Last month:
The Art and Science ofToday:
Human Inventiveness
The best-selling author of Imagine thinks differently than most about how creativity “happens.” Demystifying our notions of who is creative and what constitutes a creative type, Lehrer offers insights through history and contemporary society to the nature of human inventiveness---which, at its core, is really quite scientific. Can you imagine?
Jonah Lehrer
Interviewer: John Seely Brown (Emphasis added.)
Jonah Lehrer, a best-selling author and prolific journalist who wrote for Wired, Scientific American Mind, the Wall Street Journal and other publications, has resigned from his position as a New Yorker staff writer after an article in Tablet Magazine reported that he had fabricated quotes in his latest book “Imagine.”
Well, making shit up is one way of being creative, I'll give him that much.
Future historians will surely marvel at the earliest decades of the 21st century and wonder how we as a species ever resisted falling under the influence of cynics, charlatans and self-serving grifters who comprised the bulk of our most respected media and policy elites. That is, if we manage to accomplish this at all.
---Vitelius
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