There is a new book just recently released. Think Smart, by Richard Restak, M.D.

Think Smart Book

From the Book Review:
Dr. Restak talks about why it’s never too late to enhance brain function, and provides information to prove that assertion.
Chapter 5, “Fashioning the Creative Brain,” by saying it’s about “think outside the box.” Dr. Restak provides examples and exercises to illustrate what it means to think in nontraditional ways. He then goes into what some of those ways are, providing interesting examples. He concludes this chapter by providing four steps to increase your productivity.

Chapter 6, “Impediments to Optimal Brain Function and How to Compensate for Them,” is probably the most important chapter for the typical reader. Most of us are fine with how smart we are now. We just want to keep it that way. That’s what this chapter is about. Dr. Restak identifies behaviors and situations we can control, to minimize damage to what we’ve got.

SOURCE: mindconnection.com

Click here to read the book review by Reviewer: Mark Lamendola

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From .wired.com/epicenter

Twitter Paid $6 or Less for Crowdsourced ‘Birdie’ Graphic
Simon Oxley, the Japan-based Brit who licensed the bird graphic to Twitter for the price of a sandwich, through iStockphoto, sits somewhere in the middle.

“I
am not sure [whether crowdsourcing hurts designers],” he said via e-mail. “I believe a designer can only be ‘hurt’ when they stand in line — instead of constantly seeking new inspiration and producing new things with their ever-increasing experiences.”

Fair enough. But since Twitter, which now ranks above Digg as the 84th most popular website in the world according to Hitwise, doesn’t sell any merchandise depicting the bird or use it as their official logo (it’s considered a “decorative element”), the company only had to pay Oxley his share of iStockphoto’s licensing fee.

An iStockphoto spokeswoman told wired.com that Twitter paid between $10 and $15 for Oxley’s bird design. Considering that iStockphoto pays 20 or 40 percent to content creators depending on their membership, Oxley made somewhere between $2 and $6 for designing the Twitter homepage graphic. Carolyn Davidson, who famously earned only $35 for designing the Nike swoosh, actually made out pretty well by comparison.
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