Cusp Conference 2014: Turbulence tamed

October 22 and 23, 2014: Mike Ivers, of the Yuma Community Food Bank, opened the seventh Cusp Conference at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art with this charge: “Turn turbulence into triumph.” It inspires resilience in the face of current events. Its meaning, from one relative state into another, coheres with these themes that I found to flow among the event’s speakers.
Origins

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins said, “There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of re...