♫ John Schaefer provides excellent curation of contemporary musical settings of great Latin-American poets. Where else could you find a collection like this, in such a readily digestible format? SNIP "Listen to contemporary settings of great … [Read more]
Contemporary musical settings of great Latin-American poetry
Anthropomorphism 101
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to sing. -e. e. cummings … [Read more]
Poets in the Rear View Mirror of Science: Review of Sequences and Pathogens
Sequences and Pathogens: An Anthology of Poems and Reflections, edited by Dorothy Lehane and Elinor Cleghorn (Litmus Publishing, 2013). I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's? That … [Read more]
legal frameworks
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once … [Read more]
experiences of sense
From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately … [Read more]
