by Nancy Hillis | Jan 24, 2021
Creativity and Everyday Miracles When Bruce was a researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, he lived in an old sheepherder’s cabin in the river canyon east of downtown, a tiny place with a sod roof held up by bowed beams and heated by a wood stove. Like many...
by Nancy Hillis | Jan 17, 2021
Creativity: Moving The Earth With Archimedes & Stravinsky The Greek philosopher Archimedes once said, “Give me a firm place to stand and a lever and I can move the Earth.” He was enamored of the idea of the lever and its ability to multiply force. ...
by Nancy Hillis | May 3, 2020
Creative Intelligence: Real & Artificial The following blog post is constructed from conversations between myself and my partner, Dr. Bruce Sawhill, Stanford educated theoretical physicist and mathematician. You can watch the video by clicking on the arrow...
by Nancy Hillis | Sep 2, 2018
Here’s the video of the talk I gave for the San Francisco Opera Guild on the hero’s journey in art and how artists on the artist’s journey continually step into the unknown. Notes from the presentation In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in...