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• Print, Read, and Annotate Jonah Lehrer’s “The Future of Science…Is Art?”
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  • Write two paragraphs–one Barclay and one TREAC. Your Barclay can pair Lehrer with Yo-Yo Ma or it can pair Lehrer with a self-to-text, world-to-text “illustration.”

Barclay:

The pieces of writing by Yo-Yo Ma and Lehrer share similar thoughts about arts involved in science. Yo-Yo Ma writes about how empathy is essential to the balanced thinking needed today and that is found in the artistic part of the world. He says “STEAM will help us get there by resolving the education problem. Kids will then go to school because it is a passion and a privilege, not a requirement.” This is similar to the way that Lehrer writes, they both want to make art more involved in today’s world. Lehrer makes his point by saying “we need to find a place for the artist within the experimental process, to rediscover what Bohr observed when he looked at those cubist paintings.” As each of these writers are explaining what they are so passionate about, they connect their thoughts. They have the common theme of adding arts into science and studies.

TREAC

Art is the missing link within the science world, scientists are constantly being held back because they do things strictly by the book. A scientist will think about the calculations and equations but never about the real life aspect. If the world had realized that art is a major part in everything, science would be rapidly expanding and coming up with solutions too much more. Lehrer has much to say on this topic in his piece of writing called “The Future of Science… Is Art?” He states that “the fundamental point is that modern science has made little progress toward any unified understanding of everything.” These words are implying that science has not accomplished that much, it is obvious that something is missing. His whole piece is about the arts in science and their relationship, this is just the start to his claim that art is the missing piece in the modern science world. As I began to develop this understanding, I dug deeper to see what else Lehrer was saying.

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