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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 July 6, 2012 at 10:10am: Using literature to connect math:

(WTNH) -- Author and poet, MW Penn uses literature to connect math.

MW Penn is an award winning author and poet who uses literature to connect math with both the real and imaginary lives that matter to children, making math concepts both intuitive and meaningful.

She is the author of the bestselling Pebble Book Math, a series from Capstone Press; 2 Lines, which won first prize in the Connecticut Press Club Communications Awards this year; Square Bear, a fairytale of polygons; and the upcoming Square Bear Meets Round Hound, a story of shapes in a plane.

She also has a poem in the July issue of Highlights for Children and has won a national prize for poetry.

Learn more at www.mwpenn.com

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on June 14, 2012 at 12:24pm: Poetry of Medicine:
http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2012/06/aphasia-cafe-turns-experience...

Neurologist and poet Dawn McGuire

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on June 2, 2012 at 12:45pm: http://morristown.patch.com/articles/science-and-poetry-pair-up-in-...

Science and poetry ... oil and water?

Not exactly. You will find this when you read Writing Poetry Through the Eyes of Science: A Teacher's Guide to Scientific Literacy and Poetic Response.

This crossover work demonstrates how scientific literacy, knowledge and methods can inform and inspire poetic response in the classroom and in the field. "Writing Poetry Through the Eyes of Science illustrates how students can utilize field research, observations, sensory data gathering, poetic writing strategies, and model science poems by poets, scientists, students, and teachers to produce skillful and creative science poetry.

"The authors explore the commonalities shared by the domains of science and poetry as well as the potentials for intersections and interactions across those two domains," the release continues. "As the science teacher raises scientific questions and suggests technical vocabulary to further language specificity and precision, the poetry teacher demonstrates multiple poetic stances enabling imaginative poetic responses."

For more information click on the link:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8732789-writing-poetry-through-t...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 21, 2012 at 5:16am: http://www.thelondoner.ca/2012/05/18/the-art-of-science
Poetry and medicine

Rebecca Zener

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 17, 2012 at 6:55am: http://donaldsinger.blogspot.in/2011/11/hippocrates-initiative-wins...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 17, 2012 at 6:53am: The Hippocrates initiative for poetry and medicine

The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is an annual international award for an unpublished poem on a medical subject.

The Hippocrates initiative was awarded the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts.

Since its launch in 2009, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted over 4000 entries from 44 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia.

With a 1st prize for the winning poem in each category of £5,000, the Hippocrates prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem.

Awards are in an Open category, which anyone in the world may enter, and an NHS category, which is open to UK National Health Service employees, health students and those working in professional organisations involved in education and training of NHS students and staff.

The Hippocrates initiative also includes annual international symposia at which the Hippocrates awards are presented and an international research forum for poetry and medicine.

http://www.hippocrates-poetry.org/

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 17, 2012 at 6:50am: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/csri/research/cpt/poetry...

2012 International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine

THElogoSaturday 12th May 2012
Symposium and Hippocrates Awards venue: Henry Wellcome Lecture Theatre,
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2B
2012 Hippocrates Awards for poetry and medicine
were announced at the 12 May Symposium in 2012

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 17, 2012 at 6:49am: http://www.amazon.com/Of-Mutability-Jo-Shapcott/dp/0571254713

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 12, 2012 at 5:30am: http://www.whatscientistsread.com/take-part/

Does literature impact what scientists study?

How does art inspire science? It may seem a difficult question to answer with any empirical evidence, but in a new research project Scottish scientists aim to do just that.

Launched yesterday, What Scientists Read? will aim to find out what influence literature has on scientists and the decisions they make.

Asking questions like “how does reading literature affect scientific thought and practice?” and “does reading literature affect the career decision to become a scientist?”, the project team will conduct interviews with scientists in Scotland to try to unravel the influence on science of the creative arts.

Fear not, though. Even if you’re ruled out of the interviews due to geographical disadvantages you can still take part in the study. The project’s website hosts a forum where any scientist can go and add to the discussion.

The launch of the project is great timing. At the crossroads between science and art there has long been debate about how the arts feed back into scientific research - whether as a justification for the art or for the funding - but for ArtLab nothing is going to be as compelling as some cold, hard scientific fact.