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Can Computers Think? Can Men Feel?
A test was designed by computer scientist Alan Turing, back in 1950. Can a computer think? Can it feel? Scott Hutchins' A Working Theory of Love is a warmly funny debut novel about love, thinking, feeling, and regret. Here's our Q&A. read more
Breaking the Sound Barrier with Your Body? Ho-Hum.
You know that fellow who jumped out of a capsule from a greater height than anyone before? A surprising number of other adventurous men and women have performed dangerous and amazing medical and scientific experiments using their own bodies... read more
Wonder with a Thousand Faces Part 1
Wonder has many more faces and varieties than the wide-eyed one. If we want to tell, design, and live out enduring stories that matter - about ourselves, the adult world, the future, or fictional places - we would do well to track wonder in all of its forms. Story strategist and creativity consultant Jeffrey Davis gives a tour. read more
10 Brainy Tips for Hooking Your Reader
If you write in such a way as to intrigue a few brains, you'll hook and keep readers. Hook enough brains, and you might have a bestseller. read more
The Pesky Persistence of Labels
New study shows that just because a label has been lifted doesn't make it disappear. read more
Interview with Author and Magician Alex Stone
Interview with Author and Magician Alex Stone about his book "Fooling Houdini." read more
Four Insights Toward Mastering Your Art
Taking the time to achieve mastery is rewarding. read more
Chimps Around the Campfire? Not Quite
We can't know when oral storytelling began, but it's easy to imagine the earliest speech-capable humans sharing tales. read more
A Job as Creative Quest
To change a mindset incrementally requires a creative cognitive reframe and practical cognitive tools. For some despondent or near-burnt out workers, a quest might be the thing to change their channel. read more
Can Grief Be Written Away?
A teen boy was walking his girlfriend home when a drunk driver crashed into them. The girl died, the boy's brain was injured. Read this compelling memoir about a family's life cracked in half. read more
What Really Happened to the Jews?
It's possible to write creatively about an old, old subject: the real lives that came before the mass deaths of the Holocaust. read more
10 Creative Block Breakers That Actually Work
Whether you call it creative block or writer's block, or you claim not to believe in such blocks at all, everyone sometimes finds creative work coming less easily. That's when to turn to these fresh strategies. read more
That's No Tiger, That's My Mother-in-Law
We evolved in tribes. And we often continue to think the way we did in tribal times. That can work toward survival, or it can seriously mislead us by distorting reality. read more
Social Rejection Can Fuel Creativity
Social rejection fuels creativity for people with an independent mindset. read more
Tracking Wonder & Making More Time to Create
Awe expands time, and busy people can actually gain time by priming their creative mind. read more
He Left a Huge Post-Ironic Hole
A surprising number of publications have let ardent readers peek into the mind of David Foster Wallace, the brilliant writer who killed himself in 2008. read more
The Cognitive Psychology of Pick-up Lines
How perception and cognition influences receptivity to pick-up lines. read more
10 Insights to Enhance the Joy of Learning
The essence of the joy of learning. read more
7 Not-So-Summery Novels You Don't Want to Miss
All of these new novels are worth savoring for their creativity, their different takes on diverse human struggles, and their sheer readability. read more
Heads Up! Or on a Plate?
Neurosurgeon carves out creative new career as thriller writer. His latest novel echos the news with a fast-paced tale of body snatchers. read more
