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A Statistical Analysis of a Scientist
Haplessly in Love - by Anisha Dayaram
Why poetry?
Poetry is a dance between our words and our emotions, with our
emotions taking the lead and guiding the words through the rhythm of
our anger, joy, sadness, and hope – all bound to a black and white
stage on paper.
This dance happens everywhere, even in the serious corridors of
science. However, too often, scientists get pigeonholed into the box
seats of the theatre. Inaccessible and rigid, we often don’t get the
opportunity to express our creativity through conventional scientific
writing.
The SAASTA Young Science Communicators competition poetry
category provides a really wonderful space for us to share scientific
language in an interesting and entertaining way. Few of us will
remember the words to the scientific abstract we last read, but we all
remember childhood nursery rhymes because it is a powerful way of
delivering thoughts and ideas.
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