Noted: For my inspiration fix, I head to the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), on the University of Wisconsin?Madison campus. The goal of the place, its lion-haired director, David Krakauer, tells me, exuberantly drawing arrows and intersecting circles on a whiteboard, is to bring together researchers from many historically isolated departments to share theories, concepts, and data sets. Krakauer, a geneticist who also happens to have deep and sophisticated interests in art and music and education reform, has written a quote from Niels Bohr across his office window in grease pencil: ?Your theory is crazy, but it?s not crazy enough to be true.?
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