From Bad To Worse: The Worst Ideas On The Mind

The Royal Institution write to tell me they've got some fascinating public events coming up, one of which they are...

"...putting on with the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London. It promises to be a good event - it'll be interesting and a bit lighthearted. The last event in this series got into the 'Best by day' section of Time Out, and we're hoping for an even better event this time."

Sounds like fun!

More information is available on our website.

The science of creativity


As Pablo Picasso once pointed out, all children are creative; the challenge is to remain creative into adulthood.

Unfortunately public education systems around the world seem designed to crush creativity in favour of rote learning and test passing. As the years pass a fear of being wrong takes over from our natural creative tendencies.

Unlike mathematics, languages or the humanities, we are rarely taught about creativity, despite its importance to our lives. Yet the information is out there, waiting to be used.

If you would like to be more creative at work and at home—and that has to be most of us—the insights in this ebook will be useful.

Click here to find out more...

Published: 19 June 2006

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