100 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge, Western Australia Combining current collaborative book projects between artists and writers from a variety of backgrounds with a survey of historical and contemporary Western Australian photographic books, two exhibitions investigate the relationship between books, photographs and the textual form.
Creative imagination and inventiveness have always been hallmarks of good science, just as of good writing. Writers must conform to certain recognized truths about human nature, just as scientists must conform to truths about non-human nature.
Both the novelist and the scientist are seeking truth. For the novelist, this truth is related to the world of the mind and the heart, for the scientist the truth in the world of the subject he is investigating or studying.
For instance gravity is equivalent to acceleration, hangs together like a work of art. You’ve all seen paintings or musical compositions where you felt you couldn’t remove one brush stroke or change one note without severely altering the work.
scientists and artists share the mixed blessing and burden of the creative life and the thrill of what we call the creative moment — the “aha” moment when a scientist finally realizes the missing piece in some troubling problem. Scientists and artists do what they do because they love it and because they cannot imagine doing anything else.
The important difference between the two pursuits is that science requires a high level of certainty, while writing or painting requires a degree of abstraction.
Scientists try to name things, but artists try to avoid naming things. Much of the game of science is to pose a problem with enough precision and clarity so that it is guaranteed a solution.
Artists often don’t care what the answer is because definite answers often don’t exist. For many artists, the question is more important than the answer.
Another thing that distinguishes the processes of art and science: Every electron is identical, but every love is different.
Feel I'm goin' back to Massachusetts. Something's telling me I must go home. And the lights all went out in Massachusetts The day I left her standing on her own.
Tried to hitch a ride to San Francisco. Gotta do the things I wanna do. And the lights all went out in Massachusetts They brought me back to see my way with you.
Talk about the life in Massachusetts. Speak about the people I have seen. And the lights all went out in Massachusetts, And Massachusetts is one place I have seen
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http://www.thehindu.com/features/the-yin-thing/writing-and-experime... Writing and experimenting
In Britain’s often ill-tempered culture wars where—like Twain scientists and literary intellectuals are destined never to meet, Sunetra Gupta is among the exceptions: a well-known scientist and an equally well-known writer. She has just been honoured for her contribution to science but through the medium of art!
Professor Gupta was among a select group of female scientists whose specially commissioned portrait sketches were shown at the Royal Society’s "Great Women in Science’’ show as part of its prestigious summer science exhibition in London. A rare honour, it confirmed her status as a true representative of C. P. Snow’s "two cultures" _ someone who is able so effortlessly to straddle the perceived gap between science and art.
Like Snow, she doesn’t see a division between art and science and believes that they are simply different ways of expressing ideas.
"A mathematical equation can be as beautiful as a Keats’ poem," she said in a BBC interview.
Asked whether she saw herself primarily as a scientist or a novelist, Prof Gupta, who has written five novels one of which was long listed for the Orange Prize, replied: "I think of myself as both. What I want to do is to shed some sort of light—some minor illumination—on human condition. I use different languages to explore it. I think certain languages are more appropriate like the language of mathematics for understanding the physical world—and other languages such as poetry are more appropriate when you are trying to understand what’s going on inside yourself."
Her inclusion in the art show was specifically a recognition of her achievements as a woman scientist in an environment that is not exactly friendly to female professionals.
I just read a dumb article about rituals of writers. Dumb because I never practice any rituals before writing. Writing itself gives a kick and I don't need any other! Your brain burns, burns, burns and burns and it can be cooled down and get relieved only when you put all that fuel on a piece of paper! It is all in your mind, if you can't read your own mind, yes, you need external assistance!
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
10 reasons why Shakespeare could be a fraud!
Don't know what the truth is but the points are worth thinking about!
Oct 21, 2011
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
100 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge, Western Australia Combining current collaborative book projects between artists and writers from a variety of backgrounds with a survey of historical and contemporary Western Australian photographic books, two exhibitions investigate the relationship between books, photographs and the textual form.
http://www.lethologicapress.org/teapot/?p=1864
Feb 17, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/what-can-novelists-learn-...
Mar 8, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Science and Literature:
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2012/03/science_and_art_share_th...
Mar 13, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Creative imagination and inventiveness have always been hallmarks of good science, just as of good writing. Writers must conform to certain recognized truths about human nature, just as scientists must conform to truths about non-human nature.
Both the novelist and the scientist are seeking truth. For the novelist, this truth is related to the world of the mind and the heart, for the scientist the truth in the world of the subject he is investigating or studying.
