ARTICLES OF INTEREST

March 12, 2021

QUOTE(S) OF THE WEEK

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem

“As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.” – Kenneth Grahame

“If you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.” – Alice Walker

“Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.” – Aristotle

“In a world populated by people who believe that through more and more information, paradise is attainable, the computer scientist is king. But I maintain that all of this is a monumental and dangerous waste of human talent and energy. Imagine what might be accomplished if this talent and energy were turned to philosophy, to theology, to the arts, to imaginative literature or to education? Who knows what we could learn from such people — perhaps why there are wars, and hunger, and homelessness and mental illness and anger.” – Neil Postman

“America has always been a nation of fearless explorers who dream bigger and reach further than others imagined. … There are no limits so open your eyes and open your imagination. The next great discovery could be yours.” – Barack Obama

“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Science, by itself, provides no panacea for individual, social, and economic ills. It can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.” – Vannevar Bush

“Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.” – Douglas Adams

VIDEO(S) OF THE WEEK

Excellence Now (and Forever) with Tom Peters Love Is Just Damn Good Business | Steve Farber

A Stop-Motion Animation Full of Inappropriate Office Behavior Questions the Professional Impact of Motherhood Colossal

The ballerina dancing on ice for a real ‘swan lake’ BBC News

From Kamala Harris, to Malala Yousafzai, to Kate Hudson, here are some of the most creative women in business today Fast Company

Vital Voices: Join the movement Vital Voices Global Partnership

Watch The Winners Of The 'Dance Your Ph.D' Contest Make Cloud Formation Catchy Science | NPR

Right Up Our Alley: Striking Drone Footage Flies Through Minneapolis’s Bryant Lake Bowl Colossal

A hilarious explanation of how the mRNA vaccine works that anyone can understand Upworthy

The Power of Media and Muppets: Bringing Early Learning to Refugee Families New York University Alumni Videos

FEATURED EVENTS/OPPORTUNITIES

Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian Because of HER Story | Smithsonian Monthly Series | First Thursday of the Month

Request for Applications Citizens’ Institute for Rural Design Deadline: March 12

NEW Atlanta Science Festival honors women in STEM Atlanta Daily World March 13 – 27

NEW RSVP For We See You: The Power of Female Stem Role Models On and Off the Screen The Science and Entertainment Exchange March 17

Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards Amazon Future Engineer Deadline: March 19

NEW Book Launch + Panel: Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators, Kelly Walters AIGA and Princeton Architectural Press March 25

2020/2021 Northeast Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit National Consortium for Creative Placemaking March 25 – 26

Announcing 2021 WOW! Innovation Challenge #1 All Together | Society of Women Engineers Deadline: March 30

Honoring Engineers at the Peak | Call for Nominations National Academy of Engineering Awards Deadline: April 1

NEW In Conversation: Anna Deavere Smith and Dr. Christopher Emdin Lincoln Center Activate April 6

Also NEW Keynote: Anna Deavere Smith Lincoln Center Activate April 8

NEW By One Route, and By Another: A Performance by Anna Deavere Smith Lincoln Center Activate April 8

NEW Creative Women Leading Climate Action Virtual Symposium, Call for Art and Participation News and Media Relations | University of Massachusetts Amherst April 14

Girls Rise Up STEM from Dance Deadline: April 18

NEW Indigenous STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math Wisconsin Indian Education Association April 21 - 23 | Virtual Conference

3M and Discovery Education Open Call for Entries for America's Next Top Young Scientist PR Newswire Deadline: April 27

NEW Call for Short Papers for the 12th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'21), Mexico Virtual The Creativity Post Deadline: June 21

Call for Articles | General Issue European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy | ENCATC Deadline: Ongoing

Idea Jams 2020/2021 Canadian Network for Imagination and Creativity Series

CreativeMornings | a monthly breakfast lecture series CreativeMornings Various

Interactive Map | Science Festivals Science Festival Alliance Various

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

The World’s Most Innovative Companies 2021 Fast Company

Also Moderna Named Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company for 2021 Valdosta Daily Times, AP

