Creativity in the News: Recent Episodes

Scott Snow

Stories and observations from the news related to inspiration, creativity, and cleverness.

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Notes:Boston Globe:

  1. Maybe we need sages and monks to make our tough decisions

  2. Rev. Liz Walker persuades Black people to take the vaccine

  3. John Le Carre, obit, author of spy books

Wall Street Journal

  1. Painful changes we had to make at work during 2020

  2. Book: Gray Matter: 71/2 lessons about the brain - Lisa Feldman Barrett

  3. Dr. Jill Biden

  4. C-Suite Strategies section

  5. CEO Spotlight section

New York Times

  1. Students kidnapped in Nigeria (gratitude for what we have when you think about how difficult things are for others)

  2. Book: My Struggle - autobiography by Karl von Knausgaard, fashion icon

  3. Taylor Swift’s new album, Evermore

  4. Queen’s Gambit causing more females to play chess

  5. Color words

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Notes:Boston Globe1. Book: Red comet: The short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark Knopf

  1. Little girl loves new vocabulary

  2. New way to play chess

  3. Intriguing opening lines

New York Times

  1. Recipes:

  2. Rice cake soup with bok choy & edamame

  3. Pasta with bacon, cheese, lemon, & pine nuts

  4. White borscht

  5. Convey different tones with body language

  6. Tattoo artist, Mira Mariah

  7. Books:

  8. Is this anything? - Jerry Seinfeld

  9. Mindful thoughts at home - Kate Peers
  10. 10 lessons for a post-pandemic world - Fareed Zakaria
  11. JFK: Coming of age in the American century - Fredrik Logevall
  12. A certain hunger - Chelsea G. Summers
  13. Group: How one therapist and a circle of strangers changed my life - Christie Tate
  14. The sun collective - Charles Baxter
  15. The Ickabog - JK Rowling
  16. Dolly Parton, Songteller - DOlly Parton

  17. Eleanor - David Michaelis

  18. Creativity: A short & cheerful guide - John Cleese

  19. Color words

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Notes:Boston Globe1. Neil Krieger, obit, neuroscientist, bioluminescence

  1. Godfather 2

  2. Stella Sullivan, obit, 96, “that dirty bird virus”

  3. Dad pays for son’s first legal beer

  4. Joan Baez, painter

  5. Massachusetts Conference for Woman

Wall Street Journal

  1. New rule in England: can only serve alcohol with a “substantial meal”

  2. Tony Hsieh’s unwieldy estate

9-10. Consumer psychology: sloppy vs neat present wrapping

  1. The Lindler brothers and fishing business

  2. Walter E. Williams, obit, good or bad? hold space

  3. Microsoft engineer, Eric Engstrom, obit

  4. Margaret Chase Smith, courageous senator

  5. Autism/invention connection

  6. Older people are happier than younger

  7. Book: Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present - Ruth Ben-Ghiat

  8. Atomic Habits - James Clear

  9. Resilient systems in nature

  10. Dan Ariely: make tasks manageable, peak-end rule

  11. Monastery in Switzerland

  12. Recipe: Delicata squash with cauliflower puree, brown butter, and hazelnuts

  13. Solution for rock-hard brown sugar

  14. Steven Soderbergh, director, interview

  15. Jen Atkins, hair product CEO, Ouai

  16. Goldie Hawn, non-profit, MindUP

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Notes:1. TV recs: Pennyworth & The Wilds (NYT)

  1. Documentary: Gunda (follows a family of pigs) (NYT)

  2. Deb Price, obit, ground-breaking gay columnist (NYT)

  3. Building homes on the moon (WSJ)

  4. Amphibious homes (WSJ)

  5. High-tech fresh air (WSJ)

  6. Digital nomad, Alan Frei (WSJ)

  7. Book: Brazil that never was - A.J. Lees (WSJ)

  8. Fire-inspired artwork, Dave Cole (B. GLOBE)

  9. Smoky cocktails, https://www.tiktok.com/@johnrondi

  10. Cigar reviews, https://www.tiktok.com/@cigarprop

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Notes:1. Los Angelis Rams coach, Sean McVay inspired by Patriots coach, Bill Belichick: “Consistency is the truest measure of performance.”

  1. Shakespeare quote: “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions” - from Hamlet

  2. Book: Breaking bread with the dead - Alan Jacobs

  3. Pantone colors for 2021

  4. Book: How science taught Leonardo Davinci to paint - Francesca Fiorani

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Notes:

  1. Swiss cheese defense for the pandemic: multiple layers of defense are very effective

  2. Honeypot: catching hackers by luring them in, deceptive technology

  3. Reignite the spark in your relationship during the pandemic

  4. Help your teenagers focus

  5. Woman loves her Ferrari, philanthropist

  6. Book: Friends and Enemies - Barbara Amiel

  7. Chuck Yeager, obit, broke the sound barrier

  8. Recipes: Taiwanese beef noodle soup, latkes, spice-rubbed braised brisket, & caramelized sheet-pan French toast

  9. Barack Obama/: how he became an effective storyteller and writer

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