How do we enhance “the flow”? The “flow”: as in that effortless “in the zone” feeling people experience when they’re doing something they love and everything is clicking. This Washington Post article asks, “Might there be a way to force the brain into flow?”…[Read more]

Some great “patient power” and “crowdsourced science” articles this past weekend.

In the Seattle Times, Maureen O’Hagan wrote about Stephen Friend at SageBioNetworks and his quest to revolutionize the way drug-discovery is done. Not only does Friend want researchers to share to accelerate cures, but SageBio is creating tools so patients…[Read more]

I wonder if you can create communities faster by thinking long — several centuries long. This comes up because there are some grass-roots Virginians engaged in a massive program with a 200-year time horizon. It involves visually transforming 180 miles of heavily-traveled landscape through the Civil War’s most “Hallowed Ground,” as it is locally…[Read more]