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Historical geniuses used the “creative nap” to give their minds a boost. Apparently, the “hypnagogic state” can help with problem solving.
From Aristotle’s lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant’s “scientific” racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
The first “running machine” — later known as the bicycle — symbolizes a key design idea.
The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
We’ve made god-like figures out of hard-charging CEOs — but it’s a bad idea to get high on your own supply.
Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.
The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?
Many key inventions were unique: one-offs.
An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
While weltschmerz — literally “world-pain” — may be unpleasant, it can also spur us to change things for the better.
A new model of the Antikythera mechanism reveals a “creation of genius.”
Delay the instant gratification of online knowledge and first seek out the wisdom within yourself.
Studio Ghibli movies celebrate the natural world using a very Japanese mixture of Shinto, Buddhist, and Daoist themes.
Elon Musk suggested remote-controlled, vibrating anal beads. Thankfully, there are more mundane explanations.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
“Salvator Mundi” sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.
According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky’s talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.
Despite being called the “dismal science,” economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.