Exploring Passion, Creativity, and Intelligence
This June, Warner Brothers relaunched the Superman film franchise with the release of Man of Steel. This interpretation of the Superman story takes a different approach to the revelation of the “strange visitor from another planet” with “powers and abilities Read More …
On last week’s season finale of the CBS series Elementary, a contemporary take on the Sherlock Holmes story, Sherlock learned that the love of his life, Irene Adler (whom he believed had been murdered by his mysterious arch-enemy Moriarty) was Read More …
The following are some recent gifted and gifted-related news stories for your consumption.
Business Insider recently aggregated the results of a Reddit survey and identified the top 20 reasons why being labeled gifted is a positive thing and the top 19 reasons why it is a negative thing. It makes for pretty interesting Read More …
Thinking about death can cause us to feel a sort of existential angst that isn’t attributable to a specific source. Now, new research suggests that acetaminophen, an over-the-counter pain medication, may help to reduce this existential pain. The research is Read More …
As more information is coming out about the terrorist siblings responsible for the Boston bombing, some interesting details are emerging about the elder brother, Tamerlan Tzarnaev, that identify him as a gifted (but clearly troubled) man. While it has already been Read More …
My review of Jen Merrill’s book, If This is a Gift, Can I Send It Back? Surviving in the Land of the Gifted and Twice-Exceptional, is published in the just-released issue of the Roeper Review (volume 35, number 2). I Read More …
This story represents a fine example of innovative and creative giftedness. Joe Landolina, a gifted junior at New York University, has developed a synthetic compound that “jumpstarts” the healing and clotting process, stemming bleeding in both mild and serious wounds. Read More …
The New Zealand Association for Gifted Children, which represents gifted children and their families, has launched an awareness campaign to ensure that children who are highly gifted do not receive an inappropriate diagnosis of mental disorder. The New Zealand campaign Read More …
Creative thinking deserves a much higher priority in education curricula, according to college-educated professionals surveyed in new research released by Adobe. The U.S. study, Creativity and Education: Why it Matters, sheds new light on the role of creativity in career Read More …