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Biases in Research

2013-11-25

Strange how you can completely miss discrimination, but seem obvious in hindsight after you see it. Some examples, including a report on post-docs and a study on cybersexual harassment.
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Neil Gaiman’s Commencement Speech

2013-11-25

One of the best storytellers giving a commencement speech. Yeah.
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FIRE Webinar — Free Speech Walls and Beyond: Promoting and Defending the First Amendment on Campus

2013-11-22

Some comments on a great web-seminar, free speech walls and free speech zones, and a few general ideas.
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The 7 Deadly Habits of Highly Destructive People

2013-11-13

There's this book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", well, here is the dark side. What people can do to make your work life really sucky.
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Are you happy with your life? And what are your skills?

2013-11-10

There's a good website with tests that are actually useful and well constructed (not the usual psycho-bubble). It's interesting to do a few of these tests, esp. the skills test, and compare the results over time.
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Generation 35 Plus — Some Insights into the German Academic System

2013-11-09

There's an interesting report on the German Academic System which divides young scientists into hopefuls, fatalists, and holdouts. Whereas there are some problems with the overall report (incl. the data basis), these descriptions seem to make sense -- as do the consequences.
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Negative Creativity

2013-11-05

Creativity is value neutral. It can be used for positive and negative purposes. Here is one -- very negative -- work of mine.
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Loneliness and Solitude in Creativity

2013-11-04

Some reflections and a lot of quotations about solitude vs. loneliness.
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Thinking Critically — What did really happen?

2013-11-03

There is a lot of misinformation out there -- deliberate or accidental. An argument for thinking critically and starting with the basic question: What did really happen?
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Selection Processes

2013-11-02

A short rant about the role of the selection process, esp. in academia.
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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.