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Science is the poetry of reality - Dawkins
How I'm rushing through this! How much each sentence in this
brief story contains. "The stars are made of the same atoms
as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to
give a lecture on. Poets say science takes away from the
beauty of the stars - mere globs of atoms. Nothing is "mere".
I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them.
But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches
my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch
one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a
part - perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star,
as one is belching there. Or see them with the greater eye of
Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point
when they were perhaps all together. What is the pattern, or
the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery
to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth
than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the
present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of
Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense
spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
-- Richard P. Feynman, a footnote in "Six Easy Pieces"
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Words of poet-naturalist René-Richard Castel: “A poet must not aim to teach and advance a science as much as to show its advantages and make it loved.”
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I have been urged to come back to work!After the last few days of madness I got entangled into, I got this message this morning :You are a flame in human formTo show light to the worldYou have been…Continue
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I am not here to please peopleI am here to pierce the illusionsI am here to tell the truth, not lies you are used toI am here to shatter myths that put you in a comfort zoneThis might cause…Continue
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My energy is a heavenly resource and paramountIt cannot be wasted on petty thingsNot everybody can have access to it nowNot every silly occasion deserves itSo my ''yes" s are very vital nowMy 'no's…Continue
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Who says science is dry and dead?The people whose minds are misconceptions-fed!The conspiracy theorists can only make them see red Making them fully bullheadedNo, no, no, no!Oh-oh, view it from this…Continue
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The month of April (2015) has been designated as The International Poetry month. Let us celebrate this by writing more poems.
Cancer specialist balances art and science
When Frank Meyskens Jr., the oncologist, writes about cancer in medical journals, his words are scientific.
When Meyskens, the poet, writes about cancer in his second book, his words are figurative.
He calls tears the “lubricant of the soul,” and describes how a breast cancer patient disappears “pound by pound, her hopes an affair of ashes.”
“I’ve entered into the artistic world,” said Meyskens, vice dean for the School of Medicine at UC Irvine. “My creativity before was always in science.”
Last year, Meyskens, 69, published “Believing in Today,” which follows his 2007 collection of poetry, “Aching for Tomorrow.” All proceeds from sales of his books go to a hospital fund that covers non-medical costs, such as transportation after chemotherapy, for cancer patients.
Meyskens wrote his first poem as a medical student at UC San Francisco, where he studied and trained from 1967-1974, as a way to cope with encountering the dying. But once he finished his education, he stopped.
He developed a research interest in melanoma, authored hundreds of research articles and book chapters, and helped found UCI’s cancer center.
His poetry remained dormant until 2001 when Meyskens wrote about a young mother who died of a rare form of cancer a week after he met her. That poem opened a flood gate of expression and reflection and starts his first book.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/meyskens-656923-cancer-poem.html
Science Fuels the Writing, and Faith, of a Nicaraguan Poet
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/world/americas/science-fuels-writ...
Medicine and poetry collide at Art Aloud
When going to the doctor, one usually doesn’t expect to hear poetry. One would expect to hear original poetry from local poets even less.
Art Aloud is a spoken word event hosted by the College of Medicine — Tucson’s Medical Humanities program every month at Java City, inside the Arizona Health Sciences Library. Organized by Dr. Ron Grant, a pediatrician and director of Medical Humanities, the event boasts a creative intersection between the sciences and humanities.
“Art Aloud is an opportunity to bring some holistic care and human empathy into a space that, for students, doctors and patients, can sometimes begin to feel a bit sterile,” said Adam Sirgany, a creative writing graduate student who lead last Tuesday’s event in Grant’s absence.
“It’s a good opportunity for people to get the other sides of their brain working,” Sirgany added.
Shapiro’s lecture will take place on Dec. 30 at the Poetry Center, Sirgany said.
The next Art Aloud event will be held on Dec. 16, from noon to 1 p.m., at Java City inside of the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona Medical Cente
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2014/12/medicine-and-poetry-...
The worlds of science and art don’t often mix but pupils at one of Camden’s top schools have found a way to merge the two by writing scientific Haiku poems for a new book
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/worlds_of_science_and_art_collide_in_...
Female voices in science - a poem
Poet and Paleontologist – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The German lawyer, author, poet, politician and artist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (born August 28, 1749-1832) was also a mining engineer and quite interested in geology and paleontology.
In the year 1775, Goethe, already a highly regarded author, was invited to the court of Duke Carl August in the city of Weimar, where he will remain for the rest of his life. Goethe was an enthusiastic collector of mineralogical, paleontological and geological curiosities and between 1780 to 1832 he collected, exchanged and purchased more than 18.000 rocks, minerals and fossils. The fossils alone comprise 718 specimens, most notable in this collection are 100 fossils found in the quaternary deposits of Weimar.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/2014/08/28/p...
For Judith Baumel, science and poetry are inextricably linked:
In the morning he told her
she was beautiful.
She considered Einstein’s paradox:
If I hold a mirror in front of myself
arm’s length away
and run at nearly the speed of light
will I be able to see myself?
http://riverdalepress.com/stories/Science-and-art-blend-in-BRIO-win...
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