Dawkins - How Science is An Art

While many, including Darwin himself, have misunderstood the work of a scientist as the dull grinding of facts and theories, Richard Dawkins sees the career as a colorful and incredibly creative enterprise—akin, in many ways, to the highest poetry and most imaginative art.

Storm!!

I offer this beat poem as a way of showing how arts-based processes allow epic views and exchanges to be condensed to mere moments and anecdotes and how when done skilfully can be highly insightful and very powerful. Tim Minchin is an Australian beat poet based in London and this is a performance of his poem "Storm" to a live audience in the UK. Be warned - there is offensive language!

A World Without Surprise

The ChangeThis instructions read: “If you have a book...please use it only as a jumping-off point from which to isolate a particularly intriguing idea.” Well, I have a book. It’s called Pow! Right Between The Eyes! And its particularly intriguing idea opens mouths, pops eyes and, may I say, whups ass. While potent and influential, it is also the most bullying of ideas; taunting me, challenging me, expecting me, every time, to do something different. For the idea is Surprise, more specifically, “the power of it.” Even more specifically, “the unsung and underutilized power of it in modern-day business.” To write a manifesto about this power, filling pages of prose with pertinent examples, theories and tactics, would’ve been easy. Perhaps I can even be as immodest to say it would’ve been enlightening. But it wouldn’t have been Surprising.

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