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| August 4, 2006
The Cutting Edge BY JASON WALSH
Boom! Humankind’s ability to calculate surface area, volume and buoyancy through water displacement was born. (As was the legend that, after realizing the profound nature of his discovery, Archimedes ran naked through the streets shouting, “Eureka! Eureka!”) Whether you call it divine inspiration, daring advancement or simply the ability to “think outside the box” (or bath in Archimedes’ case), innovation places its sources on the cutting edge of history—an edge overlooking chasms rarely leapt, never before hurdled. OK, so maybe that’s an overly dramatic way of leading into stories involving gaseous bovines and animation geeks bent on giving Bugs Bunny a bully pulpit. But Marin County has always had its fair share of community members on the cutting edge. And so for the Pacific Sun’s third annual “Rising Suns” issue, we’re highlighting those cutting-edge individuals and organizations that are changing their worlds one step at a time (or, in the Straus Family Creamery’s case, one cow pie at a time). So if you see any of these people running through the streets, naked as the day they were born, shouting, “Eureka!” you’ll know it’s because another innovation chasm has been hurdled. At least we hope that’s the reason. |
THE CUTTING EDGE Rising Suns 2006 Straus Family Creamery Jim McCullough and Onadime Brad Silen and PlanetQuest Nicholas and Michael Broffman BioMarin researchers Gareth Loy Christi Graham and Veronica Galvin and the Buck Institute’s Alzheimer’s research |
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Anyone who’s ever attended elementary school knows the scenario: Greek mathematician Archimedes settled into his bath one day in the third century B.C.E. and paid particular attention to how the water level rose the further he submerged his body into the liquid. |
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