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Killer Stress

by Amanda on September 25, 2008


‘Just wanted to point you to an article I wrote about “Stress: Portrait of a Killer,” a show that aired last night on PBS. (One of the things the show illustrates is that for both humans and other primates, social rank is a …

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Tagged as: documentary, essays, fulfillment, nature, science, work

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Dreams, ideas, and so forth…

by kateb on July 20, 2008

I’ve been thinking lately about fishing for ideas in my dreams. I do a little bit of it now and again. I know what you might be thinking: who wants to hear about the dream someone else had the night before? I do. I love that my mind has conjured up images or plot lines running from the mundane (a summary of my day sifting past) to the crazy:…

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Tagged as: books, creativity, dreams, essays, kate_barrett, science

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The Biology of Creativity

by Amanda on December 3, 2006

More fodder for our ongoing discussion re: what exactly creativity really is, from NPR’s Studio 360:”Discover what modern biology can tell us about creativity. We wonder if there’s truth in the stereotype of the mad genius. A professor explains how she maps the location of creativity within the brain. While a neuroscientist finds out we can learn a lot from an orchestra of elephants…”-The Studio 360 …

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Tagged as: creativity, science

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