The Center for Graphic Facilitation

Biology of Creativity

From Studio 360, broadcast Friday, June 30, 2006

Kurt Andersen looks deep in the brain to find the human impulse to be creative: madness, mirror neurons, creative genius and animal artists.

A must listen for those of us struggling to understand what happens when the brain lights up with the creative process and tips over into mad genius.

This podcast explores Eduard Munch, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, The Creating Brain, the biological roots of empathy, animal artists and what deep in our brains when we look at art.

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One in 6.5 Billion

Population: One. Simple and powerful representation on the world population and your place in it.

Whew. That's perspective making.

How Art Made the World

Last night I was torn away from my summer reality TV watching schedule by a great show on PBS. It's provocative title "How Art Made the World" made me stop and listen.

I happened to be catching it mid-season (episode 3 of 5). This episode was called "The Art of Persuasion" and taught me that Alexander the Great put his face on coins (the first to do so) to remind people who was in charge throughout his empire. This was one of the well-illustrated stories in the show. I invited you to tune in.

PBS's site is full of great information about the program, local listings and a DVD of the series with and accompanying book.

The Big Religion Chart

Jarrel McAlister found this really interesting "Big Religion Chart" for side-by-side comparisons of world religions. He was shocked to find that Atheists don't have an afterlife! Jarrell notes that "the chart could really use some graphic loving."

If you're up to the challenge--remember those riots over the Danish cartoons!--send us your results.

From ReligionFacts.com:

The ReligionFacts Big Religion Chart is an attempt to summarize all the complexities of religions and belief systems into tiny little boxes on a single, quick-reference comparison chart. As we always warn with our comparison charts, this is no substitute for reading about religions in greater detail. But this religon comparison chart can (hopefully) be a useful and accessible way to "get the gist" of some unfamiliar groups and compare basic beliefs and practices of the world's religions.