Creative Thinking

CrEaTiVe Thinking.

Think like a wise fool. The wise fool will reverse our standard assumptions, notices things that other people overlook, can be irreverent, cryptic, absurd, takes the contrary position in most conversations and stimulates thinking. 
Example: "If a man is sitting on a horse facing the rear, WHY do we assume that it is the man who is backwards, and not the horse?".

The Wise Fool 

(from Roger von Oech)

To create, a person must:

• Have knowledge but forget the knowledge
• See unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder
• Work hard but spend time doing nothing
• Create many ideas yet most of them are useless
• Look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different
• Desire success but learn how to fail
• Be persistent but not stubborn
• Listen to experts but know how to disregard them

 

from SayPeople

from deviantART

Links:

http://blog.creativethink.com/2011/08/think-like-a-wise-fool.html

from Michael Michalko

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Majorana particles

Majorana fermions.

Dutch researchers discovered the predicted Majorana particles (quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles). Computer technology based on quantum bits (qubits, 0 AND 1 at the same time) i.s.o. bits (0 or 1) will result in very fast computers, which in turn will speed up development of e.g. medicins. 

Fermions vs. Bosons: 

"Particles and quasiparticles come in two basic types, fermions and bosons, depending on the type of spin they have. The elementary particles of matter (electrons, quarks and neutrinos) are fermions, while photons and other force carriers are bosons. Particles are paired with antiparticles—antimatter electrons are positrons, etc.—but photons are their own antiparticles. To annihilate, particles and antiparticles must have opposite charge, so Majorana fermions, which are their own antiparticles, need to be electrically-neutral. At present, no fermion is known to be its own antiparticle, although neutrinos may have this property (we don't yet know)." 

majorana-fermions-in-a-nanowire

arXiv

The Physics arXiv blog.

 http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/

My most favourite blog is by far that from the Technology Review: "The Physics arXiv blog". Some very interesting topics below: 

• Mathematical Model Computes Snow Flake Shapes for the First Time

• Self Portrait of Young Leonardo da Vinci

• How Neutrino Beams Could Reveal Cavities Inside Earth

• Electron Holography Produces First Image of a Single Protein

• Physicists Predict The Existence of Time Crystals

Holography of a Protein Molecule

Time Crystals

Snow Flakes

Leonardo

Images are from Technology review.
 

SnapIt

SnapIt.

The screen capture software SnapIt captures anything you see on your PC screen. It is a convenient tool for graphic designers, bloggers who capture and crop images for their posts, for tech writers who need to describe menus and interfaces of applications, web designers and those who work with graphics every day. It captures and auto saves images with one click.

Researchers 'recreated' a Stradivarius for the first time by making use of hi-tech tools such as X-Ray images, CT scanning and computer-aided carvin.

Unfortunately, we can't make use of these hi-tech tools. The only tool we have is making screenshots. Cropping these screenshots after being captured with PrtScrn is often a hassle. The handy tool SnapIt is a covenient solution to tackle these problems.

* Supports hotkeys, auto-saving, clipboard
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* Tracks capture history, auto-saves captured images
* Saves files in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats

* Auto-names captured images

SnapIt, a convenient tool for us bloggers

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