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The Sydney Morning Herald asks: “Are STEM Skills Overhyped?” , while Strategy+Business posits that the lack of executive empathy is due to a dearth of so-called “soft” skills – like critical thinking.

This piece on Medium’s UX Planet highlights the importance of humanities perspectives in design.

This caught our eye: NPR explores the limits of Western languages, when describing scent.

In AEON, Margaret Wertheim’s piece on dimension showcases subjectivity in the sciences (we’ve been saying all along that subjectivity is not the exclusive provenance of the arts)!

Weekly Links - April 1st, 2016

“This humanities-driven approach to innovation can create ‘game-changing’ solutions to the major challenges of our societies. They can help transform the ways in which we conceptualise, manage, study and act in the world.”

— Kirsten Drotner + Mariachiara Esposito in EuroScientist

This week we discovered several STEAM-y stories.  Our favorites are shared below:

An Italian case study provides recession-proof advice for arts and cultural organizations.

Billed as an intersection of art and technology, this week’s inaugural “Light City Baltimore” festival is transforming the way people look at the city.

Science Europe’s Scientific Committee opines on the importance of the human factor in radical innovation and establishes the arts and culture as “game changing” catalysts.