This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American PZ Myers tipped me off to a science poetry ...

The Hot Poets explaining complex science through poetry and the medical students learning how poetry can help them become more compassionate doctors.

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 ...

It is hard to find good children's poetry about science, as most scientists do not write poems, and most poets do not do experiments. John Scieszka and Lane Smith's Science Verse includes poems ...

Here is a Take 5 Mini-Lesson that makes it quick and easy to share this poem! Build on the simile in Blackaby’s first stanza (“Scientists are like explorers . . . ”), and identify some famous ...

April is National Poetry Month, and while poems about love and loss abound, where are the cool poems about science? Where are the sonnets on space ships and smilodons? Science poetry is a little ...

With the ink of its showers and rainsWith the quill of its lightning, with theHand of its clouds, winter wrote a letterUpon the garden, in purple and blueNo artist could conceive the like of that.And ...

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I'm not mad. It just seems that waybecause I stagger and get a bit irritable.There are wonderful holes in my brainthrough which ideas from outside can travelat top speed and through which ...