ARTICLES OF INTEREST
May 8, 2020
QUOTE(S) OF THE WEEK
“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.” − Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. But their adverse opinion does carry some weight and can do great harm to a new project — at least until the innovation is strong enough to push the "realists" and their moldy notions aside.” − Theodore Herzl
“It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.” − Madeleine L'Engle
“The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.” − Emily Dickinson
“You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.” − Edwin H. Land
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” − Joseph Joubert
“It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.” − Gene Roddenberry
VIDEO(S) OF THE WEEK
Watch: Quibi's Meg Whitman on launching a streaming service in a pandemic AdAge.com
Make Your Own Paper Prawn Using This Pattern Designed by Artist Lisa Lloyd Colossal
Pixar Shares Recipe Videos On How To Recreate Dishes From Well-Loved Films DesignTaxi.com
Fast Comedy presents: a master class for videoconferencing Fast Company
Breaking Down Barriers for Women of Color in Tech Cheddar
And when does it get boring? Seth’s Blog
Creative Purpose: Lisa Congdon Creative Mornings | Portland
FEATURED EVENTS/OPPORTUNITIES
Installation Brings Imaginative Dreams Alive In Denver: ‘Share That Creativity’ CBS Denver Through May 25
Getty Offers $10,000 Grant to Women, Nonbinary Creatives AdWeek Deadline: May 10
2020 Pacific Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking May 14 - 15
Engineering.com partners with Youth Science Canada to launch first Online STEM Fair Yahoo! Finance May 19
2020 ENCATC Academy on Cultural Relations and Diplomacy ENCATC – The European network on cultural management and policy May 27 | New York, NY
2020 ENCATC-AAAE-TACPS Global Conversation ENCATC – The European network on cultural management and policy May 29 | New York, NY
SBA Launches National 2020 SBIR Road Tour to Connect Tech Entrepreneurs with Federal R&D Funding Yahoo! Finance Midwest Tour | June 1 – 5; stops in Omaha, Nebraska; St. Louis, Missouri; Champaign- Urbana, Illinois, and Bloomington, Indiana. Rockies Tour | August 10 – 14; stops in Bozeman, Montana; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Laramie, Wyoming. Central Southern Tour | November 2-6; with stops in Jackson, Mississippi; Shreveport, Louisiana; Dallas, Texas; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Fayetteville, Arkansas.
TED2020: Uncharted TED.com July 26 – 30 | Vancouver, BC, Canada
Save the Date | ENCATC Congress ENCATC – The European network on cultural management and policy October 28 – 30 | Prague, Czechoslovakia
AIGA Design Conference AIGA November 12 – 14 | Pittsburgh, PA
Call for Articles | General Issue European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy | ENCATC Deadline: Ongoing
CreativeMornings | a monthly breakfast lecture series CreativeMornings Various
Interactive Map | Festivals Science Festival Alliance Various
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Why Weren’t We Ready for the Coronavirus? The New Yorker
The global jolt toward creative thinking The Christian Science Monitor
Business Spotlight: Engineer Calls for Fusion of Arts and Technology in Human- Centered Design ARTS Blog | Americans for the Arts
The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories Quanta Magazine
Scientist Mothers Face Extra Challenges in the Face of COVID-19 Scientific American
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School
NASA to demonstrate first in-space manufacturing for space mirrors Tech Xplore
Masks prevent the spread of COVID-19, landmark analysis of 64 studies finds Fast Company
Scientists reveal an alarming unintended consequence of wearing masks Fast Company
Entrepreneurship was already in decline. Now what’s going to happen? Technical.ly
This scientist studies alchemy to turn historical handicrafts into modern innovations Popular Science
Humanities Students Launch Online Exhibition To Highlight Final Projects Rensselaer News
Advancing diversity in engineering research labs UGA Today | University of Georgia
