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Tolkien and Zamenhof are two of imaginary languages’ most successful proponents – yet their aims were very different.
When human contact is cut off, the brain begins to act in strange ways to preserve its sanity.
Summer can likely be full of activities that you do with your child. Here’s what research shows on how to boost your child’s creativity.
Six tips to get rid of that song stuck in your head, based on the latest research.
Research has found a relationship between pretend play and a child’s developing creativity, understanding of others and social competence with peers.
One historian is plumbing the oft-discarded works of kids – from shipwreck tales to diary entries – to augment our understanding of U.S. history.
Einstein’s theory of general relativity is a triumph of reason and imagination, of art and science, with a profound beauty of its own.
When conspiracy theorists label games and literature “Satanic,” what does it say about their own imaginations and ability to engage in play?
Creativity and imagination - it’s impossible to discuss one without reference to the other - are often discussed with regard to the great artists, thinkers, and visionaries of our world. Those are the…
Back in the early 1990s, I used to play the video game Tetris on my Nintendo Game Boy. I was really good at it – if I do say so myself – and I used to play for hours every day. When I went to bed I would…
We are usually told that daydreaming is a waste of time and mental power, but the ability to daydream offers us tremendous flexibility in our daily lives. The frequency with which we daydream suggests…
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