The Shakespeared Brain

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The Shakespeared Brain by Philip Davis, The Economists' moreintelligentlife.com: ​

We decided to try to see what happens inside us when the brain comes upon sentences like "The dancers foot it with grace", or "We waited for disclose of news", or "Strong wines thick my thoughts", or "I could out-tongue your griefs" or "Fall down and knee/The way into his mercy". For research suggests that there is one specific part of the brain that processes nouns and another part that processes verbs: but what happens when for a micro-second there is a serious hesitation between whether, in context, this is noun or verb?

Turns out the way something is written can alter our brains and change our minds. ​

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links (7/15/12)

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All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • Location, Location, Location: What I Learned This Week owl.li/1lnzFl
  • Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld's obit, showcasing an extraordinary life. owl.li/c5XjE /via @davepell
  • Fresh Green Ads - Street ads that are only displayed when it rains owl.li/c5hXV
  • The Little-Known History of How the Modern Olympics Got Their Start | Smithsonian Magazine owl.li/c5XhB
  • Ernest Hemingway Interviewed by George Plimpton - Paris Review owl.li/c5TXL
  • The 100 Greatest Internet Memes of All Timeowl.li/c6sau
  • Julie Taymor tells former Disney CEO Michael Eisner why she agreed to take on The Lion King. owl.li/c5QF4
  • Russian Weaponmaker Hires Choreographer For Tank Ballet owl.li/c5Qrw
  • Debbie Millman: Top 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Graduated College owl.li/c5hWT
  • 'The Next List': A look at 25 fascinating peopleowl.li/c5Qe9
  • Richard Branson Wants You To Be Goodowl.li/1liWqG
  • What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Weaker | Psychology Today owl.li/c5Qcr
  • Profile: Bill Gross, Idealab founder, says he has learned valuable lessons from the successes — and the flops. owl.li/c5Q0s
  • Love this.. Tate's Gallery of Lost Artowl.li/c5PEt
  • The Khan Academy Explains Corporations and Limited Liability owl.li/c5hSx
  • A Brief History of Money, Or, how we learned to stop worrying and embrace the abstractionowl.li/c5Pw6 /via @davepell
  • The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math owl.li/c5Psw
  • Most Influential Advertising Blogs and Bloggers owl.li/c7SUi
  • A year inside The Australian Ballet: Boys' Day, Episode 4 owl.li/1lgZEf
  • 5 Psychological Studies on Pricing That You Absolutely MUST Read owl.li/c5Pq9
  • Internet 2011 in numbers owl.li/c7STo
  • Daily chart: Accounting for time, How Americans spend their days, The Economistowl.li/c5Pjh
  • TED Books launches iOS store, with subscriptions owl.li/c7SS0
  • Morning Dose of Kubrick owl.li/c5hOF
  • Creativity Top 5: July 10, 2012 owl.li/1lftnf
  • Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World | Wired Businessowl.li/c5Pgw
  • MIT's New Battery-Free Chip Captures Energy From Light, Heat And Vibrations at the Same Time owl.li/c7SQs
  • If You Don't Prioritize Your Life, Someone Else Will - Greg McKeown owl.li/c5OnK
  • Project Re:Brief, the documentary owl.li/1lf8Vf
  • Meet the 2012 Creativity 50 - Creativity Onlineowl.li/c7NE3
  • How All 50 States Got Their Namesowl.li/c5Klv
  • Michael Bierut: Creating the logo for the Frank Gehry designed New World Symphonyowl.li/c5hNO
  • The Quest For Perfection owl.li/1ldmn3
  • How a Pronoun Shaped a Novel: Kurt Andersen owl.li/c5Gto
  • It's all in the timing: What I learned this weekowl.li/1lbTfu
  • Creativity Top 5: The Cannes Edition owl.li/1laQEp

Recommended This Week:

  • The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time By Jeff Deck, Benjamin D. Herson owl.li/c5hdZ
  • Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries By Peter Sims owl.li/c5h8J
  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness By Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein owl.li/c5h4y
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman owl.li/c5h1V
  • This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman owl.li/c5gZU
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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Location, Location, Location: What I Learned This Week

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  • Somewhere in New York's midtown Park Avenue's street numbers reboot ​and start over. Which means that on a busy day it is possible to find yourself at the right address but the wrong location. 
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The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is an image of a small region in the constellation Ursa Major, constructed from a series of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope. It covers an area 2.5 arcminutes across, about one 24-millionth of the whole sky, which is equivalent in angular size to a 65 mm tennis ball at a distance of 100 metres. The image was assembled from 342 separate exposures taken with the Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 over ten consecutive days between December 18 and December 28, 1995.  
  • While having dinner with friends we began to discuss the Higs Boson discovery and science in general. ​The conversation then moved to astronomy and the Hubble Deep Field. In the image above all those 3000 bright and not so bright objects are other galaxies. 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Richard Branson Wants You To Be Good

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The Bad Boy of Business Wants You to Be Good, by Chris Brogan, SUCCESS Magazine:

The first point you should realize when it comes to his leadership style is that Branson is fond of moving a strong brand and value DNA across all his pursuits, instead of keeping those concepts in a silo. This goes for all aspects of the business. The Virgin brand stands for many things, including a value for the money you spend, quality and fun. Branson has somehow mastered the ability to translate that sense of quirky not-quite-typical excellence across many verticals, from video games to mobile phones to airlines to health clubs. And now, more than ever, he is trumpeting his belief that business should also be a force for good and should help solve the world’s major issues.

​This is a great interview. Branson discusses his leadership style, ties as metaphors for what's wrong with management and his must-read book Screw Business As Usual. 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

A year inside The Australian Ballet: Boys' Day, Episode 4

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Where does the desire to dance come from?

​In Episode 4 of the ten-part behind-the-scenes series at The Australian Ballet, dancer Jake Mangakahia teaches a class of aspiring Baryshnikovs as part of Boys' Day, and reflects on his own dance journey and the importance of inspiring the next generation.

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.