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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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Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 6, 2013 at 9:44am: Inside a mermaid's purse
A poetic intersection between life and science, art and photography.
A Poem based on University of Washington Biology Professor Adam Summers's work in animal sciences ....
Little Skate
Leucoraja erinacea

Littlest of little skates, just barely hatched!
You can still see the remnants
of my yellow egg sac.

And my tail's a little longer
than my whole body
(I'll grow into it more eventually).

And the tiny whiplash at my very tail-tip
(that inside my egg case I used to thrash)
I'll keep for just a few days more.

In warmer days, I'll move toward shore:
Summer Skate you might call me.

Check me out! Already sensing
with ampullae of Lorenzini!

~ Sierra Nelson.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2013/dec/05/inside...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 16, 2013 at 8:42am: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131009125959.htm
Poetry Is Like Music to the Mind, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals
New brain imaging technology is helping researchers to bridge the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose.

Scientists at the University of Exeter used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, which allows them to visualise which parts of the brain are activated to process various activities.

No one had previously looked specifically at the differing responses in the brain to poetry and prose.

In research published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, the team found activity in a "reading network" of brain areas which was activated in response to any written material. But they also found that more emotionally charged writing aroused several of the regions in the brain which respond to music. These areas, predominantly on the right side of the brain, had previously been shown as to give rise to the "shivers down the spine" caused by an emotional reaction to music. .

When volunteers read one of their favourite passages of poetry, the team found that areas of the brain associated with memory were stimulated more strongly than 'reading areas', indicating that reading a favourite passage is a kind of recollection.

In a specific comparison between poetry and prose, the team found evidence that poetry activates brain areas, such as the posterior cingulate cortex and medial temporal lobes, which have been linked to introspection.

Professor Adam Zeman, a cognitive neurologist from the University of Exeter Medical School, worked with colleagues across Psychology and English to carry out the study on 13 volunteers, all faculty members and senior graduate students in English. Their brain activity was scanned and compared when reading literal prose such as an extract from a heating installation manual, evocative passages from novels, easy and difficult sonnets, as well as their favourite poetry.

Professor Zeman said: "Some people say it is impossible to reconcile science and art, but new brain imaging technology means we are now seeing a growing body of evidence about how the brain responds to the experience of art. This was a preliminary study, but it is all part of work that is helping us to make psychological, biological, anatomical sense of art."

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 12, 2013 at 7:55am: http://www.redorbit.com/news/video/science_2/1112972973/poetry-impa...
http://www.redorbit.com/news/video/science_2/1112972973/poetry-impa...
How Does Your Brain Process Poetry?
October 11, 2013

Scientists at the University of Exeter used fMRI imaging to see how participants’ brains responded to poetry and prose. The “reading network” brain areas were activated in response to any written material but more emotionally charged writing aroused several regions of the brain. These regions are predominantly in the right side and had previously been shown to produce the “shivers down the spine” emotional reaction to music. Also, when volunteers read a favorite passage of poetry, the areas of the brain linked to memory were activated more strongly than “reading areas,” showing that reading a favorite passage is a kind of like having a recollection. Also poetry, not prose, was found to activate areas of the brain associated with introspection. Researchers said this is “all part of work that is helping us to make psychological, biological, anatomical sense of art.”

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 12, 2013 at 7:37am: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112971504/effects-of-poetry-o...
This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain On Poetry.
Researchers at the University of Exeter have been bridging the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose. The team used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to visual how the brain activates certain regions to process various activities.

Before this study, no one had specifically examined the brain’s differing responses to poetry and prose. The results, published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, revealed activity within a “reading network” of brain regions that were activated in response to any written material.

The team also found that emotionally charged writing activated areas of the brain which are known to respond to music. Predominantly on the right side, these regions had previously been shown to give rise to the “shivers down the spine” feeling caused by an emotional response to music.

The researchers found that when study participants read one of their favorite passages of poetry, regions of the brain associated with memory were stimulated more strongly than “reading areas.” This suggests that reading a favorite passage is like a recollection.

When the team specifically compared poetry to prose, they found evidence that poetry activates brain regions associated with introspection – such as the posterior cingulate cortex and medial temporal lobes.

Professor Adam Zeman, a cognitive neurologist from the University of Exeter Medical School, led the interdisciplinary team of researchers from the fields of psychology and English. They recruited 13 volunteers, all faculty members and senior graduate students in English, then scanned their brain activity. These scans were compared when reading literal prose – such as an excerpt from a heating installation manual, evocative passages from novels, easy and difficult sonnets, and their favorite poetry.

According to Zeman, “Some people say it is impossible to reconcile science and art, but new brain imaging technology means we are now seeing a growing body of evidence about how the brain responds to the experience of art. This was a preliminary study, but it is all part of work that is helping us to make psychological, biological, anatomical sense of art.”

