September 18th, 2012 at 9:50 pm » Comments (0)

Allison Morris recently emailed me about a graphic she helped create that describes the benefits of music, found on the onlinecollege.org website. As I wrote in another blog post, I’m ...more »

July 26th, 2012 at 8:35 pm » Comments (1)

As I was meandering around the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport recently waiting for a connecting flight back home, the latest issue of Scientific American Mind (July/August 2012) caught my eye ...more »

December 20th, 2011 at 7:31 pm » Comments (0)

I ran across some articles on educational gifts that might be of interest: Educational toys? Try DIY science experiments instead, USA Today article by Liz Szabo, 13 December 2011. Szabo gives ...more »

December 13th, 2011 at 8:10 pm » Comments (0)

Customer Collaboration, Part 1, discussed how a tee-shirt company, Threadless, collaborates with its customers. Part 2 continues this with how Volusion, an "all-in-one" e-commerce site, collaborates with its customers. April Joyner ...more »

December 13th, 2011 at 7:49 pm » Comments (0)

If you're looking to stimulate your brain and increase your mental faculties, read Ways to inflate Your IQ, from the Wall Street Journal November 29, 2011, issue, by Sue Shellenbarger. ...more »

December 13th, 2011 at 7:25 pm » Comments (1)

In How To Study, one of the recommendations was "The night before the exam, review the toughest material right before going to bed." The December 3-4, 2011, Wall Street Journal article ...more »

November 10th, 2011 at 8:57 pm » Comments (1)

Failure's relationship to creativity has been discussed in this blog several times before -- expecting, tolerating, embracing, and learning from failure. The October 29, 2011, Wall Street Journal article, The ...more »

November 9th, 2011 at 7:42 pm » Comments (0)

Daydreaming and mining your dreams for ideas have been discussed in this blog before, but an October 27, 2011, Wall Street Journal article, The Music of His Dreams, really blew ...more »

November 8th, 2011 at 9:25 pm » Comments (1)

As I've mentioned in an early podcast episode, you will be more creative in the things that you have spent a fair amount of time studying, and so the October ...more »

November 7th, 2011 at 8:13 pm » Comments (0)

From the October 24, 2011, Wall Street Journal article, Top 'Innovators' Rank Low in R&D Spending, by Melissa Korn— Korn writes of a new report by Booz & Co showing little ...more »