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How Authors Sell Publishing Rights
Today’s Book Extract: How Authors Sell Publishing Rights by Orna Ross and Helen Sedwick
This is a necessarily brief introduction to something that is really, like so much in self-publishing, a learning-by-doing activity. Negotiation…
Continue readingYour Divided Brain
Have you seen any of the RSAnimates? They’re really nicely done. Like TED, the RSA (Royal Society of the Arts)…
Continue readingReclaim Your Brain
While most people still use a left brain/right brain distinction when discussing creativity, the latest neuroscience is revealing that creativity…
Continue readingIs Google Making Us Intelligent.
A study to assess the impact of internet searching, published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, has concluded that internet searching and browsing exercise the mind more than conventional, linear reading. The study focussed on readers aged 55 to 76 and found that internet reading appears to
Continue readingQuestions not Quotients
Has any topic ever generated more stupidity than the topic of intelligence? And of all the nonsense, surely the most pernicious is the belief in intelligence quotient, IQ, as anything but the most rudimentary and limited tool?
According to this understanding of intelligence, if you
