How to Use Mind Maps to Unleash Your Brain's Creativity and Potential

Human Nature and the Ethical Life by Massimo Pigliucci Philosophers have been debating human nature for centuries, but in an era of increasing political vitriol and partisanship, the issues at stake are gaining new relevance. To understand what we should expect from our leaders, we must first consider what to expect of ourselves. NEW YORK – Does human nature exist? The answer has implications for anyone concerned about ethics. Vegan Iowan: How to Grow Wheatgrass A Google search on wheatgrass will yield you a lifetime of information on the health benefits, as well as the skepticism, surrounding this plant. I suffer from low iron (and always have, even well before removing meat from my diet), so I was interested in learning more after hearing that wheatgrass offers a healthy dose of iron and other nutrients (rumor has it wheatgrass absorbs 92 of 102 nutrients from soil). I often experience nausea from multivitamins as well...when I remember to take them. I'll let you be the judge about whether you think it's one of nature's greatest foods, snake oil, or somewhere in between; I'll simply share my experience.

Mohiomap Turns Evernote, Google Drive, And Dropbox Accounts Into Mind Maps Like many other people, I use Evernote as an information dump. Despite my best efforts to keep things organized with multiple notebooks and tags, my account has become almost as unwieldy as an overstuffed filing cabinet, with stacks of PDFs, web clippings, and notes going back years. That’s why I was intrigued by Mohiomap, a web app that turns your Evernote into mind maps. Mohiomap also recently added support for Google Drive and Dropbox accounts. Mohiomap, which has received seed funding from investors in New Zealand, where it is based, currently uses a freemium model. In the free version, users can look at, navigate, and search their mind maps.

droptask DropTask PRO is easy to understand and so easy for team members to come on board. Because you can view it visually and in a linear list it suits different preferences for how material is viewed. Jackie Stoneman - Director of Studies. DropTask PRO for Teams 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.”

The Biggest Stumbling Blocks When You Start Mind Mapping Some people start mind mapping and they’re changed forever. They can’t stop raving about it. Then there’s another group of people, which you might be in. It’s the group that tries out mind mapping, but finds there’s something not quite working for them. Voting could be the problem with democracy Around the globe, citizens of many democracies are worried that their governments are not doing what the people want. When voters pick representatives to engage in democracy, they hope they are picking people who will understand and respond to constituents’ needs. U.S. representatives have, on average, more than 700,000 constituents each, making this task more and more elusive, even with the best of intentions. Less than 40% of Americans are satisfied with their federal government. In my work as a comparative political scientist working on democracy, citizenship and race, I’ve been researching democratic innovations in the past and present. In my new book, “The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the Path Ahead: Alternatives to Political Representation and Capitalism,” I explore the idea that the problem might actually be democratic elections themselves.

7 Lessons From 7 Great Minds Have you ever wished you could go back in time and have a conversation with one of the greatest minds in history? Well, you can’t sorry, they’re dead. Unless of course you’re clairaudient, be my guest. But for the rest of us, we can still refer to the words they left behind. Even though these great teachers have passed on, their words still live, and in them their wisdom. 72 Philosophy Books Everyone Should Read Why am I here? How can I live a good life? What does it mean to have a mind and be a person? Since the days of antiquity, philosophers have puzzled over fundamental questions like these that sit at the very heart of our lived experience and interactions with the world. Solving these problems is not merely about increasing our knowledge of the world, to fill up academic textbooks and sit on library shelves, but to impart wisdom to aid us as we navigate through life's uncertainties and its profoundest mysteries.