Keeping Our Brains at Work

In The TimesOnline on Can everyone be an Einstein? "Science is getting ever closer to solving the complex puzzle that is the human brain. And it’s beginning to look as if there’s genius in all of us ... " . Largely popsci piece makes some points out that there is no empirical evidence that the rash of 'brain training' games that have come out of late have any effect. We are, though learning more about how creativity can come out of a small glob of tissue we use every day, rationally or not. Links between music and genius? Even madness and genius. Challenging the brain in some some ways, especially in ageing, may well help us. Pardon me while I run the spell checker.