Imagination

When Hogwarts Came to Harvard: Real Life Villains and the Universal Power of Imagination

Christine Horansky | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: JK Rowling, Harry Potter, Harvard, Pottermore, Literacy, Global Education, Human Rights, Empathy, Amnesty International, Imagination, Hogwarts, Impact News

What universal appeal might the story of Harry Potter, with its young upstart wizards and Dark Lord, have for the real struggles of so many people around the globe?

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When Dreams and Reality Collide

Jacob Devaney | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Social Media, Dreams, Independent Film, Inspiration, Advertising, Children, Psychology, Laughter, Film, Imagination, Spirituality, Culture, Culture News

Something may be real for us, but not validated by the outside world, and all of us experience this feeling at some point. We live in a reality that is surrounded by mysteries, but our culture is obsessed with explaining them away, so we find peace in the mystery of our dreams.

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Imagine That...

Jose Antonio Tijerino | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Creativity, Innovation, Education, Imagination, Latino Voices News

To support my argument, I call as a witness a game-changing, iconic, innovative American scientist named Albert Einstein who said: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination is endless.

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A Grown-Up Draws Kids' Imaginary Visions

Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Reddit, Creativity, Garrett Miller, Video, Imaginawesome, Drawings, Slidepollajax, Children's Imagination, Imagination, Garrett Miller Imaginawesome, Kids Art Projects, Arts News

As any refrigerator door will show you, kids have some great ideas. (When was the last time you thought about what kind of monster you would adopt as ...

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Bring An Abandoned Amusement Park Back To Life

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Kulturpark, Video, Theme Parks, Germany Art, Urban Planning, Kickstarter, Amusement Parks, Social Awareness, Imagination, KickStarter.Com, Berlin, Arts News

When we think of amusement parks the first things that come to mind are long lines and dripping ice cream, but there was a time when these places pres...

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School Districts Sound Sour Note to Cut Costs

Meryl Ain, Ed.D. | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Creativity, Education, Budget Cuts, Music Education, School Finances, Imagination, Arts Education, Education News

A report this week by the U.S. Department of Education paints a dreary picture of arts education in the nation.

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Pursuing Happiness: A Declaration of Reinvention

Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Liberty, Spirit of Reinvention, Money, Capitalism, Imagination, Pursuing Happiness, Happiness as a Concept, Culture News

What a grand gesture. The pursuit of happiness -- codified into the founding document of a newly emerging nation. Happiness as an ideal to reach for and maybe not ever attain.

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The Magic of Tiny Voices

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Creativity, Maria Rodale, Imagination, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Creative Play, Kids, Magic, Mindful Living News

The other morning my littlest daughter put on a full, Disney-esque princess show. She played all the characters with their different voices. She made ...

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How To Avoid A Lifetime Of Regrets

Patricia Crisafulli | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Creativity, Imagination, Inspiration, Creative Writing, Writing, Goals, Fifty, Reinvention, Avoiding Regrets, Second Acts, Second Careers, Fifty News

Like a character in a short story, I have carefully created this older self so that she seems very real to me. Her image now is my North Star toward which I navigate my life, especially in my creative pursuits.

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Are We Losing the Magic of Play in a Digital World?

Maggie Jackson | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Attention, Videogames, Reflection, Imagination, Relationships, Parenting, Technology, Children's Health, Play, Children, Kids Playtime, Technology News

If we drive children away from their innate needs to go within themselves to reflect and imagine, we'll be losing something of our humanity. Are we looking up from our screens often enough -- and teaching our children to do so?

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Should I Worry That My Child's Best Friend Is Make Believe?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Imaginary Friends, Child Development, Imaginary Companions, Child Fantasies, Creative Thinking, Parents-Kids, Imagination, Nyu Child Study Center, Parents News

Plosheye was my brother's best friend and the two would talk by phone for hours, while my parents watched, and grinned. Once in awhile I asked for a turn, but my attempts at conversation were met with silence. He's shy, my mother would say. He doesn't like you, my brother would declare. Eventually it occurred to me that he didn't actually exist.

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Shrinking in the Shower: The Wisdom of Childhood Magic

Claire McCarthy, M.D. | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Parenting, Childhood Imagination, Kids Imagination, Child-Imagination, Imagination, Parents News

We think of it as a silly childhood thing, stretching possible. We laugh at it in our children and take it as a sign of maturity when they stop doing it.

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Don't You Dare Tell Me Santa Claus Doesn't Exist -- 'Tis the Season to Believe!

Mona Elyafi | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Magic, Santa Claus, Holidays, Erma Bombeck, Holiday Season, Imagination, Children, Christmas Gifts, Christmas, Parents News

Tragically we all have a tendency to become jaded adults and take things for granted. But the Santa Claus tradition is what makes "impossible" read "I'm possible."

