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A recent international Gallup survey of more than two hundred thousand workers in 150 countries reported that 85 percent were either “not engaged” with

His former art-dealer boss, now an esteemed tastemaker in the art world, pronounced his drawings unworthy of being displayed displayed for sale. “Of one

When the National Transportation Safety Board analyzed its database of major flight accidents, it found that 73 percent occurred on a flight crew’s first

“to take ideas that are conventions in one area and bring them into a new area, where they’re suddenly seen as invention,” said sociologist

THESE DAYS, YOU CAN INVENt AN APP, START A BLOG, SELL SHIT ONLINE. BUT IF YOU’RE A DJ, YOU’RE GONNA NEED TO STAR WITH

Darwin always juggled multiple projects, what Gruber called his “network of enterprise.” He had at least 231 scientific pen pals who can be grouped

about music making in the 60s in Malibu. Good about impact of place on creativity, but better about the way music by other musicians

most Americans, for whom the phrase “theatrical entertainment” meant performances of stage plays and musicals by live actors. Movies remained a pastime of the

so I got ahold of Joseph LeConte’s [Elements of Geology]. Right there I decided to become an engineer.” He began to devote his nightly

This is the purest time I ever had in my life to do architecture. Everything else is tainted with 3 problems: clients, function, and