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Nope. The only news I can find about Will Smith and millions is that it was a viral post which was debunked. Apparently, Chris Rock never filed a lawsuit.

No. I watched some French television coverage of the OIympics, and I plan to take my first vacation to France next year.

Things which can be done: Do things a messy room with low light. Science studies show both lighting and your environment affects creative thinking. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/10/messy-desk https://psmag.com/economics/dim-lighting-sparks-creativity-60437 Take an improv comedy workshop...

Since I'm learning French, it's exciting times. It's a rare opportunity for the Olympics to visit the country of the foreign language you're learning.

Creativity is important to engineering. The study was done in 1968 during the Space Race. NASA was interested in developing a test to measure the creative potential of NASA scientists and engineers.

Actually, one more graph:

Creativity, among artists, but also including inventions and Noble Prize winners, peaks between the ages of 35-40. Therefore, I don't see the brain as an explanatory factor for the precipitous drop of highly creative children and teenagers, although certainly for the decline of creativity output...

A NASA study found 98% of pre-schoolers are "creative geniuses." This drops to 12% by high school and 2% for adults. https://creativityworkshop.com/articles/creative-geniuses I strongly don’t believe this is a biological hardening of brain plasticity. Creativity is crushed out of you by...

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I think you meant to say skill. Most of what people call "talent" is simply the result of dedicated training. I do believe there is some support for natural born talent because of how our brains can process information differently, but it's such a small fraction of a factor. The training...

Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

Not yet. There is a book with his concept art, but it's expensive. I should definitely get around to it someday, though.

I have the art book The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist. It's a great book. You can see the original production concept art of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Aliens, TRON, Blade Runner, and Blade Runner 2049, among others. There is one page which is most particularly interesting...

Well, it's actually a law of power. Law 38: Think As You Like But Behave Like Others "If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to...

How do you feel about subscriptions coming to treadmills, inkjet printers, and the horsepower in cars, which is happening? Things are going to get worse. While this may sound absurd, it wouldn't be too surprising if bedroom alarm clocks become a subscription, because after all it's doing you a...

The definition, common usage, of subscriptions has changed over the years. It used to be you could keep what you paid for. Magazines which you received didn't disappear from your home if you cancelled your subscription. Now, with software subscriptions, proprietary file formats, and "the cloud,"...

Scientifically speaking, alcohol suppresses the prefrontal cortex of your brain where decisions are apprised. Over time, it slowly erodes your ability to think.

Adobe is a dumpster fire right now with the change of their terms of use which grants them a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works, publicly perform, the work from your files. It's "solely for the...

This is a trick shot of language learning. Once you have reached at least an intermediate level (B1 or B2) where you can understand most of what people say and where you will not forget a language if you spend time away from it (you may get rusty, but it will quickly come back), you can watch...

It's a common problem for artists. You sit down to a blank canvas, wanting to make some art, but no ideas come to mind. One approach to solve this problem is by always having an idea before you sit down. The best ideas usually come when you're doing something else, like taking a shower or...