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Create Your Own Miracle: The Power Of Visualization

Russell Bishop | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Miracles, Video, Tim Hemmes Robotic Arm, Visualization, Power of Visualization, W Mitchell, Believing in Miracles, Imagination, Emotional Intelligence, Tim Hemmes, Paralysis, Healthy Living News

Ask anyone who has overcome tragedy of one kind or another and you will discover that the difference between those who languish in what has befallen then and those who have made lemons out their lemonade comes down to holding a positive focus and then doing the best with what you have left.

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Where Is the Magic?

James Altucher | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Bathrooms, Imagination, Humor, Public Bathrooms, Creativity, Comedy News

When I was a kid I didn't want money. I didn't want to be a VP at a company, like all my friends' parents were. I wanted to fly into outerspace. Or be a hobbit. Everywhere I looked I saw opportunities for magic.

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Soul-Talk: What Are You Seeing That Is Not Yet Visible?

Russell Bishop | Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: What Are You Seeing That Isn't Already There, Healthy Living, Soul Talk vs Self Talk, Imagination, Imagining, Healthy Living News

The idea has been around us forever, perhaps most simply and elegantly stated by George Bernard Shaw and then paraphrased by Robert Kennedy: "Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?"

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Bring on a Stripy, Dotty South Pole

Juliet Linley | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Painters, Creativity, Education, Art, France, Children, Kids, Rules, Mothering, Rome, Italy, Parenting, Teachers, Imagination, School, Parents News

Creativity shouldn't be piloted; it shouldn't be channeled. It needs to simply flow. That's the true beauty of childhood, seeing as we spend the rest of our lives following rules and instructions.

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The Squandered Superpower: How America Has Stunted Imagination

Cody Pomeranz | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Google, Creativity, Apple, Human Brain, Thinking Outside of the Box, Post 9/11, Innovation, Imagination, 9/11 Attacks, Ways of Thinking, College News

Think of a number between 1 and 10. Got it? Now, how many of you reading this thought of the number pi? Or how about e? The brain is certainly capable of giving those kinds of answers. But that is not the way in which many of us have been taught to think.

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Who Isn't a Child on Halloween?

Mark Banschick, MD | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Halloween, Parenting, Imagination, Cycle-of-Life, Children, Halloween With Kids, Parents News

The biggest treat of them all? It is for us adults. We get to witness yet another generation of children who take pleasure in this magical night.

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Never Give In

David Nordfors | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Creativity, Healthy Living Mind, Imagination, Mindfulness, Poetry, Inspirational Poetry, Arts News

Nothing is won without risking loss. Nothing is lost unless abandoned.

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Are Team Sports Hurting Our Children?

Darell Hammond | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Creativity, Sports, Imagination, Outdoors, Play, Children's Health, Children, Youth Sports, Team Sports, Child Sports, Kids Sports, Kids Team Sports, Children Sports, Parents-Toddlers, Parents-Teens-Tweens, Parents News

Seventy percent of kids give up sports entirely by age 13. When asked by Michigan State University researchers why they quit sports, kids almost universally said, "It's not fun anymore."

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The Beginning of Infinity

Jason Silva | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Kurzweil, Infinity, Singularity, Jason Silva, Technology, Imagination, Possibility, The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch, Arts News

INSPIRATION: This video below is inspired, in part, by the ideas explored in David Deutsch's new book, The Beginning of Infinity. We hope it moves yo...

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Boost Your Kid's Brain Power With a Little Imagination

Charlotte Reznick, Ph.D. | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Brain Power, Mindfulness, Kids, Child Stress Reduction, Imagination, Guided Imagery, Stress Reduction, Homework, Children, Learning, Parents News

Without understanding and support, kids with different learning styles than their peers can suffer from low self-esteem, anxiety from too much pressure, or a negative attitude toward school and learning.

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We're Asking All the Wrong Questions

Steve Nelson | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Creativity, Homework, Education, Cognitive Science, Neurobiology, Learning Theory, Education Reform, Imagination, Education News

The quality of the answers one gets is dependent on the quality of the questions one asks. In education policy and practice, we are almost always asking the wrong questions.

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Seeking a More Cosmopolitan America

Paul Stoller | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: The Middle East, Reality TV, Foreign Travel, Education, Africa, World Politics, Economic Systems, Cultural Anthropology, Innovation, Higher Education, Relgious Beliefs, Celebrity Culture, Imagination, War in Iraq, Foreign Language Learning, Education News

The lack of volition to travel overseas corresponds to a shocking ignorance about other parts of the world. Contemporary students are notoriously ignorant of world geography. Many of them think that Africa, for example, is one country rather than a continent of 53 sovereign nations.

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