Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It’s because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi explains the connection between spacing out and creativity.
August is a good month to go on holiday, and on holidays many of us like to eat and drink well. And there’s this common belief that good quality comes at a price. This doesn’t only apply to food. But it this true? Does expensive food really taste better?
When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and the development of our natural talents is just one of them.
It’s the middle of summer so it might be a good idea to learn a couple of interesting facts about some famous landmarks. Who knows, maybe one of those is your next holiday destination!
Computers are our everyday reality. But we often use them without knowing how they work. The question is, do we actually need to know how computers work? What do we gain (if anything) from such knowledge?
