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Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William & Mary discovered this in May, after analyzing almost 300,000 Torrance scores of children and adults. Kim found creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward. “It’s very clear, and the decrease is very significant,” Kim says. It is the scores of younger children in America—from kindergarten through sixth grade—for whom the decline is “most serious.”

via The Creativity Crisis – Newsweek.

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Kevin Macdonald, the Oscar-winning director of films such as The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void and One Day in September, will then edit the most compelling footage into a feature documentary film, to be executive-produced by Ridley Scott, the director behind films like Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Thelma & Louise, Blade Runner and Robin Hood. LG Electronics is supporting “Life in a Day” as a key part of its long-standing “Life’s Good” campaign and to support the creation of quality online content that can be shared and enjoyed by all.

via Official Google Blog: Life in a Day.

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If you search for flights on Google today, all you get is links to results from the big online travel sites. Bing, on the other hand, offers a much richer Travel experience, complete with comparison prices for the same flight from the different travel engines, as well as predictive charts and graphs from Farecast which was acquired by Microsoft for $115 million in 2008. Bing also gets a lot of its flight and fare data from ITA.

via Google Pays $700 Million In Cash For Flight Info Provider ITA.

Tags: bing, flightinfo, Google, Microsoft

The company is focused on introducing a seamless and entertaining web experience for all mobile devices, including the iPad. Content from premium partners like The Wall Street Journal will play a huge role in the Starbucks Digital Network, offering customers both a reason to dive into the Journal and sip on another latte. It’s a smart marketing move that will drive business and help finance the Wi-Fi initiative.

via Starbucks Free Wi-Fi Now Available in U.S. and Canada.

Tags: starbucks, WSJ, yahoo

Would You Pay $5 To Upgrade an Old DVD to Blu-ray?

Warner Bros. has an interesting program that they’ve recently expanded a bit—mail in an old DVD movie along with $5 to swap it for the newer, Blu-ray version. After mulling it over, I think I like the idea.

It’s $5 to upgrade most titles (some run a few bucks more)—titles I really would rather rewatch in HD because, to be honest, all of my SD DVDs have looked a lot less appealing since upgrading the old home theater system. There are shipping charges and up to a two-month turnaround, but if you exchange 7 or more movies, at least the shipping is free.

via Would You Pay $5 To Upgrade an Old DVD to Blu-ray? – Dvd2blu – Gizmodo.

Tags: Blu-Ray, DVD, Home Theater, Warner Bros

Yep, This is What the iPad Will Be Used ForBy Tina Dupuy on Apr 02, 2010 02:24 PMAndy Cobb is a sick, sick man. But we were sent this press ahem release earlier this morning and well…maybe he's just a dude who sees what's coming…Slightly NSFW…depending on which side of the hill you live on.

via Yep, This is What the iPad Will Be Used For – mediabistro.com: FishbowlLA.

The last time I posted about this, we got a string of apologies for Apple’s abusive contractual terms for developers, but the best one was, “Did you think that access to a platform where you can make a fortune would come without strings attached?” I read it in Don Corleone’s voice and it sounded just right. Of course I believe in a market where competition can take place without bending my knee to a company that has erected a drawbridge between me and my customers!

via Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either) – Boing Boing.

Fast Company has a great excerpt of an interview with the “Woz” on the future of computing. so I guess Dancing with the Stars didn’t completely cloud his window to the future.

Tags: Apple, computing, dancingwithstars, future, human, Steve, Woz, Wozniak