Brain pickings

Multitasking is an essential skill in the era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter. But, argues neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin, it’s actually making us less efficient

Having the right diet doesn’t only improve your physical health, it can also help with your brain and memory.

Understanding brain fog, its causes, and relation to blood sugar can help reveal why you feel more cloudy than clear-headed—and offer solutions.

In short, lyrical selections, McGhee invites young readers to listen, look, breathe, taste, and dig in the natural world, highli...

An article talks about Creativity and the Common Cultural Misconceptions that Shroud the Word, Leading Thinkers given inputs on creativity and innovation.

Maria Popova founded Brain Pickings and each day casts her curatorial eye over a range of ideas and insights to open up to us her world of curiosity. She wants us to create and contribute to the world.

Description

by Maria Popova "In 1926, thirteen years before James Webb Young’s Technique for Producing Ideas and more than three decades before Arthur Koestler’s seminal “bisociation” theory of how creativity works, English social psychologist and London School of Economics co-founder Graham Wallas, sixty-eight at the time, penned The Art of Thought— an insightful theory outlining the four stages of the creative process, based both on his own empirical observations and on the accounts of famous…

Buy Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells by Iyer, Pico (ISBN: 9780451493934) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Neurologist Dr. Dale Bredesen developed the Bredesen 7—lifestyle habits that protect brain health. Follow these steps to optimize cognition.