Although the month started slowly (there was just one new golfball patent in the first week) the index quickly regained lost ground, and soon reached one of the highest levels this year. (Showing a significant improvement on July, when the US patent office issued just 7 new patents for golfballs.) August 2012 ended with no […]
Tag: creativity
The Golfball Index (UPDATED: July 2012)
The July 2012 figures for the Golfball Index have edged back down into negative territory again – failing to maintain the the promising figures for June. This month there were just 7 US patents issued for new types of golfballs. • Golf ball • Multi-layer-core golf ball having highly-neutralized polymer outer core layer • Golf […]
To sleep, perchance to smell, perchance to create, maybe
One might, maybe inaccurately, sum up this new study by saying, “Put this in your pipe and sleep on it”. The study is: “Good morning creativity: task reactivation during sleep enhances beneficial effect of sleep on creative performance,” Simone Ritter, Madelijn Strick, Maarten Bos, Rick Van Baaren, Ap Dijksterhuis [pictured here], Journal of Sleep Research, epub […]
Whack on the side of head spurs creativity
Today’s Stimulating Medical Publication Title of the Day is: “Whack on the side of head spurs creativity,” D. Chase, OR Manager, 1992 Feb;8(2):16-7. The authors is, or was, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. [NOTE: The “OR” here is an acronym for “Operating Room”]