POETRY WALK BLENDS SCIENCE AND ART The W.K. Kellogg Bird Sanctuary will welcome scientist and poet Art Stewart from 7:30 to 9 p.m. July 12, as he leads participants on a sunset poetry walk along the sanctuary’s trails on Wintergreen Lake.
The walk is free of charge and open to the public. Art Stewart is the writer-in-residence at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station July 10 - 16, and his poetry is inspired by science. Stewart is an alumnus of Kellogg Biological Station, graduating with his Ph.D. in 1980 from Michigan State University. http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2016/poetry-walk-blends-science-and-art/
It seems almost all novels and plays provide one of only six “emotional experiences” from beginning to end—a rags-to-riches exuberance, say, or a rise and fall of hope (below, top). Researchers at the University of Vermont graphed the happiness and sadness of words that occurred across the pages of more than 1,300 fiction works to reveal the emotional arcs and discovered relatively few variations.
A different study coordinated by Poland's Institute of Nuclear Physics found that sentence lengths in books frequently form a fractal pattern—a set of objects that repeat on a small and large scale, the way small, triangular leaflets make up larger, triangular leaves that make up a larger, triangular palm frond.
This article was originally published with the title "Novel Math"
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
POETRY WALK BLENDS SCIENCE AND ART
The W.K. Kellogg Bird Sanctuary will welcome scientist and poet Art Stewart from 7:30 to 9 p.m. July 12, as he leads participants on a sunset poetry walk along the sanctuary’s trails on Wintergreen Lake.
The walk is free of charge and open to the public. Art Stewart is the writer-in-residence at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station July 10 - 16, and his poetry is inspired by science. Stewart is an alumnus of Kellogg Biological Station, graduating with his Ph.D. in 1980 from Michigan State University.
http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2016/poetry-walk-blends-science-and-art/
Jul 1, 2016
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Great literature is surprisingly arithmetic
It seems almost all novels and plays provide one of only six “emotional experiences” from beginning to end—a rags-to-riches exuberance, say, or a rise and fall of hope (below, top). Researchers at the University of Vermont graphed the happiness and sadness of words that occurred across the pages of more than 1,300 fiction works to reveal the emotional arcs and discovered relatively few variations.
A different study coordinated by Poland's Institute of Nuclear Physics found that sentence lengths in books frequently form a fractal pattern—a set of objects that repeat on a small and large scale, the way small, triangular leaflets make up larger, triangular leaves that make up a larger, triangular palm frond.
This article was originally published with the title "Novel Math"
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/great-literature-is-surp...
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