Does a virtual world inspire understanding of the other side, even if it is our so-called enemy?
Most recently, he won the Excellence in Blogging Award for "excellence in writing in a manner that is driven by clarity, inspires understanding, and advances knowledge on issues related to the Middle East".
However, we can hope to be inspired by understanding and exploiting the mechanisms of plasticity.
Drawing on four ethnographic case studies of projects in a public-funded innovation program in rehabilitation care in the Netherlands, we challenge some well-known assumptions about innovation that have long inspired traditional understandings of innovation.
The patience it requires, the naïve optimism it inspires, the understanding of what it means when royalty like Mariano Rivera is playing his last season and the baseball gods can only shed a tear.
The entry of a tech giant to a new place should inspire connectivity, understanding and competition that lifts a community's entire innovation ecosystem.
They believe too easily that their cause will inspire without understanding the true lay of the land.
On the one hand, contemporary filmmakers are often inspired by their understanding of classic films; on the other, the inspiration of new films by classic films instead of by life often leads to sterile work, and, for critics, the excess devotion to classic cinema often obstructs the appreciation of what's new.
"But we were inspired by our understanding of Japanese culture.
The resulting understanding inspired us to modify the synthetic procedures and design a hot-injection approach to synthesize ITO nanoparticles.
