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From Dracula to Hedy Lamarr – The Many Catalysts of Creativity
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 [...]
Reward, Intrinsic Motivation and Creativity
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 [...]
Looking Inside the Fishbowl of Creativity
Article Reviewed: Ruscio J, Whitney D, Amabile T. Looking Inside the Fishbowl of Creativity: Verbal and Behavioral Predictors of Creative Performance. Creativity Research Journal. 1998;11(3):243.
By Senior Editors Johnna Wagner and Natalia Urbanowicz.
Ever wonder why some people are more creative than others? What factors contribute to that creativity? Like you, many others have [...]
Get a Ph.D. in Happiness
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 [...]
Malcolm Gladwell – Age Before Beauty
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, [...]
Sir. Ken Robinson on creativity and education
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 [...]
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