FUN AND INTERESTING MEDIA Week 3

Space Tourist Review:

Located in Potpourri from Dr. M. Bunch

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WHAAAAAAAAAT

Touring in SPACE...WHAT??!?!?! That's just crazy talk! right?

WRONG!

Well sort of wrong..this raw footage show another test run (the 3rd one as a matter of fact) of a supersonic flight. Turns out all objectives for the test flight were accomplished!

"Today's flight was another resounding success," said Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides. "We focused on gathering more transonic and supersonic data, and our chief pilot, Dave, handled the vehicle beautifully. With each flight test, we are progressively closer to our target of starting commercial service in 2014." (Youtube Description Video).

The fact that people, who have everyday lives and can be almost as regular as anybody else...aren't. People are so innovative and imaginative that they can literally..accomplish whatever they put their minds to. People will continue to surprise other people, and themselves, of the fact that the human race can accomplish wonders, there only has to be effort.

I have to say, the idea of tourist space travel sounds terrific! To be able to see the world from above, looking down at everyone, would truly be a spectacle. I'm reminded of the movie Gravity, with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, where a regular everyday scientist (Bullock) gets to go up into space and see the world, but I would rather do without all of the flying debris...

The going up into space part, that would be the fun part, NASA and Virgin Galactic can work out all of the kinks...

The Real Neuroscience of Creativity:

Located in Primary Content Folder - Miscellaneous Articles - On Neuroscience and the Brain

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"I'm more creative because I'm right brained!"

"I'm better at MATH than art so this must mean I am more left brained."

To quote this article...

*Sigh*

No.

Just no.

Stop it.

Please.

This type of thinking not only isolates different kinds of people from interacting with each other, it also limits a person's scope of their abilities and what they can and can't accomplish. This article proves that science has explained that the right and left side of the brain interact when developing creative thoughts.

Creativity does not involve a single brain region or single side of the brain.

I never knew there were so many parts of the brain working together to do simple things. For example, "every time you pay attention to the outside world, or attempt to mentally rotate a physical image in your mind (e.g., trying to figure out how to fit luggage into the trunk of your car), the Visuospatial Network is likely to be active. This network involves communication between the frontal eye fields and the intraparietal sulcus:

If your task makes greater demands on language, however, Broca's area and Wernicke's area are more likely to be recruited:

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Big words right! Basically, everything is working together to do other things. Which is just another amazing aspect of the human brain!

There are apparently 3 networks that are critical to understanding the neuroscience of creativity. These three are located all over the brain, and 

"Sometimes, it's helpful for the networks to work with each other, and sometimes such cooperation can impede the creative process."

The Executive Attention Network, The Imagination Network, The Salience Network work together to create, evaluate, and implement creative ideas, without them we would be plain, ordinary, creatures with no cool ideas...

 "It's an exciting time for the neuroscience of creativity, as long as you ditch outdated notions of how creativity works. This requires embracing the messiness of the creative process and the dynamic brain activations and collaborations among many different brains that make it all possible."