Source: April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online

Comment by Mona Youssef on October 12, 2013 at 2:44am: Dear Krishna,

It has been always a great pleasure interchanging thoughts with you and I have found you to be very unique with deep understanding character to many human issues not only art and science. You certainly, have a personal touch when writing so you do appreciate poems and it is one of your reason creating this group. So here I am and hope members will enjoy some of my poems.

http://youtu.be/D6YkDKHmhCo

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 10, 2013 at 8:20am: http://www.sciencecodex.com/poetry_is_like_music_to_the_mind_scient...
Poetry is like music to the mind, scientists prove
New brain imaging technology is helping researchers to bridge the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose.

Scientists at the University of Exeter used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, which allows them to visualise which parts of the brain are activated to process various activities. No one had previously looked specifically at the differing responses in the brain to poetry and prose.

In research published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, the team found activity in a "reading network" of brain areas which was activated in response to any written material. But they also found that more emotionally charged writing aroused several of the regions in the brain which respond to music. These areas, predominantly on the right side of the brain, had previously been shown as to give rise to the "shivers down the spine" caused by an emotional reaction to music. .

When volunteers read one of their favourite passages of poetry, the team found that areas of the brain associated with memory were stimulated more strongly than 'reading areas', indicating that reading a favourite passage is a kind of recollection.

In a specific comparison between poetry and prose, the team found evidence that poetry activates brain areas, such as the posterior cingulate cortex and medial temporal lobes, which have been linked to introspection.

Professor Adam Zeman, a cognitive neurologist from the University of Exeter Medical School, worked with colleagues across Psychology and English to carry out the study on 13 volunteers, all faculty members and senior graduate students in English. Their brain activity was scanned and compared when reading literal prose such as an extract from a heating installation manual, evocative passages from novels, easy and difficult sonnets, as well as their favourite poetry.

Professor Zeman said: "Some people say it is impossible to reconcile science and art, but new brain imaging technology means we are now seeing a growing body of evidence about how the brain responds to the experience of art. This was a preliminary study, but it is all part of work that is helping us to make psychological, biological, anatomical sense of art."

Source: University of Exeter

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 6, 2013 at 10:45am: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-opinion/lleucu-sienc...
When two words collide
5 Oct 2013 06:30

Scientists are often excellent writers, says Literature Wales boss Lleucu Siencyn, who explores the common ground between art and science
Is E=MC2 the best poem never written?

The ability to condense the very essence of existence to a few letters must surely be the work of a poetic genius as well as mathematical.

And why separate the two disciplines?

Science and art have been artificially divided for far too long, particularly within our education system.
Scientists are often excellent writers.

They can convey complicated structures in simple sentences.

No unwanted adjectives or detailed descriptions of scenery – the type of writing Elmore Leonard would have been proud to produce.

Similarly, the way you consider a poem’s meaning, looking carefully at it from all angles, opening your mind to endless possibilities, can be useful practice for a mathematical problem.

The common ground between science and art is made up of creativity and curiosity.

This week, Professor Dai Smith’s review into arts in education was published, with several key recommendations.

At the core is the vital importance of embedding creativity across the disciplines within the education sector.

Writers can help raise literacy standards, but how about using them to help numeracy, particularly when playing equation games with cynghanedd and sonnets?

Arts and science have not always been as differentiated.

The Golden Age of Discovery inspired some of the greatest literature ever written.
his year, the National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, has joined some of the best poets in the UK, as writers in residence at science museums at Cambridge University, a project funded by the Arts Council of England ( www.thresholds.co.uk ).
Archaeopteryx

The first bird in the world

stilled in stony silence behind glass.

Flight feathers, wishbone, that perching foot,

found in the limestone of a salt lagoon, a mould

from the Jurassic, print, exactitude,

a frozen moment in Earth’s book of stone,

the transition between dinosaur and bird,

a memory of wing-feathers, skull and bones,

like the impression left by a magpie on the lawn,

bump-landing, lift-off, touch and go,

its wing-beats leaving angels in the snow

an icy hour before dawn.

First bird,

thence every warbler, song-thrush, wren,

the blackbird in the ash, five notes repeating

again, again, again.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 8, 2013 at 8:36am: http://www.thejournal.co.uk/culture/arts/poet-composer-inspired-sol...
Poet and composer inspired by the solar system
7 Sep 2013 08:47

Two major artistic talents - a poet and an electronic music pioneer - join forces tomorrow for a new solar system-inspired ‘sound journey’ called Edge
Katrina Porteous, the poet, and Peter Zinovieff, who helped to give Pink Floyd, David Bowie and others their distinctive sound, will give the inaugural performance of Edge in Centre for Life planetarium in Newcastle.

Part of the British Science Festival, which starts in the city today, Edge represents an exhilarating marriage of art and science.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 4, 2013 at 5:28am: Literature provides a vital way of examining science from the outside: "Science is moving ahead at such an extraordinary rate that all sorts of moral and ethical dilemmas are being generated by the discoveries being made. As human beings we need to think about them and talk about them and understand them. And literature is a great arena in which to do that." Ultimately if writers don't engage with some of the scientific advances that are being made, that are changing our lives radically, then they're in danger of becoming irrelevant."