Online on Wired Magazine today they posted an article about a clock at Corpus Christi College designed by clock aficionado, John Taylor.
As you may guess from its inclusion in this post, Taylor’s clock is no ordinary clock.
True, it is clock-shaped but instead of hands it has glowing LEDs on its face that indicate the passage [...]
In September or October of 2008 we were discussing “psychological creativity” in my Creativity & Innovation class. Psychological or “mundane ” creativity is when someone creates something that is new for them but may not be new historically.
Frank was attending my class that semester so that he could teach it while I was on sabbatical [...]
The wired blog network posted an intriguing article today. “Seeing Red: Tweak your brain with colors” is a summary of a Science article by Ravi Mehta and Juliet Zhu.
According to Brandon Keim who wrote the blog entry, Mehta and Zhu have demonstrated that colors enhance cognitive processing. Red was shown to enhance “attention demanding tasks” [...]