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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Oct 12, 2015)
Famous People 2
How much do you know about the famous people of the United States?
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A creative idea is one that somehow changes the existing knowledge of a particular field. This field may be anything from art to science to politics to sports. Before a person is capable of contributing a creative idea that advances our knowledge, that person must obtain mastery of the existing knowledge in that field. If a person has never studied physics, then they are not going to be able to come up with a creative idea in that field. Einstein was an expert in physics, which enabled him to push past the boundaries of knowledge and come up with creative thoughts that advanced our culture.
The more society learns about a field, the more difficult it becomes for an individual to master that area of knowledge. As a result, as society progresses, it takes more education for someone to get to the point where they are pushing the boundaries of knowledge. Albert Einstein had to learn more than Isaac Newton and current physicists will have to learn more than Einstein.
Because it takes longer to master the knowledge of mature fields, creativity is more likely to occur in new fields that require less effort to master or in the crossover between two unrelated fields. For example, biology and engineering are both mature fields of knowledge. Some creative people started producing ideas that merged the two disciplines and now we have a new field called “bioengineering” which is ripe for having lots of creative ideas.
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Have you ever had the experience where you knew that you knew a piece of information but you couldn’t get at it because some other memory was in the way? Maybe you were trying to remember someone’s name, and the wrong answer kept popping into your head. This is called blocking and occurs when incorrect information obscures what you are trying to remember. This type of memory problem becomes more common with age.
This usually happens with memories that share the same semantic space in the brain. For example, a grandmother needs to remember the names of all of her grandchildren. Her brain stores all these names in a similar way and uses similar associations to recall them. This is why she may call her grandchildren by the wrong name by accident. The memories of the names are so close together that the wrong answer sometimes gets in the way.
Luckily, a blocked memory can usually be retrieved within a few minutes. It usually pops into your head as soon as you stop trying to remember.
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verb :: To make better or more tolerable.
“Let me ameliorate the situation by calming down that irate person.”
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1726 – Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England
1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
1932 – 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC
1967 – World Series record 3 consecutive HRs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, and Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox
1975 – Islander’s Bryan Trottier’s 1st career hat trick
1978 – Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
1981 – Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1984 – August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” premieres in NYC
1985 – Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1997 – Dennis Rodman returns from 2nd longest NBA suspension (11 games)
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