Ursula K. Le Guin and the reaction against realism
Scott Timberg writes in the Guardian of the influence of Ursula K. Le Guin on modern authors, especially in the way she has help to wean her long-time readers from a “puritanical distrust of...
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Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation — so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep...
View Articleinternet: noun, archaic
From the 2212 edition of the Holographic Dictionary (University of the Oort Cloud): internet: noun, archaic a short-lived communications system from the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, originally...
View ArticleJohn Cleese on creativity
“We get our ideas from what I’m going to call for a moment our unconscious — the part of our mind that goes on working, for example, when we’re asleep. So what I’m saying is that if you get into the...
View ArticleTED: Different ways of knowing
Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia — meaning that his perception of words, numbers and colors are woven together into a new way of perceiving and understanding the world....
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