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The internet can be a wonderful thing sometimes. This clip is from a 1982 French cop movie called Le Marginal, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. The featured car is claimed to be an original 1966 Shelby GT500, heavily modified, and driven in the movie by the star himself. The hero car was saved, restored, and sold in 2023. I like a lot about this car, except for the rear taillights. * * * …countless researchers have shown that many of the most meaningful forms of real-world creativity and invention depend less on solving well-defined problems than on figuring out what the problem is in the first place. In 1964 a study on creativity was done where researchers watched how 31 artists approached a still life, and split their approaches into two different types: problem-solving and problem-finding. The former spent their time working on the outcome, while the latter spent their time finding and formulating a visual problem. The researchers then went back five years after graduation to see where…