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Muting the Mozart effect | Harvard Gazette
A new study about the “Mozart Effect”, the controversial idea that studying music can increase IQ in children.
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“What Use Is Poetry?†by Meena Alexander | World Literature Today
“Why do we have poetry in a time like this? For me that question folds into another: What does it mean to belong in a violent world?
I think of the invisible archive that each of us bears within, a deeply personal ingathering of sights and sounds and scents and bits of the sometimes ruined materiality that memory allots—and perhaps this is another way of thinking about the coruscating flow of the inner life that gives meaning to our existence, all that comes up when we dare to say “I.†And surely this is the province of poetry. “
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Creativity is rejected: Teachers and bosses don’t value out-of-the-box thinking.
An interesting article about how creativity tends to be viewed negatively.