The 10 most innovative Latin American companies of 2021 Fast Company

The 10 most innovative design companies of 2021 Fast Company

The 10 most innovative retail companies of 2021 Fast Company

The 10 most innovative branding companies of 2021 Fast Company

The 10 most innovative companies in media Fast Company

Battling The Creativity Crisis, Part 2: Balanced Thought The Creativity Post

Also Battling The Creativity Crisis, Part 1 The Creativity Post

New article: Build back better: Avoid the learning loss trap Yong Zhao | Creative, Entrepreneurial, and Global: 21st Century Education

STEM vs. STEAM: The Importance of Creativity GirlTalkHQ

Should Traffic Lights Be Abolished? (Ep. 454) Freakonomics

Why biased AI can be damaging to your health Fast Company

Opinion | Creativity is the cure The Crimson White | University of Alabama

Plant this disposable face mask when you’re done, and it’ll sprout flowers Fast Company

How NFTs are fueling a digital art boom CNN

The inventor of the cassette tape has died Engadget

Building Empathy Sesame Street in Communities

MPS students create ice cream flavors inspired by people of impact CBS 58 | WDJT

Arts, Culture, and Economy: Where Are the Points of Leverage? Nonprofit Quarterly

Engineer, cake artist pays homage to Bangladeshi roots Metromode | Metro Detroit

How courses like coding and design lead to tech literacy eSchool News

Creative Director and Teacher Forest Young on Designing a More Inclusive Future Eye on Design | AIGA

'Honored and humbled': Chancellor Harold Martin's name will go on A&T's new engineering building News and Record

Khalil Amine elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors EurekAlert! | AAAS

Your brain warps your memories so you can remember them better Live Science

Breaking through the blood brain barrier: Northwestern researchers offer hope for a disease with no cure WGN

Pup-PPE power: Golden retriever service dog helps neuroscientist conduct lab research KIRO

Octopus Helps Make Smarter Prosthetics Inside Science

ASU evolutionary cell biologist awarded 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship ASU News | Arizona State University

Wayne Brady gives you permission to own your passion Fast Company

Eight of Literature’s Most Powerful Inventions—and the Neuroscience Behind How They Work Innovation | Smithsonian

Girls Who Code CEO on women in tech: We're not getting hired, or supported Yahoo! Money

Goldman Sachs pledges $10 billion to support advancement of Black women CNBC

This Chip for AI Works Using Light, Not Electrons WIRED

The Next Frontier of the NFT Gold Rush: Your Tweets WIRED

This Fingertip for Robots Uses Magnets to ‘Feel’ Things WIRED

One-year COVID-19 anniversary: Classical musicians' loss, hope Los Angeles Times

L.A. filming gets a big boost as virus threat begins to recede Los Angeles Times

Physicists Measure the Smallest Gravitational Field Ever Detected Gizmodo

Teens on a Year That Changed Everything The New York Times

Harlan Coben, Suburban Dad With 75 Million Books in Print The New York Times

This Revolutionary Chef Wants to Topple the Table The New + The Next | OZY

Biden and Trump supporters see two different Facebooks, and here’s proof Fast Company

Hollywood is just starting to tap into the power of underrepresented people and stories Fast Company

Also Report: Hollywood could rake in an additional $10 billion a year by promoting racial equity Fast Company

We need to keep dreaming, even when it feels impossible. Here’s why Ideas.TED.com

Practical elegance Seth’s Blog

Why Immigration Policy Is Crucial to U.S. Medical Advances Cancer Crossings | Psychology Today

Power Ceremonies for Exceptional Creativity Rethinking Mental Health | Psychology Today

Up In The Air - The restoration of the Air Force Academy Chapel is the U.S.’s most complex modernist preservation project ever The Architect’s Newspaper

How to Put Out Democracy’s Dumpster Fire The Atlantic

AI As Scientist, AI As Artist 3 Quarks Daily

Lockdown has created new forms of boredom – and not all of them are bad The Guardian

A Month Before GameStop, Retail Traders Delivered a $450 Million Windfall to Entertainment Giants The Hollywood Reporter

Expansive Photographs by RK Frame the Unexpected Beauty of Everyday Life Throughout Asia Colossal

