Creativity Archives

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The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The Lover of Music, Travel, and Dance Infusing Art and Creativity Into Public Policy

We canvassed the world of the social and behavioral sciences, looking for rising stars whose careers promise to make a lasting mark. We'll be profiling the top 30 throughout the month of April.

Avital Andrews

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Algorithms Aren’t Killing Creative Culture

Algorithms are fundamentally uncreative. Every set of crunched numbers, every calculated outcome, needs an equal and perhaps opposite human component to bring it to life.

Kyle Chayka

Want to Be More Creative? Get Out the Electrodes

New research finds a particular type of brain stimulation can increase creativity.

Tom Jacobs

Social Justice

Making Art Tied to Fewer Cognitive Problems in Old Age

A Mayo Clinic study finds decades spent on creative work pay off.

Tom Jacobs

Social Justice

What Makes You So Smart, Creativity Cultivator?

Noah Davis talks to creative Oni Hartstein about reading, drawing, creating communities, and how a trip to Disney World changed her life.

Noah Davis

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Artists in the Antarctic

For years, the National Science Foundation has been sending professional creatives to the icy south in an attempt to promote understanding of the least-explored land on Earth. Is it working?

Jillian Hinchliffe

Social Justice

Block Quotes: Advice From Great Writers About Kicking Writer’s Block

A catalog of cures for writers in crisis.

Ted Scheinman