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January 31, 2009 by Patti

Twittersheep

I assume it’s no secret that some of the time I should be blogging these days is spent on Twitter. I hope soon to shake this out so that I can translate more of the trends I see on Twitter into meaningful blog posts (that don’t belong on theappgap. But I had too much fun [...]

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January 11, 2009 by Patti

Insight and Serendipity

At a meeting in December, a friend recently handed out The Eureka Hunt, from the New Yorker magazine’s issue of July 28, 2008. The annals of science have now extended to an understanding of how insight occurs. It turns out that the brain activity associated with insights comes from the right hemisphere which, as that [...]