Here’s an interesting concept from Leonard Mlodindow’s The Drunkard’s Walk – How Randomness Rules Our Lives: “… the human mind is built to identify for each event a definite cause and can therefore have a hard time accepting the influence...

Hypothesis: if a culture does not possess an absolutely fluent command of at least one language, creativity may be impeded. The two main communication methods in most brainstorming sessions are drawing/writing and talking. A picture may be worth a...

Three students, a iPhone app, 15,000 people inspired to do a small good deed a day. Subscribers to the free application are prompted daily with a “DoGood”–a simple task from conserving water, to turning out a light, to beautifying the world. When...

This is one half of a two-page spread Nokia ad in the November issue of Monocle magazine. What an odd choice of image given the strap-line shown on the phone screen. Why is the technology actively getting in the way of me making a connection with (I...

I noticed today that I could often tell whether a CD jewel case is empty or not just by picking it up. A CD only weighs around 15g, against the almost 100g of a complete package with booklet. I think we often take for granted our sensitivity to...