A quick announcement for readers of Imagination Now: Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) is now on Twitter as LCInstitute. This is another highly useful way to interact with LCI online. Follow us to keep up with our efforts to promote imagination, creativity, and innovation in education and society, and to stay informed about relevant news from [...]
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I’m a master’s student in the department of English at New York University, currently enrolled in a course called American Romance and Realism, in which we read fiction from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A few weeks ago, we looked at the work of Edgar Allan Poe, plunging ourselves into his dark, sensuous, neurotic [...]
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Bifocals, the catheter, the lightning rod, the odometer, the mechanical armonica, swim fins: all of these sprang from the mind of Benjamin Franklin. So did the United States’s first academy, hospital, and library, respectively. When he wasn’t occupied with the founding of our country, Franklin was a prolific scientific and social innovator, an embodiment of [...]
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When we think of assembly lines, many of us envision men and women in identical uniforms standing side by side before a conveyor belt, tools in hand, against a dense backdrop of plastic and metal, performing the same basic tasks ad infinitum. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Chaplin’s Modern Times—these films are timeless in their representation of [...]
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An imaginative career can be variously exhilarating, rewarding, and arduous, but you don’t have to tell that to Dr. Stephen Kurtin, the subject of an August 3, 2009, New York Times profile by John Markoff. “As a promising Caltech graduate student in applied physics,” the article begins, “Stephen Kurtin could have taken a job offer [...]
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