MARIETTE DICHRISTINA joined Scientific American as executive editor in April 2001. She also runs the bimonthly Scientific American Mind and manages Scientific American's quarterly newsstand special editions. Previously, she was executive editor of Popular Science, where she worked for nearly 14 years. Her writing and editing about space topics helped garner Popular Science the Space Foundation's 2001 Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award. DiChristina is currently vice president of the board of the National Association of Science Writers, and former chair of Science Writers in New Yor
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Creativity is often considered an innate gift, not something that can be learned or optimized. In fact, there is an entire branch of science devoted to dissecting, understanding, and stimulating creativity. Scientific American, the oldest continuously pub... SEE MORE