Have Museums Lost Their Ability To Be Creative?

“It might be worth asking whether museums are the best places for people who are both creative and caring. Are museums supportive platforms from which to envision and enact social change? Can “we win” at creating a better future from within traditional museums? How could museums nurture more interesting, connective, transformative curators? Do museums even want to?”

What If Cause Isn’t Related To Effect? (At Least How We Can See It)

“We’ve constructed our $2.5 trillion health care system around the belief that we can find the underlying causes of illness, the invisible triggers of pain and disease. That’s why we herald the arrival of new biomarkers and get so excited by the latest imaging technologies. If only we knew more and could see further, the causes of our problems would reveal themselves. But what if they don’t?”