Brain Symphony

We all have our favorites in music and other kinds of art. Most people tend to think of science and scientists as rather dry and boring. Someone is working on trying to change that perception by adding elements of emotional appeal like music to scientific subjects like the brain. There's a terrific web site called Symphony Of Science. This is the latest of their remixed videos called Ode to the Brain!

Some brains can do truly astounding things. Imagine...an artist, a painter. He was born blind, has never seen so much as a photon of light. Yet he paints, and very well. How can he possibly have any understanding whatever of the use of light and shadow and depth perspective and color in a painting, having never seen anything at all? Yet he does. Meet Esref.

Do you think maybe hearing and seeing and feeling the rhythm and melodies and poetries of how science is a vital thread interwoven in the fabric of reality might make some folk a little more ready to join... A Wave of Reason?

If you can't play the videos, here are the links to them on Youtube:

Ode to the Brain!

Esref Armagan, the artist with no eyes.

A Wave of Reason.

What can YOUR brain do? Do you know? Have you really examined it?

TRB