‘Bad History and Worse Social Science Have Replaced Truth’ The Chronicle of Higher Education

The pandemic crushed coworking. The arts could bring it back Fast Company

Global Esports Revenue Will Top $1 Billion for the First Time in 2021: Newzoo Report Media | AdAge.com

New speed limit determined for the Quantum World Technicity | Medium

Conan O’Brien quote on doing great creative work Idea to Value

How Scientist Is Leading the Next Technological Revolution Innovation | Smithsonian

Also The Code Breaker Is the Crispr Chronicle You Need to Read WIRED

You’d never know this modern bathroom was designed for the elderly Fast Company

NIH scientists use human cerebral organoid to test drug for deadly brain disease National Institutes of Health

Steve Jobs and Applied the Concept of 'No Time' to Boost Their Creativity. What Does It Entail? Entrepreneur

George Mason University names research, innovation, econ. dev. VP Virginia Business

China’s quest for “sources of innovation” The Monitor’s View | Christian Science Monitor

Producer RAC Launches 6, A New Creative Agency To Guide Artists In Booming NFT Market Forbes

City Plan for Arts Funding Raises Discussion Over Value of Creativity Queen City Nerve

$110M for nine innovative McGill research projects McGill Newsroom | McGill University

Report: Most Canadian Tech Workers Optimistic About Sector’s Contribution to Global Innovation Betakit

Why Smells Trigger Such Powerful Memories Technology Networks

First Vial Used in U.S. Covid-19 Vaccinations Joins the Smithsonian Collections Smithsonian

Six Wonders Built by Pioneering Women Architects Travel | Smithsonian

Explore the Newly Digitized Archive of Alexander Calder, Famed ‘Sculptor of Air’ Smart News | Smithsonian

What the pandemic means for paywalls Columbia Journalism Review

Sarcasm can boost creativity in teams (well yeah, obviously…) Idea to Value

Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset Idea to Value

A Strategy for Exploring Student Creativity Collaboratively Edutopia

Harley-Davidson Is Making A Big Bet On Used Jalopnik

Lindsay Howard Talks About the Burgeoning Market for NFTs Hyperallergic

Calling some types of hair or skin ‘normal’ ends now, Unilever pledges Fast Company

How Resonance built the on-demand, low-waste clothing factory of the future Fast Company

Biobot Analytics knows if you have COVID-19 before you do—from your poop Fast Company

How literature — yes, literature — can help you better connect with others Ideas.TED.com

To Mars & Beyond! #HipHopMD

How Does Music Help Us Feel? Your Musical Self | Psychology Today

Let Nature Be Your Muse Rethinking Mental Health | Psychology Today

Why the future of storytelling will be democratized Fast Company

Elon Musk Doesn’t Care About Patents. Should You? Harvard Business Review

Norton Juster, who conjured worlds of wordplay in ‘Phantom Tollbooth,’ dies at 91 The Washington Post

125 Amazing Women Who Changed the World Mental Floss

Growing up on screens: How a year lived online has changed our children The Washington Post

This virologist’s discovery saved millions of lives and helped launch our foundation Gates Notes

Celebrating the Women Who Have Driven Auto Innovation Car & Driver

U of T Entrepreneurship Week: 10 startups to watch University of Toronto

U.S. Lawmakers Suggest 25 Movies About Latinos to the Film Registry The New York Times

UD Joins Mid-Atlantic Quantum Alliance UD Daily | University of Delaware

Creativity, Persistence, and Passion Drive the Women of Wind Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | US Department of Energy

ExxonMobil encourages girls to consider careers in engineering WBRZ

Celebrating our Engineering Leaders University of Colorado Boulder

Innovation for aviation MIT News

Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Rolling Stone

Building AI Leadership Brain Trust: Why Is Mathematics Literacy Key To AI Competency Development? Forbes

Who Is ‘Credible’? Women Innovators Are Different Forbes

Hatch launches the world's first women in aquaculture innovation studio The Fish Site

Women Will Come To The Fore In The Feeling Economy Forbes

Meet Kelly Cross, One of 1,000 of the Most Inspiring Black Scientists in America Afro Tech

