Last week in its series on creativity, CNN profiled writer, composer, and multimedia artist Paul Miller ’92, aka DJ Spooky, aka That Subliminal Kid, who could be the spokesperson for the liberal arts. Miller intellectualizes and fuses apparently disparate images, sounds, and ideas, across genres to create new discoveries.

For instance, last fall, Miller introduced an audience at the New York Academy of Science to “Sinfonia Antartica” – a presentation of classical, electronic and go-go musical interpretations of physicist Brian Greene’s research. His 2011 book, The Book of Ice, presents charts, graphs, and alarming images of the effects of human-caused climate change that Miller noted on his 2008 expedition to Antarctica.