I don't normally post videos that already have five million hits, but this animated version of a talk by educator and creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson underscores a point made by Sunni Brown in her TED talk about the merits of doodling. There is something about the combination of speech and visual note-taking that enhances comprehension, especially comprehension of irony and ideas in conflict. Robinson's talk is about education, but the animated nature of the talk the talk is as arresting as the content. [Educators] are trying to meet the future by doing what they did in the past, and along the...

Sunni Brown thinks the stigma against absent minded jottings is misplaced: The bottom line: People who doodle when they are exposed to verbal information retain more of that information than their non-doodling counterparts. We think doodling is something you do when you lose focus, but in reality, it is a preemptive measure to stop you from losing focus...