June 30, 2006
In the official Hollywood template, you pretty much can't be a genius without also being nuts. Is there a connection between great creativity and mental illness? Tamar Brott speaks with Kaye Redfield Jamison and other psychiatrists to separate the truth from the myth.
Wouldn't it be nice to find the little light bulb in your brain that goes off when you have a creative idea? Professor Nancy Andreasen, author of The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius, explains to Kurt about magnetic resonance imaging and what it can find in the brains of highly creative people.
There may be nothing prettier than birdsong, but birds don't make art - each species sings pretty much the same tune. Are animals ever really creative? WBUR's Sean Cole met a dog painter and an orchestra of elephants.
Microsoft recently announced a deal with TV producer Ben Silverman to create original, professional, big-budget entertainment programming for the Web. Kurt asks Silverman what TV on the www will look like.
Soccer got more civilized in this year's World Cup when the FIFA organization commissioned a "poetry machine." We spoke with the poetry machine's two tenders in Berlin. Produced by Monica Mueller
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