  Watch this:   What is the important difference between this
and a TED talk?   Stop fidgeting!  Stand still!  Sit up
straight!  Look at me when I’m talking to you!  Right there I
think we start to lose something.       Creativity and the Edge
Effect or “Yo-Yo Ma and Monkeys”  Earlier this week (8th April),
Yo-Yo Ma delivered the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public
Policy the Kennedy Centre in Washington.  He called it “Art for
Life’s Sake: A Roadmap from One Citizen Musician”, and it is
well worth reading the transcript or watching the talk. As he
champions the cultivation of collaboration, flexibility,
imagination, and innovation, his vision of the future workforce
is neatly echoed by a new study from Wikia and Ipsos MediaCT
called “GenZ: The Limitless Generation”, which suggests these
are the very strengths that Generation Z will bring to the
table.  However, when Yo-Yo Ma articulates how a biological
phenomenon, “the edge effect”, applies to the arts, you can hear
the rubber biting the tarmac. This is