Randy Beeman, a 53-year-old managing director of the Wise Investor Group in Reston, Va.

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Research led by Mark Beeman and John Kounios has identified where that flash probably came from.

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Interestingly, Mr. Beeman and his colleagues have found that certain factors make people much more likely to have an insight, better able to detect the answers generated by the aSTG.

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Beeman, a professor at Brown University who's an authority on Central Asia, to conclude that Osama bin Laden's bombings in 1998 of U.S. embassies in Africa were designed to nip the budding relationship between the Taliban and Western interests.

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