Medical Daily: Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills

Not to condone drinking (note it states a couple of beers or glasses wine - not being very drunk), but interesting in how it shows that creative thinking requires being open to new ideas, change, finding new paths. Innovation is not possible by thinking the same ways as usual.

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them". Albert Einstein

Medical Daily: Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills

Graphic Content | Good Chemistry

December 06, 2011
By STEVEN HELLER

Graphic designers such as Simon C. Page are working with the scientific community as it reaches out to be better understood by people both outside and within its ranks.

In something of a trend, graphic designers are working more closely with the scientific community as it reaches out to be better understood by people both outside and within its ranks. Simon C. Page, a London-based graphic designer, is the latest example of what I like to call a sci-graphiste. Page, who has a degree in applied mathematics, has designed a series of 10 posters for the International Year of Chemistry. Not only does the subject resonate with him, Page says, but it’s also “a bonus” that his work is “helping an industry which is struggling to be heard.”

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