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No Clear Link Between Creativity and Mood Disorders
A systematic review doesn’t disprove the myth linking creativity and mood disorders but it shows there’s little evidence for it.
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How Images Trigger Empathy
The Atlantic: While looking back and trying to make sense of a year just ended, we often focus on its most hopeless parts, the violence and acrimony. Last year did include plenty of negativity to
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Free your eyes from the shackles of the shutter
The Boston Globe: MASSACHUSETTS NATIVE PAUL Theroux has roamed the world for decades, visiting countless countries and drawing on his experiences in dozens of published novels, short stories, and volumes of travel writing. He has
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Shutterbug Parents and Overexposed Lives
The New York Times: In “The Entire History of You,” the third episode of the dystopian British series “Black Mirror,” humans have developed implanted memory “grains” that record everything they see and hear. When users
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What Makes a Child an Art Prodigy?
The Atlantic: Stand before any abstract painting—try a Jackson Pollock or a Cy Twombly— and it’s inevitable someone will say: My child could have done that. For many, the dripping splatters or scribbles seem haphazard and simplistic, not
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Giving Meaning to ‘Art’
The New York Times: The psychologist George E. Newman of the Yale School of Management studies how people use “quasi-magical thinking” to intuitively determine the value of certain objects. By analyzing celebrity auctions of John