For instance gravity is equivalent to acceleration, hangs together like a work of art. You’ve all seen paintings or musical compositions where you felt you couldn’t remove one brush stroke or change one note without severely altering the work.
scientists and artists share the mixed blessing and burden of the creative life and the thrill of what we call the creative moment — the “aha” moment when a scientist finally realizes the missing piece in some troubling problem. Scientists and artists do what they do because they love it and because they cannot imagine doing anything else.
The important difference between the two pursuits is that science requires a high level of certainty, while writing or painting requires a degree of abstraction.
Scientists try to name things, but artists try to avoid naming things. Much of the game of science is to pose a problem with enough precision and clarity so that it is guaranteed a solution.
Artists often don’t care what the answer is because definite answers often don’t exist. For many artists, the question is more important than the answer.
Another thing that distinguishes the processes of art and science: Every electron is identical, but every love is different.
Mar 13, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Gedankenexperiment or gedankenexperiment
PRONUNCIATION:
(guh-DAHNG-kuhn-ik-SPER-uh-muhnt)
MEANING:
noun: A thought experiment: an experiment carried out in imagination only.
Mar 13, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.theaterjones.com/features/20120514075612/2012-05-14/Scie...
Science as Theater Catalyst
Author and physicist Alan Lightman, speaking at Arts & Letters Live this week, on collaborative theater, science.
May 15, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/13...
The Science of Creativity - book
Jun 13, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Feel I'm goin' back to Massachusetts.
Something's telling me I must go home.
And the lights all went out in Massachusetts
The day I left her standing on her own.
Tried to hitch a ride to San Francisco.
Gotta do the things I wanna do.
And the lights all went out in Massachusetts
They brought me back to see my way with you.
Talk about the life in Massachusetts.
Speak about the people I have seen.
And the lights all went out in Massachusetts,
And Massachusetts is one place I have seen
Jul 3, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Lyrics-
Nights in white satin,
Never reaching the end,
Letters Ive written,
Never meaning to send.
Beauty Id always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I cant say anymore.
cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Gazing at people,
Some hand in hand,
Just what Im going thru
They can understand.
Some try to tell me
Thoughts they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be
You will be in the end,
And I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.
Nights in white satin,
Never reaching the end,
Letters Ive written,
Never meaning to send.
Beauty Id always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I cant say anymore.
cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.
cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you
Jul 3, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Jul 3, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Writing like a scientist is different from writing like an artist or a writer!
Yes, read this article:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issue...
Jul 19, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.indianwriters.org/
Sep 16, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.vancouversun.com/Women+under+reviewed+under+valued+liter...
Oct 28, 2012
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
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Writing and experimenting
In Britain’s often ill-tempered culture wars where—like Twain scientists and literary intellectuals are destined never to meet, Sunetra Gupta is among the exceptions: a well-known scientist and an equally well-known writer. She has just been honoured for her contribution to science but through the medium of art!
Professor Gupta was among a select group of female scientists whose specially commissioned portrait sketches were shown at the Royal Society’s "Great Women in Science’’ show as part of its prestigious summer science exhibition in London. A rare honour, it confirmed her status as a true representative of C. P. Snow’s "two cultures" _ someone who is able so effortlessly to straddle the perceived gap between science and art.
Like Snow, she doesn’t see a division between art and science and believes that they are simply different ways of expressing ideas.
"A mathematical equation can be as beautiful as a Keats’ poem," she said in a BBC interview.
Asked whether she saw herself primarily as a scientist or a novelist, Prof Gupta, who has written five novels one of which was long listed for the Orange Prize, replied: "I think of myself as both. What I want to do is to shed some sort of light—some minor illumination—on human condition. I use different languages to explore it. I think certain languages are more appropriate like the language of mathematics for understanding the physical world—and other languages such as poetry are more appropriate when you are trying to understand what’s going on inside yourself."
Her inclusion in the art show was specifically a recognition of her achievements as a woman scientist in an environment that is not exactly friendly to female professionals.
Jul 16, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
I just read a dumb article about rituals of writers. Dumb because I never practice any rituals before writing. Writing itself gives a kick and I don't need any other! Your brain burns, burns, burns and burns and it can be cooled down and get relieved only when you put all that fuel on a piece of paper! It is all in your mind, if you can't read your own mind, yes, you need external assistance!
You can read the article there: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/2013/08/12/ca...
Aug 14, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-a-computer-pro...
How a Computer Program Helped Reveal J. K. Rowling as Author of A Cuckoo’s Calling
Author of the Harry Potter books has a distinct linguistic signature
Aug 22, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=writing-can-help-i...
Writing Can Help Injuries Heal Faster
Expressive writing may lead to faster recovery from injury
Nov 21, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116170/jane-austen-game-theorist...
Can science explain literature perfectly?
Jan 25, 2014