{"id":1531,"date":"2010-09-20T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T14:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2010-09-20T09:15:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T14:15:32","slug":"the-art-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2010\/09\/20\/the-art-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">I have always been interested in what lies at the intersection of science and art. There are of course many different ways of looking at this. There is the idea of scientific creativity being both similar to and different from artistic creativity. And then there is the idea of artistically representing scientific ideas. I have written about this elsewhere in the context of poetry (both <a href=\"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2010\/01\/12\/poetry-science-math-or-why-i-love-the-web\/\">scientific poetry \/ sci-po or mathematical poetry \/ math-po<\/a>). I have also argued that this process of &#8220;translation&#8221; from one medium to another is a very powerful way of both understanding the issues at hand but could also be an interesting teaching tool. For instance see these sci-po&#8217;s written by Sean Nash&#8217;s students. As I had said before, <a href=\"http:\/\/nashworld.edublogs.org\/2010\/01\/18\/is-this-a-sluggish-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\">echoing Sean<\/a>, in the context of writing a mathematical proof in verse (click <a href=\"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2010\/01\/27\/the-infinity-of-primes-proof-as-poem\/\" target=\"_blank\">here if you are interested<\/a>), this act of writing a poem about mathematics forces you to truly and deeply understand the idea before you can start playing with it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Such artistic representations of science can also be a powerful tool for outreach &#8211; to communicate often abstruse and complex ideas to a wider audience. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">One of the best approaches that has received some attention in the past years is Dance your Ph.D. As the Science Mag website says<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The dreaded question. &#8220;So, what&#8217;s your Ph.D. research about?&#8221; You could bore them with an explanation. Or you could dance.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the idea behind &#8220;Dance Your Ph.D.&#8221; Over the past 3 years, scientists from around the world have teamed up to create dance videos based on their graduate research. This year&#8217;s contest, launched in June by\u00a0<em>Science<\/em>, received\u00a045 brave submissions.<\/p>\n<p>Today, judges\u2014including scientists, choreographers, and past winners\u2014announced the finalists in four categories: physics, chemistry, biology, and social sciences. Each receives $500.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2010\/09\/dance-your-phd-finalists-announce.html\" target=\"_blank\">here to see and vote for the finalists. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been interested in what lies at the intersection of science and art. There are of course many different ways of looking at this. There is the idea of scientific creativity being both similar to and different from artistic creativity. And then there is the idea of artistically representing scientific ideas. I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12,10,5,28,15,19,29,31,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}