Creative Intensive

NPR Correspondent Ira Flatow Presents
From Dracula to Hedy Lamarr - The Many Catalysts of Creativity

Tuesday, Nov. 13, 6-7pm
Location: The Avaya Auditorium, The University of Texas at Austin (first floor of the Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences building).

Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” show, will give a talk about […]

Article Reviewed: Hennessey B, Amabile T. Reward/Reality, Intrinsic Motivation and Creativity. American Psychologist. June 1998:674.
Hypothetical Conversation on Creativity, Reward and Motivation.
By Senior Editors Emily Hardy & Tim Ogletree

Imagine this…
INT. COFFEE SHOP - DAY
Robert Eisenberger sits alone, taking up a table for four. He hunches over his laptop with frustration riddling his face. Beth Hennessey and […]

Who doesn’t want to be happy? Turns out you can now get a Ph.D. in Happiness…Check this article from The New York Times:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1606395,00.html
I also found these interesting…
“The New Science of Happiness” from Time Magazine:
http://tinyurl.com/3353kz
Dilbert’s formula for happiness:
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/happiness_formu.html
Finding utopia on a wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia
Sign me up…

clipped from www.time.com

Getting Serious About Happiness

Studying happiness is hard. What one man […]

On February 21st 2006, Malcolm Gladwell gave a great talk about creativity. The event was part of the New Yorker Nights, a series hosted by the Columbia University Arts Initiative and The New Yorker. Gladwell is the author of:

The Tipping Point and Blink

Here, […]

Here’s a great speech on creativity by education guru and the author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, Sir. Ken Robinson from TED conference 2006:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4964296663335083307
And an interview with Robinson about the importance of nurturing innovative solutions in the classroom from
BusinessWeek, Feb 23, 2006
By Jessie Scanlon
How do you define creativity?
Ultimately […]

Richard Florida is a professor of public policy at George Mason University.

He is best known for his work in developing his concept of the creative class and its ramifications in urban regeneration. He received a PhD from Columbia University in 1986 and taught at Carnegie Mellon University from 1987 to 2005. He is the […]