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110   Music, Music, Music.  (December 2009)
Some key aspects of music, as examined through some of our articles and procedures: an annotated directory.    

109 Why Cell Phones and Driving Don't Mix

108 Sequestering CO2 (October 2009) 
Arguably the most economical, not only the least disruptive, geo-engineering solution to global warming.

107 Windtunnel has become a favorite process among many creativity experts and creative problem-solving professionals. (October 2009)

106   You Are How You Breathe
Find relief in an instant, right here, right now, from whatever it is that you’d like some relief from. (December 2008)

105   How We Started Losing 7/8ths of Our Brain Before Ever Getting Born
Other things equal: the older you are, the more readily you should be able to learn. (October 2008)

104   Mature Learners
Other things equal: the older you are, the more readily you should be able to learn. (September 2008)

103   Situations Present and Pending
A simple, feasible proposal for Oceanic Fish Farming that can abundantly and profitably feed the world in the coming times of famine. Calling for entrepreneurs. (June 2008)

102   More Than Just Mental Health Is At Stake
Korzybski's principles of understanding the difference between the map and the territory — the real world and our interpretations of it — sets in place the necessary practice of self-correction. (April 2008)

101   How Many Grueling Hours Could This Proposal Save YOU At Tax Time?
Guest article by Susan Wenger. (February 2008)

100   Acquiring New Proficiencies through PhotoReading
Absorb information at rates and speeds well above 25,000 words per minute, with PhotoReading. (November 2007)

99   Consensus and Higher Syntheses
Win Wenger invites participation in an experiment to brainstorm on points of agreement between opposing views. (September/October 2007)

98   A New Experiment to Try
Help beta-test Win Wenger's newest application of Calm-Breathing Pattern with Breathing Meditation. (July/August 2007)

97   Fast-Track to Building Your Perceptions
The key feedback technique — describing aloud to a live listener plus an audio recorder reinforces awareness of ever greater detail. (May/June 2007)

96   Beliefs—
A philosophical stroll into using first-hand knowledge and self-correction as keys to self-empowerment and zeroing in on reality. (March/April 2007)

95   A New Initiative for the Gifted and Talented
Invitation to the gifted to participate in a series of experiments to solve the problems uniquely facing the gifted. (January/February 2007)

94   An Easy Way to Fund the Development of Space
Proposal for a simple experiment to prove the benefit of partial-gee over Zero-gee. (November/December 2006)

93   The University of Our Lives
An experiment using the very events of our lives to find message and meaning. (September/October 2006)

92   An Uncompromising Look at a Bit of History
Settling disputes through alliance rather than the tug-o'-war of compromise. (August 2006)

91   Another Avenue to Improving Intelligence
Improvitaping of music can improve not just musical skills but general intelligence. (July 2006)

90   A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships
Proposal for a unique colloquium for the World Creativity Movement. (May/June 2006)

89   In Comparison to Hypnosis
Are Project Renaissance methods hypnotic, or are they de-hypnotizing by giving us greater perception and higher awareness? (March/April 2006)

88   How to Win Elections
Citizens' participating in creative problem-solving sessions instead of political rallies will draw out the real issues, put candidates in much better touch with their constituents. (January/February 2006)

87   The Ideal School
Despite widespread dissatisfaction with their performance, schools resist substantive reform. Here's a look at several alternative educational models. (November/December 2005)

86   Stopping Hurricanes—Revisited
In the wake of the devastation wreaked by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it's overdue to try water-cooling circulation techniques for slowing storms down. (September/October 2005)

85   Beyond Living Histories
Recording memoirs of the elderly to preserve the rich tapestry of memories that define each unique human being. (July/August 2005)

84   Understanding the Continuum Concept
Comparisons of traditional and modern child-rearing patterns—guest article by Kevin Gaudette. (June 2005)

83   Coming to Our Senses
Abstractions need solid sensory referents to arrive at correct new abstractions. (May 2005)

82   How to Unblock Blocks and Undo Phobias
The power of directed breathing to remove negative feelings and associations. (April 2005)

81   Input and Output
Guest article by Christopher Gooch, elaborating on Win Wenger's Feedback Loop. (March 2005)

80   Teaching a Six-Year-Old Multiplication and Division
Guest article by Conrad Cook of how his nephew learned advanced math operations in half an hour. (January/February 2005)

79   Improving Your Performance on Standardized Exams
A tool kit of easy-to-do techniques that get great results. (November/December 2004)

78   AAA — Ask, Aware, Answer
Guest article by Christopher Gooch describes a powerful way to train your powers of observation. (September/October 2004)

77   Did You Know?
Unenlightened school policies proliferate reading, language, and learning problems. Here are some Socratic solutions. (July/August 2004)

76   Visiting the Future — March 27, 2472
The Human Actualization Council debates maximizing children's human potential versus the parents' lifestyles. (May/June 2004)

75   A Larger Framework to Think In
Win Wenger makes an impassioned plea for Socratic drawing out in schools and in society. (April 2004)

