On Genius #254

Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley. Capra is the author of several international bestsellers, including "The Tao of Physics", "The Web of Life", "The Science of Leonardo", and "Learning from Leonardo". He is coauthor, with Pier Luigi Luisi, of the multidisciplinary textbook, "The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision". (Photo by Basso Cannarsa.)

Scott Barry Kaufman is scientific director of the Imagination Institute in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania where he conducts research on imagination, creativity, and play. Kaufman is author of "Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined" and co-author (with Carolyn Gregoire) of the upcoming book "Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind". He is also host of The Psychology Podcast, co-founder of The Creativity Post, and author of the column "Beautiful Minds" for Scientific American. Kaufman completed his doctorate in cognitive psychology from Yale University in 2009 and received his masters degree in experimental psychology from Cambridge University in 2005, where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.

Chelsea Du Fresne is a returning student at the University of Minnesota, where she is majoring in microbiology and genetics. She is the winner of the 2012 BioTechnology Institute undergraduate fellowship for her work with multicellular yeast. One of the organizers of Skeptech, she is a science activist and progressive-space organizer.

Andrew is a graduate of DePaul University, where he received his bachelor's degree last year in philosophy and history of art and architecture. His main research interests are in critical theory, the politics and class structures of public architecture, and radical models of resistance in social movements. He lives in Chicago.