Alan Alda has a featured blog post in today's Huffington Post entitled, What is Beauty, Anyway? Alda, who is a member of the World Science Festival Board of Directors and Advisory Board, explores how beauty can be approached from both artistic and scientific viewpoints, and argues passionately that the two are not mutually exclusive:read more
"I didn't always understand this. When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts you can't be interested in science. I heard the romantic poets' siren songs and didn't know that the beauty they saw in a host of golden daffodils was confined to those flowers' thin exteriors. They never dreamed of the infinity of universes beneath the petals.
