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Creativity and Intelligence: a Tripartite Structure? | Psychology Today

RT @ScepticGeek: Brilliant RT @sanatgersappa: The shape of your problem - http://t.co/bU6qTkXv

Saturday 8:24

RT @wadhwa: Exoskeletons to help disabled people being developed. Probably 3-5 years from being affordable, practical.

Saturday 8:48

RT @GautamGhosh: RTing every tweet addressed to you has got to rank up there as the worst way to use Twitter - after those auto-DMs went away!

Saturday 8:45

RT @ScepticGeek: Brilliant RT @sanatgersappa: The shape of your problem - http://t.co/bU6qTkXv

Saturday 7:38

RT @timoreilly: "Efficiency only matters if you don't like what you're doing." @adamshand on building his own house #kiwifoo12

Saturday 7:29

Bookmarked a link: Facebook

Saturday 5:31

Local people said most of the passengers bled to death because of the lack of proper trauma care facilities in the local hospital.

India has a terrible road safety record, with more than 100,000 people dying every year in crashes.

Speaking to the Spadina Manager was fruitless and she refused to help, because of this policy. The only thing I could do was to get on a streetcar, go up to Bloor and pick up my order there. I was furious. This was taking precious work time with my colleagues out of a very busy day with a hard deadline on a critical client project.

Saturday 4:57

Bookmarked a link: Kenneth R. Miller: America's Darwin Problem http://t.co/Wz1r9mv5

Saturday 4:36

I asked the Manager for compensation for my trouble (this trip turned into well over an hour to pick up food that should have taken 10 minutes) and she did not offer anything. I again expressed my dissatisfaction, and then she finally relented and gave me a coupon for a free juice. This tiny compensation on a large order and an hour of my time just seemed ridiculous to me. It barely covered my streetcar fare. I couldn’t believe the lack of care for customer satisfaction and the inability of the Manager to make it right.

The Manager basically told me that she didn’t believe that their system was broken. I informed that Manager of this, and she seemed unconcerned and basically acted as though I was lying. She told me that she had tested the system herself in the morning at the start of her shift, and it had been working properly. She didn’t explain why they had to test the system every day, which seemed unusual and appeared to me that they had had problems with it in the past, otherwise why would they be testing it regularly?

Our Darwin problem matters for two reasons. First, it threatens the future of American scientific leadership in an increasingly competitive world. Convince enough young Americans that science is a close-minded system with a particular cultural and political agenda, and we will cede leadership to emerging countries that don’t share our Darwin hang-ups, and see science as the wave of the future. If you doubt this is happening today, look at the graduate programs of America’s research universities, still the greatest in the world. Increasingly, they are filled with bright, eager, creative students from around the world, taking places that American students just don’t seem interested in filling. Once trained, they will become the scientists of the future, while more and more of our own students have been persuaded that science has nothing to offer them. If this doesn’t change, scientific discovery will increasingly become something that happens elsewhere.

On Wednesday, 23 members of a wedding party were killed in a traffic accident in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. Their bus was in a head-on collision with a lorry.

Drivers who use cannabis up to three hours before driving are twice as likely to cause a collision as those not under the influence of drugs or alcohol, says a Canadian study.

One member of the group, however, broke ranks with the others and boldly declared, “I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming.” How’d that turn out for him? Jon Huntsman’s early exit from the race confirmed something else he said at the time. “Call me crazy” for trusting science, he tweeted. And sadly, it looks like he was right.

Saturday 4:15

Very Long Day Trip (Murudeshwara) now also on Facebook, for your sharing and commenting pleasure! http://t.co/YaNPN9Tr

Saturday 5:31

Kenneth R. Miller: America's Darwin Problem http://t.co/Wz1r9mv5

Saturday 4:36

headlikeanorange: A male Six-plumed Bird-of-Paradise tidies up his display area and tries to attract a female.

Many, many years ago, I received a call from the police to collect my border collie from the cells charged with shoplifting. I was stunned. It seems she had developed a liking for catching a bus into town and snacking in the poshest deli. How did you know she is mine? I asked. Because, they said, she has been doing it for so long all the drivers knew where to drop her off on the way home. She was legendary and I was mortified. The store said they hadn’t really minded - until she started on the caviare! I still thank my stars they didn’t demand compensation, I’d still be paying.

So, then, just to be absolutely clear, if I were to say ‘The book Lavender-Green Magic by Andre Norton contains references to this song on pages 7, 22, and 207,’ this would be deleted also, because I do not cite any scholarly articles that state that those references exist? Because the original work itself is not considered a ‘reference’? Or, to put it another way, if I were to assert that The Joy of Cooking were a cookbook, without references except to the book itself, I assume that would be deleted as well? Because, like any sensible person reading The Joy of Cooking would conclude that it is a cookbook, any sensible person reading Lavender-Green Magic, with its multiple references to the song, the name of the book, the overarching king/queen references, etc, could in no way avoid the conclusion that it is based on the song.

Friday 19:29

Bookmarked a link: Long Day Trip to Murudeshwara - a set on Flickr

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Friday 17:50

Je donne des cours privés, je fais de la vente de savons de Marseille, je travaille sur des chantiers et à l’EPFL pour payer mes études. L’apprentissage de l’allemand n’est pas un luxe. Et l’Etat devrait soutenir ceux qui font l’effort d’apprendre une langue nationale.

Friday 16:50

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Stephanie Booth lives in Lausanne, Switzerland with her cat Bagha.

Her domain of expertise is online culture and communication (or "social media consultant/strategist", or whatever the hot name for all this web 2.0 stuff is these days). Ask her if you want to know more about what she does.

Read more exciting details about her life and Climb to the Stars, where she has been blogging for the last 10 years.

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