Remix culture, revisited
Where do great ideas come from? Often, the answer is “other great ideas, sort of mashed together.” The term “remix culture” was coined...
Bright Lights, Big Ideas
Here’s one way in which all that talk about big-city glamor may be backed up by fact. Statistically, large cities yield a far higher...
Falling Apples and the Rise of Domain Knowledge
What is the most practical method for generating creativity? Despite our growing understanding of those neural processes, that question...
Old science and new horizons
The human brain is one of the true wonders of the world; after all, it contained the source material for building each of the seven...
The Seinfeld Productivity Problem, and the Power of "Nothing"
When you think about Seinfeld, it's likely you think of his perpetually rerun TV show by the same name. His comedy was built on seemingly...
Sacrifice, Mastery and a Deal with the Devil
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, in examining the lives of Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, T. S....