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2012

May 11, 2012 in Blog Post | Comments (0)

Tags: Articles of Interest

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Ideas shape the course of history.” – John Maynard Keynes

“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man by argument.” – William McAdoo

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you are right.” – Henry Ford

Innovation Quotes of the Week – May 6, 2012
Blog: Innovation Excellence

VIDEOS OF THE WEEK

Clay Shirky: What I Learned About Creativity By Watching Creatives
PSFK

Jason Silva: How Ideas Are Living, Beautiful Beings Of Wonder
PSFK

Introducing PatrickTV – Innovation 3.0
Blog: Innovation Excellence

FEATURED EVENTS

A Conversation with Jonah Lehrer
NCN Webinar Series
May 17

CreativeAlberta’s Imagination Conversation
Eventbrite
May 15 – 17
This event features many great speakers, including NCN Board members Carrie Fitzsimmons, Jean Hendrickson, Susan McCalmont, and Scott Noppe Brandon.

World Science Festival
World Science Festival
May 30 – June 3

Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference 8.0
University of Wisconsin – Madison
June 13 – 15

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

Imagination is not a luxury: Fellows Friday with Gabriella Gomez-Mont
TED Blog

Creativity Can be Learned
BusinessNewsDaily.com

The Campus Tsunami
The New York Times

Got a Computer? Get a Degree.
Room for Debate, The New York Times

The inside track
Blog: The Artful Manager, ArtsJournal.com

The Innovation Whiteboard
Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com

It’s Time for a New Kind of High School
Education Week

Thomas Fisher: SEEDing a New Kind of STEM
The Huffington Post

Grad Engineering Programs Probe Intersection of Science, Art
US News and World Report

Queens Students Get Water Lessons by Designing Playground
The New York Times

Thinking Laterally In A Linear World: Why More Education Isn’t Important
Blog: The Creativity Post

Teaching Creativity with TLC
Blog: The Creativity Post

Job Market for Creative Professionals
Blog: The Creativity Post

Where Is the “R” in Innovation?
Blog: Innovation Excellence

Experiment All The Time
Blog: Innovation Excellence

Governments’ Innovation Barrier
Blog: Innovation Excellence

Another Innovation Movie for Kids
Blog: Innovation Excellence

8 Ways to Recharge Your Creativity and Your Business
Blog: Innovation Excellence

The Beastie Boys Lawsuit: An Existential Question About Intellectual Property
Blog: Freakonomics

Does literature impact what scientists study?
CultureLab: New Scientist

Music training benefits babies’ brains
New York Daily News

The Privatization of Creativity
Dissident Voice

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Remarks at Innovation Partnerships Event
US Department of State

MIT Prize Winner Uses Innovation To Save Lives
Earthtechling

Innovation Summit – Sponsor Content
The Atlantic

Larry Magid: It’s Time for Technology to Disrupt Education
The Huffington Post

Cellist achieves optimal performance through neurofeedback
Science Daily

Increase The Odds Of Creativity
Forbes

Dangerous Copyright Claim In Oracle Case Now In Judge’s Hands
Forbes

Dieter Rams On Good Design As A Key Business Advantage
Co.Design: Fast Company

Village People Singer Wins a Legal Battle in Fight to Reclaim Song Rights
The New York Times

Our Anti-Innovation, Anti-Business, and Anti-People Immigration Law
Business, The Atlantic

House panel considers Lacey Act changes
Appleton Post Crescent

Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Richard Branson’s Mother
Business | TIME.com

DIY Social Network Lets Kids Show Off Their Creativity
PSFK

Accelerating Innovation With Human Chemistry
Fast Company

Gizele Rubeiz: Copyright and the Creator
The Huffington Post

150 friends, or so
Blog: The Artful Manager, ArtsJournal.com

The Enemy of Innovation – Eliminating Variation
Blog: Innovation Excellence

Why Do Some Innovations Go Viral and Others Don’t? New Study Explains
Blog: Innovation Excellence

Why Game Changing Innovation Doesn’t Happen with First Instinct
Blog: Innovation Excellence

The Invention of Innovation – What P.T. Barnum is about to teach you, again
Blog: Innovation Excellence

Can you launch a startup with just 100 bucks?
Blog: Daniel Pink

Heart drawn: Leonardo da Vinci’s intricate anatomy
Blog: CultureLab: New Scientist

Education: The Single Most Important Job (Video)
The Huffington Post

Stories Create the World
Blog: Extreme Fear, Psychology Today

The Five Accidents Behind Breakthrough Thinking
Blog: Get Lucky, Psychology Today

Clive Thompson on the Importance of Fan Fiction
Underwire | Wired.com

Will paper books exist in the future? Yes, but they’ll look different.
Slate Magazine

