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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Some of the most inspirational “Engineers, scientists, philosophers and other odd people” are no longer with us, alas. So forget the Dead Poets Society, have a browse around the Dead Scientists Society and “stand on the shoulders of giants”. P.S. If you are a semantic webhead, please note as far as I'm aware, there is no way to capture the semantics of the dead “friend” or muse relationship in a friend of a friend (FOAF) file, so there is no FOAF equivalent of this page yet.