For Ernie Smith, the creative industry gets dampened whenever we look just at the industry’s cream of the crop. The more we want to emulate the success of exceptional creators, the more we end up copying exactly what they do, which brings the overall creativity of the industry down. Smith says we should look at those mid-tier creators who have found sustainability in their work and see how their focus on telling their stories in their own way made them moderately successful. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