Jessica Cox Flies in the Face of Challenges Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Affiliations

“Well, it seems great to me” Seth’s Blog

The startup that saved the restaurant industry in the nick of time Fast Company

How Biden is using internal government startups to lure tech talent to D.C. Fast Company

Gallery: Photos of loss, memory and identity in a town swept by the 2011 tsunami Ideas.TED.com

People had lots of thoughts and concerns about the Dr. Seuss story. Let's discuss the best ones. Upworthy

Also Can-Sell Culture? Dr. Seuss Sales Soar. Plus, Good News for Ad Industry Employment: Datacenter Weekly AdAge.com

Banksy Artwork Gets Purchased… Then Torched To Be Sold As An NFT DesignTAXI.com

How "Psychological Safety" Can Benefit Organizations Mind of the Manager | Psychology Today

Creative Leadership Lessons from Female Star Trek Captain Janeway Creativity: The Art and Science | Psychology Today

3 Ways to Discover Your Creative "North Star" Rethinking Mental Health | Psychology Today

'WandaVision' and the Psychology of What the Hell Is Going On? Psychology Tomorrow | Psychology Today

For Women in Music, Equality Remains Out of Reach The New York Times

Canada should be supporting journalism’s future, not its past The Globe and Mail

Amy Sherald Directs Her Breonna Taylor Painting Toward Justice The New York Times

People Literally Don’t Know When to Shut Up—or Keep Talking—Science Confirms Behavior & Society | Scientific American

A Van Gogh Painting Has Been Unveiled for the First Time Since It Was Painted in 1887 Colossal

International Women's Day UNESCO March 8

Also Gloria Steinem on International Women’s Day: ‘We Just Need to Keep Going’ Variety

Google.org Will Award $25 Million for Innovative Ideas That Empower Women The Chronicle of Philanthropy

5 women hitting new creative heights in 2021 Creative Bloq

Malala Yousafzai launches her own production studio: ‘Entertainment can help us see what society should look like’ Fast Company

Walter Isaacson's 'Code Breaker' Spotlights The Woman At The Forefront Of CRISPR Capradio

How Doctors Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Battle Covid-19 Science & Nature | Smithsonian

Hubble Captures Stunning View of a Spiral Galaxy Gizmodo

The Recording Academy And IBM Debut New Fan Experience Powered By Watson And IBM Cloud Ahead Of The 2021 GRAMMY Awards Show GRAMMY.com

NFTs are a dangerous trap Seth’s Blog

Why creative blocks are so damaging, according to a neuroscience expert Fast Company

The Innovation Imperative: Why Canada needs to think local to break out of its low-innovation equilibrium Financial Post

See What Some of History's Most Important Scientists Look Like With the DeepNostalgia Treatment Gizmodo

The sixth layer Seth’s Blog

This is why scientists want to study human embryos beyond the 2-week limit Fast Company

The Next Teslas The New + The Next | OZY

Empowering women leads to better science, research and innovation Science | Business

Working group releases report to address long-standing issues in humanities graduate education Yale Daily News

TEST: How accurate is your short-term memory Imagineer7’s Weblog

Bye, Bismarck: 144 cities could lose status as metro areas New York Post

‘Mental time travel’ is one of many imaginative ways we can cope with the pandemic The Washington Post

Seeing stars and grooming CEOs: Governor's Schools look both at outer space and innovation on Earth Yahoo! News | The Dominion Post

NFTs Are Hot. So Is Their Effect on the Earth’s Climate WIRED

UW launches Faculty Diversity Initiative to uplift underrepresented faculty The Daily | University of Washington

The 70–20–10 System for Making Really Cool Stuff Forge | Medium

Silicon Valley led the software revolution — but Europe is leading the sustainability revolution Sifted

5 top tips for social investment application success Arts & Culture Finance | Nesta

On-Demand Culture: How the lockdown is changing games and streaming services Policy & Evidence Centre | Nesta

Scientists Discover Massive 'Space Hurricane' Above Earth Vice

How new owners are staging Second City's next act Crain’s Chicago Business

How Pythagoras and Sappho Radicalized Music and Revolutionized the World Brain Pickings

