{"id":129,"date":"2010-05-22T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T23:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/sdgc\/cgi-bin\/ycisl\/?p=129"},"modified":"2015-10-24T07:06:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T15:06:42","slug":"wsj-humans-why-they-trimuphed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Humans: Why They Triumphed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across an interesting article in the WSJ Weekend Journal (May 22-23, 2010) titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703691804575254533386933138.html\">Humans: Why They Triumphed<\/a>&#8221; by Matt Ridley. It mentions the idea of &#8220;collective intelligence&#8221; where innovation is part of evolution and its rate of change is affected by shifts of cultures and populations, often energized by trade and urbanization. A particularly stimulating remark was how &#8220;nobody&#8221; knows how a pencil is made &#8211; despite it being so widely used (so I went and looked &#8211; I recommend this Science Channel <a href=\"http:\/\/science.discovery.com\/videos\/how-its-made-pencils.html\">video<\/a>). Anyway, back to youth creativity&#8230;with the belief that youth are an untapped creativity resource, it makes sense therefore to put them in groups formed from different unfamiliar sub-groups and encourage invention through their discovery and exchange of each others&#8217; cultural backgrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across an interesting article in the WSJ Weekend Journal (May 22-23, 2010) titled &#8220;Humans: Why They Triumphed&#8221; by Matt Ridley. It mentions the idea of &#8220;collective intelligence&#8221; where innovation is part of evolution and its rate of change is affected by shifts of cultures and populations, often energized by trade and urbanization. A particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}