Seized Hip-Hop Site Lashes Out At Feds, RIAA
Threat Level | Wired.com

Does Cory Doctorow Think The Matrix Got It Wrong?
Blog: Geek Dad, Wired

When Technology IS the Cure
Forbes

What The Red Baron Can Teach You About Hiring Creative Talent
Co.Design: Fast Company

Steve Jobs Felt Like “Jeffrey Dahmer’s Mother” During Apple’s Worst Years
Fast Company

Discrimination Against Teenagers
Science 2.0

What Would The World Be Like Without Mark Zuckerberg?
PSFK

Dedication to Innovation
Blog: Innovation Excellence

The Big Innovation Leap
Blog: Innovation Excellence

10 Steps to a Solid Innovation Foundation
Blog: Innovation Excellence

Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren’t ‘Average’
NPR

A Quirky Grass-Roots Effort Supports ‘Awesome’ Projects
Blog: About Donors, The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Why Your Company Needs A Chief Collaboration Officer
Fast Company

Kickstarter Rescues Startups That VCs Won’t Touch, But Here’s What’s Missing
Co.Design: Fast Company

Hip-Hop Site Dajaz1’s Copyright Case Ends in Confusion
The New York Times

Government of Canada Invests in Jobs, Growth and Innovation in Southern Ontario
MarketWire

The Ins and Outs of Open Innovation
Forbes

The Unknown Inventor Whose Work Is Saving The Developing World
Co.Exist: Fast Company

National Corporate Theatre Fund Announces ‘Impact Creativity’ Campaign To Benefit Theatre Education With $200,000 Launch
BroadwayWorld.com

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts to create rainbows in the sky
ArtDaily.org

E-Waste Bikini Makes Painful Statement About Women And Tech
Blog: Earthtechling

Sunday Dialogue – Studying the Humanities
The New York Times

Tapping into the right side of creativity
New Straits Times

Five science-bending twists in ‘The Avengers’
Blog: Technology & science – Science – LiveScience – msnbc.com

With a little creativity, wheelchair users discover they can be artists, too WITH VIDEO
theoaklandpress.com

Science Policy Initiative calls on Congress to support investments in R&D
MIT News Office

How The Media Cover The Brain
Blog: CommonHealth

Actress Mayim Bialik On TV, Science, And The Combo
NPR

DIY feminist science writer Margaret Wertheim discusses the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
Blog: Denver Westward

6 Habits of True Strategic Thinkers
Inc.com

When To Trust Your Gut
Blog: The Creativity Post

10 Steps to a Solid Innovation Foundation
Blog: Innovation Excellence

5 Benefits of Investing Time in Innovative Leadership
Blog: Innovation Excellence

Why Are We So Obsessed With Improving IQ?
Blog: Finding the Next Einstein, Psychology Today

Awakening Our Collegial Collabrative Spirit
Blog: Creative Thinkering, Psychology Today

Visionaries in Evaluation: Beyond Samples & Quantitative Data
ARTSblog, Americans for the Arts

Future tense, IX: Out of the wilderness
The New Criterion

Taking Note: Lifting the Lid on New Growth Theory and its Application to Cultural Policy
Blog: Art Works, National Endowment for the Arts

Moving ArtScience into the Mainstream
Blog: Art Works, National Endowment for the Arts

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Articles of Interest 5/4/2012

May 4, 2012 in Blog Post | Comments (0)

Tags: Articles of Interest

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Curiosity, creativity, discovery and wonder; they aren’t traits of youth, they’re traits of learning. If you want to feel younger and you want to replicate the conditions of youth, do that.” – Benjamin Salka

“Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don’t bite everybody.” – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney

“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.” – John Lennon

“The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.” – Susan Sontag

“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.” – Vladimir Nabokov

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney

VIDEOS OF THE WEEK

SIR KEN ROBINSON: Tedster, Thinker, & Elvis Part 1
Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press

SIR KEN ROBINSON: Tedster, Thinker, & Elvis Part 2
Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press

SIR KEN ROBINSON: Tedster, Thinker, & Elvis Part 3
Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press

The Imagine Engine! or Art and Science—a True Story
Art Works, National Endowment for the Arts

FEATURED EVENTS

A Conversation with Jonah Lehrer
NCN Webinar Series
May 17

CreativeAlberta’s Imagination Conversation
Eventbrite
May 15 – 17
This event features many great speakers, including NCN Board members Carrie Fitzsimmons, Jean Hendrickson, Susan McCalmont, and Scott Noppe Brandon.

World Science Festival
World Science Festival
May 30 – June 3

Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference 8.0
University of Wisconsin – Madison
June 13 – 15