Science is the Poetry of Reality
Here’s the latest of John Boswell’s creations for his “Symphony of Science” series.
He explains it this way:
“The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)” is the fifth video in the Symphony of Science series. This new video differs slightly from previous ones, in that it features many more scientific thinkers than usual. It includes (in order) Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Carolyn Porco, and PZ Meyers, all contributing their personal views on what science means to them and how important it is in our daily lives.
Have You Ever Seen Richard Feynman Drumming?
I love these two short beautiful videos, done by John Boswell of Colorpulse. I’ve been watching them over and over. They are hymns to the Universe and love songs to science and spirituality. They express the deepest common insight of science and religion: “We are all connected.”
Have you ever seen Richard Feynman drumming? Or giggling? Or listened to Carl Sagan singing whale songs? That’s the state-of-playful-mind it helps to attain in order to get the most from these videos. Don’t judge them too quickly. So what if they’re sentimental? Can you imagine sentimental and profound?
It may turn out that to see clearly, we have to see through tears.
Poem: Stroke
Stroke I walk away from dad's bed. Mr. Dugan, his roommate, gestures to me: "Say, give me a hand here. Help me get my truck started." Embarrassed, I say, "I'll get the nurse." Mr. Dugan asks Jane to help. She says, "Mr. Dugan, you're in a hospital bed." Later, at work, I tell Brian. He says: "You shoulda helped him get his goddamned truck started!" Brian's right. Stuck in a snowbank outside South Bend with a dead truck engine is a good place to beDon Pelton, 10/11/91
