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