Links to resources footnoted in The Culture of Possibility
Page 16: “The Selective Attention Test” on YouTube, based on an experiment devised by cognitive scientists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris.
Page 25: Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto , 1848
Page 26: Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest , 2007
Page 31: Incarceration rates by nation
Fareed Zakaria on Incarceration Nation
Page 32: The Cost of War calculator
Page 35: Jonathon Lear, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, 2008.
Page 37: From Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, Rabbi Nachman’s Stories
Page 38: Michael D. Shear, “With Document, Obama Seeks to End ‘Birther’ Issue,” New York Times, April 27, 2011
Page 41: Isaiah Berlin, The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History, 1996
Page 42: Denis Dutton, The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution, 2010
Ellen Dissanayake, “The Arts After Darwin: Does Art Have An Origin And Adaptive Function?” in Zijlmans, K.. & van Damme, W., World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches, 2008
Page 44: Kevin N. Laland, John Odling-Smee, and Sean Myles, “How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together,” Nature Reviews Genetics 11, 137-148 (February 2010)
Page 49: From Dr. Antonio Damasio’s speech at the World Conference on Arts Education sponsored by UNESCO in 2006
Page 51: Teach for Understanding at Harvard
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Map
Page 52: Nick Rabkin and E. C. Hedberg, Arts education in America: What the declines mean for arts participation, National Endowment for the Arts, February, 2011
Page 53: Nancy J. Adler, “Leading Beautifully: The Creative Economy and Beyond,”Journal of Management Inquiry 2011 20: 208
Page 56: Allen Ginsberg, “Footnote to Howl” in Howl and Other Poems, City Lights Books, 1956
Page 60: “Proverbios y cantares XXIX” [Proverbs and Songs 29], Campos de Castilla (1912); trans. Betty Jean Craige in Selected Poems of Antonio Machado
Page 64: William A. Gamson and Charlotte Ryan, “Thinking about Elephants:Toward a Dialogue with George Lakoff,” The Public Eye Magazine, Fall 2005
Page 66: U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis news release on corporate profits, 29 March 2012
Page 69: Jonathan Haidt, “Why working-class people vote conservative,” guardian.co.uk, June 5, 2012
Page 71: Arlene Goldbard, ”Ambassador from The Present”
Page 75: The Singing Revolution
Page 76: Concrete, Steel, and Paint
The Prison Creative Arts Project
Page 77: Trash Dance
Page 78: Pangea World Theater
Page 79: Chinese Whispers
Page 80: Arlene Goldbard, New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development, New Village Press, 2006
Page 81: Judith F. Baca, “Birth of A Movement,” in Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard, Community, Culture and Globalization, The Rockefeller Foundation 2002
Page 88: Banned Books That Shaped America
Page 89: Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Vintage Books (1961)
What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs, New Village Press 2010.
Page 97: Rabbi Burt Jacobson on the Baal Shem Tov and transforming adversity
Page 99: Eric Okdeh’s mural, “Forgiveness”
Trust: Second Acts in Young Lives
Page 100: Silence Speaks
Dr. Gottfried Schlaug on music and healing the brain
Page 101: Greg Miller, “Music Builds Bridges in the Brain,” Science Now, April 16, 2008,
Stuart Isacoff, “With Music on Their Mind,” Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2012
Page 102: Alive Inside
Page 104: Wes Davis, The ‘Learning Knights’ of Bell Telephone, The New York Times, 15 June 2010
Page 105: Guest editor(s): Harvey Seifter and Ted Buswick, Journal of Business Strategy, Volume 31 issue 4, 2010
Page 106: Nancy J. Adler, “BP’s Blueprint for Emerging From Crisis,” New York Times, July 27, 2010
Page 108: Mark Epstein, Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective, Basic Books, 2004
Page 109: Capitalizing on Complexity: Insights from the Global Chief Executive OfficerStudy, IBM Corporation, May 2010
Page 125: Gar Alperovitz’s Green Party keynote 2012
Page 126: Joseph Stiglitz on “rent-seeking”
Page 140: Raisin Brahms on YouTube
Page 143: “Ordinary folks don’t care about arts: Harper,” Toronto Star, 24 September 2008.
Page 148: Arlene Goldbard, “Symposium: Seven Characters in Search of An Audience (with apologies to Plato),” in Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and The Value of Art, Theatre Bay Area, 2012.
Page 157: David Stockman, “Four Deformations of The Apocalypse,” The New York Times, July 31, 2010
Paul Krugman, “Defining Prosperity Down,” The New York Times, August 1, 2010
Page 168: arts courses, California Department of Education, Educational Demographics Office
Page 172: Chris Hedges on capitalism’s “sacrifice zones”
Page 178: Diane Ravitch on No Child Left Behind on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition,” 2 March 2010