Creativity, Academic Apartheid & Global Living Conditions

The power of cataloging your creative influences

Committing to writing a list of influences and inspirations can help us clarify our pasts and show us potential paths for the future.

Why Seclusion Is the Enemy of Creativity

Leadership can be similarly isolating. Pontoromo let the consequences of self-imposed solitude undermine his legacy, and if leaders today aren’t mindful, they can seclude themselves in ways that are just as destructive.

Study Claims Gifted Math Classes Promote ‘Academic Apartheid’

The study, “Understanding Issues Associated With Tracking Students in Mathematics Education,” was published in the new issue of the the Columbia University journal Mathematics Education by Cacey Wells, a professor at the University of Oklahoma.

Increasing Your Global Fluency

Whether you’re new to the workforce or a veteran business traveler, here is a short primer on how to turn your next work trip into a journey of discovery.

The map we need if we want to think about how global living conditions are changing

If we want to show where the world’s people are we need a population cartogram, a geographical presentation of the world where the size of the countries are not drawn according to the distribution of land, but according to the distribution of people.