Transcript: Scientists say we all have the potential for greatness if we learn to tap into our inner genius. Get your artistic juices flowing with these strategies. Step 1 Sleep on it. Over the years, researchers have found that the REM sleep cycle boosts our creativity and problem-solving abilities, providing us with innovative ideas or [...]
by Luciano Passuello, LiteMind In this post, I present a summary of the mind-expanding bestseller How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day, along with some thoughts about Leonardo and the book. Leonardo is my Childhood (and Adulthood) Hero Since my childhood, I was utterly fascinated by the figure of Leonardo da Vinci and [...]
**Featured on the National Geographic News Vimeo: Astronomer’s Paradise is the first episode of Atacama Starry Nights timelapse movie series. Cerro Paranal is truly an astronomers paradise with its stunningly dark, steady and transparent sky. Located in the barren Atacama Desert of Chile it is home to some of the world’s leading telescopes. Operated by [...]
Directed by Kirby Dick, this documentary goes into the famously elusive – and arguably obfuscatory – founder of deconstructionism, Jacques Derida, whose polarizing work has been both praised by many and disparaged my others. Released in 2002 – 2 years before Derrida’s death – the documentary is sure to be of interest to any Derrida [...]
“Broken-hearted” isn’t just a metaphor—social pain and physical pain have a lot in common, according to Naomi Eisenberger of the University of Califiornia-Los Angeles, the author of a new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. In the paper, she surveys recent research on the overlap [...]
The Quest for Tannu Tuva DocuWiki: This programme is the US version, but it is Feynman’s voice that is featured for majority of the time, and the soundtrack redub by an American narrator intrudes relatively little. Although retitled “The Last Journey of a Genius” for the US broadcast, the programme is surely essentially the same [...]
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