![]() Maybe the best you can imagine is getting through the day. Maybe the most creative thing you invent is a way to teach your child something or a way to optimize time during Zoom calls. Many will actually end up in the history books because of their discoveries, but that doesn’t diminish what the rest of us do. There is pure imagination running through the minds of hundreds of thousands of Spartans around the world. From discovering breakthroughs in solar technology to creating an app to help us avoid ticks this summer to making sure blind students have the technology they need, we never stop working. Pandemic or not, Spartans are constantly imagining ways to make a better world for everyone. Read his STUDENT VIEW: Caring for COVID patients, to learn more about this inspirational young man’s experience. He is a senior majoring in nursing who has been working in a nursing home facility on Chicago’s north side. I’m guessing that even in Terrence Lindsey’s wildest imagination he would not have envisioned a pandemic world where he is caring for patients during his summer break. Read her FACULTY VOICE: Music and Mars to learn more about the project and preview a music video from the album. Imagining music as a “wonderful medium for translational science,” she created an album to teach children about the planets and space. She is a professor of journalism and a classically trained musician, who has performed globally as a professional percussionist and composer. Stacey Fox has creatively combined her talents into a way to translate science. Maybe it will inspire your creative pursuits. The video in this feature is mesmerizing and beautiful. It’s innovative and fascinating research you can learn more about in the MSUTODAY FEATURE: Octopus tentacles inspire better prosthetics for humans. They’re hoping to find a way to create similar connections for humans with prosthetics. She and her team are studying the way an octopus moves its limbs and the connection between its brain and its tentacles. MSU neuroscientist Galit Pelled has used her imagination to explore a way to create “smart” prosthetics for people. Someone’s pure imagination envisioned a way to change the world. Gene Wilder, as Willy Wonka, sang of changing the world using “pure imagination.” Isn’t that the truth? All of the greatest discoveries, inventions and works of art happened because someone dreamed about them first. I suppose there’s still time if I let my imagination run wild. But, somehow, I’m exhausted just staying at home. I keep meaning to finally sit down and try writing something longer and meaningful. I’m pretty sure those don’t qualify me for any note in the history books, but I’m OK with that. My free time is spent walking the dog, tackling home improvement projects, watching mindless television and having wine on the deck. I spend my days working hard, but I’m not changing the world - just sharing stories about the Spartans who are. Most days, I’m lucky if I remember to eat, shower and let the dog out. ![]() ![]() ![]() There have been no major scientific discoveries or literary masterpieces happening here at my house. He was only 24 years old at the time.ĭuring my time living in a pandemic quarantine, I’ve been significantly less productive. Isaac Newton developed calculus, formulated his law of gravitation and analyzed color, light and the spectrum while quarantining at his family farm during the Great Plague of London. It’s been said that Shakespeare wrote “King Lear” and “Macbeth” while being quarantined during the bubonic plague. ![]()
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