Sat in the back yesterday at a NASA brainstorming session. One female PhD spoke up:
“We focus too much on the left side of the brain, what do you think we propose a bold move to appeal to the right side of the brain?”
“What do you have in mind?”
“We should do something like sponsor a poetry reading, or a poetry contest.”
“...”
I kid you not.
A competent session leader would have said, "Isn't that something you can do on your own time? Do we need to be paid to do that?"
Supposedly, the left brain deals with the concrete and technical subjects and the right brain the abstract. Of course, they both are important but NASA is a technical operation, other than the reaching out to Muslims mandate.