74   On Speed of Learning in Infants and Adults
The Glenn Doman methods, PhotoReading and Project Renaissance techniques recapture babies' rapid and joyous pace of learning at any age. (March 2004)

73   Pole-Bridging in the Brain
Why and how it builds intelligence. (February 2004)

72   Effective Problem-Solving: Using What We Know
Includes updates on the Windtunnel Method. (January 2004)

71   Eye Tracks
Training the eyes to track more smoothly can improve performance and information retrieval. (December 2003)

70   A Curriculum for Writers of Fiction
Handy pointers for using Project Renaissance techniques to stimulate story development and imagery. (October/November 2003)

69   Breathing As Therapy?
An invitation to professional therapists to explore the use of simple breathing techniques that can help recondition stimuli. (August/September 2003)

68   Situational Problem-Solving
Assure business and personal success by handling objections immediately with appropriate problem-solving processes to prevent stalling out. (June/July 2003)

67   Proposal for Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients
Techniques for building new neural pathways to bridge the functional gaps caused by injury or stroke. (April/May 2003)

66   The Relevance of Imagery by Susan Wenger
Finding meaning in the images your subconscious mind produces in answer to questions. (March 2003)

65   A Peace Possibility Hanging Out in the Ether
How Japanese joint-venture trade interests in Kashmir could defuse tensions between India and Pakistan. (February 2003)

64   Learning from Input or Output?
All or almost all you need is already within you, if you just switch some attention to your own perceptions. (January 2003)

63   Better Questions for More Than Just Better Answers
Hearing and drawing one another out, per Socrates, is one of the best things that one human being can do for another. (November/December 2002)

62   An Adventure in Brain Dominance & The Cause of Mid-Life Crisis
Intra-communication of left and right brain can lead to brilliance. (September/October 2002)

61   Breathing and Personality Traits:  A Hypothesis
How breathing span affects attention span and life strategies. (July/August 2002)

60   One Destiny, or Many?
The urgent need to pick up the pace of space development. (June 2002)

59   Feeding the World
Use existing technology of underwater air curtains to create profusely productive fish farms. (May 2002)

58   The Art Studies Technique
Sharpen your powers of observation and integration through different representational art techniques. (April 2002)

57   The Socratic Continuum
Drawing out deeper awarenesses and being really heard — the keys to creativity, accelerative learning, and genius. (Feb./March 2002)

56   Working with Metaphor
Two visionary new problem-solving procedures: Crabapple and Woods-Walk. (Dec. 2001/Jan. 2002)

55   Windtunnel!!!
Draft of a new creative problem-solving procedure. (November 2001)

54   A Useful Contemplation
How to think, not just in terms of things or objects, but in terms of systems, complex streams of vectored possibilities. (October 2001)

53   Save Millions of Lives Around Bengal
A proposal for preventing recurring disasters — material and human — from happening and for turning the greatest region of dire poverty on Earth into productive prosperity. (September 2001)

52   Final Exams
A special procedure for teachers and trainers, and a major end-of-course booster. (August 2001)

51   Proposed Experiment in Concretized Learning
Test this hypothesis — conceptual context needs to be rooted in appropriately concrete sensory experience — as applied to learning a new language faster and better. (June/July 2001)

50   What Does It Mean to Be You?
Is it significant to be who you are and to do what you are doing? Some philosophical musings. (May 2001)

49   A Rapport Story by Elroy Carter
A guest contributor offers a neuro-linguistic programming approach to getting on the same map with others, to establishing rapport and seeing things through others' eyes. (April 2001)

48   Two Experiments
Please help test these two quick new ways to get great answers to problems. Your feedback is needed! (March 2001)

47   We Fractals Re-Visited
In interfacing all of our self with what we actually sense and perceive, we come to wider and wider possibilities. (January/February 2001)

46   To Heal America's Political Wounds
A simple yet astute proposal for the new President to bridge the great divide of a divisive election. (November/December 2000)

45   Pre-Natal Curriculum And Why
Techniques and reasons for providing stimulus response to babies even before birth to minimize braincell attrition. (September/October 2000)

44   Build Your Ability to Understand Everything!
How to use Image-Streaming to fill the gaps in your childhood experiences and rebuild the very foundations of your understanding. (August 2000)

43   Left or Right? Or Something Else?
Conservative or liberal agendas haven't worked. Here is a third alternative for meeting public needs:  Incentives. (July 2000)

42   A Great Way to Get a Better Handle on Things
How an understanding of homeostatic systems can help deal with other problem situations. (June 2000)

41   Never Too Old to Learn a New Art or Skill
Learn sight-reading of music through Borrowed Genius, Toolbuilder and psychegenic support. (May 2000)

40   One Way to Make a Huge Swing Factor in Education, and in Productivity and Human Well-Being
Elicit genius from just about any group, whether classroom or boardroom, by practice of modern Socratic method in Dynamic Format. (April 2000)

39.  Another Brain-Boost through Music
Early childhood training in music and art can develop perfect pitch and gain 10 to 20 I.Q. points. (March 2000)

