What about Superman?
Phone booths may seem like a 20th century invention. However, Paris introduced them in 1884 and a year later, New York City had installed 10,000 of them.
In May, NYC removed its last phone booth….
This is for the birds!
There is more to bird chirping than you may realize. Officially called birdsong, these natural sounds are used in business and educational settings, and researchers rely on their clarity and consistency to study environmental disturbances.
Is that music to your ears?
Something for your sweet tooth
Doughnuts anyone? And while you’re dunkin’ one in your morning coffee, you can contemplate how the hole came to be in the middle…because it wasn’t always that way.
The story of what might seem to be about a contemporary confection actually had ancient beginnings, but we’re just going to cut to the chase
To your health!
Today we’re proposing a toast to your health with a glass of water, cardamon seeds and some surprising synergistic food combos. Intrigued? Good!
What are your three favorite logos?
We may not know that logos had their beginning in 1870. Yet, more than a century later, we do know the power of logos to influence buying decisions, and that companies spend billions to promote them.
In the book, Logo Beginnings, Jens Miller details a study of nearly 10,000 logos.
Creative approach to creativity training
Can adults learn how to be creative? Yes, claim researchers, especially since children reportedly lose their creativity after four or five years of schooling when educational instruction focuses more on logic, semantics and memory training.
Until recently, creativity training employed a 1950s technique known as divergent thinking—a “computational approach”