MooPig would like to host a contest... but it has no idea what it might be. It could have something to do with cartoons and graphics.It turns out "doodling" is a function of some humans, as they putter through a day.
gapingvoid.com draws cartoons on the backs of business cards. Hugh signs his name on his... some of those shown here
I sketch on note paper at church, or meetings, or while waiting at the doctor's offices.
Is Einstein the Last Great Genius? [SOURCE]
By Robert Roy Britt, Editorial Director | posted: 05 December 2008 04:53 pm ET
And it is harder now to achieve scientific greatness. A study of Nobel Prize winners in 2005 found that the accumulation of knowledge over time has forced great minds to toil longer before they can make breakthroughs. The age at which thinkers produce significant innovations increased about six years during the 20th century.
Don't count the individual genius out just yet, however.
A balance between individual and institutional approaches is the best idea, according to a new theory by a Duke University engineer Adrian Bejan, who thinks institutions benefit most from the co-existence of large groups that self-organize naturally and lone scientists coming up with brilliant new ideas.
"The history of scientific achievement is marked by solitary investigators, from Archimedes to Newton to Darwin," Bejan points out in the December issue of the International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics. "Solitary thinkers have flourished throughout history because it is natural — science is good for the mind of the thinker and for the well-being of society. Even though the trend is toward the creation of large research groups, the individual will always flourish."
Yet the very notion of individual genius is somewhat overrated, as even some of the geniuses will attest.
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