Wintering: Resilience, the Wisdom of Sadness, and How the Science of Trees Illuminates the Art of Self-Renewal Through Difficult Times Brain Pickings

After Pandemic, Film Industry’s Hollywood Ending May Have to Wait The New York Times

Immersive van Gogh Experiences Bloom Like Sunflowers The New York Times

Images of Slaves Are Property of Harvard, Not a Descendant, Judge Rules The New York Times

Grammys to partner with Berklee, ASU for study on women Madison.com, AP

China at least 30 years away from becoming manufacturing 'great power': former minister Reuters

How Black activists used creative mapping to expose racism Fast Company

How the world ran out of a critical technology that powers our cars, phones, and more Fast Company

My doctor wants me to pay a yearly subscription fee—and that’s increasingly common Fast Company

This is how we fix the gender pay gap Fast Company

How LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Company became the envy of Hollywood Fast Company

Why this AI engineer is using sci-fi to unpack tech’s biggest problems Fast Company

This delightful new podcast describes memes for people who are blind or visually impaired Fast Company

The cataclysmic breakdown of networked systems Seth’s Blog

A Simple Way to Raise The Odds of Realizing Your Dream The Creativity Post

Small Steps to Big Creative Results Rethinking Mental Health | Psychology Today

Creating Creative Community in a Pandemic Rethinking Mental Health | Psychology Today

Pandemic Woes and Worries, Yet Wonderment Our Emotional Footprint | Psychology Today

A Problem Well-Stated Is a Problem Half-Solved: The Options Designs for Strong Minds | Psychology Today

How teachers in L.A. and beyond turned away from Dr. Seuss Los Angeles Times

In Our House, Dr. Seuss Was Contraband The Atlantic

Hitting the Wall - Journalists talk about what it’s meant to spend 12 months trying to explain national trauma while trapped inside it. Slate

The American Academy of Arts and Letters Unveils Expanded Roster The New York Times

Why Are So Many Kids Missing Out on Aftershool? Wallace Blog | The Wallace Foundation

Repairing the republic - A new report calls for major investments in civics education to save our constitutional democracy Isthmus

The New Issue of Create! Magazine Is Out Now Colossal

Is This the End of French Intellectual Life? Opinion | The New York Times

University of Toronto ranked first in Canada in 30 subjects Daily Hive News Toronto

New brain imaging research sheds light on the neural underpinnings of emotional intelligence PsyPost

Could Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chips make us all as smart as he is? New York Post

Triangulating Math, Mozart and 'Moby-Dick' The New York Times

Kevin Costello: Exploring the intersections of math and music MIT News

Inspiring Women To Become Sustainability Leaders In Engineering: The Yewande Akinola Vision Forbes

National Engineering Leader to Join UW as Strategic Adviser University of Wyoming News

A drop of rubbing alcohol and office laminator provides manufacturability boost for single atom thick membranes Vanderbilt School of Engineering

2020 a year of innovation and creativity at the libraries RocketMiner.com

If you missed T stop dancers, you can still catch them on film Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Gig Companies Fear a Worker Shortage, Despite a Recession WIRED

Stop Letting Google Get Away With It Gizmodo

Do Liberals Care if Books Disappear? The New York Times

America’s New Whale Is Now at Extinction’s Doorstep The New York Times

The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry The New York Times

Reclaiming Family And Memory In 'Sparks Like Stars' NPR

New 16 Tech Makerspace is Ready to Innovate Inside INdiana Business

How Canada can become a global leader in health innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond The Conversation

Government Commits $518 Million to Canada Foundation for Innovation to Fund Research Projects Betakit

In battle with U.S., China to focus on 7 ‘frontier’ technologies from chips to brain- computer fusion CNBC

Scientists seek to enhance artificial intelligence by integrating brain cells News-Medical.net

Five big findings from the Journalism Crisis Project Columbia Journalism Review

The Era of Audio Creators Has Arrived The New York Times

Can Technology Open Spaceflight to Disabled Astronauts? WIRED

We Are Making Progress On Copyright Policy, But Big Tech’s Piracy Narrative Is Still Broken CreativeFuture

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