This week I'd like to start with an article about creativity and writing which is, according to the Fast Company title, backed up by science! It includes tortoises and John Cleese video (With this Monty Python crowd, I imagine "according to Cleese!" may have the same effect as according to Science!)
Creativity according to SCIENCE
Science was the top word
Top word of 2013 is science
I imagine editors are happy to see science thrown into a title whenever possible. A quick scan of the Fast Company homepage shows 4 articles containing "according to Science" on the main page. Do not get me wrong, I am happy to see science getting so much press. Although, at times, it seems thrown in a bit gratuitously.(Gratuitous throwing is a real thing in Ultimate Frisbee, a favorite sport for my son, his friends, and dogs):
[The frisbee player and dog in the photo are not related to me though;-)]
Back to the article...The usual things that help creativity like exercise, sleep, moving on to something else and coming back after a percolation period are well-known, even not according to science. Writing with pen and paper has always been a creative juicer for me...There is something about the physical act of making the letters that a keyboard does not do. And now, I know, according to science, it works. . .
Mr. Cleese notes that creativity is like a tortoise in that it pokes its head out gingerly to see if it is safe to stay out.
He speaks of writing a funny sketch, losing the paper it was written on, and then recreating it from memory. When Mr. Cleese found the old sketch, he realized the newer one was much funnier.
I am going to set this post aside for awhile and see how that percolating works.
Percolating results:
Popular Science is an oxymoron these days.
Gilda Radnor's quote about creativity percolated through: "I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity."
Hope you are having a wonderful Earth Day enjoying science and creativity.
Scientifically!,
Word Woman (Scientific Steph)
Newsflash: Putnisite, a new, soft mineral with an interesting composition has been discovered in Western Australia
Here's the source article from Science News:
PUTNISITE
