Note: Our commenting system doesn’t recognize fancy spacing, so using words to create interesting shapes is, unfortunately, not an option. Eastern time on April 29.Īt the bottom of your found-poem post, please provide us with the URL(s) of the article(s) you used. Post your poem to our comments section below by 5 p.m. Although if you win, you can have your last name included in the announcement. You must be between 13 and 19 years of age but can come from anywhere in the world.ĭon’t include your last name: Our privacy rules apply to every student contest on the blog. One poem per person, and no group submissions, please. You might choose to write in a traditional poetic form, or not. The rest of the words and phrases can be mixed up any way you like, but should come from any Times article or articles, past or present. The poem itself should use no more than two of your own words. New 2014 rule: You may use no more than two New York Times articles as source material. And the truth is, we're not.You may give it your own original title if you like. "We optimize for productivity and push the arts aside," she says. "Oh my God, just so nerdy." A failing grade for arts in schoolĭespite growing evidence that arts can improve performance in many other areas, activities like music and drawing have fallen out of favor in education and our culture, Ross says. "I wrote about acid-base reactions," he says with a laugh. "The arts provide children with the kind of brain development that's really important for building strong neural pathways," Magsamen says, including pathways involved in focus, memory and creativity.Įsson, the medical student, may have been using some of those pathways when he found a novel way to study difficult concepts in chemistry.
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In 2010, for example, scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging to show that professional musicians had greater plasticity than nonmusicians in the hippocampus, an area involved in storing and retrieving information. But it's only in the past couple of decades that technology has allowed scientists to see some of the changes in the brain that explain why. The link between arts and academic achievement has been noted by educators for many years. "Even just 15 minutes of dance reduces stress and anxiety," she says, noting that the activity causes the brain to release "feel-good" hormones like endorphins, serotonin and dopamine. Scientists want to know whyĭancing also seems to improve mental health, Magsamen says. Shots - Health News Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. "Creativity is making new connections, new synapses," says Ivy Ross, who is vice president of hardware design at Google and co-author of the New York Times bestseller Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us.
That idea - that art has a measurable effect on the brain and its structure - has support from a growing number of scientific studies. "There has to be some kind of greater connectivity that imparts on the brain," Esson says.
"It helps calm me down and actively choose what to focus on," says Esson, a second-year student at the Medical College of Wisconsin.Įsson, who was born in Ghana, also thinks his brain is better at absorbing all that science because of the years he spent playing the trumpet and studying Afrobeat musicians like Fela Kuti. When he's struggling to understand the immune system or a rare disease, music and poetry serve as an anchor. To make sense of difficult science, Michael Kofi Esson often turns to art. A growing body of research is probing art's effects on the brain.
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