Grandomastery

A unique linguistic experiment built on lexical shifts. Every letter of a text is sorted into one of two groups, vowels or consonants, and each group rotates independently along its own positions. Spaces, punctuation, capitalization and word lengths never move, so the structure of the text stays exactly as it was. Only the material inside that structure is displaced. Familiar wo...

Somewhere in your home there is an object that has outlived its original purpose but not yet accepted the fact. It is not broken enough to justify throwing away, not useful enough to justify keeping, and it has been sitting in a drawer, on a shelf, or in a box labelled "miscellaneous" for long enough that it has started to feel like a permanent resident rather than a problem to ...

New research in cognitive science suggests that the brain represents complexity as a single unified quantity across all sensory domains - and what that means for how we teach, practise, and understand creative thinking. A paper published in Nature Human Behaviour earlier this month by Tal Boger and Chaz Firestone at Johns Hopkins University makes a claim that, on the surface, so...

The Johari Window, developed by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in 1955, is a genuinely useful model - four quadrants mapping what is known and unknown to self and others - but it quietly assumes that the raw material of self-knowledge is already present, waiting to be organised. Feedback expands the Blind Spot. Disclosure shrinks the Hidden Area. The Open Area widens. The Unk...

by James Peng, the CEO of Turnitin0.com Teachers of language and creativity have always faced the same challenge in a new form: how to help learners produce work that is genuinely theirs. When a student copies from a classmate, the teacher can see it. When a student translates with a machine, the teacher can usually tell. Now, when a student asks an AI tool to generate an essay,...