ARTICLES OF INTEREST August 21, 2020 QUOTE(S) OF THE WEEK “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.” – T. E. Lawrence “Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.” – Luigi Pirandello “Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.” – Brian Aldiss “The true and best way of learning any Art, is not to see a great many Examples done by another Person, but to possess ones seIf first of the Principles of it, and then to make them familiar, by exercising ones self in the Practice. For it is Practice alone, that makes a Man perfect in any thing.” – Brook Taylor “There are no new stories. Everything’s been told. It hasn’t been told from every perspective.” – Carl Reed “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.” – Toni Morrison "We’ve gotten used to having machine intelligence that we can carry around with us. Now we’re going to have to get used to intelligence that has a body and moves around without us." – Manuela Veloso “The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.” – Victor Hugo “I dream, therefore I become.” – Cheryl Renee Grossman “I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” – Albert Einstein VIDEO(S) OF THE WEEK The NASA Engineer Making STEM Sing Great Big Story A Disorienting Short Film by Lydia Cambron Recreates ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ in Quarantine Colossal Watch Human Nature Panel The Science and Entertainment Exchange Q&A with Yo-Yo Ma: How music can be like touch during these socially distant times The Washington Post Texas teen added a 'Hamilton'-esque rap to Frank Sinatra's 'Fly Me to the Moon' Upworthy FEATURED EVENTS/OPPORTUNITIES NEW Theme 93: Stress CreativeMornings Through September 11 Women Who Tech Launch COVID-19 Tech Challenge to Fund Innovative Startups Shaping the "New Normal" PR Newswire Deadline: August 23 Apply to be a TED Fellow! TED Blog Deadline: August 24 NEW Can Creativity be Taught? Ep 3 of Creativity in Crisis Creative, Entrepreneurial, and Global: 21st Century Education August 28 3:00-4:00pm Pacific Time The Show Must Go On: Dallas Startup Week 2020 Is Going Virtual Dallas Innovates August 30 – September 3 NEW ASU-Leonardo, Center for Science and the Imagination announce Imagination Fellowship ASU Now | Arizona State University Deadline: September 6 Save the Dates: National Arts Education Week Americans for the Arts September 13 – 19 Arizona Bioscience Week Celebrates Life & Science in 2020 Businesswire September 14 – 19 NEW OnRamp Impact Conference gener8tor September 17 Also NEW gener8tor Introduces Inaugural Virtual OnRamp Impact Conference gener8tor September 17 2020 Conference Women of Color in STEM October 8 – 10 Also Women of Color STEM Conference Announces 2020 Technologist of the Year RADM Sylvia Trent-Adams Ahead of the upcoming annual conference US Black Engineer EmTech Online Conference MIT Technology Review October 19 – 22 NEW Adobe MAX, Free For Everyone This Year, Is Now Open For Signups DesignTaxi.com October 20 - 22 Future Cities Canada: #UnexpectedSolutions showcases innovation in cities GlobeNewswire October 20 – November 26 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 SBA Launches National 2020 SBIR Road Tour to Connect Tech Entrepreneurs with Federal R&D Funding Yahoo! Finance Central Southern Tour | November 2-6; with stops in Jackson, Mississippi; Shreveport, Louisiana; Dallas, Texas; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Fayetteville, Arkansas. 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 | Science Festivals Science Festival Alliance Various ARTICLES OF INTEREST Can artificial intelligence prompt a creative revolution? TechHQ Toward a Zoom agreement Seth’s Blog The ADA has shaped physical space for 30 years. The internet hasn’t caught up Fast Company Secretary Lonnie Bunch on What the Smithsonian Is Doing to Help Virtual Learning Smithsonian Alabama Innovation Commission Launches to Spark Tech Entrepreneurship hypepotamus What Does The State’s ‘Inclusive Innovation’ Tech Plan Mean For Georgians? WABE New Views of Our Mesmerizing, Maddening Minds Scientific American Mind This Plane Flies Itself. We Went for a Ride WIRED Johnson & Johnson just invested in a telemedicine startup. Here’s why Fortune How tech companies can turn 'commitments' to diversity into action Mashable High Schoolers More Likely to Study Math, Science and Forsake Other Topics During COVID-19 THE Journal Producer Datari Turner wants to build a pipeline