In one recent study, participants showed marked improvements on a task requiring creative thought — thinking of alternative uses for a common object, such as a newspaper — after they had engaged in a different, undemanding task that facilitated mind wandering.
And unlike most regional autocrats, such as Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the king at least tolerates the Muslim Brotherhood, his most organised opposition, even if he rarely consults them.But for a significant few, despair at reform is giving way to thoughts of alternatives.
Marks says that having worked with another Young One - Nigel Planer - on Roll Over Beethoven, he couldn't bear the thought of another alternative comedian.
Even though bitcoin and gold are both thought of as alternative assets, they don't usually trade in correlation.
Although Lilienthal recognized the danger and inadequacy of this method of flight control and gave some thought to alternative systems, he did not develop or test them.
The mere thought of pleasant alternatives made people concentrate less.
The reason is simple: the collapse process is not physically well-defined, and feels too ad hoc to be a fundamental part of nature's laws.[8] In 1952 David Bohm created an alternative interpretation of QM perhaps better thought of as an alternative theory that realizes Einstein's dream of a hidden variable theory, restoring determinism and definiteness to micro-reality.
Le Guin's work combines a Berkeleyite's love of alternative thought with a strong scientific bent that she sees as an inheritance from her father.
By getting 20 million rats and mice into the Act, Dr. McArdle will indeed prompt a great deal of alternative thought.
A few years ago, the company helped make a hit out of "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" by easing the New Age semi-documentary into heartland hotbeds of alternative thought after its makers got the film started with showings in Sedona, Ariz., and elsewhere.
