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...intense scrutiny over the past 25 years by an army of researchers in psychology, sociology, anthropology and neuroscience. But no one has a better overview of this mysterious mental process than Washington University psychologist R. Keith Sawyer, author of the new book Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation (Oxford; 336 pages). He's working on a version for the lay reader, due out in 2007 from Basic Books. In an interview with Francine Russo, Sawyer shares some of his findings and suggests ways in which we can enhance our creativity not just in art, science or business...
...than in writing, but even apparently solitary creators like writers read constantly and talk to one another. In the 1920s and 1930s, for example, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis batted around religious and literary ideas with the Inklings, a group of unfashionably Christian professors who met weekly at an Oxford...
...jobs. He was in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. The disappearance of seeming paradises has been his lifelong companion. More than that, though, he is an amphibian of sorts who knows what it is to be both witness and victim. Though he has a doctorate from Oxford, lives in New York and teaches at Harvard, Ghosh was born in India, and grew up in Bangladesh, before moving to Egypt for two years in later life. Where another writer with his formal standing might simply lament the chaos that broke out across Asia after the tsunami, or the aftermath...
...meet demand. Ultimately, vaccine makers may need to go straight to the source: the flu virus' genetic code. By extracting snippets of viral RNA and transforming them into DNA strands, scientists can in theory create a template for antibodies that can ward off flu. Researchers at PowderMed in Oxford, England, have created a DNA cassette into which they can insert genes from whatever flu virus is going around and, they say, have a vaccine ready in less than three months...
...your food. We might even be thankful: ‘to microwave’ seems to have successfully beaten out the far less appealing ‘microcook,’ which saw a surge of popularity in the late 1970s but has, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), since only resurfaced in magazines such as Midwest Living. And this is all terribly recent when compared with ‘plow,’ which after 300 years in noun-land seems to have made the jump some time the mid 15th century.The interesting question to consider, and where...