Plays exploring human drive and human touch win 2020 Neukom Honors EurekAlert! | AAAS
Beat COVID-19 through innovation Science | AAAS
Collaboration, creativity flourishing despite physical separation DJC Oregon
'Opportunity for innovation': What the future of air travel could look like BNN Bloomberg
Google’s Sidewalk Labs Walks Away from Toronto Smart City Project Synced
Meet the ‘psychobiome’: the gut bacteria that may alter how you think, feel, and act Science | AAAS
A Major breakthrough in reversing the cellular aging process Technicity | Medium
Bob Dylan releases another single — and announces a new double album, ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ Los Angeles Times
Risky Business? NASA and Tom Cruise Talk Movie Shoot in Space The New York Times
11-yr-old letter writer receives hundreds of personal notes from grateful postal workers Upworthy
Reaching for Resilience in the Time of Covid-19 Eye on Design | AIGA
Science confirms it: Websites really do all look the same Fast Company
The latest fallout from COVID-19? A ‘tsunami of hate’ across world, says UN chief Fast Company
Government Orders Alone Didn’t Close the Economy. They Probably Can’t Reopen It. The New York Times
A Mother’s Innovation Hacks to Cope With Boredom Disruptor League
How quieting 'blood storms could be key to treating severe COVID-19 National Geographic
They don't struggle to breathe - but COVID-19 is starving them of oxygen National Geographic
When Memory Fails From Dementia, Art Is the Key to the Soul More Than Caregiving | Psychology Today
Why 2020 'is a write-off' for gigs and festivals BBC News
Drive-throughs and drive-ins were fading. Coronavirus made them a lifeline Los Angeles Times
Oscar-Nominated Programs No Longer Eligible For Emmy Competition, TV Academy Says Deadline
Macron presents emergency plan to save France’s culture sector The Local, France
The Pandemic Is the Time to Resurrect the Public University The New Yorker
Sotheby’s Is Reopening Salesrooms—and Aggressively Cutting Costs—in a Race to Repay Almost $120 Million in Debt This Year artNet News
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Coronavirus Florida: Miami City Ballet unveils what could be the first ballet created remotely The Palm Beach Post
Home MuralFest: 67 Artists Simultaneously Painted Murals in Their Homes and Gardens While Quarantined Colossal
Face masks are terrible for the deaf community. Designers need to do better Fast Company
Hoping Llamas Will Become Coronavirus Heroes The New York Times
The New York Public Library created an immersive album for those missing the sounds of NYC Creativity | AdAge.com
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Pays Tribute To Health Workers With Superhero Nurse DesignTaxi.com
ENCATC Creative #StayHome Pack N°7 ENCATC
Women wanted: Why now could be a good time for women to pursue a career in AI Make It | CNBC
COVID-19 victims could breathe easier with these innovations Science News for Students
The take of innovation economists on the COVID-19 crisis Vox | CEPR Policy Portal
Why the global science community must come and stay together beyond the coronavirus pandemic United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Opinion: Discovering Joyful Math Away from the Classroom Roots of Unity | Scientific American
4 things we’ve learned about math success that might surprise parents The Conversation
Transform your garden into a science lab Richmond Register
A "Volume Dial" Can Turn Neuronal Communication Up or Down Technology Networks
For the first time, scientists can see how the brain records our memories as we sleep CNN
How Does a Human Critique Art Made by AI? Art in America
Who Invented the Wheel? And How Did They Do It? WIRED
Don’t Regulate Artificial Intelligence: Starve It Opinion | Scientific American
How will colleges recover from coronavirus? Campuses that survived disasters offer clues NBC News
Young Men and Boys of Color Can Now Receive Free Remote STEM Content and Literacy Support Black Enterprise
Corporate Culture, Interrupted: Lessons Learned From The Great Remote Work Migration Of 2020 Forbes
