Tag Archives : imagination

Can you program your computer to generate plots for stories that you could recount to your children? It seems yes, as London designer David Benque has developed a program for Microsoft called the Infinite Adventure Machine that can generate crude outlines for almost an infinite number of children’s stories. It provides you with the basic plot for [...]

Can you imagine hairy legs becoming fashionable? I don’t think so. You will never have the courage to let the hair grow. J. Crew put a model with hippie-hairy legs on its website. It made some of the clothing enthusiasts recoil at the sight. Some even thought that it was a handiwork of a disgruntled web designer. It was difficult to believe that it [...]

According to folklores blood sucking vampires rule the night world seeking vengeance. The myth and mystique of vampires have inspired many novels, poetry, more recently movies and even a HBO serial. Vampires have been box-office hits too. So no wonder vampires have now started haunting the virtual world too! Vampire related websites have gained popularity [...]

For French-British anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics, religion is a product of imagination. Moreover, the reason why humans possess the concept of religion and practice it is because ‘they’re the only creatures to have evolved imagination.’ This capacity for imagination which began to develop 40-50,000 years ago, [...]

British neurologist Oliver Sacks believes that listening to patients should be at the heart of medicine. In his 2007 book entitled ‘Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,’ he explores the place of melody in the human brain that is ‘capable of expressing and evoking emotions and mental states that go beyond language.’ Music, thus, has a [...]