This year’s theme - ‘Reaching out’ is a tribute to NCBS’s efforts to collaborate with multiple sectors – other organizations, education and training institutes, clinicians, hospitals, policymakers, stakeholders, and the general public. This idea of getting ‘science to society’ is portrayed by a take on Michaelangelo’s painting ‘The Creation of Adam’ on the cover of the report. The hand on the right represents NCBS and the gesture here symbolizes a flow of knowledge.
Our hands are one of our body’s most useful and adaptable tools (‘tool of tools’ as Aristotle put it), a fascinating piece of natural engineering seamlessly integrated into our cognitive system. We use them to function, reach out, feel, express, grasp, communicate, and so much more, hardly noticing how indispensable they are in our everyday lives. In addition to using hands to illustrate the theme of reaching out on the cover of the report, we have utilized them in other sections of the report as well – conveying different ideas and helping us express.
