An exploration both artistic and scientific, Jonah Lehrer's Imagine: How Creativity Works tells us why a walk can lead to a big idea and how brainstorming dulls imagination.
FC: How does creativity work?
Lehrer: The word ...READ»
Liam Hemsworth will send off Jennifer Lawrence to battle their peers in The Hunger Games.
Nothing makes moviegoers squirm like watching children die on the big screen. As The Hunger Games--in which 24 children are forced to fight to ...READ»
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DECEMBER 1: Silicon Valley Rocks Entrepreneurs moonlight as rock stars at this fundraiser for music education.
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PlayStation's latest handheld console will hit Japanese shelves in December but will miss the holiday season in the U.S. and the U.K. How much will it cost Sony?READ»
Christie's auction house will sell off the glimmering collection of the late Elizabeth Taylor beginning December 13 in New York. It's expected to fetch well over $30 million.READ»
In adolescent angst lies true meaning. "Whether Hello Kitty diaries, homecoming photos, or some crappy high-school poetry, they reveal profound things about the people we've become," says Dave Nadelberg, cocreator of Sundance ...READ»
A pharmacy run out of this storefront near Miami billed a federal agency for
$776,298--in just nine days. There were no real employees. There were no real patients. There were no real prescriptions. How medical fraud has become an untreated epidemic.READ»
In a New York classroom, 15 students are jammed around a table with laptops. The instructor is critiquing the class's website--and in the process, advancing one of the most interesting experiments in education today. This is General Assembly. This is augmented education, a stopgap for the startup economy.READ»
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Given Wall Street's tightened purse strings, perhaps it's no surprise that the Wall Street Burger Shoppe and its $175 Richard Nouveau burger couldn't survive the recession, bailout, and fallout. The restaurant, ...READ»
