Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
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Try writing a novel without using the letter "e."
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
Want to write a time-travel story? Do so at your own risk.
Glimpse into the ancient Maya empire through the writing of its own inhabitants.
It can write 5-minute songs based on short text prompts.
The Reitoff principle gives us permission to "write off" a day and intentionally step away from achieving anything.
Great writing can unveil the criminal psyche better than any other artistic medium.
New radiocarbon dating reveals astonishing insights.
Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.
"Painfully forced" is how one contemporary critic described Fitzgerald's writing style.
A thesaurus isn’t to find big and fancy words, but a resource to help you find your rhythm.
In "Dear Oliver," neuroscientist Susan Barry describes how her 10-year correspondence with Oliver Sacks unleashed her inner author.
Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written.
We used to think, "That email isn’t going to write itself." But now it can, thanks to AI. And there's so much more, from coding to marketing.
If you want to write and speak well, use common words, not grandiose ones. Unless you're Shakespeare, you're more likely to annoy people.
Like some cold poison creeping up our veins, there's a frisson in the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
Because Dylan “samples and digests” songs from the past, he has been accused of plagiarism. But imitatio isn't the same.
“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.
The author of classics like "A Farewell to Arms" and "The Sun Also Rises" is known and loved for his simple yet effective writing style. Here’s how to imitate it.
The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
Expressing gratitude encourages others to continue being generous, promoting a cycle of goodness.
When science is a source of spirituality in people’s lives, they feel happy and engaged.
The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
In a guest essay for Big Think Business, Pedro Franceschi — co-founder and co-CEO of Brex — explains why deftly navigating between vision and details is crucial for successful leaders.
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.
He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.
The Pan-American Highway began a century ago with a vision of unfettered motor-vehicle access between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. What happened to the dream?