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A Missing Piece in the Economic Stimulus: Hobbling Arts Hobbles Innovation

March 17, 2009 by thetenproject Leave a comment

By Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein on February 11, 2009 – 9:28am in Imagine That! From the psychology today blog : http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine-that/200902/a-missing-piece-in-the-economic-stimulus-hobbling-arts-hobbles-innovation

As the economy stumbles, the first things to get cut at the national, state, and local levels are the arts. The first thing that goes in our school curricula are the arts. Arts, common wisdom tells us, are luxuries we can do without in times of crisis. Or can we?

Let’s see what happens when we start throwing out all the science and technology that the arts have made possible. Read more of this post

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The Children of Today Will Build the Cities of Tomorrow

January 7, 2009 by thetenproject Leave a comment

When you tell people that 51% of us live in cities, and that we are adding the equivalent of a city the size of Seattle to the planet every four or five days, they are usually surprised and often react with shock and even despair. Read more of this post

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