Science-Based Article on Beauty:
http://nautil.us/issue/32/space/beauty-is-physics-secret-weapon
The article I chose is called “Beauty is Physic’s Secret Weapon” written by Steve Paulson. Steve Paulson interviews 2004 Nobel Prize in physics winner Frank Wilczek and gets his perspective on beauty in the sciences. The article mainly talks about how the world holds beautiful ideas that can be uncovered by fundamental laws and concepts. The fact that beauty is very subjective is not a limitation in the eyes of Wilczek although this is controversial to some. Wilczek also highlights the prominence of symmetry in fundamental laws of nature and how you can find symmetry anywhere. All around Wilczek has a very pleasing incite on beauty and how it is incorporated in science.
I plan to incorporate Wilczek ideas of the importance of beauty in the world and in science to help support my argument.
Two Podcasts:
The first podcast I chose to use in my essay is Peter’s because I want to incorporate the idea that challenging yourself can lead to beautiful things and I liked the professors take on beauty in mathematics. That to me shows that you can really justify anything as beautiful and also feel inspired. Peter’s podcast also made me want to be more open minded about math since I don’t really appreciate it now.
The second podcast I choose to incorporate in my essay is Taylor Fowler’s because of the how she talks about beauty evoking feelings. This is a topic I want to include in my essay since I believe nature and finding things beautiful can bring out emotions we don’t expect. That shows the power of beauty and how it has a big impact on us even when we don’t know it.
The article you chose sounds like it will do a really good job supporting your essay! I like the two podcasts you chose, I agree with you about Peter’s interview. It opened my eyes and made me see a different side of math too. Taylor’s podcast seems like it will work really well into your essay! I think based on the article you chose, her interview will go better with that than Peter’s interview since they both seem to talk about nature and Peter’s didn’t.
The article you chose sounds like it can really help your essay. Also the two podcasts should help a lot too, probably peters more than Taylors. If you wanted to incorporate nature and how that is beautiful I suggest looking at Peters. His friends did a really good job talking about beauty he saw and how it effected him.