Tom Cruise reportedly talking to SpaceX about shooting a movie in space Tech Crunch
How Intel Helps Universities Expand Their Esports Impact Ed Tech
Elizabeth Acevedo Sees Fantastical Beasts Everywhere Smithsonian
If you don’t need your stimulus check, this site will help you donate it Fast Company
Water: A human and business priority McKinsey & Company
USPTO launches platform to facilitate connections between patent holders and potential licensees in key technologies United States Patent and Trade Office
The Marvelous Power of Your Subconscious Mind Imagineer7’s Weblog
HP taps Shepard Fairey, Noma Bar, Kanae Sato and more to create uplifting art for your windows Creativity | AdAge.com
You won’t believe this wildly ambitious music video was shot by one guy in his apartment Fast Company
Ten things I learned running a Moonshot Factory. By Pablo Rodriguez Voyagers’ Stories | Medium
Reasons to Be Cheerful (Ep. 417) Freakonomics
The First Pharmacy to Add Drones for Delivery Diversity in STEAM Magazine
How Notre Dame Joined Forces in Times of Crisis Diversity in STEAM Magazine
This New COVID-19 Test is Bringing Us Closer to the Cure Diversity in STEAM Magazine
The Top 60 Words to Stop Using Right Now, Including Pivot Snow White Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Psychology Today
How science fails Aeon
Entertainers Are Doing Their Best in Quarantine Hyperallergic
The last recession gave us the gig economy. COVID-19 could help reimagine it Fast Company
We have hit peak pandemic advertising, and now they’re all just annoying Fast Company
How is Disney going to imagineer itself out of this one? Fast Company
A situation vs a slog Seth’s Blog
Closest black hole to Earth found 'hiding in plain sight' National Geographic
Bluebirds and Rainbows: Songs for Troubling Times Longing for Nostalgia | Psychology Today
Worklike Play and Playlike Work Play in Mind | Psychology Today
Is The Pandemic Making You Smarter? Strategic Thinking | Psychology Today
Kierkegaard on the Spiritual and Sensual Power of Music, the Essence of Genius, and the Key to a Timeless Work of Art Brain Pickings
Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Really Change the Way We Think? The New Yorker
The iconic ‘This American Life’ won the first-ever ‘Audio Reporting’ Pulitzer Poynter
Why The Pulitzer Win For ‘A Strange Loop’ Is Historic—On Multiple Levels Forbes
UCSD professor Anthony Davis wins Pulitzer Prize for fiery opera ‘The Central Park Five’ San Diego Union Tribune
LA Times Art Critic Christopher Knight Wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for His Blistering Appraisal of LACMA’s $750 Million Expansion artNet News
Colson Whitehead wins second fiction Pulitzer, Ben Moser’s ‘Sontag’ wins for biography Los Angeles Times
How science fails Aeon
The US Cultural Landscape Is Reeling From COVID-19. Further North, Canada’s Art Scene Has Few Complaints. Here’s Why artNet.news
The Black Intellectual & The Condition of the Culture A Salmagundi Symposium at Skidmore College
Fauci: No scientific evidence coronavirus was made in Chinese lab National Geographic
Don’t Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste. Instead, Use It as a Catalyst for Innovation Singularity Hub
How Life in Our Cities Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic Foreign Policy
Coalition Urges Congress to Support Science Inside Higher Ed
The legacy of COVID-19: How key innovations will outlive the pandemic Becker’s Health IT
About Michael Michalko Imagineer7’s Weblog
Why These Bangladeshi Women Artists Are Using Creativity To Combat Covid-19 Forbes
Rochester scientist earns national recognition for research University of Rochester News Center
For Walt Disney Co., a Stricken Empire The New York Times
Homeschooling desparately needs a redesign. I would know - I'm in third grade Fast Company
Workers have been left to save capitalism from COVID-19 The Globe and Mail
Here’s how you can come up with outside the box innovations Disruptor League
Strategies to Grow During a Slowdown Post Covid 19 Era Disruptor League
Forget Your Business Plan. Create a Strategy Map. Disruptor League
