“We are obsessed with the idea that some people are more creative than others. But we’re just not training creativity in the right way.” – Angus Fletcher – Neuroscience reveals that narrative thinking—the brain’s natural tendency to create stories about...
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“The war was legendarily vicious, bringing disease, pestilence, starvation, and the depredations of soldiers.” – Chris Sandrolini – What began as a religious rebellion in Bohemia evolved into a three-decade European power struggle that established the “Westphalian system” we recognize...
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“Language was the trigger for modern human behavior. Somehow it stimulated human thinking and helped create these kinds of behaviors.” – Shigeru Miyagawa – Recent MIT genomic research reveals our language capacity emerged at least 135,000 years ago, potentially catalyzing...
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