Photo by jurvetson Richard Huntington, Director of Strategy for Saatchi & Saatchi in the UK, has a pathological hatred of brainstorming: I hate brainstorms. I hate running them, I hate …
Lateral Activity
Cartoon by Hugh MacLeod It's time to spread the link love by highlighting some great examples of Lateral Activity elsewhere on the web... You can tell the economy is in a bad way when we cautious …
How Darwin Devised His Theory of Evolution
When the HMS Beagle sailed into Falmouth, England on 2 October 1836, after a five-year voyage around the world, she carried a new scientific celebrity. The ship's naturalist Charles Darwin had left …
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Darwin’s Voyage of Discovery
Photo by Vibragiel In the first article in this series, I asked the question How Did Darwin Get His Big Idea?. I considered a popular theory, based on Edward de Bono's lateral thinking, as to why …
How Did Darwin Get His Big Idea?
If you had an idea that was going to outrage society, would you keep it to yourself? This question is at the heart of the Natural History Museum's Darwin Big Idea Exhibition, currently running in …
What Do Your Possessions Say about Your Creative Obsessions?
Photo by interrupt Earlier this week I switched on the TV part way through a documentary about the late, great Stanley Kubrick. Presenter Jon Ronson was obviously a huge Kubrick fan, and was …
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