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What’s your story?

StoryCorps, the extraordinary oral history project launched by Dave Isay and Sound Portraits, has taken to the road. (If you don’t know what StoryCorps is, check out Chapter 5 of A Whole New Mind, stroll through Grand Central Station, or listen to this great piece from NPR’s Morning Edition.) A fleet of Mobile Booths is […]

The Family Guy economy

Doonesbury spots a seismic shift in the commencement season zeitgeist. (Thanks to David Bonowitz for this one.)

Mini-Sagas: Another approach

Chapter 5 of A Whole New Mind discusses the importance of Story as a professional and personal ability. And one of the exercises in the Portfolio (AWNM‘s signature collection of tools, tips, etc.) at the end of the chapter is writing “mini-sagas” — that is, very short stories, only 50 words long. In southern California

Word of the Day: Hygrid

This Wired story went online yesterday–and the email inbox is starting to fill. Check it out. And if you can, work the word “hygrid” into one sentence today.

Archimedes was right

Research to be published today in the journal Cognitive Brain Research suggests that we’re more creative lying down than standing up. In a study conducted by a psychologist at the Australian National University, subjects solved anagrams faster in a prone position than while standing. What’s behind these results? Noradrenaline. That’s a neurotransmitter that enhances the

MBA vs. MFA

Listen to last night’s Marketplace commentary here.

Ramblin boy, why don’t you settle down?

In the words of Dave Loggins . . . please come to Boston. Actually, to Cambridge. 38 Cameron Avenue, to be exact. Thursday night at 6:30. Lisa Dennis and the Boston Company of Friends are hosting a book talk. More info here.

Right-brain game

If you pride yourself on sharp powers of inductive reasoning and a keen understanding of the Internet, try this addictive game: Guess-the-Google. (Thanks to Jeffrey Cufaude and Josh Rubin for this one.)

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