Janna Levin reading poetry at Universe in Verse at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn in 2018. Credit: Annie Minoff Every year, hundreds pack Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York for “The Universe In Verse,” a ...
In “Can Our Eyes Fool Our Taste Buds?,” children’s poet April Halprin Wayland summarizes a fun experiment in taste perception where people were quizzed after drinking red and green drinks that ...
SCIENCE VERSE, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, Viking, 2004, 40 pages, $16.99 (ISBN 0-670-91057-0) "Science Verse," written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith, is a charming collection of ...
It is hard to find good children's poetry about science, as most scientists do not write poems, and most poets do not do experiments. John Scieszka and Lane Smith's Science Verse includes poems ...
Edinburgh Napier University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. When people think about science communication, they often imagine strategies to get large audiences to see a ...
But he was very passionate about science, knew a lot about it. And it appears a lot in his later poetry, both chemistry and astronomy. FLATOW: Talking with Richard Holmes, author of "The Age of Wonder ...
The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not ...
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Science and poetry — a richly vexed topic badly in need of rethinking. In my years at the University of Calgary, I came to know Canadian poet Christian Bok, who, to the amazement of all, published a ...
For most engineers and scientists, wandering lonely as a cloud or being compared to a summer rose are not phrases which normally enter their minds. But University of Manchester science and engineering ...