References
Some useful references on creative and artisitc science, crazy hair and “mad” behaviour.
- Anon (2006) The mad technologist: Hollywood warms to science, but fears technology Nature 441:908
- Anon (2006) The Mad Scientist Stereotype wikipedia
- Marc Abrahams (2006) The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™: Highlighting the heads of Science Improbable Research that first makes people LAUGH and then makes them THINK.
- Scott Adams (1996) The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads and Other Workplace Afflictions published by HarperCollins (see chapter 14 which is titled “Engineers, scientists, programmers, and other odd people”)
- Colin Blakemore (2003) Where would we be without boffins? The Observer 2003-12-08
- Leigh Dodds (2004) An Introduction to FOAF: An RDF vocabulary for machine-readable homepages xml.com O'Reilly Media
- Paul Graham (2003) Hackers and Painters: Creative Software Engineering paulgraham.com
- Jonathan Hare (2006) The Creative Science Centre: To encourage, stimulate and explore the art of experimenting, University of Sussex.
- Tim Hunkin (1995) The Useful Arts: Linking Art and Science timhunkin.com
- Donald E. Knuth (1974) Computer Programming as an Art Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 17(12):667-673
- Alan Lightman (2005) A tale of two loves: The arts and sciences provide complementary ways of looking at the world Nature 434:299-300 (Artists on science: scientists on art)
- Adam Rutherford (2006) Scientists on Screen: Does Hollywood think we're all dangerous megalomaniacs with crazy hair? Nature 438:25-26
- Charles P. Snow (1959) The two cultures and the scientific revolution: How the divide between arts and sciences is bad for society. Rede lectures pp52, Cambridge University Press
- Ronald B. Standler (1998) Creativity in Science and Engineering rbs0.com
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In my experience, engineers, scientists and philosophers are often creative people. They may also be a bit crazy and have bad hair days but this page provides mathematical proof (by vigorous handwaving) that not all scientists are completely mad or dangerous megalomaniacs with crazy hair. For more questionable proof from history see the accompanying “Dead Scientists Society”. The title of this page is adapted from chapter 14 of the only book on management you will ever need to read: The Dilbert principle. P.S. If you are a semantic webhead, please note that this page will become a friend of a friend file, when the FOAF definition of friend is changed to include the “muse” relationship...