Poetry News For September 27, 2008
Poetry News Saturday SCIENCE! edition:
- — Being an athlete or merely a fan improves language skills when it comes to discussing their sport because parts of the brain usually involved in playing sports are instead used to understand sport language —
- — “It’s probably no coincidence that many languages around the world have repetitious syllables in their ‘child words’ – baby and daddy in English, papa in Italian and tata (grandpa) in Hungarian, for example” —
- — There are numerous examples in our daily language of metaphors which make a connection between cold temperatures and emotions such as loneliness, despair and sadness [fixed link] —
- — Neuroaesthetics promises to reinvigorate science’s search for a theory of beauty —
- — New Life For Middle English: Norwegian Detective Work Gives New Knowledge Of The English Language —
- — By the end of the century, the two disciplines were officially divorced and poetry was deemed the worst way in which to express scientific knowledge —
Tags: Poetry, science
