‘Shabdiz and Gholghoun, horses of Persian poetic myth;’ Hana Louise Shahnavaz (2018)
Are you a scientist or an artist, a genius or a poet" Do you really have to choose" Perhaps humans are more rounded than that. Some of the world?s leading scientists tell us about their favourite poets, cutting-edge poets nominate the scientific geniuses who changed the world
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Genius: Douglas Eck
?I studied English literature as an undergraduate, so I read a lot of poetry at that point in my life. I like structure, so I?m drawn to poetry that plays with metre and rhyme such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning?s love sonnets. I also enjoy the work of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Ezra Pound. I could [also] go on for hours about lyrics, particularly from artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Joni Mitchell, Jay-Z, Tom Waits, Björk and Georges Brassens.? For an artist to be successful, Eck believes, ?They must create something new that extends our understanding of the world around us, persuading us to think differently.? Principal scientist on the Google Brain team in San Francisco, Douglas Eck spends his days working on Magenta, a research project exploring the role of machine learning in the process of creating art and music.
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Poet: Sabrina Mahfouz
?The concept of a singular genius to me is something very male ? that one person can have a great idea and that all the hundreds or thousands of people...