This morning, I read a Psychology Today article written by Steven Kotler called “Why We Laugh.” that discussed humor and referred to Alistair Clarke’s article/book on “An Introduction to The Pattern Recognition Theory of Humor.” In it, Mr. Kotler provided a humorous anecdote and said it was ” … a perfect example of what British [...]
This post doesn’t have anything to do with creativity or analogy. However, it does concern a question about something I have a deep interest in and that is the issue of consciousness – human or animal. One of the students in my module of the Animal Assisted Therapy Certification program asked me the following question: [...]
I received an interesting email today from a former student. Her question: “I was wondering if perhaps the way people handle or express their depression is connected with their level of creativity. For example, some people’s form of escape is delve into an imaginary world with things like fairies and vampires and dressing “goth.” Other [...]
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 [...]
Today I read an interesting article in Wired by Clive Thompson. In it he makes some observations about the Creature Creator in EA’s soon to be released and long awaited simulation game – Spore. Specifically, he points out that the Creature Creator is fun, easy and is also – essentially – a 3-D design package. [...]