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...Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) Creativity Discussion Group, creativity can be found everywhere—not only in art, but in science, cuisine, sports, and cognition.Every Tuesday, faculty and students from Harvard meet informally to discuss creativity in different contexts, using anecdotes, allegories, and sometimes even props to express their personal understanding of this abstract idea. Participants of this Discussion Group identify a wide range of creative pursuits—from creating electricity with dirt to demonstrating the definition of the word with Legos.Held at the GSE on Appian Way, the Creativity Discussion Group was created after the Task...
...essential infectious melodies and beats. In the best of the genre, music emerges from the noise and occasional harmonies clarify overwhelming dissonances. Carefree chaos and defiant strength become nonsensical, not mysterious or intriguing, when nothing stands in contrast. Similar no-fi bands like No Age and Abe Vigoda express in their work an implicit understanding that powerful beats and electronic tones work best in the support of catchy tunes. “Wavvves” only demonstrates Williams’ failure to realize his impressive artistic potential...
...into hiding, an apology is just a start. But it's free, and it's right, and it's even empirically smart, whatever their pride and their lawyers may tell them. Most people file lawsuits out of anger, not greed. In states that passed "apology laws" that let doctors express regret when things go badly without having it thrown back at them in court, some hospitals have seen malpractice suits drop by half. Any marriage counselor can tell you that love means always having to say you're sorry. An apology is that rare instrument that restores strength through...
...crackdown, in part, has fed the grass-mud horse craze and similar online double entendres designed to flout the government's role as Big Brother. As one Chinese blogger told the Times, even with the most modern technology trying to hold them back, people will find a way to express themselves. "It is like a water flow - if you block one direction, it flows to other directions, or overflows...
...Chinese Writers Association. "It was then that I realized how serious and creative the so-called online literature can be." Although largely substituted now by social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in the West, the BBS still prevails in China today as a relatively free place to express dissidence, while no such leeway is allowed in the traditional media. The same rigid censorship that drove millions of users to BBS and other online forums likely also ushered many book readers into cyberspace. "All books are required to go through three rounds of government-supervised editing, which could take months...