Learning to do Science – Page 22 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Technology/Engineering and Psychology

2015-11-04

A nice quotation about the relationship between technology/engineering and psychology.

Picture: Book cover of "The Lost World" by Michael Crichton
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Another Way to Use InDesign to Layout your Thesis (with some help from Zotero and Word)

2015-09-21

If you need a high degree of control -- incl. visual control -- of your thesis layout, you might want to check out InDesign. Here's another workflow to use InDesign to layout a thesis.
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Interesting Discussion about Free Speech and Censorship at Universities

2015-09-19

Interesting debate titled "London Thinks – Trigger Warning!".
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Dealing with Apple Keynote’s Backwards Compatibility — or lack thereof

2015-09-19

A really annoying issue with older Keynote files (created prior to version '09) -- they can't be opened by the newest Keynote version. Unless you edit the file externally.
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Book Recommendation: “SJWs Always Lie” by Vox Day

2015-09-01

Probably the book of the moment regarding #GamerGate and Sad/Rabid Puppies, but also in the wider context of resisting SJWs' attempt to censor speech and art.
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Book Recommendation: “The Martian” by Andy Weir

2015-08-29

A beautiful novel about a more or less present day astronaut left behind on Mars and his attempts to survive.
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Two Quick Video Recommendations: Cultural Libertarian and Trigger Warnings

2015-08-28

Lauren Southern did an interesting video building on Bokhari's “Rise of the Cultural Libertarians“, and there's a nice sketch about Trigger Warnings.
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The Freedom to Create

2015-08-26

A few comments on the current outrage culture and a recommendation of two great articles, one on cultural appropriation and the other on cultural libertarianism.
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Oxford Union Society’s “Freedom of Speech and Right to Offend” Debate

2015-08-26

An interesting debate about free speech. Although it's depressing to see otherwise educated people to debate against free speech and the right to offend.
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Small Remote for iOS Keynote Presentations

2015-08-18

When you do a presentation with an iPhone, you either have to advance slides on the iPhone screen or use a remote. I've tried out AirTurn DIGIT II. The results were ... mixed.
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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.