While there may seem little method to this madness, curiosity-driven research is attracting renewed attention and support as a strategy for success in the sciences, both pure and applied, and economically for society as a whole.
The global audience for e-sports is expected to reach nearly 400 million this year (larger than the population of the U.S ., split between enthusiasts and casual viewers, and is expected to grow by 50percentt over the next three years, according to data Dojo Madness cited from the research firm Newzoo.
The researchers said the belief that creativity is associated with madness has increasingly been researched by psychologists and psychiatrists, yet added: "comedy and humour have been largely neglected".
Though "Voluntary Madness" is vastly less researched than her first book — a fairer subtitle might be "My Five Weeks in the Loony Bin" — the project is conceptually similar: Vincent checks herself into three additional institutions, masquerading as a mental patient who tells the intake counselor that she doesn't feel "safe" (the magic word) in the real world.
It's only now I see all of the planning, the U-turns and wrong turns, the inconclusive data and results, the malfunctioning equipment and the general madness involved in doing solid research.
He cites research from Nancy Andreasen and Kay Redfield Jamison on madness and artistic productivity.
Video: Manufacturing Madness Using Army footage of the clinical research at Edgewood, "Manufacturing Madness" provides a look inside the secret padded wards where experiments with psychochemicals were conducted.
"For the Social Democratic Party, this would be considered sheer madness," said Ernst Hillebrand of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a research organization close to Germany's opposition party.
"This rush for innovation is all madness," said Timothy Dowd, a senior analyst with the research firm Packaged Facts and author of its Oral Care 2007 market report.
To stop the clinical and research use of ketamine would be madness but this is what would happen if the UK approves and implements the UNCND recommendation.
