I wrote this essay concurrently with doing research for a book on biomimetics. Two poems lived with me constantly during this process and provided epigraphs to most of the chapters. They exemplify one ...

Welcome back to Birdbrained Science! April, also known as National Poetry Month, is fast approaching, so today I’m going to talk about something a little unusual for a science ...

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 ...

“Poetry and Science; individually, but especially together are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply. We need science to help us meet reality on its terms and we ...

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 ...

If science fiction has taught us anything it's that artificial intelligence will one day lead to the downfall of the entirety of mankind. That day is (probably) still a long way away, if it ever ...

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 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 ...

In 2000, Paul J. Crutzen, a Dutch atmospheric chemist and Nobel laureate, coined the term “Anthropocene.” The word designates the epoch in which human activity shapes ecosystems and where its presence ...

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 ...