This year's Chicago Humanities Festival's Artistic Director was Lawrence Weschler. He wrote my favorite book of all time Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder. As artistic director, Weschler added a series of talks called the Wonder Cabinet to this year's offerings. Daniel Dinello, author of Technophobia!, spoke on "Dr. Frankenstein’s Footsteps." I've never been much of a sci-fi person, but I did appreciate learning about the archetype of the mad scientist. I hadn't really noticed the set behaviors of the MS before. Like the black gloved hand. Good cowboys where white hats, mad scientists wear black gloves.