38.  Frog Warming
Rearranging incentives as a means to restore the global temperature balance. (February 2000)

37.  The Game of Gotcha
A method for teaching how to turn non-zero-sum games into win-win results. (January 2000)

Part. 36.  How to Bring Lasting Peace to the Middle East
Proposal for establishing a major, permanent U.N. headquarters on the Golan Heights. (December 1999)

Part. 35.  Restore Some Who Suffer Long-Term Coma?
This article proposes techniques for breaking through to whatever of the brain in the terminally comatose is still responsive. (November 1999)

34.  Bringing Peace:  The Balkans, Northern Ireland, and elsewhere
Building a long-term solution through mutual incentives. (October 1999)

33.  Add Depth and Richness to Every Facet of Our Mutual Lives
Empower interactive learning methods by teaching listening first. (September 1999)

32.  Quick Rummage of Profitable Answers
Three obvious but long overlooked areas for profitable ventures. (August 1999)

31.  How to Wipe Out Most Taxes in New York City
& Improve City Services—at the Same Time!
An obvious proposal for turning a million square feet of neglected and unclaimed groundspace into income-producing and revenue-producing real estate. (July 1999)

30.  Reviving Appalachia
Incentives for slag recovery could bring this poorest of regions back to life, swiftly and at little cost. (June 1999)

29.  Breathing as a Way of Life — 2
Step-by-step instructions for using your most valuable patterns of breathing. (May 1999)

28.  Breathing as a Way of Life — 1
Introducing breathing patterns and mental imagery for relief and healing. (April 1999)

27.   Readiness
Feedback and the growth of children. (March 1999)

26.   Notes Toward the New Model
A work in progress; your comments are invited. (January 1999)

25.   Learning from the Lessons of the Future, — 2
The surprising effectiveness of the Beachhead procedure. Continued from 19. (October 1998)

24.   Artist's Eyes
An artist's developmental technique can integrate brain circuitry and build visual detail skills, and be used to develop and work with metaphor. (Techniques very different from those given in 16.) (September 1998)

23.   Diricopters
A flying machine invention released into public domain. (August 1998)

22.   Responsiveness
The power of feedback. (July 1998)

21.   How Bill Gates and Microsoft May Yet Hit a Few More Homeruns
Applications of the laws of abundance and scarcity. (May 1998)

20.   A Little Something You Can Do for Your Own Children
The World Next Door process for accelerated learning. Continued from 18. (May 1998)

19.   Learning from the Lessons of the Future — 1
Inventions for habitats and landscaping. Continued in 25. (August 1997)

18.   Help a Young Child to Flower
Image-Streaming for the very young. Continued in 20. (August 1997)

17.   Some New Methods
Procedures to develop learning, perception and conceptual abilities in young children. (August 1997)

16.   How to See with Artistic Eyes
Techniques to activate your beauty-perceiving faculties. (July 1997)

15.   How to Run Better Meetings, Groups, Clubs and Classes
Step-by-step instructions for Dynamic Format. (July 1997)

14.   A Fun Way to Teach Your 2-Year-Old to Sight-Read & Play Music
..and expand the very core of his intellectual capacity!. (July 1997)

13.   In 900 Minutes, You Can Be Composing Very Fine Music
An astonishingly easy way for you to become a composer of fine, original music in your own individual genre. (July 1997)

12.   Getting More Intelligence Online
Image-Streaming and the law of effect. Building better connections throughout your brain. (June 1997)

11.   Your Personal Empowerment
Seeing with your own eyes, not just accepting the conventional wisdom. (June 1997)

10.   Solution of the Month
Making the problem part of the solution in treating nuclear waste. The way out of a terrible problem, and just about everyone wins! (June 1997)

9.   Making Learning Easier, — 2
Learn like a genius with Periscopic Learning technique. (June 1997)

8.   Making Learning Easier, — 1
5 invaluable tips for developing a knack for learning. (June 1997)

7.   An Emphatic Recapitulation and Summary
Act on your own perceptions; use Portable Memory Bank, Image-Streaming, High Thinktank, Sidebands of Awareness. (May 1997)

6.   A Partial Taxonomy of All Possible Problem-Solving Methods
A work in progress, highlighting Toolbuilder. (May 1997)

5.   A Fast Way to Get Your Best Answers
Step-by-step instructions for the Over-the-Wall procedure. (May 1997)

4.   How to Feel Better Instantly
Breathing techniques to cope with the emotional effects on intelligence. (April 1997)

3.   Image-Streaming
Step-by-step instructions for the premier process for increasing intelligence, solving problems, enriching life and understanding. (April 1997)

2.   A Guaranteed Way to Improve Your Intelligence
Gain substantial I.Q. points through Image-Streaming, as derived from Socratic method plus Einsteinian deep-thought discovery method. (April 1997)

1.   You Are Brighter Than You Think—Far, Far Brighter
The leitmotif of Project Renaissance, and of its mission. (March 1997)