Creative Thinking – What Is It? And How Can You Start Doing It Now! — July 23
The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains (part I) — July 23
Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Happiness — July 23
Message to Managers: Your Strategy Is Not What You Say It Is — July 23
This much I know: Daniel Kahneman — July 23
Seven hours sleep key to a sharp mind — July 19
10 Limits to Human Perception ... and How They Shape Your World — July 19
UC Irvine Release: Jettisoning work email reduces stress — July 19
Funny People: Erik Wolpaw, Portal 2 head writer — July 19
Brain power shortage: Applying new rules is mentally taxing and costly — July 18
El Patrón de los Números Primos: Prime Number Patterns — July 18
Act Fast, but Not Necessarily First — July 18
Psychology is Science — July 18
How to be creative – the short honest truth — July 18
Games for Change: Teaching With Portal, Fixing Brains With iPhone — July 18
Does the Internet Really Make Everyone Crazy? — July 16
Purpose-Driven User Experience — July 16
How not to go insane while working from home — July 16
Devaluing the Pound Isn’t a Solution, It’s Default — July 15
Some things I've learnt about writing — July 15
Change the Way You Look at Things and the Things You Look at Change — July 15
Why Tablets Are Content Creation Devices: It’s All About Context — July 15
Teaching psychology isn't about Freud, profiling serial killers or reading body language — July 13
Are We Losing Creative Thinking Ability? — July 13
10 Science Fiction Novels You Pretend to Have Read (And Why You Should Actually Read Them) — July 13
Where You Spend The Most Creative Minutes Of Your Day — July 13
An Anatomy of Inspiration, 1942 — July 13
When the Crowd Isn't Wise — July 11
Steve Jobs on programming, craftsmanship, software, and the Web — July 11
The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math — July 11
Sales higher in bookshops with cafés — July 9
The Case for Coffee: All the Latest Research to Defend Your Caffeine Addiction, in One Place — July 9
The LIBOR scandal: The rotten heart of finance — July 9
How Money Makes People Act Less Human — July 9
Too much testosterone, too much confidence: the psychology of banking — July 9
Cognitive-behavioral therapy effective in combatting anxiety disorders, study suggests — July 9
Listen to Music “Played” by Very Unlikely Sources — July 9
How Playing Games Makes You Live Longer — July 9
The Chattering Mind by Tim Parks — July 9
Colour Assignment - By Joe Hallock — July 3
Caffeine boosts power for elderly muscles — July 2
The Long History of the Espresso Machine — July 2
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
Storytelling our energy future | SmartPlanet — May 31
Jane McGonigal: Games Teach Us To Have Epic Ambitions — May 30
The Scientific Search for the Essence of a Tasty Tomato — May 29
Music: It's in your head, changing your brain — May 29
Clayton Christensen On How To Find Work That You Love — May 29
Rands In Repose: Two Universes — May 29
What can business leaders learn from ancient philosophers? — May 29
Why fiction is good for you — April 30
Into The Wild: Lost Conversations From Steve Jobs' Best Years — April 23
John Cleese on the 5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative — April 19
Sword & Sworcery LP - The Ballad of the Space Babies | Jim Guthrie — April 2
And Here's The Secret Reason Apple Is Crushing Google... — March 26
The Neuroscience of Your Brain on Fiction - NYTimes.com — March 26
Train Your Brain for Monk-Like Focus — March 26
How We Use Music to Manage Our Stress and Emotions — March 26
When Gaming Is Good for You - WSJ.com — March 26
The Iced-Coffee Economy: Why the Cold Stuff Costs More -- Grub Street New York — March 26
The Russian Doll Model of Economic Growth | OnTheSpiral — March 26

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