Innovative concepts

Is creativity just about finding new connections?

Art Fry had a little problem that vexed him: when he sang in his church choir, the bookmarks in his hymnal kept moving around or falling to the floor.  One Sunday in 1974 he recalled that a colleague at work, Spencer Silver, had developed an adhesive. The glue wasn’t very marketable, but it did have some unique properties: it did not leave a residue, an…