for Black talent in Hollywood Los Angeles Times ‘Shocked, Hurt and Angry’: SAG-AFTRA Health Plan Overhaul Spotlights Broken U.S. System (Column) Variety Gannett newsrooms, whiter than the communities they serve, pledge broad change by 2025 Nieman Lab Florida is going to release 750 million mosquitoes genetically engineered to decimate the mosquito population Fast Company Facebook is quietly pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings Fast Company 31 mesmerizing vintage pictures from the Nat Geo Archives National Geographic A fall shattered his body. These medical marvels pieced him back together National Geographic Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant Opinion | MIT Technology Review Miami City Ballet revamps season as pandemic persists Palm Beach Daily News America Needs Its Own BBC to Restore Public Trust in the Press The New Republic Newsweek and the Rise of the Zombie Magazine The New Republic Jan Vogler to launch new streaming platform DREAMSTAGE The Strad The Bias in the Machine Nautilus Zoom-based opera for preschoolers might sound like your worst nightmare. But it’s actually the best Zoom there is. The Washington Post Mask Tasks: How Texas Tinterow Pulled Off the Early Reopening of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston CultureGrrl | ArtsJournal.com Using Stock Market Charts, Artist Gladys Orteza Transforms Data into Bright Nighttime Landscapes Colossal The Inside Story of the $8 Million Heist from the Carnegie Library Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Optical Illusion Poster Campaign Urging You To Wear A Mask Captivates The Web DesignTaxi.com The best available option Seth’s Blog Level Up: Playing to Document and Preserve Video Games Smithsonian Voices: Smithsonian American Art Museum and The Renwick Gallery COVID-19 And The Key Role Of The Humanities And Social Sciences In The United States Archaeological Institute of America Pandemic spurs a burst of technology innovation U News | University of Miami Get Ideas Using A Personal Analogy Imagineer7’s Weblog Artists Band Together FAD Magazine A look into Birmingham’s game developer community: key players, projects + how to get involved Bham Now Come on and Zoom, Zoom, Zoom a-Zoom The Harvard Gazette Leading-edge Technology Unmasks Protein Linked to Parkinson’s Disease UC San Diego Health We must retain foreign Ph.D.s to keep America's innovation advantage Opinion | The Hill REPORT | Music Study May Help Keep Your Brain Young, Science Says Ludwig Van Toronto How Cognitive Science Says You Should Lead Virtual Teams In A Crisis Forbes Trail of bubbles leads scientists to new coronavirus clue ABC News International Project to Delve Into the Mysteries of Brain Connections University of Texas at Austin Newly completed Science and Engineering Building opens this week University of Texas at San Antonio The History of the Lava Lamp Art & Culture | Smithsonian The Huntington creates fellowship to study science-fiction pioneer Octavia E. Butler Los Angeles Times Rewriting the rules of machine-generated art MIT Technology Review UK 'risks exodus of talent' from creative sector due to coronavirus The Guardian Graphic Designers Illustrate Average Dreams Of 1,000 People Amid COVID-19 Crisis DesignTaxi.com Vaccine Nationalism Makes a Deadly Disease Even Worse Bloomberg Businessweek A coronavirus loophole? Capital Christian High School opens, saying it’s day care The Sacramento Bee Iconic Paintings Reimagined With Bill Murray’s Face My Modern Met COVID-19 vaccines could become mandatory. Here’s how it might work. National Geographic The Building Blocks of an AI Strategy MIT Sloan Management Review Creative Writing and the Psyche: The Threat of Making Art Of Art and Science | Psychology Today Understanding the Therapeutic Appeal of Domestic Hobbies Culture Shrink | Psychology Today Radio listening has plummeted. NPR is reaching a bigger audience than ever. What gives? Nieman Lab Brains And Buzzers | An examination of quizbowl’s technological evolution, from radio broadcasts to question archives and Discord tournaments. Tedium Why efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better Psyche The newsroom was the beating heart of a local newspaper. What’s lost when the owner shuts it down? The Washington Post How Hollywood Reacted to the Women’s Suffrage Movement Variety The Surprising Stories Behind 12 Classic Pop Songs Mental Floss The Uncertain Future Of Human Equality NOEMA Creating Comics