The remnants of a vast prehistoric sea lie hidden in Nebraska’s endangered marshes National Geographic
How do TV shows handle remote production? With mailed iPhones and hazmat suits, for starters. The Washington Post
Is the future of live music a drive-in concert? Los Angeles Times
Streaming Releases Test the Waters of a Changed Industry The New Yorker
Was That a Cough? Going Back to the Movies in Texas The New York Times
Group singing for these ‘dark times’ Grace Notes | The Boston Globe
Closed but committed Plaza Theatre plots Zoom, private screenings, pop-up drive- in Arts ATL
What This Artist Needs to Make Work During a Pandemic Hyperallergic
Video Games Are Having A Moment — But Sports Games Are In A Rut Five Thirty Eight
US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor The Verge
The .Org Domain Will No Longer Be Sold to Private Equity Vultures Motherboard by Vice
Increase Your Problem-Solving Literacy Surprise! | Psychology Today
More information is a competitive advantage, but it’s not enough Seth’s Blog
Questlove and Black Thought on how quarantine unlocked their creativity Fast Company
Stanford students launch incubator to support projects fighting COVID-19 Stanford News
This Mastodon is a Centerpiece of an Art Exhibition. Why? Smithsonian
The Coronavirus Is Rewriting Our Imaginations The New Yorker
“Validation Is for Parking Tickets”: A Conversation with Lorrie Moore The New Yorker
Big Blue in the cloud? IBM’s future rests on its innovation agenda Silicon Angle
What It's Like To Be a Rational Optimist in a Pandemic Reason
The Horizon Bias in Human Innovation Project Syndicate
Takuo Aoyagi, an Inventor of the Pulse Oximeter, Dies at 84 The New York Times
ALA announces STEAM funding and exhibitions for rural libraries serving Latino populations American Library Association
Seattle Gets Creative With #artdisplays4homestays; City Residents Encouraged To Display Homemade Works Of Art BroadwayWorld.com
Curator Nino Macharashvili: ‘Culture Is Not Canceled’ Forbes
REX NELSON: Innovation in Arkansas Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Paola Antonelli Talks Art and Innovation on Hello Cindy! Interior Design
ASU's Herberger Institute harnesses design and arts tools, content for community ASU Now
The Info War Over Chloroquine Has Slowed Covid-19 Science WIRED
You Can Now Download 1.9 Million Free Images From the British Museum Smart News | Smithsonian
The Best Places for Your Kids to Learn Real-Life Skills Online Innovation | Smithsonian
How NBA 2K And Esports Are Filling Voids Left By The Coronavirus Outbreak Forbes
New Zealand has ‘effectively eliminated’ coronavirus. Here’s what they did right. National Geographic
Teenage Engineering’s hotly anticipated Ikea collection just got even better Co.Design | Fast Company
HP Enlists Reputed Artists To Design Hopeful Posters For Your Windows DesignTaxi.com
Opinion: Don’t shoot me, I’m only the piano player AdAge.com
8 ways to rethink virtual events for the age of social distancing Fast Company
L.A. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer wants to save sports by reinventing the way we watch them Fast Company
Women’s academic journal submissions plummet amid coronavirus Fast Company
Schools turning to remote learning face a Chromebook and iPad shortage Fast Company
What kind of org? Seth’s Blog
Innovating Now for a Post COVID19 World Disruptor League
See how sports stadiums have transformed to help pandemic relief efforts National Geographic
Of Course People Are Streaming Movies Right Now—That Doesn’t Mean It’s the New Normal TIME
The ‘Credibility Bookcase’ Is the Quarantine’s Hottest Accessory The New York Times
I Have Seen the Future—And It’s Not the Life We Knew The Atlantic
In the Moment: Archiving Daily Life in a Pandemic Institute of Museum and Library Services
Researchers Discover New Details In Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring Mental Floss
Luminescent Zip-Tie Formations Are Shaped into Futuristic Organic Life by Artist Elisabeth Picard Colossal
Do Holocaust Survivors Dream of Electric Sheep? Tablet
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